In the past, one of the uses of this blog has been to document the changes and additions we have made to VetBact. In recent years, however, we haven’t blogged much about anything, to be honest. Does that mean that nothing has changed? One might be tempted to surmise that the website has reached some level of maturity which in turn might lead to a lower rate of change. There may be some truth in that in the sense that it already contains much of the material that is needed for the courses in veterinary bacteriology and other related subjects where VetBact is used here at SLU. A supplementary explanation is probably that in recent years we have simply had less time to work on the further development of this site. And on writing blog posts.
However, this does not imply that nothing has changed and here are a few things we have added since the most recent blog post in 2023:
- In 2024, we introduced a new section on susceptibility testing. We describe three fundamentally different types of such testing and you may want to check them out, if you’re not familiar with them already.
- In 2025, it became clear that major web browsers were dropping support for the Ogg/Theora video format which we used for video clips on the website. We solved this by converting the clips to WebM format, which is also Open Source. The video clips on VetBact are used to illustrate motility. For example, check out Brachyspira hyodysenteriae.
- In both years, as well as earlier, we have updated information in already existing sections. This work may not be obvious but if you take a look at the front page, there is usually a list displaying the most recently updated pages. The figure (right) shows the list as it appeared on 30 December 2025.
That’s it for 2025. Welcome back in 2026!