Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchTreatment of Acinetobacter spp. Infections (AAC ed.)
Episode 38
Infections caused by carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter spp. are considered an urgent public health problem. Antibiotic options are scarce but new dr…
4 years, 6 months ago
SARS-CoV-2 Sequencing for Clinical Care and Infection Control
Episode 37
Is sequencing the SARS-CoV-2 genome useful for patient care? What about institutional infection control? And if clinical labs decide to perform SARS-…
4 years, 7 months ago
Candida auris at the Intersection of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Episode 36
Candida auris is an urgent and high-priority antimicrobial resistant organisms. COVID-19 appears to have increased the identification of this pathoge…
4 years, 8 months ago
COVID-19 Testing - Schools, False Positives, and In-Person Meetings (JCM ed.)
Episode 35
Today we're talking about testing in schools for COVID-19, and about recalls of SARS-CoV-2 tests due to false positive results, and, about whether we…
4 years, 8 months ago
Testing for COVID-19 Infectivity (JCM ed.)
Episode 34
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-transcri…
4 years, 10 months ago
Treatment of VRE Infections (AAC ed.)
Episode 33
Enterococci, particularly vancomycin-resistant isolates tend to affect the most vulnerable and immunocompromised patients and are one of the most dif…
4 years, 11 months ago
Advances in Serologic Testing for COVID-19 (JCM ed.)
Episode 32
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 severa…
4 years, 11 months ago
Innovative Clinical Trials for COVID-19 (AAC ed.)
Episode 31
During the pandemic, the need to develop therapeutic approaches became critical and so the need to study them in a structured way to critically evalu…
5 years ago
Mythbusting in Susceptibility Testing (JCM ed.)
Episode 30
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…
5 years ago
Antimalarial Drug-Resistance (AAC ed.)
Episode 29
Malaria continues to be a major "killer' in the developing world affecting the most vulnerable populations with more than 500,000 deaths per year. Em…
5 years, 1 month ago