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Recent Posts
- In which I start updating this website again November 18, 2022
- This Week in Virology #502: Texas road phage July 17, 2018
- Novartis joins the Big Pharma exodus out of antibiotics | Endpoints News July 12, 2018
- Turning A Phage | IPATH at UC San Diego June 22, 2018
- Fighting Infection with Phages | NIH June 20, 2018
- Trillions Upon Trillions of Viruses Fall From the Sky Each Day | NYT April 15, 2018
- Superbugs Are Nearly Impossible to Fight. This Last-Resort Medical Treatment Offers Hope | Time Magazine January 8, 2018
- This man should have died, but unusual infusions saved his life – The Washington Post October 24, 2017
- Sewage Saved This Man’s Life. Someday It Could Save Yours. | HuffPost October 24, 2017
- Viral Soldiers | The Scientist Magazine January 13, 2016
Category Archives: On the Web
This Week in Virology #502: Texas road phage
In which Dr. Young and I wax eloquent on phages.
Turning A Phage | IPATH at UC San Diego
Image from Wellcome Images With microbial resistance to antibiotics growing into a major global health crisis, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine, in collaboration with national research institutions and private industry, are leveraging hard-won expertise to exploit a natural viral enemy of pathogenic bacteria, creating North America’s first Center for Innovative Phage Applications and Therapeutics (IPATH). UCSD press release announcing IPATH IPATH website
Fighting Infection with Phages | NIH
Antimicrobial resistance is a serious threat to modern medicine: As MRSA and other bacteria become immune to our most common antibiotics, researchers must develop new ways to fight these pathogens. One of these alternatives actually involves viruses called bacteriophages, which prey on bacteria. Though bacteriophages (or “phages” for short) are not currently approved for widespread human use within the United States, they are being used under Emergency Investigative New Drug FDA clearance and could one day be used in conjunction with antibiotics to treat the most stubborn bacterial… Read More →
2012 Annual Human Isolates Report | NARMS Reports | NARMS | CDC
Bacterial foodborne infections are common and can be serious. In severe cases, the right antibiotic, also called antimicrobial agent, can be life-saving. NARMS is the only source of national information on antibiotic resistance in foodborne pathogens like Salmonella. Understanding trends in antibiotic resistance helps doctors to prescribe effective treatment and public health officials to investigate outbreaks faster. Link: 2012 Annual Human Isolates Report | NARMS Reports | NARMS | CDC. Link: PDF of the 2012 report.
Spurious Correlations
A neat site demonstrating correlation does not equal causation. For example: US spending on science, space, and technology correlates with Suicides by hanging, strangulation and suffocation Link: Spurious Correlations.