MicrobeWorld

An outbreak of ten cases of poliomyelitis caused by circulating vaccine-derivied poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) is ongoing in Pakistan, centered in the Kila Abdulla/Pishin area of Baluchistan. The same virus strain has spread to the neighboring Kandahar province in Afghanistan, where two paralytic c... Read More

The Nº 126 and 127 of "El podcast del microbio" are dedicated to the infamous NDM-1 betalactamic resitance. "El podcast del microbio" Nº 126 y 127 están dedicados a la resistencia a los antibióticos betalactámicos conocida como NDM-1. {mp3remote}http://radio.umh.es/programacion/2010-2011/Program... Read More

Inspired by President Clinton’s vision to encourage the next generation of leaders and philanthropists to address the challenges of global interdependence, the William J. Clinton Foundation Millennium Network seeks to engage individuals, age 45 and younger, in the work of the Clinton Foundation.... Read More

El Podcast del Microbio" Nº 150 is dedicated to the microsporidia and the virus that causes Colony Collapse Disorder. El p... Read More

Head of the US National Institutes of Health Francis Collins was asked some tough questions by a House of Representatives subcommittee examining the new National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, NCATS. The goal of the new center, opened in 2012, is to reduce the amount of time needed... Read More

I found this video on YouTube of a teacher showing a class how to streak a plate. Thumbnail photo by musicalwds on Flickr. Read More

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The Nº 123 and 124 of "El podcast del microbio" are dedicated to the experiment designed to test the Scroedinger theory of quantum superposition but with a virus. En "El podcast del microbio" Nº 123 y 124 está dedicado al diseño experimental para probar la superposición cuántica en estructuras t... Read More

Rastreo de Fuente de Contaminacion Microbiana (Microbial Source Tracking), o el uso de diferentes metodos para encontrar la fuente de contaminacion microbiana en aguas es el tema de hoy en La Radio el M... Read More

The third video of a three part lecture by Joseph DeRisi focuses on drug development for Malaria. Read More

El podcast del Microbio Nº252 summarizes the results from Hel et al published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases about the use of... Read More

This episode: A virus has borrowed a bacterium's defenses to infect better!

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El podcast del Microbio Nº196: Sarmiento-Ramírez et al describes in FEMS Microbiology that the fungus Fusarium was found t... Read More

El Podcast del Microbio" Nº 134 talks about the report of NDM-1 resistance in Spain . "El Podcast del Microbio" nº 134 habl... Read More

John D. McKinney, Global Health Institute, School of Life Sciences, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), provides an overview of the natural history of TB infection and the global impact of TB on human health.

"The principal obstacle to successful treatment of tuberculosis is the ... Read More

This episode: Discovery of a bacterium infected by two distinct organisms at the same time!

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El podcast del Microbio Nº178 is about the %-seconds rule depicted in the animated motion picture "Osmosis Jones". El podca... Read More

Jason writes:

Hi Drs. Despommier and Racaniello,

This week you wondered why the immune-activating receptor for Toxoplasma gondii, TLR11, is present in mice but not in humans. You noted that it looks like there's no selective pressure keeping it around in us an... Read More