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In this episode, we discuss the Series on Rheumatic Heart Disease published jointly by The Lancet Microbe and The Lancet Regional Health – Americas. We cover why this Series matters to the scientific community, how neglected the disease remains, its incidence across the Americas, and how it's managed in the populations most affected. We also examine the clinical and microbiological challenges in d...

Phoebe Ashley-Norman talks with Luria Leslie Founou about neonatal sepsis in Cameroon and sub-Saharan Africa more broadly, in conversation around the Lancet Microbe Personal View "Neonatal sepsis in Africa: what are we missing" Read the Personal View here: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanmic/article/PIIS2666-5247(26)00029-7/fulltext Dr Founou is a microbiologist and researcher with a focus o...

In this episode, we discuss antimicrobial resistance (AMR) priorities, as outlined in the UK National Action Plan (NAP) for AMR, and how microbial genomics can contribute to meeting them in the UK and beyond. Guests Kate Baker, a researcher at the Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge (Cambridge, UK) and Tess Johnson, a bioethicist at the Ethox Centre of the University of Oxford (Oxford,...

Elisa Pucu speaks with Henriette Svarre Nielsen about their recently published randomised controlled trial, “Vaginal microbiota transplantation for treatment of vaginal dysbiosis without the use of antibiotics: a double-blind, randomised controlled trial in women with vaginal dysbiosis.” Together, they explore the study’s key findings, its implications for women’s health, and the growing importanc...

Phoebe Ashley-Norman talks with Zakiul Hassan and Prof Tahmina Shirin about the findings of "Interpreting the natural history and pathogenesis of Nipah virus disease through clinical data, to inform clinical trial design: a systematic review", by Zakiul Hassan and colleagues. We also discuss Nipah virus disease more broadly, talking about recent phylogenetic findings, diagnostics, therapeutics, va...

Elena Dalla Vecchia talks with Claas Kirchhelle and Lloyd Czaplewski about the current antimicrobial resistance (AMR) governance (with a historical perspective on how it came to be), the 2015 WHO Global Action Plan (GAP) on AMR and the draft for the 2026 updated GAP, the role of social sciences in addressing AMR, the financing mechanisms in antibiotic research and development (including push and p...

Elisa Pucu from The Lancet Microbe interviews Dr. Magnus Unemo of Örebro University about the clinical implications and key findings from his research. They discuss about the the microbiological analysis and whole genome sequencing of treatment failures from the zoliflodacin phase 3 clinical trial for gonorrhea—revealing insights that could change the future of treatment and antibiotic resistance....

Phoebe Ashley-Norman of The Lancet Microbe speaks to Amber Barton about the neglected tropical disease, yaws. Efforts to eradicate yaws were first made in the 1950s through a WHO and UNICEF campaign that reduced yaws prevalence by 90%, but it remained endemic in some regions.  Global efforts involving the mass drug administration of azithromycin continue in pursuit of the WHO 2030 yaws eradication...

Elena Dalla Vecchia of The Lancet Microbe speaks to Dr Britt Koskella about bacteriophages and phageome, their role in modulating the bacteriome, their potential use as signatures of microbiome health and dysbiosis, and hence, indirectly, as markers of host health and disease status.  From an ecological perspective, parasites (such as bacteriophages) are key drivers of the evolution of their hosts...

Rebecca Barksby of The Lancet Microbe speaks to Dr Christian Malaka and Dr Livia Patrono on mpox in the Central African Republic and how researchers are using genomic surveillance to provide insights into the epidemiology of the virus. Read the full article: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanmic/article/PIIS2666-5247(25)00101-6/fulltext Continue this conversation on social! Follow us today at....

Elena Dalla Vecchia talks with Dr Sam Lipworth and Prof Nicole Stoesser about the challenges and variability in genotypic predictions of antimicrobial resistance in Escherichia coli, about which they have published two papers in The Lancet Microbe: “Exploring uncatalogued genetic variation in antimicrobial resistance gene families in Escherichia coli: an observational analysis” and “Estimating the...

Rebecca Barksby of The Lancet Microbe speaks to Dr Anastasia Theodosiou about performing a controlled human infection study in pregnant women investigating mother-to-infant transmission of Neisseria lactamica. Read the full article: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanmic/article/PIIS2666-5247(24)00254-4/fulltext?dgcid=buzzsprout_icw_podcast_generic_lanmic Continue this conversation on social! F...

Elena Dalla Vecchia of The Lancet Microbe speaks to Susan Meiring, Vanessa Quan, and Nelesh Govender about bloodstream infections in neonates at lower-tier South African hospitals. Read the full paper, Pathogen aetiology and risk factors for death among neonates with bloodstream infections at lower-tier South African hospitals: a cross-sectional study, at https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanmic/...

