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Infectious agents
An infectious agent is a biological organism, such as bacteria, fungi, or viruses, that can induce infection in a host. While similar organisms live in or around hosts causing no harm, infectious agents are capable of causing disease.
OCT 11, 2022 | 7:00 AM
Date: October 11, 2022 Time: 7:00am (PDT), 10:00am (EDT), 4:00pm (CEST) Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the leading health threats facing humankind. With AMR, microbes can withstand...
SEP 08, 2022 | 10:30 AM
Alphaviruses are enveloped RNA viruses that cause disease in humans ranging from acute febrile illness with rash and arthritis to lethal encephalitis. Like many other mosquito-borne viruses,...
SEP 08, 2022 | 9:00 AM
The evolution of the planetary situation is presently knowing multiple rapid and severe complications impacting both geophysical as well as all the life aspects. Multiple parameters undergo...
SEP 06, 2022 | 9:00 AM
NGS library preparation can be a long, multi-step process, but it is essential for proper sample management and reproducible results. Automating this process reduces costs, frees up research...
JUN 29, 2022 | 8:00 AM
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...
JUN 02, 2022 | 8:00 AM
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...
FEB 24, 2022 | 10:00 AM
Date: February 24, 2021 Time: 10:00am (PST), 1:00pm (EST) One of the largest global public health crises is the rise of antimicrobial-resistant infections. Globally, over 700,000 people die...
JAN 13, 2022 | 9:00 AM
Date: January 13, 2022 Time: 09:00am (PST), 12:00pm (EST) Recently, the Infectious Disease Society of America released guidance on how to approach treatment of infections caused by multidrug...
NOV 17, 2021 | 8:00 AM
Date: November 17, 2021 Time: 8:00am (PDT), 11:00am (EDT) From waste disposal to promising biomarkers and therapeutic agents, exosomes and other extracellular vesicles are valuable in resear...
SEP 29, 2021 | 11:59 PM
The recent outbreak of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has spread all over the world and raised global concerns. Rapid and early detection of the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, the ca...
SEP 09, 2021 | 12:00 AM
Early detection is critical for prompt and effective treatment of acute infectious diseases. For tick-borne diseases (TBD), the lack of accurate early diagnosis can result in delayed treatme...
JUN 29, 2021 | 7:00 AM
Date: June 29, 2021 Time: 7:00am (PDT), 10:00am (EDT) The Unyvero Lower Respiratory Tract Panel demonstrated reliable concordance with culture based methods for organism identification from...
APR 22, 2021 | 9:00 AM
Date: April 22, 2021 Time: 9:00am (PST), 12:00pm (EST) The clinical lab is a collection of numerous complex workflows. It is imperative that not only specimens are protected from contaminati...
APR 09, 2021 | 9:00 AM
Date: April 9, 2021 Time: 9:00am PDT There are tick-borne diseases beyond what causes Lyme disease. Different geographies have differing prevalence’s of tick-borne infections. In the n...
APR 02, 2021 | 9:00 AM
DATE: April 2, 2021 TIME: 09:00am PDT There has been a major development in the serologic diagnosis of Lyme disease. All parties agree (as before) on the paradigm of “Two Tier Testing&...
FEB 24, 2021 | 12:00 AM
Platform based therapeutics and vaccines offer a unique opportunity to simplify and streamline the drug development process. Moderna has taken the approach of harnessing the power of mRNA as...
