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Healthcare leaders are under constant pressure to make decisions based on evidence, especially when it comes to preventing healthcare-associated...
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Pasteurization. Gram stains. Petri dishes. Bunsen burners. The science world is replete with processes or equipment named for their esteemed...
Hospital-acquired infections (HAIs), also called healthcare-associated infections, affect millions of patients every year. Most of these infections...
Patient safety is a topic we often cover in this blog; it is a central concern of anyone involved in the healthcare industry. However, we may not...
Radical. Unconventional. Irreverent. Dr. Abigail Salyers entered the field of microbiology as an outsider and ended up bringing the field into a new...
The Serenity Prayer is a well-known piece of advice about how to approach life's challenges. In it, the speaker asks for serenity to accept the...
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From Lab Notes to Legacy: Inside the Center for the History of Microbiology Archives (CHOMA)
There are libraries of just comic books, collections dedicated to the world of punk music, archives of peace activism artifacts, and innumerable...
Less than a century ago, in a world without antibiotics and limited treatments for infections, the leading causes of death were infections -...
For many of us, Valentine's Day means chocolates, flowers, fancy meals and romantic evenings. Would you be surprised to hear that bacteria plays an...
February marks a month to celebrate the vital role of African-Americans in our nation's history. Today, we will take some time to recognize an...
In a Baltimore, MD laboratory in the 1970s, a researcher made a discovery that would revolutionize our ability to detect the presence of microscopic...
In 2000, the measles was declared officially eliminated in the United States. Infections still occurred, but they were rare, originated outside the...