Communicable E9 - Avian flu: an update
The current H5N1 avian flu outbreak in poultry and dairy cows in the US has raised the alarm on bird flu and its transmission risk across species. At present, the virus has infected 100 million birds ...
9 Sep 202450min
Communicable E8 - The Nightmare Series, part 1: How to deal with Candida auris
Only known to us since 2008, Candida auris is an emerging fungal pathogen spreading quickly around the world; alarmingly, it is most commonly found in healthcare settings. C. auris sets itself apart f...
26 Aug 202459min
Communicable E7 - Melioidosis goes global
Once considered endemic only to tropical and subtropical climates such as Southeast Asia and northern Australia, melioidosis is expanding to non-endemic areas such as the southern US. Climate change i...
12 Aug 202452min
Communicable E6 - “Sneaky viruses”: an update on hepatitis B & C before World Hepatitis Day
Responsible for 1.3 million deaths and 2.2 million new infections per year, viral hepatitis is the second leading cause of morbidity and mortality amongst all infectious diseases, just behind tubercul...
25 Jul 202454min
Communicable E5 - Beauty is in the 'I' of the beholder: EUCAST updates
The ‘I’ (intermediate susceptibility) in a EUCAST-guided antibiogram never meant impending resistance to your antibiotic. It was never meant to make you find the one ‘S’ (invariably a carbapenem) and ...
15 Jul 202438min
Communicable E4 - The BLING-3 trial & continuous beta-lactam infusion: should these results change your practice?
Hosts Angela Huttner & Erin McCreary welcome Prof. David Paterson (Singapore) and Prof. Josh Davis (Newcastle, Australia) to discuss the design and results of the BLING-3 trial, which compared continu...
1 Jul 202444min
Communicable E3 - The new WHO Priority Pathogens List: which bugs to target first?
What are WHO's most wanted bacterial pathogens in 2024? Hosts Angela Huttner & Oana Sandulescu welcome guests Dr. Hatim Sati of the World Health Organisation (WHO) and Dr. Erin Duffy (CARB-X) to discu...
17 Jun 202442min
Communicable E2 - Phage therapy: does it work and will we have access?
In this episode, hosts Josh Davis (Newcastle, Australia) and Angela Huttner (Geneva, Switzerland) interview the phage ‘microbiologist-clinician duo’, Drs. Shawna McCallin and Lorenz Leitner (Balgrist ...
3 Jun 202454min
