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Editors in Conversation — 116 episodes

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1

Why Your Lab QC Might Be Missing Critical Errors

2

Phage JS1: The Virus Breaking the Rules

3

Urine-based Testing to Detect HPV

4

The Aerobiome - The Hidden Biology of Air

5

Harnessing MALDI-TOF for MICs

6

Fungi in a Warming World: Climate, Candida auris, and the Next Microbial Frontier - with Arturo Casadevall, M.D., Ph.D.

7

Best AMR papers of 2025: A Collaboration between AAC and JID for IMARI

8

Green Labs

9

Rising Antimicrobial Resistance in The Microbial Universe

10

Favorite Clinical Microbiology Papers of 2025

11

Clinical Trials With the Potential To Change the Management of Prosthetic Joint Infections

12

Metabolomics

13

The First OTC Syphilis Test: Clinical Performance and Impact

14

Artificial Intelligence in the Microbiology Laboratory (JCM ed.)

15

What Makes a Great Mini-review? (JCM ed.)

16

Emerging Technologies for Rapid Phenotypic AST of Clinical Isolates of Bacteria (JCM ed.)

17

The Rise of Measles (AAC ed.)

18

Meet the New Editor in Chief of the Journal of Clinical Microbiology

19

Static vs Cidal Antibiotics: Concepts Revisited

20

Updated FDA Recognition of CLSI Breakpoints (JCM ed.)

21

Management of Pneumonia: Past, Present and Future

22

Show Me the Light! Uv Light for Cyclospora

23

Best Papers in the Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 2024

24

Best Papers of AAC, 2024

25

Getting a Job in a Clinical Microbiology Lab

26

The Global Antibiotic Research & Development Partnership (GARDP)

27

At-Home Collection and Testing for STIs

28

High Level Meeting on AMR at the United Nations: A Debrief

29

The Launch of ASM Case Reports Journal

30

Heteroresistance: Mechanisms, Diagnosis and Clinical Implications

31

Microbiology in the Headlines: H5N1 in Dairy Cattle, The Plague, Measles, Neosporin and more!

32

The Global Preclinical Antibacterial Pipeline

33

Turning the Output of the Microbiology Laboratory Into Gold

34

Training in Antimicrobial Resistance: Gaps and Opportunities

35

10 Years of Rhodococcus: Clinical Trends and Susceptibility Profiles

36

Why Phage Therapy May Fail

37

Is Lophomonas a Pathogen?

38

Treatment of Multidrug-resistant Tuberculosis

39

New generation B-lactam/B-lactamase inhibitors: Taniborbactam

40

Favorite Clinical Microbiology Papers of 2023 (JCM ed.)

41

Antimicrobial Resistance in Neisseria Gonorrhoeae (JCM ed.)

42

New Antifungals (AAC ed.)

43

A Novel Coccidioides Antibody LFA (JCM ed.)

44

Climate Change and Antimicrobial Resistance (AAC ed.)

45

Emerging Antifungal-Resistant Dermatophytes (JCM ed.)

46

Artificial Intelligence and Infectious Diseases (AAC ed.)

47

Viral Outbreaks in the Headlines (JCM ed.)

48

AAC Launches a New Section Focused On Antimicrobial Stewardship (AAC ed.)

49

Susceptibility Testing for Aztreonam with Ceftazidime-Avibactam (JCM ed.)

50

Hispanic Leadership in Vaccine Sciences With Dr. Maria Elena Bottazzi (AAC ed.)

51

Updates on Testing for Vaginitis/Vaginosis (JCM ed.)

52

Management of Difficult to Treat HSV and CMV Infections (AAC ed.)

53

Susceptibility Testing for Piperacillin-Tazobactam (JCM ed.)

54

Antimicrobial Resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae (AAC ed.)

55

Avoiding HIV False Positives (JCM ed.)

56

Discussing β-lactamase/β-lactamase inhibitors (AAC ed.)

57

Molecular Testing for Periprosthetic Joint Infections (JCM ed.)

58

An Update on COVID-19 Therapeutics (AAC ed.)

59

The Best Clinical Microbiology Papers of 2022 (JCM Ed.)

60

How Can Clinical Microbiology Labs Contribute to Antimicrobial Stewardship? (JCM ed.)

61

Research Careers in Antimicrobial Resistance (AAC ed.)

