Infection Control: is the discipline concerned with preventing nosocomial or healthcare-associated infection, a practical sub-discipline of epidemiology. It is an essential part of the infrastructure of health care.
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According to the most recent data from UNAIDS, in 2022, there were around 39 million people living with HIV worldwide. Of these, 5.5 million people were unaware of their diagnosis in 2021. M...
Acute coughing is one of the most common reasons for consulting in primary care thus driving considerable antibiotic use and health-care costs. Currently, identification of microbial etiolog...
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In the United States, over 40,000 transplantations are performed annually. Ensuring post-transplant success requires diligent monitoring of infectious diseases that are associated with a wid...
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Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-reprogrammed immune cells offer exciting therapeutic potential for addressing oncology, autoimmune diseases, transplant medicine, and infections. However, cur...
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Laboratories performing diagnostic testing for infectious diseases have an obligation to meet the needs of multiple patient populations. With infectious disease, time it takes for reporting...
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Date: February 28, 2023 Time: 11:00am (PST), 2:00pm (EST), 8:00pm (CET) Traditional methods of infection prevention to detect healthcare-associated outbreaks have remained unchanged for many...
Date: January 19, 2023 Time: 11:00am (PST), 2:00pm (EST), 8:00pm (CET) There has been an evolution of organized HPV screening programs from the pap smear to liquid-based cytology, which has...
Date: December 01, 2022 Time: 7:00am (PST), 10:00pm (EST), 4:00pm (CET) Achievement of the UNAIDS 95-95-95 targets is in danger. Gaps are attributed to reaching key populations and equitable...
Date: November 09, 2022 Time: 8:00am (PST), 11:00am (EST), 5:00pm (CET) The field of cell and gene therapy is rapidly growing. In particular, the use of lentiviruses in CAR-T applications is...
Date: October 26, 2022 Time: 7:00am (PDT), 10:00am (EDT), 4:00pm (CEST) To control and monitor the epidemiology and diffusion of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV...
Date: October 25, 2022 Time: 11:00am (PST), 2:00pm (EST), 8:00pm (CEST) Candida auris is a multi-drug resistant yeast that continues to be a global threat for infection and transmission in h...
Learning Objectives: 1. Discuss the methods used to diagnose COVID-19. 2. Define the preventive approaches to COVID-19. 3. Discuss the treatment strategies for COVID-19....
Date: September 28, 2022 Time: 9:00am (PDT), 12:00pm (EDT), 6:00pm (CEST) While COVID-19 continues to be the most pressing diagnostic focus for clinical laboratories, HIV remains a serious g...
Pathogen detection and surveillance have become a high priority in both healthcare and environmental settings for the safety of patients and the general public. The COVID-19 pandemic highlig...
The lack of preparedness for detecting the highly infectious SARS-CoV-2 pathogen, the pathogen responsible for the COVID-19 disease, has caused enormous harm to public health and the economy...
In all organisms, innate immune pathways sense infection and rapidly activate potent immune responses while maintaining a high degree of specificity to prevent inappropriate activation (auto...