This new paper may be of interest: Source: Disparate Antibiotic Resistance Gene Quantities Revealed across 4 Major Cities in California: A Survey in Drinking Water, Air, and Soil at 24 Public Parks – ACS Omega (ACS Publications) Abstract: Widespread prevalence of multidrug and pandrug-resistant bacteria has prompted substantial concern over the global dissemination of antibiotic …
I am compiling information about presentations related to MoBE topics at the ASM Microbe 2017 meeting. This may be useful to those attending the meeting in selecting where to go and also to those outside who might be interested presentations on MoBE topics at this meeting. If anyone knows of others, please let me know. …
Just.a quick post here. Pools are sometimes either not clean enough (and thus contain possible pathogens) or too clean (well, more importantly might have too much of cleaning chemicals like chlorine). Outbreaks of crypto, a parasitic infection linked to pools, doubled from 2014 to 2016, and 4,800 people visited ERs for pool chemical-associated health issues …
OK. So money has microbes on it. Not surprising. And when people find out such information they frequently go overboard in the germophobia. See for example these stories from over the years 1999: Filthy Lucre – Paper Money As A Vector Of Disease 2010: Dirty money 1: Expect germs 2010: How Bad Are Germs on Money 2012: …
So there is a new paper out that is incredibly interesting and has been getting lots of press coverage. The paper was in Nature: Endothelial TLR4 and the microbiome drive cerebral cavernous malformations. Sadly it is behind a paywall, so not everyone out there will have free access to it. But it is available in sci-hub …
The disease-causing organisms Burkholderia multivorans, B. cepacia, genomovars of the B. cepacia complex (BCC), as well as an unclassified species of Burkholderia, and its relatives Ralstonia pickettii and R. insidiosa account for 60% of the bacterial isolates obtained from the filtrated water system on board the International Space Station (ISS). Members of these genera can …
OK – full blown mushrooms are not microbes. But they are fungi. And a lot of fungi are microbial. So I am ignoring the multicellular nature of these mushrooms here – after all – nobody’s perfect. Anyway – thought this might be of interest to those thinking about fungi in the built environment. Source: UPDATE: City …
Federico Lauro, Chris Mason and I (and a few others by now) are looking for editors for a Frontiers Special Topic on Citizen Science in Microbiology. It is important to us that we assemble a diverse panel of editors before we start inviting submissions! We are especially interested in making sure that women and people …
My course slides are updated for 2017 with a new lecture on acellular life. Lecture 01 (3-21-2017) slides from Kristen DeAngelis Lec02 phylogeny (3-23-2017) from Kristen DeAngelis Lecture 03 (3-28-2017) slides from Kristen DeAngelis Lecture 20 (4-20-2017) slides from Kristen DeAngelis Lecture 22 (4-27-2017) slides from Kristen DeAngelis Lecture 23 (5-2-2017) acellular life slides …
When I first started working in Dr. Jonathan Eisen’s lab my junior year of college, I was assigned a pretty open ended task. Swab something from the built environment and see what grows. This being the first time I was actually doing research, I was incredibly excited to go out and swab the world. My …