Antimicrobial susceptibility testing

2018-07-09

Do you know how a laboratory perform antimicrobial susceptibility to test for antibiotic resistance? There are couple of method as suggested by international regulatory bodies. One of the most common method is called disk diffusion test. When the laboratory technologist isolates a bacteria from a sa...

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Less meat - a One Health point of view

2018-03-06

There is always debates on the issue on eating less meat for the purpose of sustainable earth. In a One Health point of view eating less meat may contribute to minimizing chance of zoonotic diseases being spread to human. Raising a meat bearing large animal need one or more years. Animal such as cow...

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Diarrhoea, other than food poisoning - Clostridium difficile infection

2018-02-20

Diarrhoea can be a consequence of food poisoning, food allergy, and also Clostridium difficile infection (CDI). CDI is a common hospital acquired infection. The spore of this organisms can survive in the environment for few months. Healthcare workers or visitors may get comtaminated by these bacteri...

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Influenza, beware of serious complication

2018-02-06

Influenza complication are sometimes serious which may lead to fatal cases. Influenza associated acute encephalopathy, myocarditis, myopathy are among a few of them. In non complicated influenza, influenza virus attack only the epithelial cells of the lining of the respiratory tract causing some loc...

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