Pathogen is any disease-producing agent, especially a virus, bacterium, or other microorganism. It is an organism causing disease to its host, with the severity of the disease symptoms referred to as virulence. They include viruses, bacteria, fungi, and parasites that invade the body and can cause health issues.
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Date: February 15, 2023 Time: 7:00am (PST), 10:00pm (EST), 4:00pm (CET) While not all microscopy samples can fluoresce, all can scatter light, and this scattered light can be imaged. This ha...
JAN 17, 2023 | 9:00 AM
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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...
DEC 07, 2022 | 11:00 AM
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Date: December 07, 2022 Time: 11:00am (PST), 2:00pm (EST), 8:00pm (CET) The success of blood cultures is dependent on the collection of uncontaminated specimens, culture of a large volume of...
Date: November 29, 2022 Time: 6:00am (PST), 9:00pm (EST), 3:00pm (CET) Antimicrobial resistance is an emerging problem in healthcare, and represents one of the most crucial challenges for th...
NOV 10, 2022 | 9:00 AM
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Date: November 10, 2022 Time: 9:00am (PST), 12:00pm (EST), 6:00pm (CET) Wastewater-based surveillance has gained wide recognition throughout the COVID-19 pandemic to monitor trends of SARS-C...
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...
OCT 19, 2022 | 9:45 AM
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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...
Coronavirus Immunotherapeutic Consortium (CoVIC) is an international effort to conduct side-by-side, apples-to-apples comparisons of leading therapeutic antibody candidates against the SARS-...
OCT 19, 2022 | 6:00 AM
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The host antiviral innate immune response protects the host against infection. Like with other viruses, the host recognizes SARS-CoV-2 infection and triggers a series of signaling cascades t...
OCT 19, 2022 | 6:00 AM
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Vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 have been made in a record time. However, although the vaccines that have been deployed have clearly reduced the percentage of severe infections in countries wher...