Month: June 2016
Critical appraisal of journal club
By Dr. Nadisha Badanasinghe This activity is organized by the BOS in Medical Microbiology for trainees undergoing MD in Medical Microbiology. This is a compulsory activity for all MD trainees to present at least one journal article during their training period. The first meeting was…
Workshop on Introduction of Revised Protocol for Anti- Rabies Post Exposure Therapy –
By Dr Kanthi Nanayakkara The Sri Lanka College of Microbiologists together with the Medical Research Institute and the Department of Public Health Veterinary Services, organized the above one day workshop on 10.06.2016 at the Aldo Castellani Auditorium, MRI. The participants were Medical Officers managing rabies…
The road way to National Action Plan for combating Antimicrobial resistance
By – The technical advisory group of SLCM for the development of NAP Combating AMR was a long felt need of microbiologists. All the microbiologists were fighting with it at an individual level and collectively as the college. Several milestones of combating AMR in the…
Revision of manual for infection prevention and control in hospitals
By Dr Kushlani Jayatilleke The “Hospital Infection Control Manual” was first printed by the Sri Lanka College of Microbiologists in 2005. The college felt the need for revision of this manual and asked for volunteers to take the leadership in this task. The volunteers were…
APPRECIATION – PROFESSOR MAHROOF ISMAIL
By Prof. Nilanthi de Silva On 13 June 2016, Sri Lanka lost another doyen in the field of Medical Parasitology. Prof Ismail was one of the earliest members of the Sri Lanka College of Microbiologists, serving as its 11th President, in 1987. In 2015, when…
Update on National Laboratory Based Surveillance of Antimicrobial Resistance – June 2016
By Dr Kushlani Jayatilleke Antibiotic susceptibility patterns of bacterial isolates from midstream urine specimens which have colony count of ≥ 105 CFU/ml were analyzed centrally using WHONET software. The data entered to the WHONET software in respective hospital laboratories were sent to the consultant microbiologist…