Over the past two weeks, CMPT has been hosting Dr. Noora D. Al Bulushi and Omaima Yaqoob Al-Harthi from Central Public Health Laboratories (CPHL) in Oman, who were the most recent participants in our International EQA Training program. Started in…
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WHO’s New Bacterial Priority Pathogens List
In May of this year, the World Health Organization released an updated version of the Bacterial Priority Pathogens List (BPPL), which classifies bacteria that pose the greatest risk to human health worldwide. To create the updated list, WHO used a…
Posted in Clinical Microbiology
Hospitalized Patients Likely to Spread MRSA to Family Members
A study published in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology found that family members of hospitalized patients were at a higher risk of becoming infected with Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), whether the patient had been diagnosed with an MRSA infection or…
Posted in Clinical Microbiology
