The Scientific Seminar Series is designed to reach the microbiology community to disseminate knowledge across its professional networks. The events are designed as a regularly repeated series of short (typically 1–2 hour) online meetings.
The Journal of Medical Microbiology (JMM) monthly seminar series is designed to showcase high-quality and timely research from the journal’s key authors. JMM welcomes everything from laboratory research to clinical trials, including bacteriology, virology, mycology, and parasitology. The JMM seminars will reflect this same comprehensive scientific content.
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Please note all times listed in the programme are UK time.
Antibiotic resistance is a global threat to effective antibiotic therapy, but it's not the only strategy bacterial pathogens use to evade killing by antibiotics. Antibiotic tolerance describes the ability of a bacterial population to survive transient exposure to otherwise lethal concentrations of antibiotic, without exhibiting the hallmarks of resistance. Tolerant bacteria die slower than susceptible bacteria, meaning that surviving bacteria remain at the end of antibiotic therapy leading to persistent, recurrent and relapsing infections. While the phenomenon of tolerance was first reported in the 1970s, it has only recently gained significant attention from microbiologists and many questions remain unanswered. In this lecture, I will review the body of existing evidence that suggests that genotypic tolerance is relatively common among clinical isolates and contributes to antibiotic treatment failures. I will also cover what we know about the molecular mechanisms that lead to tolerance, and discuss the overall gaps in our knowledge and where future research efforts are needed.
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Please note all times listed in the programme are UK time.
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