The first case of imported Zika infection in Singapore was announced on the mainstream media yesterday – a Singaporean permanent resident who had traveled to Sao Paulo, Brazil between 27th March and 7th May and who had developed symptoms on 10th May. According to the news report, he is recovering (Zika causes mild disease in […]
Six-time Singapore National Chess Champion and Singapore No.2 (No.1 is Grandmaster Zhang Zhong who was formerly one of the top players of China) Goh Wei Ming has just written a long post on his blog about his decision not to be a part of any Singapore chess team under the current Singapore Chess Federation (SCF) […]
It has been more than two weeks since the story first broke on mainstream media. More than a hundred additional cases have been linked to the durian pastry outbreak (bringing the total to at least 183 cases), while the Goodwood Park Hotel bakery remains suspended. The initial investigation was reportedly performed from 4th April (i.e. […]
In the first large foodbourne outbreak of the year (to my knowledge anyway), seventy-six cases of food poisoning so far have been linked to the consumption of durian pastries from Goodwood Park Hotel according to various mainstream news reports today, resulting in the suspension of the hotel bakery’s food establishment license by the National Environment […]
Part of the pleasure of attending any large medical conference is viewing the trade exhibition. In ECCMID this year, the pharmaceutical industry is out in force but are outnumbered by the diagnostics companies. The trend continues towards point-of-care and easy to use diagnostics platforms. Next generation sequencing has not made it to prime time yet. […]
The annual European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases is going on now at the Amsterdam RAI Exhibition and Convention Centre, and will end on 12th April. This meeting has grown from strength to strength, and now has more than 11,000 attendees each year. Attending the session on individualised management of invasive […]
Finally attempting to complete this series after a long hiatus. Fungal infections are common in patients with prolonged neutropenia (and therefore predominantly in patients with malignant haematological conditions or after allogeneic stem cell transplantation), and were present in a significant propotion of patients with acute leukaemia in various historical autopsy series. These infections are conventionally divided into yeast […]
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