Testing for COVID-19 Infectivity (JCM ed.)
How can we determine whether someone who has COVID-19 can transmit the virus to other people? Tests in routine clinical use, such as reverse-transcrip...
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Microbe Magazine Podcast is a monthly science podcast hosted by Jeff Fox, features editor for Microbe Magazine, published by the American Society for Microbiology. Each podcast episode coincides with an article in the current issue of Microbe, which is available online at www.microbemagazine.org. Please contact Patrick Lacey, Managing Editor for Microbe, with any questions, feedback or show ideas at placey@asmusa.org.
Treatment of VRE Infections (AAC ed.)
Enterococci, particularly vancomycin-resistant isolates tend to affect the most vulnerable and immunocompromised patients and are one of the most diff...
Advances in Serologic Testing for COVID-19 (JCM ed.)
Tests for antibodies, or serological testing, for SARS-CoV-2 have come a long way since the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. There are now several...
Innovative Clinical Trials for COVID-19 (AAC ed.)
During the pandemic, the need to develop therapeutic approaches became critical and so the need to study them in a structured way to critically evalua...
Mythbusting in Susceptibility Testing (JCM ed.)
Accurate antibiotic susceptibility testing, or AST, is a key tool in addressing the rise in antibiotic-resistant bacteria. But AST is one of the most ...
Antimalarial Drug-Resistance (AAC ed.)
Malaria continues to be a major “killer’ in the developing world affecting the most vulnerable populations with more than 500,000 deaths per year. Eme...
Staphylococcus argenteus: another coagulase positive Staphylococcus (JCM ed.)
In addition to Staphylococcus aureus, there are a small number of other coagulase-positive staphylococci. We have become increasingly aware of these d...
β-lactam/β-lactamase inhibitor combinations (AAC ed.)
The development of β-lactam/β-lactamase inhibitors seems to be expanding rapidly and promise to be the best short-term strategy against the most recal...
Reconciling Genotypic and Phenotypic Susceptibility Tests (JCM ed.)
Our options for susceptibility testing have greatly increased in recent years. In addition to classical phenotypic susceptibility testing by disk diff...
Gaps in Laboratory Diagnosis of Fungal Diseases (JCM ed.)
The incidence of fungal infections is rising in immunocompromised people, and the morbidity and mortality of these infections are high. Recent threats...