CDC & HHS Launch Global AMR Challenge Today to Accelerate the Fight Against Antimicrobial Resistance

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By the bioMérieux Connection Editors Antimicrobial resistance is one of the most urgent global threats to public health. Modern medical treatments such as transplants, cancer therapies, most surgical procedures, and other health advances would become virtually impossible without the existence of effective antibiotics. “Modern travel of people, animals, and goods means antibiotic resistance can easily …

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Sepsis Deaths of a Young Mother and Six-Year-Old Boy in the UK Bring Attention to the Need for Rapid, Accurate Diagnosis & Timely Intervention

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By the bioMérieux Connection Editors In April of this year, Natalie Billingham was taken to the Sandwell and West Birmingham hospitals by her husband, Stuart Billingham, due to flu-like symptoms and debilitating pain in her foot. According to news reports, she was examined and sent home. The next morning, her condition was much worse, so …

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The Fungus That Gave Us Camembert, and Our Lives

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By the bioMérieux Connection Editors Ninety years ago, a lab error led to the discovery of a drug that has saved more human lives than any other therapeutic and ushered in the era of modern drug discovery and development. The following year, Sir Alexander Fleming published the details of his inadvertent discovery of the first …

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