Infection is a disease caused by a pathogenic microorganism (e.g., bacteria, viruses) able to invade tissue.
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The lack of preparedness for detecting the highly infectious SARS-CoV-2 pathogen, the pathogen responsible for the COVID-19 disease, has caused enormous harm to public health and the economy...
Date: September 07, 2022 Time: 10:00am (PDT), 1:00pm (EDT), 7:00pm (CEST) Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is especially severe in aged populations. Resolution of the COVID-19 pandemic ha...
In all organisms, innate immune pathways sense infection and rapidly activate potent immune responses while maintaining a high degree of specificity to prevent inappropriate activation (auto...
Date: August 31, 2022 Time: 12:00pm (PDT), 3:00pm (EDT), 9:00pm (CEST) Human papillomavirus (HPV) is responsible for more than 99% of cervical cancers. Most HPV infections are transient an...
Date: August 31, 2022 Time: 8:00am (PDT), 11:00am (EDT), 5:00pm (CEST) Antibodies are specialized proteins generated by an immune system in response to disease and infection. The staining ge...
Date: August 18, 2022 Time: 10:00am (PDT), 1:00pm (EDT), 7:00pm (CEST) Learning Objectives Discuss evolving etiologies for Community Acquired Pneumonia (CAP) Review the role of biomarkers in...
Date: August 16, 2022 Time: 8:00am (PDT), 11:00am (EDT), 5:00pm (CEST) Physicians caring for expecting or pregnant mothers successfully manage pregnancy with the help of screening and diagno...
Date: August 16, 2022 Time: 7:00am (PDT), 10:00am (EDT), 4:00pm (CEST) In this session, researchers, clinicians, and program implementers from four countries will address the disruption in co...
Date: August 09, 2022 Time: 8:00am (PDT), 11:00pm (EDT), 5:00pm (CEST) Regulatory T cells (Tregs) are an important T cell subpopulation that maintains immunological homeostasis. Today, Treg-...
Date: July 28, 2022 Time: 6:00am (PDT), 9:00am (EDT) Hepatitis B and C continues to be a leading cause of global morbidity and mortality, resulting in 1.1 million deaths and 3 million new in...
Date: June 29, 2022 Time: 8:00am (PST), 11:00am (EST), 5:00pm (CEST) As of May 2022, there have been more than 500 million confirmed cases of COVID-19, including numerous variants. Additiona...
Date: June 21, 2022 Time: 11:00am (PDT), 2:00pm (EDT), 8:00pm (CEST) Multiple myeloma is a cancer of the plasma cell. Plasma cells are white blood cells that make antibodies that help to pro...
Date: May 25, 2022 Time: 6:00am (PDT), 9:00am (EDT), 3:00pm (CEST) This webinar aims to: Raise awareness for risks to mothers and babies with CMV infection Outline diagnostic and disease man...
Date: June 15, 2022 Time: 11:00am (PDT), 2:00pm (EDT), 8:00pm (CEST) One in five Americans has a sexually transmitted infection (STI) according to the 2019 STD Surveillance Report sexual hea...
Date: June 09, 2022 Time: 8:00am (PDT), 11:00am (EDT), 5:00pm (CEST) It is known that immune responses of pregnant women undergo recognized changes that ensure the mother does not reject the...
Date: June 07, 2022 Time: 10:00am (PDT), 1:00pm (EDT), 7:00pm (CEST) On December 8th, 2021 the CDC released new recommendations for preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for the prevention of HIV i...
Infectious diseases present a great challenge to global health and its economy. The 2020 SARS- CoV-2 pandemic highlighted the importance of rapid identification, characterization and surveil...
Date: May 31, 2022 Time: 11:00am (PST), 2:00pm (EST), 8:00pm (CEST) In February of this year Minnesota became the first state in the U.S. to screen every newborn for congenital CMV. This was...
Date: May 19, 2022 Time: 8:00am (PDT), 11:00pm (EDT), 5:00pm (CEST) Mass spectrometry (MS)-based proteomic technologies are increasingly applied in a clinical context for disease classific...
Date: May 17, 2022 Time: 7:00am (PDT), 10:00am (EDT), 4:00pm (CEST) Monoclonal antibody (mAb) is generated from a single clone of an antibody-producing cell and recognizes one specific epitop...
The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) that emerged in late 2019 has spread globally, causing a pandemic of respiratory illness designated coronavirus disease 2019...