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Antimicrobial Resistance

November 26, 2024

Microbiology testing capacity and antimicrobial drug resistance in surgical-site infections

Surgical-site infection (SSI) is one of the most common healthcare-associated infections (HAI) globally, and the most frequent postoperative complication

November 26, 2024

VIEWPOINTS SERIES: Lack of AMR Understanding May Compromise Diagnostic Potential

In recognition of World AMR Awareness Week (WAAW), this Viewpoints Series interview with pharmacist Jacob Morton explores the critical issue of limited public awareness about antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and its impact on patient healthcare.

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October 31, 2024

When the drugs don’t work: the people living with the reality of the superbugs crisis

Discover stories that highlight the realities faced by individuals battling superbugs and the vital role medical professionals play.

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October 31, 2024

How To Convince Physicians To Change Their Antibiotic Prescribing Practices: 5 Lessons From An Antimicrobial Stewardship Pharmacist

Explore 5 lessons from an AMS Pharmacist

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October 31, 2024

LL Editorial: Sepsis Care Diminished by Antimicrobial Resistance

Explore strategies for managing sepsis and AMR concurrently.

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September 12, 2024

The history of AMR and the important role diagnostics plays to combat it

In this MLO feature article, Chris Groke, Senior Medical Science Liaison at bioMérieux, breaks down the history of diagnostic innovation in the fight against antimicrobial resistance (AMR). As a Board-Certified Infectious Diseases Pharmacist, Groke shares knowledge and insight into the evolution of AMR and the critical role diagnostics play in addressing this global public health threat.

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September 12, 2024

Do you have what it takes to be a Game Changer in the fight against infectious diseases and AMR?

Play MICROBE LEAP, bioMérieux’s interactive AMS game, to test your diagnostic knowledge and antimicrobial stewardship skills as a Patient Protector or Resistance Avenger!

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September 11, 2024

India-based Alliance Paves the Way for Global Mitigation of Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR)

Fifty-two medical specialty organizations and associations from across India are taking on antimicrobial resistance (AMR), paving the way for low- to middle-income countries looking to mitigate the impact of AMR. The country recognizes the severe impact caused by neglecting AMR, with over a million deaths attributed to AMR-related complications each year.

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September 10, 2024

Roundtable: Current Trends and Future Opportunities in Antimicrobial Stewardship through Diagnostic Innovations

The antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) landscape is rapidly changing and diagnostics are revolutionizing how medical professionals meet AMS goals. In this CIDRAP ASP webinar and roundtable, experts discuss insights and share personal experiences regarding diagnostic trends and emerging opportunities for AMS.

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August 13, 2024

Antimicrobial Resistance Patterns of Outpatient Staphylococcus aureus Isolates

A retrospective analysis of 382,149 Staphylococcus aureus isolates from U.S. Veterans Health Administration outpatients reveals significant shifts in antimicrobial resistance patterns over a 10-year period.

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August 13, 2024

Global Economic Impacts of Antimicrobial Resistance

This groundbreaking study by Fernando and McKibbin employs sophisticated macroeconomic modeling to assess the global economic impacts of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) across G20 countries

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August 05, 2024

Clinical Advances in Diagnostic and Antimicrobial Stewardship

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July 01, 2024

Future Opportunities in Antimicrobial Stewardship through Diagnostic Innovations

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April 26, 2024

VIEWPOINTS SERIES: Improved Antimicrobial Stewardship Needed in Latin America

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April 05, 2024

Sepsis Alliance AMR Virtual Conference

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January 02, 2024

VIEWPOINTS SERIES: ID Pharmacists Discuss AMS Survey Data | Part 1

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December 11, 2023

Using Identification And Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing (ID/AST) To Reinvigorate Antimicrobial Stewardship

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November 15, 2023

Outcomes Research & AMR: A Human-Centered Perspective on a Biosocial Problem

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October 14, 2023

The BIOFIRE® Blood Culture Identification 2 (BCID2) Panel: Rapid Diagnostics For Improved Antimicrobial Stewardship And Patient Outcomes

