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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Date: July 21, 2022 Time: 11:00am (PDT), 2:00pm (EDT), 8:00pm (CEST) In light of the recent pandemic, less attention has been given to more common viruses like influenza. Scientists believe...
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Date: June 29, 2022 Time: 8:00am (PST), 11:00am (EST), 5:00pm (CEST) As of May 2022, there have been more than 500 million confirmed cases of COVID-19, including numerous variants. Additiona...
Date: June 15, 2022 Time: 11:00am (PDT), 2:00pm (EDT), 8:00pm (CEST) One in five Americans has a sexually transmitted infection (STI) according to the 2019 STD Surveillance Report sexual hea...
Date: June 07, 2022 Time: 10:00am (PDT), 1:00pm (EDT), 7:00pm (CEST) On December 8th, 2021 the CDC released new recommendations for preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for the prevention of HIV i...
Date: June 02, 2022 Time: 8:30am (PST), 10:30am (CST), 11:30am (EST) Cardiac biomarkers like high-sensitivity Troponin I might play a major role in the prevention of cardiovascular diseases....
Infectious diseases present a great challenge to global health and its economy. The 2020 SARS- CoV-2 pandemic highlighted the importance of rapid identification, characterization and surveil...
Date: May 31, 2022 Time: 11:00am (PST), 2:00pm (EST), 8:00pm (CEST) In February of this year Minnesota became the first state in the U.S. to screen every newborn for congenital CMV. This was...
Microfluidic Tech has served millions of lives through the Biotech industry, whether in life science research or clinical diagnostics. Most of these technologies are spawned at academic and...
Cancers are genetic diseases driven by recurrent sets of somatic mutations. Different mutations associate statistically with distinct disease risks and can therefore be useful prognostic mar...
With over 500 million COVID-19 cases and more than 6 million deaths, the COVID-19 pandemic remains a global health threat maintained by the impact of a changing virus. Emerging SARS-CoV-2 va...
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Infectious disease monitoring on Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT) platforms offers rapid turnaround times and low cost. Tracking low frequency intra-host variants provides important insigh...