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 2025💙
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
For #WorldAntimicrobialAwarenessWeek, we introduce our recent paper on antibiotic-resistant subpopulations in TB🧬💊
academic.oup.com/jacamr/arti…
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. 🧪🔍
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
'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…
Read what our work experience have been up to with a blog post written on their final day!
bashthebug.net/2025/07/11/wo…
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
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
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.
📊 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
📢Calling artists of all ages! Check out this 🦠🤛💊 art competition: bit.ly/4fC5JH4.
Submit your masterpiece showing the battle between Microbes Vs Medicine to [email protected] with your name and age.
🏆Special prizes up for grabs!
@ModMedMicro
#WAAW2024
Bash The Bug retweeted
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
Bash The Bug retweeted
What are antimicrobials and how does antimicrobial resistance occur?
Watch this short clip by @WHO to understand
who.canto.global/b/THDE7
I have pledged to be an #AntibioticGuardian to #KeepAntibioticsWorking. Our actions protect #antibiotics. Join me at antibioticguardian.com/