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Flipping the classroom

September 28, 2013 by micrognome 1 Comment

How we fared in our first shot at flipping the clinical microbiology classroom: malaria and tuberculosis ePractical, September 2013.

Filed Under: Featured, μGnews, μGnomics Tagged With: clinical microbiology, eBooks, flipping the class, instructional methods, laboratory medicine, malaria, medical education, pathology of infection, pathology teaching, student centred learning, tuberculosis

Coffee alert

January 2, 2012 by micrognome Leave a Comment

Coffee alert: diseases affecting the coffee crop are already affecting global coffee production, but what about the people who work on the coffee harvest? They are at risk of exposure to tropical infections including a collection of neglected tropical diseases

Filed Under: FACTM, Featured, μGnews, µGnome abroad, μGnomics Tagged With: arabica, coffee, coffee borer, coffee rust, filariasis, Leishmaniasis, malaria, neglected tropical diseases, onchocerciasis, plant diseases, robusta, tropical infections, tuberculosis

2011 MicroGnome Review

December 31, 2011 by micrognome Leave a Comment

2011 MicroGnome Review: the handful of defining observations, investigations and studies that cheered the MicroGnome’s heart during 2011

Filed Under: Featured, Review Tagged With: 2011 MicroGnome Review, AIDS, bacteremia, bacteriaemia, clinical microbiology, dengue, HIV, infectious diseases, influenza, malaria, MALDI-TOF, mass spec, medical microbiology, NAAT, PCR, polymerase chain reaction, review, septicaemia, septicemia, tuberculosis, vaccine, vaccines

Beyond these walls

December 21, 2010 by micrognome Leave a Comment

Introducing the Lab Without Walls

Filed Under: Featured, μGnews Tagged With: clinical microbiology, field applications, field lab, Lab without walls, malaria, molecular biology, molecular microbiology, septicaemia, septicemia, TB, tuberculosis

Unpacking the Lab Without Walls

December 16, 2010 by micrognome 3 Comments

Introduction to the Lab Without Walls

Filed Under: μGnews, μGnostics Tagged With: East Timor, HIV/AIDS, Lab without walls, malaria, mobile lab, TB, tuberculosis

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