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Date Title & Description Contributors
2025-02-14

  Best Papers in the Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 2024

The past year in Clinical Microbiology, as seen through the lens of the Journal of Clinical Microbiology. Four JCM editors have each selected a paper they consider to be among the “best” we published in 2024. Of course there are no objective criteria f...
  Patricia Simner, Romney Humphries, Alexander McAdam, Elitza Theel author
2025-01-25

  Best Papers of AAC, 2024

2024 was a very active year on research in antimicrobial resistance, highlighted by an impactful and high level political declaration to combat antimicrobial resistance by the United Nations. In this episode, trainees from NIH-funded training program (...
  Cesar Arias, Nathalie Chen, Alex Kang, Nathan Rabbe, Taylor Blackburn, Jacon McPherson, Harrison Lee, William Shafer author
2025-01-10

  Getting a Job in a Clinical Microbiology Lab

Looking for a dynamic and rewarding career? Learn what it means to be a Clinical Microbiology Laboratory Director and the necessary steps to get there. It’s a diverse job encompassing infectious diseases diagnostic testing, patient care, teaching, and ...
  Alexander McAdam, Elitza Theel, Alexandra Bryson, Andrea Prinzi author
2024-12-13

  The Global Antibiotic Research & Development Partnership (GARDP)

Lack of access to antibiotics including those with enhanced activity against multidrug-resistant organisms is a major barrier to combat antimicrobial resistance, particularly in the developing world. Furthermore, discovering and making available new an...
  Jennifer Cohn, Susana Ribeiro, Cesar Arias author
2024-11-11

  At-Home Collection and Testing for STIs

So you want validated, at-home, self-collected swabs for STI testing… Here's what you need to know!  Sexually transmitted infection rates continue to climb across the US and while testing for these diseases is widely available, for the most part it req...
  Alex McAdam, Elli Theel, Breland Hockman, Dina Greene author
2024-10-26

  High Level Meeting on AMR at the United Nations: A Debrief

The second High-Level Meeting on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) took place in New York on 26 September 2024 as the principal official, health-focused event during the UN General Assembly high-level week. The intergovernmental negotiations for the decla...
  Cesar Arias, John Rex, Prabha Fernandes author
2024-10-11

  The Launch of ASM Case Reports Journal

The American Society for Microbiology is launching a new journal, ASM Case Reports. The journal is already accepting submissions and will begin publishing in January of 2025. We discuss ASM Case Reports and what you can expect from this new journal. Wa...
  Alexander McAdam, Elitza Theel, Carey-Ann Burnham author
2024-09-13

  Heteroresistance: Mechanisms, Diagnosis and Clinical Implications

Heteroresistance is a phenomenon that has been well characterized for many years. However, we are only now starting to understand its mechanistic basis. Indeed, the manner how bacteria respond to antibiotics is complex and phenomena such as persistance...
  Cesar Arias, David Weiss, William Miller author
2024-08-16

  Microbiology in the Headlines: H5N1 in Dairy Cattle, The Plague, Measles, Neosporin and more!

Join Dr. Ben Pinsky and Dr. Greg Berry as they dissect recent news stories, including the USDA's testing for H5N1 in ground beef and a surprising bubonic plague case in Oregon. They also tackle the resurgence of measles in the U.S., the local reappeara...
  Alex McAdam, Elli Theel, Greg Berry, Ben Pinsky author
2024-07-26

  The Global Preclinical Antibacterial Pipeline

The pipeline of antibiotic discovery is a major necessity due to the continuous evolution of resistance to currently used antimicrobials. This pipeline faces important challenges due to the lack of investment on antimicrobial research in the private se...
  Cesar Arias, Valeria Gigante author