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October 05, 2023

Hidden Treasures In The Underwater Pharma-sea

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October 03, 2023

Rapid Detection and Diagnostic Surveillance of Candida auris is Key as U.S. Rates Rise

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September 25, 2023

Ribosome-binding Antibiotics Increase Bacterial Longevity And Growth Efficiency

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September 05, 2023

NIH investigates multidrug-resistant bacterium emerging in community settings

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August 31, 2023

Status Update: Un Meeting On The Fight Against Tuberculosis

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August 31, 2023

Bringing Value To The Care Pathway: The Rising Role Of Rapid Diagnostics

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August 25, 2023

Multidrug resistance pattern and molecular epidemiology of pathogens among children with diarrhea in Bangladesh, 2019–2021

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August 14, 2023

A case for routine microbial diagnostics: Results from antimicrobial susceptibility testing in post-traumatic wound infections at a Ugandan tertiary care hospital

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July 20, 2023

Viewpoints Series: Clinical Mycology & Antimicrobial Resistance

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July 17, 2023

Pharmacists Can Make a Difference in Antibiotic Stewardship at Discharge

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July 12, 2023

Leveraging Artificial Intelligence in the Fight Against Infectious Diseases

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July 11, 2023

Mixed strain pathogen populations accelerate the evolution of antibiotic resistance in patients

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June 21, 2023

Policy Brief: Global Research Agenda for Antimicrobial Resistance in Human Health

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June 07, 2023

Inside the Research: An Interview with ME Panel Study Authors Tristan Timbrook and Kyle Hueth

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May 17, 2023

Clinical Epidemiology and Case Fatality Due to Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) in Germany

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May 16, 2023

Change of Plans: Overview of Bacterial Taxonomy, Recent Changes of Medical Importance, and Potential Areas of Impact

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May 07, 2023

The Economic Burden of Antibiotic Resistance: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

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May 06, 2023

Early empiric antibiotic use in COVID-19 patients: results from the international VIRUS registry

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April 16, 2023

How to Optimize Inside & Outside Lab Workflows: ECCMID 2023

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March 27, 2023

Impact of an antibiotic stewardship program on antibiotic utilization, bacterial susceptibilities, and cost of antibiotics

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March 24, 2023

Partnering With Microbiology Laboratory to Bring Awareness to Antimicrobial Resistance

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March 23, 2023

Antibiotic Susceptibility Patterns of Bacteria Associated with Sepsis among Hospitalized Patients in the Yaoundé University Teaching Hospital—Cameroon

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February 14, 2023

Outcomes Research & AMR: Defining the Value of Healthcare Interventions in Antimicrobial Resistance

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February 08, 2023

Association Between Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs and Antibiotic Use Globally: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

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February 06, 2023

The Increasingly Critical Role of Space Planning in Lab Operations

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January 31, 2023

Viewpoints Series: How Advanced Analytics and Data Sharing Help Strengthen Chile’s Response to Antimicrobial Resistance

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January 30, 2023

Antimicrobial resistance in patients with COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis

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January 26, 2023

Study Shows FDA-Approved TB Regimen May Not Work Against the Deadliest Form of TB Due to Multidrug-Resistant Strains

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January 24, 2023

Expect Infectious Diseases to Skyrocket in the ICU

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January 17, 2023

Improving Antimicrobial Stewardship for Respiratory Tract Infections

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January 15, 2023

Performance of the VITEK® 2 Advanced Expert System (AES) as a Rapid Tool for Reporting Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing (AST) in Enterobacterales from North and Latin America

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January 01, 2023

Diagnostics Are Essential for Improving Antimicrobial Stewardship and Combating Resistance

