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Medical microbiology. A microbiologist examining cultures under a dissecting microscope. Medical microbiology, the large subset of microbiology that is applied to medicine, is a branch of medical science concerned with the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of infectious diseases. In addition, this field of science studies various clinical ...
The American Society for Microbiology (ASM), originally the Society of American Bacteriologists, is a professional organization for scientists who study viruses, bacteria, fungi, algae, and protozoa as well as other aspects of microbiology. It was founded in 1899. The Society publishes a variety of scientific journals, textbooks, and other ...
Infectious disease. A hospital-acquired infection, also known as a nosocomial infection (from the Greek nosokomeion, meaning "hospital"), is an infection that is acquired in a hospital or other healthcare facility. [1] To emphasize both hospital and nonhospital settings, it is sometimes instead called a healthcare-associated infection. [2]
The Human Microbiome Project (HMP) was a United States National Institutes of Health (NIH) research initiative to improve understanding of the microbiota involved in human health and disease. Launched in 2007, [1] the first phase (HMP1) focused on identifying and characterizing human microbiota. The second phase, known as the Integrative Human ...
Microbiological Research is an academic journal in microbiology, published by Elsevier. It has an impact factor of 6.1 as of 2023. The journal was established in 1896. The journal publishes research on prokaryotic and eukaryotic microorganisms such as yeasts, fungi, bacteria, archaea, and protozoa, as well as on interactions between pathogenic ...
Infection prevention and control. Infection prevention and control is the discipline concerned with preventing healthcare-associated infections; a practical rather than academic sub-discipline of epidemiology. In Northern Europe, infection prevention and control is expanded from healthcare into a component in public health, known as "infection ...
Microbiology Spectrum is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the American Society for Microbiology.Topics the journal covers include: archaea, food microbiology, bacterial genetics, cell biology, physiology, clinical microbiology, environmental microbiology, ecology, eukaryotic microbes, genomics, computational and synthetic microbiology, immunology, pathogenesis, and virology.
Microbiol. Rev. Clinical Microbiology Reviews is a peer-reviewed medical journal covering the areas of clinical microbiology, immunology, medical microbiology, infectious diseases, veterinary microbiology, and microbial pathogenesis. It is a delayed open access journal, full content is accessible via PubMed Central and the journal's website ...