Symposium helps advance antimicrobial stewardship, infection prevention & implementation science (Links to an external site)

Symposium helps advance antimicrobial stewardship, infection prevention & implementation science
The symposium on Antimicrobial Stewardship’s role in health care and infectious disease prevention, co-chaired by Assistant Research Professor, Ginger McKay, PhD, and Associate Professor of Medicine, Jennie Kwon, DO, MSCI, was recently hosted by the Center for D&I at the Institute for Public Health and the Division of Infectious Diseases.

ID Division teams with McKelvey School of Engineering to develop rapid diagnostic test for Gonorrhoea infection

ID Division teams with McKelvey School of Engineering to develop rapid diagnostic test for Gonorrhoea infection
Gonorrhoea is the second most common bacterial sexually transmitted infection globally. The World Health Organization has identified Neisseria gonorrhoeae as a high-priority pathogen due to widespread antimicrobial resistance. Currently, there are no rapid diagnostic tests widely available to identify Neisseria gonorrhoeae which is exacerbating antimicrobial resistance problem due to notoriously inaccurate syndromic management of sexually transmitted infections, […]