Just before Christmas, the SGH Diagnostic Bacteriology blogger put up a post on how to isolate Group B streptococcus (GBS) from raw fish samples. SGH Department of Pathology used to have a Food and Water Microbiology Lab, but that was closed several years ago, before the move to the new Academia building. The clinical microbiologists […]
Our website is live. Currently, the links to all the video interviews are available on a single page, as is a page of “Trivia” that contains posts related to the project as well as on infectious diseases in Singapore (only a few articles at present, but we will increase the number of posts over time). […]
We have finally crossed the midpoint in terms of recorded interviews for the SG50 Project! Thanks to the help of Dr. Vincent Pang from Tan Tock Seng Hospital, we have managed to complete interviews for the following: Dr. Ling Moi Lin – Singapore General Hospital. Dr. Jeffery Cutter – Ministry of Health. Dr. Andrea Kwa […]
Some enterprising microbiologists from the Singapore General Hospital have set up a Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/DiagnosticBacteriology?notif_t=fbpage_fan_invite So far, it seems to mainly highlight the posts from their blog. Hopefully, there will be more independent content soon.
A middle-aged man with Type 2 diabetes mellitus and hypertension developed extensive subarachnoid haemorrhage acutely, and underwent a 4-vessel cerebral angiogram during which an anterior communicating artery aneurysm was found and coiled. He recovered gradually with inpatient rehabilitation, and was sent home after 2 weeks of hospitalisation. However, he had developed a cough with mild […]
The 50th post on this blog! And perhaps it is fitting to put up this case, which I reviewed as a fairly new trainee in infectious diseases slightly more than a decade ago… This young girl, who had just turned 18, developed upper respiratory tract symptoms and fever 4 days prior to hospitalisation. Her fever […]
I was rather pleased to be referred this blog set up by the microbiologists of the Department of Pathology at Singapore General Hospital. Very beautiful pictures of plates and microscopy images of the bacteria and fungi isolated from their patients!
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