Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine

The COVID-19 pandemic is the most serious global health crisis in recent history with over 140,000 deaths in the UK and over 5 million deaths worldwide. Despite extensive vaccination programs, the virus remains transmissible with hospitalisation and mortality remaining high, both in the UK and globally. Infex Therapeutics, in partnership with the Universi...

Infections are so common that they are an ever-present risk to the public. Fighting such infections is becoming continually more difficult as the resistance to antibiotics increases. For example, Hospital Acquired Infections - HAIs - increase treatment times, and in extreme cases lead to the death of a patient (an estimated 3.5% of patients who acquire a ...

More than 350,000 people suffer from sepsis in the UK annually, leading to 52,000 deaths. Rapid diagnosis is imperative to enable timely administration of interventional antibiotic treatment, however current methods are insufficient to empower clinicians to act within the critical first hour of admission. Early antibiotic therapy is vital to clinical outc...

Society requires new solutions to reduce the probability of COVID-19 cross-infection as people resume their daily lives. However, common touch surfaces have been shown to contain significant viral and microbial contamination. The SARS-CoV-2 virus can be present on plastic and glass surfaces for several days and multiple users of the same touch surfaces cr...

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