Editors in Conversation Podcast
1) Metabolomics
It's that time of year, folks! No, not leaf-peeping season, or pumpkin spice season or even apple picking season – I'm talking respiratory virus season! The symphony of sniffles and coughs is just aro...Show More
2) The First OTC Syphilis Test: Clinical Performance and Impact
Treponema pallidum, the causative agent of syphilis, has been around for what seems like forever, causing major outbreaks throughout the millennia and continuing to spread at high rates, globally, int...Show More
3) Artificial Intelligence in the Microbiology Laboratory (JCM ed.)
The launch of ChatGPT three years ago brought the concept of artificial intelligence into the daily conversation. Today, it seems all industries, including lab medicine, are integrating AI with the pr...Show More
4) What Makes a Great Mini-review? (JCM ed.)
The Journal of Clinical Microbiology has a great tradition of publishing mini-reviews on topics that are important to the clinical microbiology community. Minireviews provide “up to the minute” update...Show More
5) Emerging Technologies for Rapid Phenotypic AST of Clinical Isolates of Bacteria (JCM ed.)
Antimicrobial resistance is one of the largest threats to global public health, compromising all other advances in modern medicine. At the forefront of detecting AMR is the clinical laboratory. Howe...Show More
6) The Rise of Measles (AAC ed.)
Measles is becoming an important public health problem and it is important to recognize and understand the origins of this problem and how it can affect the population of our country. At the same time...Show More
7) Meet the New Editor in Chief of the Journal of Clinical Microbiology
With Alex’s departure to new pastures, which include things like being the incoming President of ASM, we now have a new JCM Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Romney Humphries! Dr. Humphries is currently Director ...Show More
8) Static vs Cidal Antibiotics: Concepts Revisited
A common description of antibiotic action aims to classify them between “bactericidal” or “bacteriostatic”. Although these phenomena have robust in vitro foundations, the clinical translation of these...Show More
9) Updated FDA Recognition of CLSI Breakpoints (JCM ed.)
Oversight and guidance for performing antibiotic susceptibility testing can be bewildering. There is an alphabet soup of agencies and bodies involved: FDA, CLSI, and USCAST, to name a few here in the ...Show More
10) Management of Pneumonia: Past, Present and Future
In the last decade, there have been major changes in the approach of the treatment of pneumonia, in particular, with the availability of new diagnostic tools. Additionally, new drugs have been approve...Show More