In a new study, published today (15 June) in Nature Communications, a multi-centre team led by the Wellcome Sanger Institute, the University of Oslo, Imperial College London and UCL, has mapped for the first time the evolutionary timeline and population distribution of Escherichia coli’s protective outer capsule, which is responsible for the bacterium’s virulence. The study also shows how targeting the bacterium’s protective layer can help treat extraintestinal infections.
President Dr Lazarus Chakwera has officially opened the Lilongwe Institute of Orthopaedic and Neurosurgery (LION) at Kamuzu Central Hospital in Lilongwe. LIO
President Lazarus Chakwera is set to open a new Orthopaedics and Neurosurgery Hospital constructed within Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH) premises in Lilongwe. KCH director Dr Jonathan Ngoma said the facility, has been constructed with support from the Haukeland University Hospital of Bergen, Norway. It is expected to offer improved orthopaedic and neurosurgery services. Ngoma said: