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Read articles about microbiology from Microbiologics’ experts and other field experts.
Microbiology Meme Contest
Celebrating Microbiology with Memes From the long-popular puns on fungi to double entendres about genes, microbiologists are no strangers to laboratory humor, including the fast-spreading visual jokes called memes. At Microbiologics, we’ve been known to drop a meme or...
The Unique Challenges of Drug Resistant Gonorrhea
When penicillin went into widespread use during WWII, it became known as “the wonder drug” for its revolutionary impact on infections. In addition to its ability to treat war wounds, it also dramatically changed treatment of common infections, including STIs like...
50 Years of Microbiologics
Fifty years ago, Cleon (Guy) LeMont, a central Minnesota entrepreneur, opened a testing laboratory with a focus on detecting microbiological contamination in water, the environment, and food. Named Environmental Protection Laboratories, the company began making its...
Women’s Health & STI Quiz
According to the World Health Organization, over one million sexually transmitted infections are contracted every day. Infection rates have been steadily increasing, reaching new records each year since 2014, but public awareness of STIs is not keeping pace. How much...
The Public Health Crisis of Antimicrobial Resistance
What if the latest tech device had all the bells and whistles everyone wanted and was far better than anything currently being sold, but the marketer was told he could not sell it until all the previous versions of his device had broken? And then, he had to sell his...
The Sustained Increase in STIs
Less than 20 years ago, STIs were at historic lows. Syphilis was close to elimination. In 2021, however, sexually transmitted infections are at an all-time high, yet the importance of prevention and screening seems to have fallen by the wayside. Recent statistics...
Celebrating Medical Laboratory Professionals Week 2021
In a time when we have come to rely on medical laboratory professionals more and more, we also run the risk of taking their work for granted. Their work is so integral to our health and everyday life that most people rarely take notice. Medical Laboratory...
The Crisis of Increasing Drug-Resistance in the Tuberculosis Pandemic
About every 22 seconds, someone dies from Tuberculosis. As the deadliest bacterial infection worldwide, Tuberculosis causes or contributes to 1-1.5 million deaths per year, recently surpassing HIV as the deadliest single infectious agent. Around ten million people...
The Challenges of Accurate Zika Virus Testing
Although it is largely forgotten today, just five years before the Coronavirus Pandemic, the Zika virus was making headlines. In early 2016, the World Health Organization declared the Zika epidemic a public health emergency, as evidence mounted that the Zika virus...
Top 10 Custom Control Strains
Since we launched our Custom Solutions program for environmental isolates and objectionable organisms in 2011, the most common strains have remained remarkably consistent. Even as the customers we serve (and the products they manufacture) have become increasingly...
