The Bacterial Special Interest Group (BSIG) was founded to promote communication between all healthcare professionals with an interest in bacterial STIs working in sexual health. A range of activities undertaken by the BSIG includes production1 2 and reviewing guidelines and presentations at educational events. Here we showcase two recent projects.

Provision of educational resources for microscopy of STIs has been a focus of the BSIG, with the 1-day course, which has been running for over 25 years and the publication of a laboratory manual in 2001 and subsequently a DVD in 2009. Conversion of the content of the manual and DVD into a more accessible format is now complete and a responsive website (bsigmicro.org, accessible through a browser) and app (BSIG Micro on Apple App Store/Play Store), available on a tablet or …