Outbreak is a sudden increase or outburst of unexpected disease or war. It may affect a small and localized group or impact upon thousands of people across an entire continent.
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Laboratories performing diagnostic testing for infectious diseases have an obligation to meet the needs of multiple patient populations. With infectious disease, time it takes for reporting...
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Influenza is a highly contagious respiratory illness that affects millions of people worldwide each year. The influenza virus is constantly evolving, making it difficult to predict and preve...
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Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy is an emerging technology in the field of microbiology. Recent studies have shown its utility for bacterial typing and the identification of ou...
Date: April 20, 2023 Time: 7:00am (PDT), 10:00am (EDT), 4:00pm (CEST) A recent systematic review found that more than half of known infectious diseases will be aggravated by climate hazards,...
Date: April 11, 2023 Time: 11:00am (PDT), 2:00pm (EDT), 8:00pm (CEST) Antimicrobial resistant (AMR) infections are on the rise causing approximately 1.3M deaths each year due to patients suc...
Date: April 05, 2023 Time: 11:00am (NZDT) Date: April 04, 2023 Time: 4:00pm (PST), 7:00pm (EST), 1:00pm (CET) Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) technology-based testing method has been widely...
Date: February 28, 2023 Time: 11:00am (PST), 2:00pm (EST), 8:00pm (CET) Traditional methods of infection prevention to detect healthcare-associated outbreaks have remained unchanged for many...
Date: January 17, 2023 Time: 9:00am (PST), 12:00pm (EST), 6:00pm (CET) As SARS-CoV-2 infections continue to ebb and flow, other respiratory viruses have made a big comeback on the world stag...
Date: December 1, 2022 Time: 9:00am 98% of in-patients will undergo a diagnostic test during a hospital stay.1 With the increased focus on the accuracy of diagnostic test results needed to in...
Date: November 30, 2022 Time: 12:00pm (PST), 3:00pm (EST), 9:00pm (CET) Prior to 2022, monkeypox virus was a rare cause of disease in humans with most cases being associated with travel to t...
Date: November 15, 2022 Time: 8:00am (PST), 11:00am (EST), 5:00pm (CET) Waterborne pathogens lead to deteriorating water quality and challenge global health and economy. The latest U.S. Envi...
Date: October 25, 2022 Time: 11:00am (PST), 2:00pm (EST), 8:00pm (CEST) Candida auris is a multi-drug resistant yeast that continues to be a global threat for infection and transmission in h...
SARS-CoV-2 spreads through airborne transmission. Aerosols containing live virus are dispersed when an infected person exhales and then continue to accumulate indoors, putting others at risk...
Date: September 8, 2022 Time: 1:00pm PST, 4:00pm EST Recent pandemic related events have proven the value of fast, reliable surveillance testing results to protect worker health and saftey....
Pathogen detection and surveillance have become a high priority in both healthcare and environmental settings for the safety of patients and the general public. The COVID-19 pandemic highlig...
Date: June 07, 2022 Time: 9:00am (PDT), 12:00pm (EDT), 4:00pm (CEST) The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the potential role that wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) can play in assessing a...
Since the initial COVID-19 outbreak, the SARS-CoV-2 virus has mutated, resulting in a range of variants. SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern, exemplified most recently with Omicron, need to be de...
Date: April 28, 2022 Time: 9:00am (PDT), 12:00pm (EDT), 6:00pm (CET) During previous webinars we have discussed the global impact of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) infections, explored biolo...
Pathogen detection and surveillance have become a high priority in both healthcare and environmental settings for the safety of patients and the general public. The COVID-19 pandemic highlig...
Date: March 17, 2022 Time: 9:00am (PST), 12:00pm (EST), 5:00pm (CEST) Since the initial COVID-19 outbreak, the SARS-CoV-2 v...
Date: October 26, 2021 Time: 6:00am (PDT), 9:00am (EDT), 3:00pm (CEST) With the IR Biotyper®, Dr. Markus Meyer will introduce the audience into the world of FT-IR (Fourier Transform Infr...
Date: June 22, 2021 Time: 10:00am (PDT), 1:00pm (EDT) Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has emerged as one of the principal public health problems of the 21st century. It threatens the effectiv...
Despite a continuous decline of corona virus cases, the broad rollout of multiple vaccines, and the start of a return to normalcy, concerns of SARS-CoV-2 outbreaks continue to linger on the...