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Disease surveillance
Disease surveillance is a methodology in where epidemiologists monitor the spread of a specific disease in order to understand how it progresses. The goals of disease surveillance are to predict, observe, and minimize the harm caused by diseases which present as outbreaks, epidemics, or pandemics.
MAY 28, 2020 | 10:00 AM
DATE: May 28, 2020 TIME: 10:00am PT, 1:00pm ET Cardiac allograft rejection is a serious concern in transplant medicine, conferring an increased risk of acute graft failure and adverse patient...
APR 22, 2020 | 12:00 AM
As the spread of infectious diseases, current pandemic, and growing antimicrobial resistance (AMR) continues globally, next-generation sequencing (NGS) and specifically metagenomics became a...
APR 14, 2020 | 9:00 AM
DATE: April 14, 2020 TIME: 9:00am PDT, 12:00pm EDT Besides being Gibco Cell Culture Heroes, what do Vivek, Sandra, Daisy, Ameet and Kristine all have in common? They are all stuck at home fo...
MAR 03, 2020 | 9:00 AM
DATE: March 3, 2020 TIME: 9:00am PT, 12:00pm ET Despite the advances of new drugs and the lowering of carbapenem breakpoints to enhance detection of CRE, there should be no complacency about...
DEC 03, 2019 | 11:00 AM
DATE: December 3, 2019 TIME: 11:00am PST This talk will cover Candida auris infection, colonization, and spread through health care systems from a clinical case perspective. We will discuss...
NOV 06, 2019 | 7:30 AM
Since the establishment of reverse genetics techniques to manipulate the influenza virus genome, it has been possible to study viral molecular signatures responsible for virulence, and the ge...
OCT 15, 2019 | 10:00 AM
DATE: October 15, 2019TIME: 10:00am PDTAdvances in Next-Generation Sequencing technologies as well as bioinformatic tools have advanced our ability to research and explore both human...
OCT 09, 2019 | 12:00 PM
This presentation will review the utility of multiparametric MRI (mpMRI) and genomic testing in the management of early stage prostate cancer and show when and if such tests should be used al...
OCT 09, 2019 | 9:00 AM
Although about one in every seven men in the developed world will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in their lifetime, the mortality rate remains low with a 99% five-year survival rate for lo...
SEP 18, 2019 | 9:00 AM
DATE: September 18, 2019 TIME: 9:00am PDT, 12:00pm EDTDue to globalization, changes in the environment and climate, and the encroach- ment of humans into natural habitats, recent out...
SEP 11, 2019 | 12:00 PM
immunocompromised populations where the virus can cause systemic and even fatal infections. Indeed, we have shown that astrovirus infections are more prevalent than norovirus in our pediatric...
SEP 11, 2019 | 10:30 AM
In contrast to other countries in Latin America, Peru had been notoriously spared by the global dissemination of carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae (CR-Kp) until recently. Isolated ca...
AUG 14, 2019 | 8:00 AM
DATE: August 14, 2019TIME: 8:00am PDT Infectious disease surveillance and monitoring is critical in settings where disease outbreaks and antibiotic resistance can dramatically im...
APR 25, 2019 | 9:00 AM
“Emerging infections” are those that appear suddenly or are rapidly increasing in incidence or geographic range (e.g., HIV/AIDS, Ebola, SARS, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome [MER...
