Communicable E37: 'Peer review is broken'
Contrary to popular belief, peer review has only recently become an integral step in scientific publishing. Currently seen by many as a badge of honour ensuring valid, innovative and honest research, ...
5 Okt 20251h 7min
Communicable E36: Finding BALANCE in antibiotic durations—the BALANCE trial
In this second-ever collaboration between SIDP’s Breakpoints and ESCMID’s Communicable podcasts, hosts Erin McCreary and Angela Huttner invite the two principal investigators and visionaries who spear...
19 Sep 20251h 9min
Communicable E35: From Ebola to COVID-19 — Graham and Kobinger on building vaccines
In this episode of Communicable, Angela Huttner and Erin McCreary invite two titans of vaccinology, Barney Graham (Atlanta, USA), former deputy director of the NIH NIAID Vaccine Research Center and ar...
7 Sep 202558min
Communicable E34: WHO's Fungal Priority Pathogens List
Fungal infections and disease have long been overlooked in terms of healthcare burden, with poor diagnostics and limited options for treatment and management. In 2022, the WHO published its first Fung...
24 Aug 202550min
Communicable E33: Ethics in infectious diseases
Ethics in the field of infectious disease can be a delicate interplay between treating the individual patient and protecting the collective health of a society. Sometimes these two mandates go hand in...
10 Aug 202536min
Communicable E32: Fluoroquinolones - to heal or harm?
Fluoroquinolones (FQs) are valuable given their broad-spectrum activity against Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria and their high penetration into various tissues. Yet FQs have also caused conce...
27 Jul 202555min
Communicable E31: Climate change and fungal spread
The adaptability of fungi to warmer temperatures is an obvious consequence of climate change. Perhaps less obvious is the role climate change has played on fungal pathogens emerging as a global health...
13 Jul 202551min
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
