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Demystifying Borrelia: novel computational methods to detect and identify OspA types
June 19, 2024
Dr Jonathan T Lee and Dr Li Hao take us behind the scenes of their latest publication ‘Development of a sequence-based in silico OspA typing method for Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato’ published in Microbial Genomics.
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Integration of microbiological, epidemiological and statistical methods for estimating protection level within populations against diphtheria
July 17, 2023
Dr Noriko Kitamura takes us behind the scenes of their latest publication 'Evaluation and validation of a commercial ELISA versus the in vitro toxin neutralisation assay for determination of diphtheria antitoxin in human serum’ in Journal of Medical Microbiology.
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How do you vaccinate against a master of immune evasion?
June 14, 2023
Matthew Reeves takes us behind the scenes of their latest publication 'A temperature-dependent virus-binding assay reveals the presence of neutralizing antibodies in human cytomegalovirus gB vaccine recipients’ sera' published in Journal of General Virology.
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Vaccines as Tools to Combat Antimicrobial Resistance – a view from Twitter
March 7, 2023
Vaccines As Tools to Combat Antimicrobial Resisitance took place as in person meeting between 27–28 February 2023 and was held in Edgebaston Park Hotel and Conference Centre in Birmingham, UK. We've turned to Twitter to take a look at some of the highlights!
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Podcast: Could a new vaccine save the Tasmanian devil from a contagious cancer?
January 17, 2023
Every year, thousands of Tasmanian devils die from contagious facial tumours. On this episode of Microbe Talk, Charlotte speaks to Dr Andy Flies from the Menzies Institute at the University of Tasmania, Australia, about a potential new vaccine approach that could save these endangered animals.
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Ask A Microbiologist: What is Monkeypox?
May 25, 2022
With declared cases of monkeypox increasing in the UK and internationally, we spoke to Professor Neil Mabbott, Personal Chair of Immunopathology and Director of Teaching at the Roslin Institute and the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies at the University of Edinburgh. We asked him some common questions about monkeypox.
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Microbe Talk: more vaccine questions answered
March 12, 2021
In this episode of Microbe Talk, Dr John Tregoning and Professor Nicola Stonehouse answer some more of the most frequently asked questions about vaccines.
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Ask a Microbiologist: Vaccines
March 4, 2021
There is probably more misinformation about vaccines on the internet than any other topic. As we are the largest learned microbiological society in the UK, we decided to do something about it. In the first of our ‘Ask a Microbiologist’ series, we asked three experts some of the most commonly googled questions about vaccines.
