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Editors in Conversation
Editors in Conversation is the official podcast of the American Society for Microbiology Journals. Editors in Conversation features discussions between ASM Journals Editors, researchers and clinicians working on the most cutting edge issues in the microbial sciences. Topics include laboratory diagno...
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Artificial Intelligence in the Microbiology Laboratory (JCM ed.)
The launch of ChatGPT three years ago brought the concept of artificial intelligence into the daily conversation. Today, it seems all industries, incl...
What Makes a Great Mini-review? (JCM ed.)
The Journal of Clinical Microbiology has a great tradition of publishing mini-reviews on topics that are important to the clinical microbiology commun...
Emerging Technologies for Rapid Phenotypic AST of Clinical Isolates of Bacteria (JCM ed.)
Antimicrobial resistance is one of the largest threats to global public health, compromising all other advances in modern medicine. At the forefront o...
The Rise of Measles (AAC ed.)
Measles is becoming an important public health problem and it is important to recognize and understand the origins of this problem and how it can affe...
Meet the New Editor in Chief of the Journal of Clinical Microbiology
With Alex’s departure to new pastures, which include things like being the incoming President of ASM, we now have a new JCM Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Romne...
Static vs Cidal Antibiotics: Concepts Revisited
A common description of antibiotic action aims to classify them between “bactericidal” or “bacteriostatic”. Although these phenomena have robust in vi...
Updated FDA Recognition of CLSI Breakpoints (JCM ed.)
Oversight and guidance for performing antibiotic susceptibility testing can be bewildering. There is an alphabet soup of agencies and bodies involved:...
Management of Pneumonia: Past, Present and Future
In the last decade, there have been major changes in the approach of the treatment of pneumonia, in particular, with the availability of new diagnosti...
Show Me the Light! Uv Light for Cyclospora
Picture this, you wake up one morning with nausea, body aches, abdominal pain, and despite sleeping all night, you are exhausted. You then find yourse...
Best Papers in the Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 2024
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...
Best Papers of AAC, 2024
2024 was a very active year on research in antimicrobial resistance, highlighted by an impactful and high level political declaration to combat antimi...
Getting a Job in a Clinical Microbiology Lab
Looking for a dynamic and rewarding career? Learn what it means to be a Clinical Microbiology Laboratory Director and the necessary steps to get there...
The Global Antibiotic Research & Development Partnership (GARDP)
Lack of access to antibiotics including those with enhanced activity against multidrug-resistant organisms is a major barrier to combat antimicrobial...
At-Home Collection and Testing for STIs
So you want validated, at-home, self-collected swabs for STI testing… Here's what you need to know!
Sexually transmitted infection rates contin...
High Level Meeting on AMR at the United Nations: A Debrief
The second High-Level Meeting on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) took place in New York on 26 September 2024 as the principal official, health-focused...
The Launch of ASM Case Reports Journal
The American Society for Microbiology is launching a new journal, ASM Case Reports. The journal is already accepting submissions and will begin publis...
Heteroresistance: Mechanisms, Diagnosis and Clinical Implications
Heteroresistance is a phenomenon that has been well characterized for many years. However, we are only now starting to understand its mechanistic basi...
Microbiology in the Headlines: H5N1 in Dairy Cattle, The Plague, Measles, Neosporin and more!
Join Dr. Ben Pinsky and Dr. Greg Berry as they dissect recent news stories, including the USDA's testing for H5N1 in ground beef and a surprising bubo...
The Global Preclinical Antibacterial Pipeline
The pipeline of antibiotic discovery is a major necessity due to the continuous evolution of resistance to currently used antimicrobials. This pipelin...
Turning the Output of the Microbiology Laboratory Into Gold
The European alchemists of the 12th century sought to find the philosopher’s stone, a substance that would transmute base metals, such as lead, into p...
Training in Antimicrobial Resistance: Gaps and Opportunities
Antimicrobial resistance is a priority public health problem with complex roots and connotations. However, due to a lack of focus on this topic, resea...
10 Years of Rhodococcus: Clinical Trends and Susceptibility Profiles
Rhodococcus infections are uncommon, however they can cause serious disease in certain patients. There are a number of challenges though when dealing...
Why Phage Therapy May Fail
Phage therapy has gained a lot of traction but the challenges created by this approach have not been properly assessed at a big scale. We often read a...
Is Lophomonas a Pathogen?
The protozoan Lophomonas has been reported to be a pathogen of humans in a large number of case reports and case series. Most of these case reports de...
Treatment of Multidrug-resistant Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis is one of the most deadly infectious diseases that still causes significant burden of disease, particularly in the developing world. The...
New generation B-lactam/B-lactamase inhibitors: Taniborbactam
A new generation of B-lactamase inhibitors is likely to reach the market in the upcoming year. These broad-spectrum inhibitors exhibit activity agains...
Favorite Clinical Microbiology Papers of 2023 (JCM ed.)
We managed to make it through 2023 without a major epidemic or pandemic, and as we get into the holiday spirit and look forward to the new year, some...
Antimicrobial Resistance in Neisseria Gonorrhoeae (JCM ed.)
Gonorrhea remains one of the more common sexually transmitted infections. In North America, the number of reported cases has generally risen for over...
New Antifungals (AAC ed.)
In the last few years we have witnessed the rise of very resistant fungal species some of them likely influenced by environmental conditions and clima...
A Novel Coccidioides Antibody LFA (JCM ed.)
Despite the many advances in diagnostic testing for infectious diseases, detection of Coccidoides infections continues to rely on serologic assessment...
Climate Change and Antimicrobial Resistance (AAC ed.)
Climate change is possibly the major threat that planet earth is experiencing in this century with potential catastrophic consequences. As the planet...
Emerging Antifungal-Resistant Dermatophytes (JCM ed.)
Fungi that are resistant to antifungal drugs have been very much in the news and even the subject of the hugely popular television program, The Last o...
Artificial Intelligence and Infectious Diseases (AAC ed.)
Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to change the way we practice medicine and public health. The tools and AI approaches can substantially...
Viral Outbreaks in the Headlines (JCM ed.)
Dr. Elli Theel and Dr. Alex McAdam discuss recent viral outbreaks with expert virologists. Recorded before a live audience at ASM Microbe 2023.
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AAC Launches a New Section Focused On Antimicrobial Stewardship (AAC ed.)
In response to the global burden of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and the critical role antimicrobial stewardship plays in optimizing antibiotic use...
Susceptibility Testing for Aztreonam with Ceftazidime-Avibactam (JCM ed.)
The combination of aztreonam with ceftazidime-avibactam is increasingly used for treatment of antimicrobial-resistant Gram-negative bacilli. Clinical...
Hispanic Leadership in Vaccine Sciences With Dr. Maria Elena Bottazzi (AAC ed.)
Recorded at ASM Microbe 2023, Cesar has a conversation with Dr. Maria Elena Bottazzi about the role of minority women in science and discovery, the jo...
Updates on Testing for Vaginitis/Vaginosis (JCM ed.)
As many of you are likely aware, May is recognized as Women’s Health Care Month by the National Cervical Cancer Coalition, and this year, the CDC has...
Management of Difficult to Treat HSV and CMV Infections (AAC ed.)
As the number of immunocompromised patients rise in our hospitals, the presentation of severe infections caused by HSV and CMV are rising. Most import...
Susceptibility Testing for Piperacillin-Tazobactam (JCM ed.)
Susceptibility testing for piperacillin-tazobactam has undergone rapid evolution, largely driven by some surprising results from the MERINO trial, whi...