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The new guideline is aimed at healthcare professionals and the recommendation has been made to the journal JAMA (“Guideline for the Prevention of Surgical...
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It is common these days for cafes, bars and restaurants to have food hygiene ratings and such establishments are regularly inspected by food hygiene...
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Tuberculosis is an infectious disease caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The disease tends to affect the lungs, although other parts of the body...
Tech & Science
As Digital Journal has regularly featured, humanity faces a difficult future as medicine drift towards a world where the antibiotics and antimicrobials that have...
Tech & Science
This week’s Essential Science column turns to medical microbiology and healthcare to take a look at, what might well become, the next ‘bad bug’...
Tech & Science
Recent studies using the gene-editing platform Crispr-Cas9 allows scientists to take a closer look at how silver poisons pathogens. The research has led to...
Tech & Science
The causative agent of anthrax is the bacterium Bacillus anthracis. Like other organisms of the Bacillus genera, the bacterium can exist in the spore...
Tech & Science
The research is based on a review of wild primate social networks and has looked at the spread of parasites. The information is, according...
Life
Cookbooks are big sellers and they contain a large variety of mouth-watering recipes. Well-written ones are easy to follow, but what most are missing,...
Tech & Science
The significance of a test that can differentiate between strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (the primary bacterium that causes the disease tuberculosis) means that the...