SWACM - Southwestern Association of Clinical Microbiology - Annual Meeting

SWACM

Providing Quality Continuing Education for Clinical Microbiologists

P.O. Box 742857 | Dallas , TX 75374-2857 | 214-345-4256 (Phone) | 214-345-4275 (Fax)

The 2011 Annual Meeting was Sept 7-10, 2011

Handouts

Antimicrobial Agents 101

Best Practices in Blood Culture: Effective QA

Clinically Relevant Microbiology: Work–up of Bacteriology Cultures

Competency, Quality Assurance and Problem Solving

Detecting Reporting Resistance in Fastidious Bacteria

Detecting Reporting Resistance in Nonfastidious GNR

Do it quick! Update on CLSI M35A2 – Rapid Methods for Identification

ESBLs and KPCs: Impact of Revised CLSI Breakpoints on testing and Reporting Algorithms

Guidelines for Work-up of Sputum and Wound Specimens

Identification of the Crazy Cocci, How and When by Roberta B. Carey

Making a Real Difference in Real Time, Gram Stain Cases

Resistance in non-fastidious Gram Positive Cocci, Detection, Reporting and New Therapeutic Options

Susceptibility Testing of Neisseria and Haemophilus influenzae and parainfluenzae

The Gram Stain: Assessing Specimen Quality

The Evolving Threat of ESBL, AmpC, and KPC b-lactamases

Tick-borne Infections

WHONET: Introduction, Annual antibiograms, and Outbreak detection

WHONET: Laboratory-based surveillance of infectious diseases and antimicrobial resistance

Why Biosafety? What could possibly go wrong?

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