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Help us tackle antimicrobial resistance (AMR). A team from @UniOfOxford @ModMedMicro lab are fighting AMR through public outreach.

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Our team wore blue for World Antimicrobial Awareness Week 2025đź’™ Research into how resistance emerges, spreads and can be prevented is vital. Our group works to understand these processes and develop better tools to detect, monitor and combat antimicrobial resistance. #WAAW
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For #WorldAntimicrobialAwarenessWeek, we introduce our recent paper on antibiotic-resistant subpopulations in TB🧬💊 academic.oup.com/jacamr/arti…

Subpopulations in clinical samples of M. tuberculosis can give rise to rifampicin resistance and...

AbstractObjectives. WGS has become a key tool for diagnosing Mycobacterium tuberculosis infections, but discrepancies between genotypic and phenotypic drug

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In our study, we investigated how often such resistant minority populations occur in clinical TB samples, focusing on rifampicin (RIF). Including these minorities in resistance profiles significantly improved detection sensitivity. 🧪🔍
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These subpopulations also reveal whether resistance arose before or after infection. Our findings show why even small resistant groups matter—and how choosing the wrong antibiotic can help them take over. 💥 #TB #AMR #WAAW #WAAW2025 By @ViktoriaBrunne1 @philipwfowler
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Antimicrobial resistance occurs when bacteria, viruses, fungi & parasites change over time - leading to medicines being less effective against them. Here you see bacteria growing and antibiotics (the small discs) which kill the bacteria...unless they are resistant! #WAAW #AMR
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Credit: Nicola Fawcett, MMM, and Chris Wood, Oxford Medical Illustration (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International – CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).
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'Linking life expectancy to the bacteria in our gut: A final year undergraduate project'. Akika investigated how the gut microbiome influences longevity, with fieldwork in Nagano, Japan—home to the country’s longest-living population. See the blog post: bashthebug.net/2025/08/28/li…

Linking life expectancy to the bacteria in our gut: A final year undergraduate project

My name is Akika Altman-Chandler, and I just graduated from the University of Oxford with a degree in Human Sciences. For my undergraduate dissertation, I worked with Teresa Street at the Modernisi…

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Read what our work experience have been up to with a blog post written on their final day! bashthebug.net/2025/07/11/wo…

Work experience: what have we been up to?

Throughout the past three days doing work experience at MMM we’ve learnt about the different roles within the department, their responsibilities and contributions to research. After being briefed a…

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Come and find us at the @OxfordBRC showcase in the Westgate! @ModMedMicro
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Join us this half term @WestgateOxford to find out how scientists @OxfordBRC are working to improve your health! 📅 29 May 2025 ⌚ 10:00am – 3:30pm 📍 Westgate Oxford, Leiden Square (OX1 1PE) 🔗 oxfordbrc.nihr.ac.uk/brc-eve… @ModMedMicro #FunScience
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An amazing day at the Mabel Pritchard school learning about germs and the power of hand washing! @ModMedMicro scientists used Glo powder and UV torches to demo how proper hand washing gets rid of germs, and helps keep us healthy! #HandHygiene #ScienceOutreach @glogerm @OxfordBRC
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Superbug Stop Motion - Antibiotic Resistance (AMR) Explained (Modernising Medi... youtu.be/rvIUDhdcdq4?si… via @YouTube Who says scientists don't have fun? Check out this stop motion made by @ModMedMicro colleagues showing how AMR arises and how we can fight it with new drugs.

"The Rise of Superbugs: How Antibiotic Overuse Fuels Resistance...

"The Rise of Superbugs: How Antibiotic Overuse Fuels Resistance (St...

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📊 Did you know that 1 in 6 of us (1.3 billion people!) experience significant disability♿, and that some persons with disability die up to 20 years earlier🙉? Let's make an #AccesibleWorld this UN International Day for Persons with Disabilities #DisabilityDay @UNDESA
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📢Calling artists of all ages! Check out this 🦠🤛💊 art competition: bit.ly/4fC5JH4. Submit your masterpiece showing the battle between Microbes Vs Medicine to bashthebug@gmail.com with your name and age. 🏆Special prizes up for grabs! @ModMedMicro #WAAW2024

Microbes vs Medicine: A Bash the Bug Art Competition

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) fighting a punchbag representing antibiotics by a previous winner, Marni (age 9) This week is World Antimicrobial Awareness Week (18th–24th Novemb…

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Next week is #AntibioticAwarenessWeek so we’ve gone blue (blue-er?) AND we are marking the event with a #journalclub highlighting some of the excellent #AMR papers published by our customers 🤩💊🦠🧬 #WAAW2024 #GoBlueforAMR #WAAW #AntibioticResistance #MicrobialGenomics #WGS
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What are antimicrobials and how does antimicrobial resistance occur? Watch this short clip by @WHO to understand who.canto.global/b/THDE7
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I have pledged to be an #AntibioticGuardian to #KeepAntibioticsWorking. Our actions protect #antibiotics. Join me at antibioticguardian.com/
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