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Antimicrobial Resistance
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is the ability of microbes, including bacteria, viruses, and some parasites, to resist the effects of drugs, meaning that the germs are not only not killed, but there their growth is not inhibited. For obvious reasons, infections with resistant organisms are difficult to treat, requiring costly and sometimes toxic alternatives. While some people are at increased risk, no single person can avoid the risk of antibiotic-resistant infections altogether. Since organisms will always find a way to adapt and resist antibiotics, there is a heightened need to keep new resistance from developing and to prevent the resistance that already exists from spreading.
MAR 03, 2020 | 9:00 AM
DATE: March 3, 2020 TIME: 9:00am PT, 12:00pm ET Despite the advances of new drugs and the lowering of carbapenem breakpoints to enhance detection of CRE, there should be no complacency about...
FEB 13, 2020 | 7:30 PM
DATE: February 14, 2020 TIME: 11:30am SGT, 2:30pm AET Antimicrobial resistance is a growing threat to the health and safety of the world’s population. The World Health Organisation rec...
FEB 13, 2020 | 10:00 AM
DATE: February 13, 2020 TIME: 10:00am PST Antimicrobial resistance is a growing threat to the health and safety of the world’s population. The World Health Organisation recognizes fast...
FEB 13, 2020 | 1:00 AM
DATE: February 13, 2020 TIME: 10:00am CET...
SEP 25, 2019 | 10:00 AM
DATE: September 25, 2019TIME: 10:00am PT, 1:00pm ET Stool culture is the traditional method for identification of bacterial gastrointestinal (GI pathogens. Many of theses patho...
SEP 12, 2019 | 10:30 AM
The emergence and spread of antimicrobial-resistant (AMR) bacteria and resistance mechanisms pose a serious challenge to laboratories in both hospital clinical microbiology and public health...
SEP 12, 2019 | 6:00 AM
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JUL 25, 2019 | 9:00 AM
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APR 23, 2019 | 9:00 AM
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APR 02, 2019 | 3:00 PM
DATE: April 2, 2019TIME: 3:00pm CEST Dans ce webinaire, Marie Piketty rappelle que depuis quelques années, plusieurs cas d'interférences provoquées par l...
JAN 24, 2019 | 10:00 AM
DATE: January 24, 2019TIME: 10:00am PSTSexually transmitted infections (STIs) continue to affect most sexually active populations globally, especially the traditional high-risk groups f...
JUN 21, 2018 | 12:00 PM
Advances in DNA sequencing, based upon massively parallel sequencing, has resulted in dramatic advances in DNA sequence output in the past few years. It is now possible to generate terrabases...
JUN 20, 2018 | 12:00 PM
Recent advancements in the precision medicine field have presented a great promise to provide innovative solutions to pharmaceutical and healthcare industry to help transform medicine. By fin...
JUN 20, 2018 | 7:00 AM
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APR 12, 2018 | 12:00 PM
Inappropriately prescribed antibacterials for viral respiratory illness contribute to increased healthcare costs, unnecessary drug-related adverse effects, and drive antimicrobial resistance....
MAR 22, 2018 | 7:00 AM
DATE: March 22, 2018TIME: 07:00am PDT, 10:00am EDTClostridium difficile (C. diff) is a highly problematic healthcare-associated infection that is easily spread and often results in poor...
NOV 09, 2017 | 10:30 AM
The role of the microbiology laboratory in the processing of positive patient blood cultures has become more complicated with the increasing demand for rapid information to assist in the mana...
SEP 13, 2017 | 1:30 PM
The global threat of antimicrobial resistance has been recognized by the World Health Organization, the United Nations and many other expert bodies. The burden of resistant pathogens is immen...
