Microbiology & Infectious Diseases - European Medical Journal

Continue
Filter
9 Mins
12 Dec 2024

Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses: The Need for High-Quality Data to Assess Disease Burden and Vaccine Performance

Respiratory viruses such as influenza, SARS-CoV-2, and RSV can lead to severe consequences and complications, especially among the elderly…
8 Mins
12 Dec 2024

Assessing CBNAAT for Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis Diagnosis: A Retrospective Study

Tuberculosis (TB) represents a significant global public health issue, ranking as the 13th leading cause of mortality and standing as the…
6 Mins
12 Dec 2024

Adverse Drug Events from First-Line Anti-tuberculosis Drugs

Tuberculosis (TB) is caused by the bacteria Mycobacterium tuberculosis, a complex, rod-shaped, non-spore-forming, thin, aerobic bacterium…
4 Dec 2024

Challenges of Unpredictability: Meningitis Prevention

In this informative interview article, expert Federico Martinón-Torres discusses the unpredictability of meningitis and the challenges in preventing, diagnosing, and treating this rare infectious disease.
31 Oct 2024

Tackling Infectious Diseases

This interactive article summarises key discussions from GSK sponsored symposia that took place during the ESCMID Global Congress 2024, held from 27–30th April 2024 in Barcelona, Spain.
13 Mins
27 Sep 2024

COVID-19 Vaccination Landscape

COVID-19 vaccines recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): two mRNA vaccines and a protein-based vaccine…
6 Mins
13 Sep 2024

Unpredictability of Meningitis

Meningitis is a rare and unpredictable disease globally, with a high case fatality rate, causing an estimated 250,000 deaths in 2019…
8 Aug 2024

Atypical Lemierre’s Syndrome

A previously healthy 17-year-old male was transferred from a community hospital to the authors’ tertiary paediatric emergency department…