In the fall of each year, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (CDC/ATSDR) recognizes scientists who have made important research contributions to public health and acknowledges them with famous Charles C. Shepard Science Award. …
3 days of typhoid in Vietnam
On March 28th ended the 11th International Conference on Typhoid and Other Invasive Salmonelloses. Thanks to the Coalition against Typhoid group for arranging such a wonderful event where enthusiastic researchers from across the globe shared their stories, opinions, and findings …
Highlights of 2018
It’s February of 2019 and we are just publishing our Highlights of 2018 – yes we are a little late to the party, but January 2019 kept us busy! Last month, we got our own IIlumina sequencer, an automated extraction …
Bangladesh leads the world one step closer to understanding causes of deaths in newborns
It is estimated that even today >500,000 deaths in newborns occur every year due to serious infections. However, little is known about what microorganisms cause these infections, which makes it difficult, if not impossible, to save lives through informed-treatment or …
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And with that ends another successful pneumococcal meeting…
Today was the last day of the 11th International Symposium of Pneumococci and Pneumococcal Diseases ISPPD-11 conference in Melbourne. The meeting is held once every two years where people working in the field of pneumococcus come together to talk and …
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New Typhoid Vaccine is on its way to South Asia
On January 3rd 2018 the World Health Organization declared the prequalification of a new typhoid conjugate vaccine specifically targeting low- and middle income countries. The news came to us as a pleasant surprise and we are all grateful to Bharat …