Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchStatic vs Cidal Antibiotics: Concepts Revisited (Live From ASM Microbe 2024)
Episode 98
A common description of antibiotic action aims to classify them between "bactericidal" or "bacteriostatic". Although these phenomena have robust in v…
1 year ago
Updated FDA Recognition of CLSI Breakpoints (JCM ed.)
Episode 97
Oversight and guidance for performing antibiotic susceptibility testing can be bewildering. There is an alphabet soup of agencies and bodies involved…
1 year, 1 month ago
Management of Pneumonia: Past, Present and Future
Episode 96
In the last decade, there have been major changes in the approach of the treatment of pneumonia, in particular, with the availability of new diagnost…
1 year, 2 months ago
Show Me the Light! Uv Light for Cyclospora
Episode 95
Picture this, you wake up one morning with nausea, body aches, abdominal pain, and despite sleeping all night, you are exhausted. You then find yours…
1 year, 3 months ago
Best Papers in the Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 2024
Episode 94
The past year in Clinical Microbiology, as seen through the lens of the Journal of Clinical Microbiology. Four JCM editors have each selected a paper…
1 year, 4 months ago
Best Papers of AAC, 2024
Episode 93
2024 was a very active year on research in antimicrobial resistance, highlighted by an impactful and high level political declaration to combat antim…
1 year, 5 months ago
Getting a Job in a Clinical Microbiology Lab
Episode 92
Looking for a dynamic and rewarding career? Learn what it means to be a Clinical Microbiology Laboratory Director and the necessary steps to get ther…
1 year, 5 months ago
The Global Antibiotic Research & Development Partnership (GARDP)
Episode 91
Lack of access to antibiotics including those with enhanced activity against multidrug-resistant organisms is a major barrier to combat antimicrobial…
1 year, 6 months ago
At-Home Collection and Testing for STIs
Episode 90
So you want validated, at-home, self-collected swabs for STI testing… Here's what you need to know!
Sexually transmitted infection rates continue to…
1 year, 7 months ago
High Level Meeting on AMR at the United Nations: A Debrief
Episode 89
The second High-Level Meeting on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) took place in New York on 26 September 2024 as the principal official, health-focused…
1 year, 8 months ago