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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

 

Dunn Virology

 

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?

 

See photos from the SWACM 2011 Annual Meeting in Oklahoma City!

Wednesday, September 7th

 

Thursday, September 8th

 

Friday, September 9th

 

Saturday, September 10th

 


Past Annual Meetings

2010 Annual Meeting Archive

 

2009 Annual Meeting Archive

 

2008 Annual Meeting Archive

 


 

 

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