The complex and fascinating community of ‘bugs’ that live in the vagina have just been linked to a groundbreaking new test to identify the risk of preterm birth.
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S. pneumoniae, the bacteria responsible for pneumonia, causes about one million deaths each year. Now we know how it uses the sugar raffinose to spread through the body to cause disease.
Healthcare workers in sub-Saharan Africa lack access to laboratory diagnostics and often have to guess which antibiotics to use for presumed infections.
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Researcher, Midwife, Nurse, UNSW Microbiome Research Centre, UNSW Sydney
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Gynaecological Surgeon and Sonologist, McMaster University; Adjunct Lecturer, University of Adelaide, University of Sydney
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Associate Director, J.D. MacLean Centre for Tropical Diseases, Division of Infectious Diseases, McGill University
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Research Fellow, Harvard University
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Molecular microbiologist, University of Adelaide
