Diagnostic microbiology concentrates on laboratory analysis of clinical specimens in cases when an infectious disease is suspected. In other words, it is the study of microbial infection.
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Date: October 05, 2021 Time: 7:00am (PDT), 10:00am (EDT) After new users become familiar with flow cytometry instrumentation and learn how to set up the instrument and acquire data, the next...
Date: October 5, 2021 Time: 6:00am (PDT), 9:00am (EDT), 3:00pm (CEST) Dr. Markus Kostrzewa shall elaborate the progress that has been made in the Research & Development department of Bru...
Rapid, accurate, and wide-spread COVID-19 testing is essential for contact tracing, timely triaging of patients, and viral monitoring. The current gold standard for COVID-19 testing is RT-PC...
Date: September 22, 2021 Time: 8:00am (PDT), 11:00am (EDT) New technologies generating successful cell and gene therapy approaches have contributed to a global growth of institutions that cu...
Date: September 16, 2021 Time: 9:00am (PDT), 12:00pm (EDT) For diagnostic testing, proper sample collection and transport play a pivotal role in the accurate and timely identification of a p...
Date: September 15, 2021 Time: 9:00am (PDT), 12:00pm (EDT) Dr. Markus Kostrzewa will elaborate on the progress that has been made in Bruker Microbiology & Diagnostics, specifically on th...
Date: Spetember 14, 2021 Time: 9:00am (PDT), 12:00pm (EDT) Pneumonia remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality. The use of broad-spectrum antibiotics is associated with the developmen...
Date: September 13, 2021 Time: 10:00am (PDT), 1:00pm (EDT) Sepsis is the most common cause of mortality in many hospitals and is most often caused by blood stream infections. The major contr...
Varicella zoster virus (VZV) causes two clinically distinct forms of disease, varicella and herpes zoster. These forms can each present with multiple manifestations ranging from lesions incl...
Health economists are great at calculating a value-based price for diagnostic tests. Given the unexpected supply and demand for SARS-CoV-2 tests during the pandemic, efficient allocation of...
Existing methods for antibiotic selection are based on outdated and inaccurate microbiological principles, causing millions of inappropriate antibiotic selections and hundreds of thousands o...
The Human Microbiome Project was conceived almost 15 years ago, as an extension of the Human Genome Project, to explore the diversity of human-associated microorganisms at multiple body site...