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Updated: Vector E Newsletter, Issue 3, 2011
Some of you may have experienced a problem in downloading the latest newsletter/Framingham. For this reason we're resending the thirteenth issue of Vector, which features three pages of updates on microbiology and infectious disease news compiled from media and clinical journals in Ireland and overseas. As a consequence of reader feedback from our recent reader survey, this third edition of 2011 has a strong research feel. Alongside global news, we report on four separate Irish papers on microbiology and infection-related themes from peer-reviewed international journals.
Among these is the discovery by a team in University College Cork, including researchers from the Department of Microbiology, concerning the molecular properties of compounds that influence microbial behaviour in those with cystic fibrosis. The breakthrough was reported in the Federation of European Microbiological Studies (FEMS) Microbiology Ecology publication.
We also highlight new research into infections that arise from the increasing use of a number of interventional radiology procedures. Such approaches are increasingly being used to deliver effective diagnostic results but, as a team from Tallaght Hospital in Dublin report in the Journal of Gastrointestinal and Liver Diseases, clinicians must be aware of the atetiology, timing and treatment of potential infections in the peri-procedure period.
A paper in the Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery by Dublin-based clinicians at Our Lady's Children's Hospital in Crumlin examines the role of a number of genes associated with particularly severe necrotising infections in very young children. This contribution advocates on the importance of adhering to specific treatment and eradication guidance. Finally, microbiologists based at Waterford Regional Hospital review an outbreak of nosocomial HBV infection in Ireland several years ago in the Journal of Hospital Infection, and use details of the case to highlight the importance of a consistent application of standard precautions.
Elsewhere, we also look at the intriguing efforts of researchers to use genetically modified tobacco and lettuce plants to produce needle-free vaccines which would activate the gut's immune system rather than that of the blood.
Finally, readers should note that this issue also includes our first quarterly downloadable Framingham literature review of infectious disease research.
We greatly welcome your responses to the specific content of each issue and suggestions for items that we should report. If you are organising a microbiology or infection-themed meeting, please do consider letting us know and we will be happy to include details in our next edition.
Best wishes,
Vector
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International Congresses
American Society of Microbiology 111th General Meeting
21-24 May, 2011
New Orleans, USA
7th International Workshop on HIV & Hepatitis Co-infection
1-3 June, 2011
Milan, Italy
The 4th Congress of European Microbiologists
26-30 June,2011
Geneva, Switzerland
Influenza 2010: Zoonotic Influenza and Human Health
7-9 September 2011, Oxford, England
XV International Congress of Virology
11-16 September, 2011,
Sapporo, Japan
4th International Conference on Retroviral Integration
4 October, 2011 Siena, Italy |
