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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Date: December 7, 2021 Time: 9:00am (PST), 12:00pm (EST) The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has infected more than...
Date: November 4, 2021 Time: 11:00am (PDT), 1:00pm (EDT) Rapid, reliable, and accurate identification of an infective organisms has a profound impact on treatment management and clinical out...
Date: September 16, 2021 Time: 7:00am (PDT), 10:00am (EDT) High-dimensional flow cytometry generates a wealth of data. Computational approaches can help to simplify the complexity of large d...
Vaccination and infection are two different paths to immunity. Understanding human immune responses to SARS-CoV-2 RNA vaccines is of interest for a panoply of reasons. mRNA vaccines have dem...
Learning Objectives: 1. Discuss the value of infectious disease diagnostics. 2. Recognize the importance of home diagnostics. 3. Identify how better diagnostics leads to more resiliency to p...
By examining the host response to SARS-CoV-2 infection we gain valuable insights into viral pathogenesis and COVID-19 progression. MicroRNAs (miRNAs), a class of small (18-22nt), non-coding...
Influenza viruses represent a significant burden to human health. In order to limit respiratory viral disease, new approaches that can prevent viral infection and spread are needed. We have...
Date: August 11, 2021 Time: 8:00am (PDT), 11:00am (EDT) Procalcitonin (PCT) is a biomarker widely used to assess the risk of bacterial infection and to aid in antibiotic stewardship in patie...
Date: June 17, 2021 Time: 11:00am PDT, 8:00pm CET BACKGROUND Kidney transplant recipients and patients on hemodialysis are immunocompromised populations excluded from vaccine trials. Data ar...
Controlling the spread of the 2019 novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 and ensuring a return to 'normal' activities in a post-COVID world requires two complementary efforts: 1) Widespread a...