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New blood culture surveillance sites started in DR Congo: two hospitals in Vanga and Kikwit!
In August 2023, Immaculée Kahindo and Edmonde Bonebe from Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale (INRB) travelled to Vanga...
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GLASS manual for antimicrobial resistance surveillance in common bacteria causing human infection
The "GLASS manual for antimicrobial resistance surveillance in common bacteria causing human infection" is out. This manual supersedes...
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Growth of Gram-negative bacteria in antiseptics, disinfectants and hand hygiene products in two hospitals in West Africa
Check out Palpouguini Lompo's important findings in his newest paper in Pathogens Antiseptics, disinfectants, and hand hygiene products...
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Global genomic analysis of Salmonella Concord reveals lineages with high antimicrobial resistance in Ethiopia
Wim Cuypers published this interesting paper in Nature Communications! Antimicrobial resistant Salmonella enterica serovar Concord (S. Concord) is...
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Can a worm nestle in your brain? “Parasites really are everywhere” radio interview with Idzi Potters (NL)
Check out this interview with Idzi if you are Dutch speaking here
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Prélèvement des hémocultures
We have French voice-over for our videos on the collection of blood for bloodcultures for adults and néonates,...
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SIMBLE: Walk through blood culture bottle production process In Benin
This video takes you on a tour through the blood culture bottle production process put in place by...
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Delayed incubation of blood culture bottles – recommendations for preincubation temperature and time
Ideally, blood culture bottles are incubated as soon as possible after sampling. However, in many tropical settings, high...
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Looking back at the AIM 2023
(AIM = Hospital-based Interventions to Contain Antibiotic Resistance in Low-resource Settings). An interview with Charlotte Grootaers (course coordinator)...
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SIMBLE team visits CHU-YO in Burkina Faso
On 20-23 March 2023, Liselotte Hardy and Barbara Barbé (ITM’s coordinating and principal investigator of the SIMBLE project)...
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Manual of Clinical Microbiology, 13th Edition
Manual of Clinical Microbiology, 13th Edition can be pre-ordered now, click here With a chapter in Section VIII...
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MSF Access Campaign report on “Local diagnostics to meet local health needs”
The MSF Access Campaign has recently translated their 2021 report about local production of diagnostics into French and...
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AIM course (Hospital-based Interventions to Contain Antibiotic Resistance in Low-resource Settings) for World Hand Hygiene Day
We teach Infection Prevention Control and Hand Hygiene as part of our course on Hospital-based Interventions to Contain...
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Case of the month by Bobbi Pritt and Idzi Potters
Be sure to check out the newest case of the month: https://parasitewonders.blogspot.com/2023/05/case-of-week-716.html
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Not recommended fixed-dose antibiotic combinations in low- and middle-income countries – the example of Tanzania
Background Fixed-dose combinations (FDC) are medicine formulations that combine two or more ingredients in fixed ratios in a...
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Two reviews on “Bacterial Contamination of Antiseptics, Disinfectants, and Hand Hygiene Products Used in Healthcare Settings” on High and Low- and Middle-Income Countries
We conducted two reviews of healthcare-associated outbreaks and cross-sectional surveys related to the contamination of antiseptics, disinfectants, and...
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Use of VWR benchtop autoclave Vapour-Line Lite II P with built-in printer
Check out our brand new video SOP on the "Use of VWR benchtop autoclave Vapour-Line Lite II P...
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Interview with the Kisantu study team – Doctoral research of Bieke Tack (English subtitles)
Study team describing the preparation, outcomes, benefits, difficulties and way forward after the studies they carried out in...
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Travel report of Anne-Sophie Heroes to the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Anne-Sophie Heroes traveled to the Democratic Republic of the Congo together with Gaëtan Van Aelst, ITM Clinical Trials...
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Responsible dissemination of health and medical research an interview
Watch the latest video on Research Integrity an interview by Jan Jacobs, Institute of Tropical Medicine (ITM) Commission...
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Laboratory-on-a-ship: a microbiology culture media production facility in a sea container for local production in low-resource settings
Do you want to know more of the why, what, where of our SIMBLE production container "laboratory-on-a-ship"? It...
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