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Partners in Crime: Pseudomonas Auerginosa and SARS-CoV-2

The year was 1882 and a French chemist and biologist named Carle Gessard discovered an unusual bacterium that stained the bandages of French soldiers...

Antimicrobial Resistance: A Review of a Broad-Spectrum Problem and Future Needs

Abstract The drivers of antimicrobial resistance are complex and multifaceted, often involving the interplay between lack of medical infrastructure, agriculture, the environment, inadequate surveillance and...

Antibiotic Stewardship: The Role Medical Laboratories Play

Abstract I often refer to antimicrobial resistance as the slow-burning pandemic that continues to spread like a smoldering wildfire – picture a large expanding, ignored...

Artificial Intelligence: A Solution to the Gap in Outpatient Antimicrobial Stewardship

 Peer Reviewed  Click Here for Print Version Cite as: Frenkel A, Gross D, Levi S. (2020) Artificial intelligence:  A solution to the need for outpatient antimicrobial...

The AMR Challenge: Accelerating the Fight Against Antimicrobial Resistance

Later this month, as world leaders assemble at the 74th United Nations General Assembly in New York City, the US HHS Secretary, Alex Azar,...

Has the Antibiotic Course Had Its Day?

Abstract Therapeutic interventions for infectious diseases are complicated by multiple factors, including unknowns surrounding the identity of the infectious agent(s), the bacterial load, and the...

Antimicrobial Evaluation of a Surface Protector System

 Peer Reviewed  Disclaimer: The authors of this report and InfectionControl.tips declare no conflict of interest with the following critical evaluation and research. No funds or influence...

Two Laboratory Tests you Must Demand: Advice from MRSA Survivors and...

Abstract: Background: More people in the US now die from Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections than from HIV/AIDS. Often acquired in healthcare facilities or during...

It’s not too Late (to Fight Back Against Infectious Diseases)

Antibiotic resistance is a major threat reaching pandemic levels. Bacterial infections that were once easily treated with the antibiotics are becoming resistant to not...

The Post-Antibiotic Era

In April 2014, the World Health Organization (WHO) released a report detailing the serious threat of antibiotic resistance. The ‘post-antibiotic’ era is fast approaching...