It is one of the largest microbiology societies in Europe with a worldwide membership based in universities, industry, hospitals, research institutes and schools.
22 March 2019
World Tuberculosis Day, commemorated on 24 March each year, helps to raise awareness of tuberculosis (TB) to try to reduce the incidence of TB worldwide. The date marks the day in 1882 when Dr Robert Koch astounded the scientific community by announcing that he had discovered the cause of the disease, the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
21 March 2019
Researchers in Northern Ireland have been investigating the potential of mushrooms and toadstools to treat an infectious lung disease.
22 March 2019
Sunday 24 March marks World Tuberculosis Day. On this day in 1882, Robert Koch announced he had discovered the causative agent of tuberculosis (TB), which was a major development in understanding the disease and working towards finding treatment options. In this post, we discuss TB research with Professor Tanya Parrish, Editor-in-Chief of the Society's flagship journal, Microbiology, and Head of the TB Discovery Research Group at the Infectious Disease Research Institute (IDRI) in the US. [Continue reading …]
