The death this week of a Victorian toddler after allegedly drinking “bath milk” is a reminder of how dangerous some natural cosmetics can be. The product – Mountain View Organic Dairy’s Organic Bath Milk…
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Autumn is the time when people typically notice spiders in their houses and there is usually an increase in the number of media stories suggesting that spiders – particularly the false widow spider – may…
Going to the hospital can save your life, but it is not without risks. Patients can be exposed to dangerous infections while receiving treatment. In the United States, health care-associated infections…
About 6,000 years ago, a bacterium underwent a few genetic changes. These allowed it to expand its habitat from the guts of mice to that of fleas. Such changes happen all the time, but in this particular…
A protein that allows Salmonella to invade host cells could be the key to developing an effective new treatment. Research…
Human skin is a garden of microbes which is home to about 1,000 bacterial species. Most are benign but some invade the skin and cause illness – and of these, antibiotic resistant bacteria are particularly…
Bacterial diseases cause millions of deaths every year. Most of these bacteria were benign at some point in their evolutionary past, and we don’t always understand what turned them into disease-causing…
The introduction into clinical practice of antibiotics is arguably the most significant medical advance of the 20th century. Together with immunisation and better public sanitation, they’ve had a significant…
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Adjunct Associate Professor of Epidemiology, University of California, Los Angeles
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Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, Indiana University
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Senior Research Fellow, School of Medicine, The University of Western Australia
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Senior Lecturer, Medical Microbiology, University of Westminster
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Clinical Associate Professor, School of Medical Science & Sydney Infectious Diseases Institute; Principal Hospital Scientist, University of Sydney
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(Formerly) Senior Research Specialist, Johns Hopkins University
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Associate Professor and Clinical Academic Gastroenterologist, Western Sydney University
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Professor of Infectious Diseases, Monash University
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Research Assistant in Pharmacy, University of Canberra, University of Canberra
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Professor of Biological Sciences, Binghamton University, State University of New York
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Team Lead, Healthy Skin and Acute Rheumatic Fever Prevention, The Kids Research Institute Australia
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PhD Candidate, Department of Genetics and Genome Biology, University of Leicester