Antibiotic resistance, Sexually transmitted diseases,Vaccine preventable diseases and septic shock. These important infectious disease topics and others were featured in a recent “Year-in-review”article on Forbes entitled, Infectious Disease Roundup 2017 — The Year In Review .
The author, infectious disease physician Judy Stone, MD, joined me to give her thoughts– scientific, medical and political– on these issues.
Read the article at Infectious Disease Roundup 2017 — The Year In Review
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Related: 10 Most Important Infectious Disease Stories of 2017: Outbreak News Today
Other podcasts with Dr Stone:
- Vibrio vulnificus: An interview with Dr Judy Stone
- Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever: Increasing spread predicted
- mcr-1 gene: An interview with Dr Judy Stone
Related:
- The Donald Trump neurosyphilis article: Should a physician comment on this from a distance?
- Anti-vaccine arguments rebutted
- Lyme disease: New research on Borrelia burgdorferi persistence
- Naegleria fowleri: Study on death estimates, treatment success and the northward expansion of infections
- Outbreaks and the role of health promotion
- The cost of measles: A CDC review
- Antibiotic resistance, the ‘post-antibiotic era’ and improving antibiotic stewardship
- Antibiotic stewardship: A look at penicillin allergies

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