Communicable E30: WHO's first-ever guideline on meningitis
Meningitis remains a major global health threat, with an estimated 2.5 million cases each year; of these, one in six results in death and one in five in long-term disabilities. Although meningitis “ca...
29 Jun 20251h
Communicable E29: Bacterial vaginosis & male partners
Bacterial vaginosis (BV) was long considered not to be a sexually transmitted infection (STI), and treatment was only for women to bear. That was the convention at least until Catriona Bradshaw and he...
15 Jun 202559min
Communicable E28: Late-breaker trials at ESCMID Global: Should they change your practice? - part 2
Editors of CMI Comms, Josh Davis, Erin McCreary and Emily McDonald return for round 2 taking turns to summarise and discuss late-breaker trials presented at ESCMID Global 2025 in Vienna, and whether o...
1 Jun 202547min
Communicable E27: Late-breaker trials at ESCMID Global: Should they change your practice? - part 1
This episode of Communicable takes on a special format where editors of CMI Comms, Marc Bonten, Josh Davis, Erin McCreary, Emily McDonald, all clinical trialists in their own right, take turns to summ...
18 Mai 202553min
Communicable E26: SNAP out of it: Rethinking anti-staphylococcal penicillins for S. aureus bacteremia - the SNAP trial PSSA/MSSA results
In this first-ever collaboration between Communicable and Breakpoints, the podcast of the US Society of Infectious Diseases Pharmacists, hosts Angela Huttner (Geneva, Switzerland) and Erin McCreary (P...
4 Mai 20251h 10min
Communicable E25: The Nightmare Series, part 5 - Measles is back
In this episode of Communicable, hosts Angela Huttner and Annie Joseph join experts Kerrigan McCarthy of South Africa’s National Institute for Communicable Diseases and Natasha Crowcroft of the World ...
20 Apr 202555min
Communicable E24: The role of medical societies in global health - An interview with ESCMID leadership
ESCMID Global, ESCMID’s flagship congress, kicks off this Friday in Vienna. In light of that, Angela Huttner and Thomas Tängdén sit down with ESCMID leadership, President Robert Skov and Immediate-Pas...
6 Apr 202547min
Communicable E23: Women & men in medicine: An honest discussion, part 2
Communicable returns to the topic of gender dynamics in medicine in the second half of this special. This round, Angela Huttner wants to hear from the men, CMI Comms editors Marc Bonten, Josh Davis, N...
23 Mar 202531min
