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New look – Quarto

This blog has just undergone a refresh. I have been using Quarto for most of my writing, such as academic manuscripts, presentations, and my PhD thesis. Naturally, I’ve been…

Setting up VS Code and R for remote development

R

RStudio is my almost always my go-to IDE for using R. However, although it is possible to use R through a remote machine through RStudio, many features are lost, such as the…

Misunderstood Antimicrobials — The Tigecycline Edition

microbiology

Tigecycline is a somewhat controversial antimicrobial. I’m considering starting a collection of articles discussing “misunderstood antimicrobials” - chloramphenicol would of…

Changing trends in antimicrobial publications

microbiology

data science

Publication trends can be used as a surrogate to guage the changing interests of the medical community in certain subjects. This approach has been used by Luz et al to show…

Pneumococcus

microbiology

history

I believe there is a list of bacterial pathogens which are really true classics of the bacteriology field. They have a rich historical background and knowledge of these…

Gram negative acquired resistance mechansims

microbiology

The aim of this brief document is to summarise some general principles that allow the reader to identify acquired resistance mechanisms in Enterobacterales. For the purpose…