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December 14, 2022

Diagnostics and Data Can Fill Gaps in Antimicrobial Stewardship Left by COVID-19

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November 20, 2022

The Importance of Diagnostics and AMS in the Context of COVID-19

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November 17, 2022

Webinar: Confronting the Impact of the Pandemic on ASP and Pneumonia

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November 10, 2022

Foundation Aims to Help People 'See' C. difficile

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October 26, 2022

Taking the Guesswork out of ICU Pneumonia Diagnosis

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October 14, 2022

Accelerating genomic medicine in the NHS - A strategy for embedding genomics in the NHS over the next 5 years

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September 30, 2022

Early Appropriate Diagnostics and Treatment of MDR Gram-negative Infections

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September 29, 2022

Gaps and Barriers in the Implementation and Functioning of Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs

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September 07, 2022

CDC 2022 Special Report: COVID-19 U.S. Impact on Antimicrobial Resistance

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August 31, 2022

Interpreting Antimicrobial Resistance Results and the Impact of New Molecular Technologies

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August 30, 2022

AMR and Associated Risk Factors of Gram-Negative Bacterial Bloodstream Infections in Tikur Anbessa Specialized Hospital in Ethiopia

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August 09, 2022

Bridging the Gap: An Interview with Microbiologist Andrea Prinzi

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August 07, 2022

Video Roundtable: Pathology’s Role in Fighting Antimicrobial Resistance

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July 21, 2022

Assessment of the Impact of a Meningitis/Encephalitis Panel on Hospital Length of Stay

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June 30, 2022

Viewpoints Series: Neonatal Sepsis and Group B Strep

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June 16, 2022

Epidemiology of Antimicrobial Resistance Among Blood and Respiratory Specimens in the United States Using Genotypic Analysis from a Cloud-Based Population Surveillance Network 

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June 12, 2022

Viewpoints Series: Diagnosing and Treating GI Infections with an Antimicrobial Stewardship Perspective

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May 31, 2022

Utility and Applicability of Rapid Diagnostic Testing in Antimicrobial Stewardship in the Asia-Pacific Region

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May 23, 2022

Performance of the Reveal Rapid Antibiotic Susceptibility Testing System on Gram-Negative Blood Cultures at a Large Urban Hospital

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May 17, 2022

The Clinical Value of Next-Generation Sequencing Integration Within Medical Laboratories

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May 01, 2022

AMR, Sepsis and AKI: Global Risk and Biomarker Mitigation

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April 20, 2022

Antimicrobial “Subscription” Plan Takes Hold in Britain

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March 31, 2022

Exploring Diagnostic and Antimicrobial Stewardship Interventions to Optimize Management of Gram-Negative Bacteremia

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March 01, 2022

Diagnostic Data and Community Surveillance: A Contemporary Approach to Implementing Antimicrobial Stewardship Monitoring

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February 23, 2022

Mitigating Global Disparities in the Fight Against Antimicrobial Resistance

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February 21, 2022

Updating Breakpoints in Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing

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February 20, 2022

Infection Management Coalition (IMC) Releases First White Paper

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February 14, 2022

Diagnostic Stewardship as a Team Sport: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Improved Implementation of Interventions and Effect Measurement

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January 31, 2022

The Future of Infectious Disease and Data Sharing

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January 18, 2022

Global Burden of Bacterial Antimicrobial Resistance in 2019: A Systematic Analysis

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January 03, 2022

Impact of a Procalcitonin-Based Protocol on Antibiotic Exposure and Costs in Critically Ill Patients

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January 03, 2022

CDC Launches Two Global Networks and Awards $22 Million to Combat Antimicrobial Resistance and Infectious Diseases

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January 03, 2022

ASHP PODCAST: The Impact of Disease Overestimation and Anchoring Bias in Antimicrobial Prescribing Behavior

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January 03, 2022

ASP Expert Panel for World Antimicrobial Awareness Week

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December 13, 2021

ISID PODCAST: AMR - The Clinical Microbiologist's Impact

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December 03, 2021

ISID PODCAST: Implementing Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs in Resource Limited Settings

