Category: Micro
The UNMC/Nebraska Medicine Antimicrobial Stewardship team has developed a new clinical guidance regarding use of infectious disease next generation sequencing diagnostic tests. There is currently no national consensus regarding the use of ID-NGS tests, nor have they been systematically compared to a diagnostic gold standard. The UNMC Antimicrobial Stewardship team reviewed the literature and evaluated […]
Sep 19, 2024
Diversity in Probiotics and Diversity in Clinical Trials: Opportunities for Improvement
This is a Journal Club review by Dr. Jasmine Marcelin of “A randomized controlled trial of Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG on antimicrobial-resistant organism colonization” (Rauseo, A. et al. Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, (2021).
Aug 17, 2021
World Meningitis Day 2018: #AllMeningitisMatters
It’s World Meningitis Day! #Meningitis affects more than 2.8 million people globally each year. Meningitis can be a scary disease. It can be contagious, debilitating, and even deadly. That’s why it is important to understand what it is, how to recognize it and how to prevent it. What is meningitis? The meninges are a set […]
Apr 24, 2018
Losing Ground Against Gonorrhea – The Rising Antibiotic Resistance
April is Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI) Awareness month and there is a critical need to raise awareness toward preventing these infections in all our patients. In the past, most STIs were easily treated with readily available antibiotics, but unfortunately, the story of Gonorrhea has taken a turn down a frightening road. Gonorrhea is the 2nd […]
Apr 19, 2018
ID Journal Club Presents… Molecular Rapid Diagnostic Tests Improve Clinical Outcome
Bloodstream infections are associated with high mortality. Blood cultures are a reliable and accurate method for the identification of bloodstream infections but can take up to 5 days or even more being finalized, leading to delays in initiation of effective antibiotic therapy. The Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA) recommends the use of rapid diagnostic […]
Mar 19, 2018
Honoring Black Women and Men Physician Leaders in Infectious Diseases
African Americans account for only 6% of newly minted doctors graduating from medical school in the USA. Within our specialty of Infectious Diseases, only 3% of ID physician members of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) self-report as Black/African American. Many of these physicians make it their career goals to provide care for and […]
Feb 22, 2018
I Am Woman, Hear Me Roar…In Infectious Diseases and More!
February 3 is National Women Physicians Day. This day was chosen to celebrate Women Physicians in honor of Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell’s birthday. Dr. Blackwell was the first woman to matriculate at a US medical school, and her acceptance in 1847 was initially a joke. In those times, medicine was very much a man’s world, but […]
Feb 3, 2018
Dr. Paul Fey on “Why I Love Clinical Microbiology”
Dr. Paul Fey on “Why I Love Clinical Microbiology: “I love clinical microbiology because each pathogen that invades a human host has a different strategy. Our job is to determine how these processes occur mechanistically but also practically utilize this information to find new diagnostic strategies for our patients and clinical colleagues. ” […]
Sep 22, 2017
UNMC Clinical Microbiology Fellowship Program Welcomes Dr. Arryn Craney!
Content courtesy of Dr. Paul Fey and Dr. Arryn Craney. UNMC’s Department of Pathology and Microbiology in collaboration with Nebraska Medicine sponsors a Clinical Microbiology Fellowship Program that is accredited by the Committee on Postgraduate Educational Programs (CPEP) of the American Academy of Microbiology. This two year training program provides the trainee hands-on experience in […]
Aug 28, 2017
Microbiology and Infectious Diseases – The Ghostbusters of Medicine
Medicine is a team sport, there is no denying that, but together the Microbiologist and Infectious Diseases(ID) specialists create a powerhouse of for diagnosis and treatment. Detect, Identify and Destroy. Infectious Disease physicians are called in to start the investigation – does the patient have an infection? What do we think is the most […]
Aug 7, 2017
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