An infectious disease can be defined as an illness due to a pathogen or its toxic product, which arises through transmission from an infected person, an infected animal, or a contaminated inanimate object to a susceptible host. There are several scientific practices in place to identify and/or treat an infectious disease.
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APR 25, 2023 | 10:00 AM
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Date: April 25, 2023 Time: 8:00am (PDT), 11:00am (EDT), 5:00pm (CEST) A liquid biopsy is a non-invasive alternative to a surgical biopsy that enables researchers to learn a range of infor...
APR 20, 2023 | 7:00 AM
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Date: April 20, 2023 Time: 7:00am (PDT), 10:00am (EDT), 4:00pm (CEST) A recent systematic review found that more than half of known infectious diseases will be aggravated by climate hazards,...
APR 05, 2023 | 11:00 AM
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Date: April 05, 2023 Time: 11:00am (NZDT) Date: April 04, 2023 Time: 4:00pm (PST), 7:00pm (EST), 1:00pm (CET) Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) technology-based testing method has been widely...
MAR 16, 2023 | 10:00 AM
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Date: March 16, 2023 Time: 10:00am (PST), 1:00pm (EST), 7:00pm (CET) On Thursday March 16, COPAN Diagnostics is pleased to release presentations given at an event held during ASM Microbe 202...
MAR 10, 2023 | 9:00 AM
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Date: March 10, 2023 Time: 9:00am (PST), 11:00am (CST), 12:00pm (EST) Join Dr. Muzny and Dr. Geisler as they discuss the epidemiology, screening and diagnostic testing recommendations, and cu...
FEB 28, 2023 | 11:00 AM
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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...
FEB 21, 2023 | 10:00 AM
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Date: February 21, 2023 Time: 10:00am (PST), 1:00pm (EST), 7:00pm (CET) The use of algorithms that alter patient medical care based on race has fallen under increasing criticism, as race-bas...
FEB 21, 2023 | 8:00 AM
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Date: February 21, 2023 Time: 8:00am (PST), 11:00am (EST), 5:00pm (CET) Cancer is a highly heterogeneous disease in need of accurate and non-invasive diagnostic tools. Here, we describe a no...
JAN 19, 2023 | 10:00 AM
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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...
JAN 17, 2023 | 9:00 AM
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Date: January 17, 2023 Time: 9:00am (PST), 12:00pm (EST), 6:00pm (CET) As SARS-CoV-2 infections continue to ebb and flow, other respiratory viruses have made a big comeback on the world stag...
DEC 14, 2022 | 12:00 PM
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Date: December 14, 2022 Time: 12:00pm (PST), 3:00pm (EST), 9:00pm (CET) Adopting novel technologies is essential for improving patient outcomes, but the key to sustainable success is through...
DEC 07, 2022 | 11:00 AM
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Date: December 07, 2022 Time: 11:00am (PST), 2:00pm (EST), 8:00pm (CET) The success of blood cultures is dependent on the collection of uncontaminated specimens, culture of a large volume of...
Date: November 29, 2022 Time: 6:00am (PST), 9:00pm (EST), 3:00pm (CET) Antimicrobial resistance is an emerging problem in healthcare, and represents one of the most crucial challenges for th...
NOV 17, 2022 | 8:00 AM
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Date: November 17, 2022 Time: 8:00am PST, 11:00am EST Genome editing is—or will soon be—in the clinic for several diseases and more applications are currently under development....
NOV 10, 2022 | 9:00 AM
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Date: November 10, 2022 Time: 9:00am (PST), 12:00pm (EST), 6:00pm (CET) Wastewater-based surveillance has gained wide recognition throughout the COVID-19 pandemic to monitor trends of SARS-C...
NOV 09, 2022 | 1:30 PM
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In this webinar, Dr. Becky Winslow, infectious disease clinical scientist, details urinary tract infections’ incidence and impacts; the standard urine culture’s (SUC) technical c...
NOV 09, 2022 | 9:45 AM
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Due to the rapid emergence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, molecular diagnostic technologies have expanded significantly. Although several diagnostic approaches were developed, real-time reverse tr...
NOV 09, 2022 | 8:15 AM
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In this session, researchers, clinicians, and program implementers from four countries will address the disruption in continuity of care for PLHIV amid the COVID-19 pandemic and the conseque...
NOV 02, 2022 | 9:00 AM
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Nucleic acid analysis is crucial for the diagnostics of infectious diseases such as COVID-19. CRISPR/Cas technology, beyond its broad application in gene editing, features, in this regard, a...