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November 29, 2021

Rapid diagnostic testing for antimicrobial stewardship: Utility in Asia Pacific

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November 29, 2021

The Value of Diagnostics in Combating the Public Health Problem of Antimicrobial Resistance

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November 29, 2021

Rx Fridays Episode with bioMérieux's John Hurst, PharmD

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November 29, 2021

Maximizing The Potential Of Rapid Diagnostics To Fight Antimicrobial Resistance

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November 29, 2021

APIC PODCAST Antimicrobial Stewardship During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Journey of Twists and Turns

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November 29, 2021

VIEWPOINTS SERIES: A Microbiologist's Perspective on Improving Lab Communication to Accelerate Antimicrobial Stewardship

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November 02, 2021

Viewpoints Series: A Pharmacist's Perspective on UTIs and Antimicrobial Stewardship

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October 05, 2021

World AMR Congress Op-Ed Advertorial : AMR is the Problem. ASP is the Solution.

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October 05, 2021

bioMérieux Antimicrobial Stewardship Challenge Game

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October 05, 2021

Microbiology Knows No Borders: What Lessons COVID-19 Can Teach Us About Antimicrobial Stewardship

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September 30, 2021

Antimicrobial Stewardship In Spain: A Pharmacist’s Perspective

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September 26, 2021

CASE STUDY: Automation and Analytics Offer Complete Picture of Stewardship and AMR for Chile

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September 02, 2021

Metrics for Evaluating Antibiotic Use and Prescribing in Outpatient Settings

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August 03, 2021

Tips to Address the AMR Patient Awareness Gap through Community Engagement and Education

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August 03, 2021

CDC White Paper: Advancing Diagnostic Stewardship for Healthcare-Associated Infections, Antibiotic Resistance, and Sepsis

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August 03, 2021

Global Point Prevalence Survey of Antimicrobial Consumption and Resistance

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August 03, 2021

Advancing Diagnostic Stewardship for Healthcare Associated Infections, Antibiotic Resistance, and Sepsis

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July 29, 2021

The Post-Antibiotic Era is Here

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July 26, 2021

Partnerships to Support Diagnostics in the Fight Against AMR

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July 26, 2021

On the Front Lines: Use of Data Analytics to Enhance Laboratory Effectiveness and Stewardship Efforts

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July 08, 2021

The Laboratory's Vital Role in Patient Care and Antimicrobial Stewardship

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July 08, 2021

European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (ECCMID) Virtual Conference

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June 30, 2021

Vanguard Report: Inequality and Antibiotic Resistance

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June 29, 2021

The Double-Edged Sword of COVID-19 on the Use of Antibiotics

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June 29, 2021

Viewpoint Series: A Nurse's Viewpoint on AMR

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June 23, 2021

Optimizing Diagnostics in ASP Implementation: An African Perspective

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June 20, 2021

Association of Changes in Seasonal Respiratory Virus Activity and Ambulatory Antibiotic Prescription

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June 15, 2021

Renewed Introduction Of The Pasteur Act Returns Amr To National Agenda

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June 09, 2021

New Discovery Could Help Take Down Drug-resistant Bacteria

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June 01, 2021

Reducing The Use Of Empiric Antibiotic Therapy In Covid-19 On Hospital Admission

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May 16, 2021

New Model For Infectious Disease Could Better Predict Pandemics

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April 21, 2021

Driving Change For Better Microbiology: Optimizing Quality, Cost, And Time For Better Results

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April 21, 2021

Pharmacists Step In When Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs Lack On-site Id Support

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March 08, 2021

Antimicrobial Stewardship: Helping Combat The Spread Of Antimicrobial Resistance

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February 11, 2021

Cultivating A Stewardship Culture With Analytics And Pct-guided Therapy

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February 10, 2021

Using Youtube As An Educational Tool For Amr

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