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AC-13, Guidelines for the Laboratory Diagnosis of STEC Infections: Best Practices Promote Good Outcomes
November 5, 2008, 1:00pm ET
Speaker: Nancy Strockbine
November 5, 2008, 1:00pm ET
Speaker: Nancy Strockbine
AC-14 Quantitative Cultures: Do numbers Count?
November 19, 2008, 1:00pm
Speaker: Rebecca Horvat
November 19, 2008, 1:00pm
Speaker: Rebecca Horvat
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Varying Combinations of Antiviral Drugs May Effectively Treat Chronic Hepatitis Virus Infection in Woodchucks and Have Implications for use in Humans
Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, October 2008
Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, October 2008
New Study Claims Acne is Not Associated with Yet-Uncultured Bacteria
Journal of Clinical Microbiology, October 2008
Journal of Clinical Microbiology, October 2008
New Method May Rapidly and Effectively Detect Significant Food-Borne Pathogen
Applied and Environmental Microbiology, October 2008
Applied and Environmental Microbiology, October 2008
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Over the past twenty-five years, the number of patients with compromised immune systems has grown astronomically. High-risk patients such as these require a unique set of healthcare solutions that take into consideration everything from the etiology and degree of immune suppression to the individual patient’s nutritional status. A new text from ASM Press, Diagnostic Microbiology of the Immunocompromised Host, examines a wide range of approaches and challenges to infectious disease diagnostics for immunocompromised patients.