New paper out! 🧬 11 years of VREfm surveillance at a Porto hospital revealed: 📌 ST18 replaced by ST80 & ST117 📌 Rising prevalence of bacteriocin bac43/T8 📌 Linear plasmids in the most recent isolates An exhaustive look at the contemporary VREfm plasmidome 👇 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

We are pleased to share our last article rdcu.be/fabhM. It offers the most comprehensive analysis so far of Ab+non-Ab resistance genes in human gut microbiome, using an Indigenous population (low industrialization, chronic Hg exposure from gold mining) 6/6👇

Outbreak confirmed as MenB. Vaccines against MenB were only rolled out to babies in 2015 so current student generation are not vaccinated. Know the symptoms and get help quickly if you suspect #meningitis. Acting FAST saves lives. More info in link below 👇

Rebecca Drummond 🍄@therad-lab.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Worried about the #meningitis outbreak in the UK? I've answered some common questions in this @uk.theconversation.com article: theconversation.com/two-people-h... #immunosky #microsky 🧪

Carbapenem-Resistant Bacteria in the Food Chain A new EFSA report shows rising detections of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales (CPE), though mainly in specific settings. Improved detection & One Health strategies are needed to close data gaps. 🔗 lnkd.in/dgYHzNqU #AMR #OneHealth #FoodSafety

👏 Kicking off the week with our latest publication by #AnaPereira et al.: "Insights towards the impact of subinhibitory chlorhexidine on antimicrobial susceptibility and horizontal gene transfer in Enterococcus faecium" published in the Science of The Total Environment. @ucibio.bsky.social