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Antimicrobial Resistance

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 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!
    Read more

  • 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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  • 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 25, 2023

    Sepsis Alliance AMR Virtual Conference (April 26-27, 2023)

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  • April 20, 2023

    Optimizing Sepsis Outcomes and Antimicrobial Stewardship

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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 30, 2021

    American Society of Health-System Pharmacists Midyear Meeting

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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 24, 2021

    Dual Health Threats: AMR & COVID-19

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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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