62

Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in the Clinical Microbiology Laboratory (JCM ed.)

63

How Proposed Change to US Regulation Could Impact Clinical Microbiology Labs (JCM ed.)

64

Management of Mycobacterium Abscessus Infections: The Rise of a Superbug (AAC ed.)

65

The Inoculum Effect of Antibiotic Susceptibility Testing (JCM ed.)

66

Diagnosis and Treatment of Monkeypox (AAC ed.)

67

Dynamite Parasites, with Dr. Bobbi Pritt (JCM ed.)

68

Stenotrophomonas maltophilia: The Silent Rise of a Superbug (AAC ed.)

69

What's New in Molecular Virology? (JCM ed.)

70

Treatment of Resistant Pseudomonas Aeruginosa Infections (AAC ed.)

71

Prevalence and Mortality Associated with Bloodstream Infections (JCM ed.)

72

Consensus on B-lactamases (AAC ed.)

73

Multiplex PCR for Predicting Antibiotic Susceptibility (JCM ed.)

74

Phages as Therapeutic Tools Against Multidrug Resistant Bacteria (AAC ed.)

75

COVID-19 Associated Pulmonary Aspergillosis - The Other CAPA (JCM ed.)

76

WHO Critical Review of the Antibacterial Pipeline (AAC ed.)

77

Testing for COVID-19 During the Age of Omicron (JCM ed.)

78

Best Clinical Microbiology Papers of 2021 (JCM ed.)

79

Treatment of Acinetobacter spp. Infections (AAC ed.)

80

SARS-CoV-2 Sequencing for Clinical Care and Infection Control (JCM ed.)

81

Candida auris at the Intersection of the COVID-19 Pandemic (AAC ed.)

82

COVID-19 Testing - Schools, False Positives, and In-Person Meetings (JCM ed.)

83

Testing for COVID-19 Infectivity (JCM ed.)

84

Treatment of VRE Infections (AAC ed.)

85

Advances in Serologic Testing for COVID-19 (JCM ed.)

86

Innovative Clinical Trials for COVID-19 (AAC ed.)

87

Mythbusting in Susceptibility Testing (JCM ed.)

88

Antimalarial Drug-Resistance (AAC ed.)

89

Staphylococcus argenteus: another coagulase positive Staphylococcus (JCM ed.)

90

β-lactam/β-lactamase inhibitor combinations (AAC ed.)

91

Reconciling Genotypic and Phenotypic Susceptibility Tests (JCM ed.)

92

Gaps in Laboratory Diagnosis of Fungal Diseases (JCM ed.)

93

Pandemic Built Environment (mSystems ed.)

94

Developing Non-Traditional Antibiotics (AAC ed.)

95

Fermentative Food Microbiome (mSystems ed.)

96

Optimizing Blood Cultures with Dr. Eric Ransom and Dr. Valeria Fabre (JCM ed.)

97

Top Non-COVID-19 AAC Papers of 2020: A discussion with early stage investigators (AAC ed.)

98

Susceptibility testing for Staphylococci Other Than S. aureus (JCM ed.)

99

Synthetic Microbiology (mSystems ed.)

100

Vaccines for COVID19: A Critical Appraisal with Dr. Carol Baker (AAC ed.)

101

2020: A Bad Year with Great Papers in Clinical Microbiology (JCM ed.)

102

2020: The year of COVID-19 (AAC ed.)

103

COVID-19: Clinical Labs in the Media Spotlight with Dr. Katherine Wu and Dr. Susan Butler-Wu (JCM ed.)

104

The Antimicrobial Resistance Leadership Group (ARLG) (AAC ed.)

105

Total Laboratory Automation in Clinical Microbiology (JCM ed.)

106

The use of remdesivir against SARS-CoV-2 (AAC ed.)

107

COVID-19 Diagnostic Testing Redux (JCM ed.)

108

Discovering new antibiotics (AAC ed.)

109

Parasites (JCM ed.)

110

The dearth of antibiotic development (AAC ed.)

111

Detection of carbapenemases (JCM ed.)

112

New Vancomycin Guidelines (AAC ed.)

113

COViD-19: Therapeutic Update (AAC ed.)

114

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy Journal - Past, Present and Future (AAC ed.)

115

Diagnostic Tests for COVID-19 (JCM ed.)

116

Therapeutic approaches for COVID-19: Myths and facts (AAC ed.)