Acute gastroenteritis is among the most common causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide, with the highest prevalence observed in nonindustrialized countries because the diseases are most frequently transmitted under conditions...

Last May, the first in a series of meetings called “Innovation Lab - Solutions to Support the Laboratory in Combating AMR” was held at the BD® Academy Center in Milan. The occasion was a...

The AMCLI 2024 National Congress, now in its 51st year, was held March 8-11 at the Rimini Palacongressi. BD hosted the workshop titled “Measuring to Improve Blood Culture Preanalytics,”...

Tuberculosis (TB) is an airborne disease caused by infection of the upper respiratory tract by Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Transmission occurs when airborne particles are expelled...

Contaminated blood cultures (defined as isolation of a microorganism introduced into the culture during sample collection and/or processing and that was not present in the patient's blood...

As attested by IARC since 1996, HPV infection is the necessary condition for the development of cervical cancer: it is the first cancer recognized by the World Organization...

Antibiotic resistance is one of the major global health emergencies and requires increasingly decisive action by health systems worldwide. Microorganisms are becoming resistant...

The World Health Organization (WHO) in 2020 launched a program of action to achieve the elimination of cervical cancer caused by Human Papilloma Virus (HPV)...

The monitoring of SARS-COV-2 (etiologic agent of COVID-19) infections is a procedure we have become accustomed to, both as performers and as patients: we know our way around molecular, antigenic, and serologic tests to detect the presence of a present or past SARS-COV-2 infection in the body.

Multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs) are microorganisms, mainly bacteria, that become resistant due to the misuse of antibiotics as well as through natural mutations.