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Antibiotics
Antibiotics: is a type of antimicrobial substance active against bacteria and is the most important type of antibacterial agent for fighting bacterial infections. Antibiotic medications are widely used in the treatment and prevention of such infections. They may either kill or inhibit the growth of bacteria.
SEP 16, 2015 | 5:00 AM
The antibiotic pipeline is broken, with a dearth of new antibiotics, a collapse in pharmaceutical company research1, and the exhaustion of chemical diversity contained in pharma libraries. "T...
SEP 03, 2015 | 7:30 AM
Control of infection from methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) has been a healthcare focus for more than 50 years. One of the reasons that active surveillance testing (AST) for...
SEP 02, 2015 | 3:00 PM
Biofilm is an ancient and preferred mode of growth for microbes with 99% of all microbes residing in a biofilm. Biofilm is characterized by a community of microbes (usually polymicrobial ofte...
SEP 02, 2015 | 1:30 PM
The world–as microbes perceive it–is composed of physical and chemical stimuli. These stimuli create conditions that result in life or death for microbes, affecting their survival...
SEP 02, 2015 | 7:30 AM
This presentation will discuss fundamental physical, chemical, and biological concepts important to understanding control of detrimental biofilms. Four phenomena that are important in the act...
JUN 09, 2015 | 2:00 PM
The practice of laboratory clinical microbiology is finally changing driven by the assimilation of newer technologies, like Matrix Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization - Time of Flight/Mass S...
OCT 24, 2014 | 12:00 PM
Influenza is a major clinical and public health issue. Rapid, accurate diagnostics for influenza have the potential to improve the efficacy of therapy, limit antibiotic over-use, conserve ...
SEP 24, 2014 | 8:00 AM
Antibiotics are among the most important advances in the history of modern medicine. They turned often acutely fatal infections into treatable indications with radical cures. Antibiotics co...
AUG 21, 2013 | 6:00 AM
C.E. CREDITS
This presentation focuses on contemporary methods for detection of monoclonal proteins (M-protiens) that are associated with multiple myeloma and other plasma cell dyscrasias. The basic princ...