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Infectious agents
An infectious agent is a biological organism, such as bacteria, fungi, or viruses, that can induce infection in a host. While similar organisms live in or around hosts causing no harm, infectious agents are capable of causing disease.
SEP 07, 2016 | 1:30 PM
Healthcare associated infections can be a consequence of a microbiome alteration. Increasingly, treatment and prevention strategies focus on manipulating host microbiota, the two most common...
SEP 07, 2016 | 12:00 PM
Community acquired pneumonia affects over 5 million Americans and 6 million Europeans annually. Typically 5-10% will be admitted to hospital. It is a condition that more often affects the eld...
NOV 12, 2015 | 7:30 AM
As one of the nation's most prevalent sexually transmitted infections, genital herpes represents a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge to clinicians, laboratorians and the patients they...
SEP 03, 2015 | 7:30 AM
Control of infection from methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) has been a healthcare focus for more than 50 years. One of the reasons that active surveillance testing (AST) for...
SEP 02, 2015 | 7:30 AM
This presentation will discuss fundamental physical, chemical, and biological concepts important to understanding control of detrimental biofilms. Four phenomena that are important in the act...
FEB 04, 2015 | 6:00 AM
C.E. CREDITS
Soiled-bedding sentinels are not always efficient in detecting pathogens in rodent colonies. In this context, PCR-based testing can be more sensitive and is being advocated as adjunct to trad...
SEP 24, 2014 | 3:00 PM
Protein-protein interactions and allosterically regulated enzymes have been challenging but important targets for probe- and drug discovery. We and others have found that fragment-based lead...