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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
2024-06-28

  Turning the Output of the Microbiology Laboratory Into Gold

The European alchemists of the 12th century sought to find the philosopher’s stone, a substance that would transmute base metals, such as lead, into precious metals, such as silver and gold. Today, we discuss whether data analysis, including machine le...
  Sanjat Kanjilal, Alex McAdam, Elli Theel author
2024-06-01

  Training in Antimicrobial Resistance: Gaps and Opportunities

Antimicrobial resistance is a priority public health problem with complex roots and connotations. However, due to a lack of focus on this topic, research training programs, specifically those focused on AMR are limited. Additionally, scientific meeting...
  Cesar Arias, William Shafer, Lee Harrison author
2024-04-19

  10 Years of Rhodococcus: Clinical Trends and Susceptibility Profiles

Rhodococcus infections are uncommon, however they can cause serious disease in certain patients. There are a number of challenges though when dealing with Rhodococcus infections, including the fact that much of what we know around their susceptibility ...
  Adi Shah, Nancy Wengenack, Alex McAdam, Elli Theel author
2024-04-05

  Why Phage Therapy Fails

Phage therapy has gained a lot of traction but the challenges created by this approach have not been properly assessed at a big scale. We often read about therapy successes on isolated cases but, rarely, we read or hear about failures. AAC recently pub...
  Cesar Arias, Saima Aslam author