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Eric Pollitt

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Ákos T Kovács @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
note, gliding is not comparable to sliding the here described spreading is very similar to sliding (=spreading by growth and facilitating compounds, like polysaccharides), which was known for Salmonella - the authors are not fully correct stating that sliding always depends on surfactant
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Eric Pollitt @stapheric.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Mycobacterium smegmatis Expands Across Surfaces by Hydraulic Sliding - Environmental Microbiology Reports enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... - Our new paper is out!
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Antimicrobial resistance #AMR @antimicrobial.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
UCLA Health ended an NDM-1 Pseudomonas aeruginosa outbreak by tracing it to an ICU sink biofilm via whole-genome sequencing, then eliminating it with targeted disinfection, plumbing changes, and staff education—showcasing the power of diverse IPC measures. #AMR www.newswise.com/articles/the...
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These Techniques Stopped the Outbreak of an Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria in a SoCal Hospital | Newswise
Researchers detected Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a common hospital-acquired bacterium, often found in moist environments. But this strain carried a gene called New Delhi metallo-β-lactamase (NDM-1), an en...
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The Onion @theonion.com · 05/08/2025
‘Seek Funding’ Step Added To Scientific Method
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‘Seek Funding’ Step Added To Scientific Method
PARIS—In an effort to modernize the principles and empirical procedures of examining phenomena and advancing humanity’s collective knowledge, the International Council for Science announced Thursday t...
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Maryn McKenna @marynmck.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Woke last night to the sound of thunder. How far off, I sat and wondered. (First published notice of the superbug that would come to be known as MRSA, 1961.)
The image is a modern print-out with hand-applied yellow highlights of a page of a medical journal published in 1961, announcing in a letter the first observation of bacteria containing resistance to the brand-new drug celbenin, later known as methicillin — a drug that was supposed to solve the emerging problem of antibiotic resistance. Oops.
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aaroncurtismicro.bsky.social @aaroncurtismicro.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Delighted to share our latest publication from @medmycology.bsky.social adapting the EVPL model to study A. fumigatus virulence, made possible through collaboration with @friendlymicrobe.bsky.social. Many thanks to @researchireland.ie for funding this work www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Proteomic characterization of Aspergillus fumigatus – host interactions using the ex-vivo pig lung (EVPL) model
Aspergillus fumigatus is an opportunistic fungal pathogen of the human airway that can cause a variety of chronic infections, typically in the context of pre-existing lung damage. The interaction o...
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Freya Harrison @friendlymicrobe.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Paper! @phoebesilva.bsky.social's labour of love* optimising synthetic #CysticFibrosis mucus for growth of NTHi is out #MicroSky #Biofilm www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour... *more like seething resentment as the bugs steadfastly refused to grow in most things we threw at them ^_^
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Optimizing synthetic cystic fibrosis sputum media for growth of non-typeable Haemophilus influenzae
Non-typeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHi) is an early pathogen isolated from the lungs of children with cystic fibrosis (CF). However, its role in the progression of CF lung infection is poorly under...
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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 10/03/2025
The general trend is crazy. Here is Twitter vs Bluesky volumes for the last week. On some days they are equal in volume.
Altmetric Explorer view - Twitter/X vs Bluesky in bar graphs.
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nvansorge.bsky.social @nvansorge.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
📣 New collaborative work on invasive Strep A epidemiology. A synchronous rise in cases caused by a previously rare emm type 3.93. Genomic analysis identifies a genomic rearrangement in isolates associated to the surge. Added value of long-read seq! Thanks to all! wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/...
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Sonja-Verena Albers @archaellum.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Would you expect that Bacteria use an archaellum for swimming? We didn't, but we found that some Chloroflexota do! Find the story here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... A little thread below 1/n
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Horizontal gene transfer of the functional archaellum machinery to Bacteria
Motility in Archaea is driven by a nanomachinery called the archaellum. So far, archaella have been exclusively described for the archaeal domain; however, a recent study reported the presence of arch...
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PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · 30/01/2025
Tools to analyze early heart morphogenesis in detail are limited. @noelresearchlab.bsky.social &co develop computational package called morphoHeart that allows for integrated 3D analysis of both #heart & extracellular matrix morphology in live #zebrafish embryos 🧪 @plosbiology.org plos.io/42DlqtJ
Maximum intensity projection of a live embryonic zebrafish heart at 72 hours post fertilisation, showing myocardial actin (green; Tg(myl7:LifeActGFP)) and endothelial actin (magenta; Tg(fli1a:Ac-TagRFP)). The image is overlaid in the atrium with 3D reconstructions of the myocardial (light blue), endocardial (pink) and extracellular matrix (orange), and in the ventricle with a 3D reconstruction of the myocardium colour-coded to visualise myocardial thickness.
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Seb Bowyer @sebbowyer.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Setting up an account to talk about my review article in @microbiologysociety.org - all about how #AI has been applied to virus research! #machinelearning #virology doi.org/10.1099/jgv....
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Unveiling the ghost: machine learning’s impact on the landscape of virology
The complexity and speed of evolution in viruses with RNA genomes makes predictive identification of variants with epidemic or pandemic potential challenging. In recent years, machine learning has bec...
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Leibniz Institute DSMZ @leibniz-dsmz.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
You missed our series about unnoticed, but influential female scientists in microbiology that were honoured by naming a bacterium after them? Here is the basic information about the 26 women and their groundbreaking work 👉 www.dsmz.de/collection/honouring-women-in-science #herstory #WomenInScience
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Sean Czerwinski @sczerwinski.bsky.social · 04/10/2024
I’m excited to share the first results of my PhD research, now available as a preprint! We investigated if a reductionist model of phage steering could effectively target P. aeruginosa despite the additional selective pressure of competition with S. aureus.
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Eric Pollitt @stapheric.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Staphylococcus aureus gliding comets: formation and observation - new observations of the S. aureus comets and how to get the assay to work www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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bioRxiv Microbiology @biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Staphylococcus aureus gliding comets: formation and observation www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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