Laboratory reports of respiratory infections made to PHE from PHE and NHS laboratories in England and Wales: weeks 48 to 52, 2017
Laboratory reports of respiratory infections made to PHE from PHE and NHS laboratories in England and Wales: weeks 48 to 52, 2017 Updated 5 January 2018 READ MORE
Most Drinking Water–Associated Disease Outbreaks Linked to Legionella
During 2013-2014, the CDC received 42 reports of disease outbreaks in the United States related to drinking water, with 57% of them linked to Legionella, the bacterium that causes legionnaires disease, according to recent findings. READ MORE
Laboratory reports of respiratory infections made to PHE from PHE and NHS laboratories in England and Wales: weeks 44 to 47, 2017
Laboratory reports of respiratory infections made to PHE from PHE and NHS laboratories in England and Wales: weeks 44 to 47, 2017 Updated 1 December 2017 READ MORE
Laboratory reports of respiratory infections made to PHE from PHE and NHS laboratories in England and Wales: weeks 27 to 30, 2017
Laboratory reports of respiratory infections made to PHE from PHE and NHS laboratories in England and Wales: weeks 27 to 30, 2017 Updated 1 December 2017 READ MORE
Legionnaires’ disease associated with travel to Dubai, 2016 to 2017
PHE has been supporting the ECDC response to an increased number of Legionnaires’ Disease cases in EU residents, associated with travel to Dubai, recorded over the past year in the EU agency’s ELDSnet surveillance system of travel-related LD cases in EU residents. READ MORE
Mandatory surveillance of Gram-negative HCAIs extended
The scope of mandatory reporting to PHE of healthcare-associated infections recorded by NHS Acute Trusts and Independent Healthcare Providers in England has been extended to include Klebsiella spp. and Pseudomonas aeruginosa bloodstream infections (bacteraemia), NHS Improvement announced in a letter to Trusts on 18 September [1]. READ MORE
‘Ten Question’ initiative
In 2016, Building and Environment launched a new initiative and planned to publish a series of papers focusing on “Ten Questions” in built environment research. READ MORE
Superbugs: The Fight For Our Lives
Antibiotics have enabled us to combat diseases that were once untreatable. But bacteria have fought back, evolving into superbugs resistant to even the most powerful antibiotics. READ MORE
Read ‘THE BIOCIDAL PRODUCTS REGULATION (BPR) AND WATER TREATMENT’ article from the Waterline Spring 2017 edition
Now available to view on this website – ‘THE BIOCIDAL PRODUCTS REGULATION (BPR) AND WATER TREATMENT’ article from the Waterline Spring 2017 edition. View the article here (PDF)
Open access paper – Legionella becoming a mutualist: adaptive processes shaping the genome of symbiont in the louse Polyplax serrata.
Abstract Legionellaceae are intracellular bacteria known as important human pathogens. In the environment, they are mainly found in biofilms associated with amoebas. In contrast to the gammaproteobacterial family Enterobacteriaceae, which established a broad spectrum of symbioses with many insect taxa, the only instance of legionella-like symbiont has been reported from lice of the genus Polyplax…. Read more »
