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Two short talks packaged as one: Dr Jeremy Nel gives an overview of preventing infections in Transplant Patients, and Dr Lyle Murray gives an overview of CMV prevention and treatment in the transplant setting.

Dr Tyral Ramsamy gives us the lowdown on liver abscesses, in a back-to-basics liver abscess talk, which was a great refresher. It's an infection that sounds simple to manage, but there are a few tricks to it that Tyral will walk us through.

Dr Judy Rothberg talks on "AFB differentials - other causes of acid-fast bacilli". We're all familiar with acid-fast bacilli pointing suggestively at TB from a diagnostic perspective, but clearly there are other causes too. Judy talks us through some of them, and when to suspect them.

Dr Tinsae Alemayehu gives us a talk on "Congenital infections: the perspective from Ethiopia and Botswana". Dr Tinsae Alemayehu is a pediatrician infectious diseases specialist and the assistant program director at the department of Pediatrics and Adolescent health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Botswana. He is the current vice president of the African society of Pediatric infectious disea...

Dr Tari Papavarnavas, infectious diseases specialist and the lead Infection Control clinician at Groote Schuur Hospital, takes to us about "Preventing Healthcare Associated Infections". This is an enormously relevant but sometimes forgotten entity in patient care, and something the country could do a lot better at. Tari gives us a great overview.

Kim Pieton gives us an update on dengue fever. It's one of the most important mosquito-borne infection worldwide. What is dengue fever, and why is it causing more infections than ever? What can we do about it. Kim takes us through the Hitchhiker's Guide to Dengue Fever.

Dr Sharon Sunny talks about Respiratory infections in patients with chronic lung disease. Weird lungs get weird bugs, and patients with chronic respiratory disease often have a different lung microbiome to contend with. Sharon speaks about how to distinguish the colonisers from pathogens, what an infective exacerbation is, and will given an approach on how to manage exacerbations in this tricky...

Emily is a an infectious diseases specialist at the University of North Carolina and she has a particular interest in diagnostic stewardship and antimicrobial stewardship in low-and-middle income countries. Here she reviews some of her top tips on antimicrobial & diagnostic stewardship.

Dr Ahmad Haeri Mazanderani talks about one of the most requested topics we've had for this year: "Does this patient have HIV? HIV false positives and false negatives". Ahmad is a clinical virologist in the Centre for HIV & STIs at the South African National Institute of Communicable Diseases, and a joint researcher in the Dept of Paediatrics & Child Health at Wits University. He uses two case e...

The prevalence of diabetes is increasing and these infections can be extremely difficult to treat. Failed therapy can result in lower extremity amputation with profound impacts on patients' quality of life, their ability to earn an income, and their subsequent longevity. Infectious disease clinicians have a major role to play in preventing this using appropriate and evidence based therapy. Dr C...

The free-living amoebae are distinct from parasitic amoebae, as they do not rely on a host organism for survival and can exist independently in water and soil. They are rare but fascinating causes of human disease, causing everything from contact lens infections to fatal "brain-eating" encephalitis. Prof John Frean summarises the topic masterfully.

Vancomycin is a terror of a drug. The dosing is all weight-based (which is an outrage for us adult physicians who thought they had left paediatrics behind), but worse, drug level monitoring is both mandatory and confusing. And worst still, the old method of monitoring trough levels just got binned by half the world's pharmacologists in the last 3 years, in favour of more complex methods with ex...

Dr Lauren Richards conducts a 2024 HPV Update. Lauren navigates through the interesting essentials: what we know, recent advancements, and the impact on men.

Dr Charlotte Sriruttan, head of the NICD's Parasitology Laboratory, gives us a talk entitled "Hot Topics in Malaria". She covers new mosquito vectors, malaria resistance, the parasites' recent evolution to evade detection using rapid kits, new WHO malaria vaccine recommendations, and much more.

Basic pharmacokinetics for antimicrobial use & stewardship - Sean Wasserman

Anaerobes - Lior Chernick

Candida auris - Nelesh Govender

BCG: friend, foe, or just feeble? - Judy Rothberg

Staph aureus bacteraemia - Lyle Murray

How to Request a Test - Tom Boyles

Cavitary Lung Disease - Tyral Ramsamy

Climate Change and ID - Evan Shoul

Coxiella - Sharon Sunny

HIV & Strokes - Eitzaz Sadiq

Mumps - Nosisa Sipambo

Preventing Surgical Infections

Infectious causes of Myocarditis - Kim Pieton

Culture Negative Endocarditis in SA

Endemic Mycoses of South Africa