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Agata Kowalska-Shaik
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MSc in Molecular Microbiology
I cannot wait for my next opportunity in research 🧫👩🏻‍🔬🔬
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Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A(H5N1) Virus Infection of Indoor Domestic Cats Within Dairy Industry Worker Households — Michigan, May 2024 | MMWR

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Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A(H5N1) ...
This report describes highly pathogenic avian influenza virus infection among two indoor cats living in homes of dairy workers.
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February 21, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Now online! Bat-infecting merbecovirus HKU5-CoV lineage 2 can use human ACE2 as a cell entry receptor
Bat-infecting merbecovirus HKU5-CoV lineage 2 can use human ACE2 as a cell entry receptor
Coronaviruses of the merbecovirus family have been thought to enter cells by using the host cell receptor DPP4. This study identifies a merbecovirus from Pipistrellus bats that is capable of entering cells from other mammals via ACE2, and it describes the…
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February 18, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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The overview of AMR that you always wanted (someone else to write) - amazing!

Truly brilliant paper with great figures! @lancetmicrobe.bsky.social

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Antimicrobial resistance: a concise update
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a serious threat to global public health, with approximately 5 million deaths associated with bacterial AMR in 2019. Tackling AMR requires a multifaceted and cohesive...
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February 5, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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Many people talk about the "Golden Age of Antibiotics", but I hadn't seen it visualized properly.

Just how many types of antibiotics were discovered during that time?

So, I visualized it myself!
A timeline titled "The Golden Age of Antibiotics" shows when each antibiotic drug class was first available for medical use, with example antibiotics labeled. Classes are color-coded by their source: actinomycetes, other bacteria, fungi, or synthetic. Milestones include the first antibiotics (arsphenamines in 1910), as well as the discovery of many actinomycetes-derived antibiotics, such as streptomycin, and sulfonamides, penicillins, and tetracyclines. Data: Hutchings, Truman, Wilkinson (2019). Created by Saloni Dattani for Our World in Data.
December 23, 2024 at 10:09 AM
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Good resistance news: An 'Achilles heel' discovered in antibiotic resistant bacteria. Scientists in Canada found the critical vulnerability: bacteria need zinc. Deprive them of the nutrient & their stability is disrupted making them susceptible to antibiotics again www.genengnews.com/topics/infec...
New Achilles Heel Exposed in Antibiotic Resistance
Carbapenems are last-resort antibiotics for treating bacterial infections. A study shows how zinc plays a role in drug-resistant bacteria.
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January 9, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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Isolation of an infectious mammalian chu-like virus from tumor cells of the endangered Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii) https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.25.625296v1
Isolation of an infectious mammalian chu-like virus from tumor cells of the endangered Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii) https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.25.625296v1
Jingchuvirales (negative-sense RNA viruses) were initially discovered in invertebrates, with both ex
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November 26, 2024 at 5:20 AM
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🧵 Our grandmas were onto something when they told us to have some tea when we were sick. Cool paper showing several Omicron-era #SARSCoV2 variants effectively inactivated by green tea, Matcha, & black tea, mediated by EGCG and TFDG: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Effects of tea, catechins and catechin derivatives on Omicron subvariants of SARS-CoV-2 - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Effects of tea, catechins and catechin derivatives on Omicron subvariants of SARS-CoV-2
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November 23, 2024 at 7:43 PM
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Low-dose oral ribonucleoside analog is efficacious in guinea pig models of lethal arenavirus disease when administered before and during peak fever.
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Delayed low-dose oral administration of 4′-fluorouridine inhibits pathogenic arenaviruses in animal models of lethal disease
Low-dose oral ribonucleoside analog is efficacious in guinea pig models of lethal arenavirus disease when administered before and during peak fever.
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November 21, 2024 at 3:47 AM