Aug 21, 2020
• How can the clinical laboratory detect carbapenemases, which
are enzyme that can make bacteria resistant to some of the most
potent or broad-spectrum antibiotics available?
• What is the clinical significance of detecting such an enzyme?
Does it affect the care of the patient?
• Finally, what practical advice...
Aug 13, 2020
Discussing new guidelines on the use of vancomycin for severe Staphylocccus aureus infections.
The August issue of AAC includes interesting papers about mechanism of resistance to metronidazole in C. difficile, a variant of KPC resistant to ceftazidime-avibactam and description of a new “ultra-broad spectrum...
Aug 10, 2020
The state of the art treatment of COVID-19, understand the role of some medications currently used for COVID-19 and dissecting novel approaches and strategies for the treatment of COVID-19 likely to become available in the short term. Guests: Henry Masur MD and Adarsh Bhimraj MD.
Read the current issue of Antimicrobial...
Aug 10, 2020
A conversation with Lou Rice about his career and his experience of being the Editor of Chief for the AAC Journal for the past decade.
Visit aac.asm.org to read the current issue.
Aug 5, 2020
A discussion about laboratory testing for COVID-19 with two experts, Dr. Melissa Miller and Dr. Elitza Theel. Hosted by Journal of Clinical Microbiology Editor in Chief, Dr. Alexander McAdam.
Get the current issue of the Journal of Clinical Microbiology at https://jcm.asm.org/