Rebecca Barksby of The Lancet Microbe speaks to Professor Laurence Armand-Lefevre and Professor Luc Hervé Samison about implementing the WHO Tricycle Protocol in Madagascar for the surveillance of extended-spectrum β-lactamase producing Escherichia coli in humans, chickens, and the environment. Read the full article: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(24)00228-1/fullte...

Elena Dalla Vecchia of The Lancet Microbe speaks to Dr Zoe Dyson and Dr Philip Ashton about the genomic characterisation of population diversity, antimicrobial resistance profiles, and transmission patterns of Salmonella enterica serotypes Typhi and Paratyphi A in Bangladesh, Nepal, and Malawi. Continue this conversation on social! Follow us today at... https://thelancet.bsky.social/ https://insta...

Elena Dalla Vecchia of The Lancet Microbe speaks to Edwin Armitage, Saffiatou Darboe, and Lamin Jaiteh about Streptococcus pyogenes carriage and transmission in households in The Gambia. Read the full article: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanmic/article/PIIS2666-5247(24)00046-6/fulltext?dgcid=buzzsprout_icw_podcast_generic_lanmic Continue this conversation on social! Follow us today at... ht...

Rebecca Barksby of The Lancet Microbe speaks with Professor Martin Hoenigl about the impact of climate change and natural disasters on fungal diseases. Read the full article: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanmic/article/PIIS2666-5247(24)00039-9/fulltext?dgcid=buzzsprout_icw_podcast_generic_lanmic Continue this conversation on social! Follow us today at... https://thelancet.bsky.social/ https:...

Rebecca Barksby of The Lancet Microbe speaks to Dr Nancy Chow about sporotrichosis and discusses a genomic epidemiology study of this zoonotic fungal disease among people and cats in Brazil. Read the full article: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanmic/article/PIIS2666-5247(23)00364-6/fulltext?dgcid=buzzsprout_icw_podcast_generic_lanmic Continue this conversation on social! Follow us today at.....

Elena Dalla Vecchia of The Lancet Microbe speaks to Deborah Williamson and Michael Moso about non-SARS-CoV-2 respiratory viral detection from COVID-19 rapid antigen test devices. Read the full article: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanmic/article/PIIS2666-5247(23)00375-0/fulltext?dgcid=buzzsprout_icw_podcast_generic_lanmic Continue this conversation on social! Follow us today at... https://th...

Rebecca Barksby of The Lancet Microbe speaks to Professor Kate Baker about the challenges, potential, and recommendations for using genomics to monitor antimicrobial resistance. Read the full Series: https://www.thelancet.com/series/amr-genomics?dgcid=buzzsprout_icw_podcast_generic_lanmic Continue this conversation on social! Follow us today at... https://thelancet.bsky.social/ https://instagram.c...

Rebecca Barksby of The Lancet Microbe talks to Dr Erica Furhmeister about monitoring antimicrobial resistance using faecal metagenomes. Read the full article: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanmic/article/PIIS2666-5247(23)00137-4/fulltext?dgcid=buzzsprout_icw_podcast_generic_lanmic Continue this conversation on social! Follow us today at... https://thelancet.bsky.social/ https://instagram.com/...

Elena Dalla Vecchia of The Lancet Microbe speaks to Dr Jie Zhou and Dr Anika Singanayagam about their SARS-CoV-2 human challenge study. Read the full article: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanmic/article/PIIS2666-5247(23)00101-5/fulltext?dgcid=buzzsprout_icw_podcast_generic_lanmic Continue this conversation on social! Follow us today at... https://thelancet.bsky.social/ https://instagram.com/...

Elena Dalla Vecchia du The Lancet Microbe converse avec Dr Fabrice Somé sur la surveillance de la résistance aux médicaments antipaludique et son étude récent qui a utilisé la xenosurveillance en Burkina Faso. Pour lire l’article: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanmic/article/PIIS2666-5247(23)00063-0/fulltext?dgcid=buzzsprout_icw_podcast_generic_lanmic Continue this conversation on social! Fol...

Elena Dalla Vecchia of The Lancet Microbe speaks to Dr Hanna Ehrlich about antimalarial drug resistance surveillance and her recent cross-sectional study using xenomonitoring in Burkina Faso. Read the full article: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanmic/article/PIIS2666-5247(23)00063-0/fulltext?dgcid=buzzsprout_icw_podcast_generic_lanmic Continue this conversation on social! Follow us today at....

Rebecca Barksby of The Lancet Microbe talks to Dr Nichola Calvani about gender equity in science and Herminthology, an online initiative that produces online profiles of women working in parasitology.  Continue this conversation on social! Follow us today at... https://thelancet.bsky.social/ https://instagram.com/thelancetgroup https://facebook.com/thelancetmedicaljournal https://linkedIn.com/comp...