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From Pathogen to Infectious Disease Diagnosis: Medical Tourism and an Outbreak of Fungal Meningitis

  • 1.  From Pathogen to Infectious Disease Diagnosis: Medical Tourism and an Outbreak of Fungal Meningitis

    ASCP Ambassador
    Posted 10-15-2024 11:22

    #Podcast DROP Notice via my host of the Contagion_Live podcast series​.

    ​Last year, Sarah Bergbower was a Doctorate of Clinical Laboratory Studies (DCLS) graduate student and rounding with the infectious disease service, when she was asked by her attending to participate in a case in what was becoming a major medical investigation.

    Several cases of fungal meningitis were identified in American patients who had been traveling to Mexico to receive cosmetic surgery. For Bergbower's team, they were focusing on 1 of the cases of an inpatient they were treating, but also there was a wider review of the overall cases being performed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). 

    Learn more about the intersection of a Doctor of Clinical [Medical] Laboratory Science with Clinicians to solve cases! 

    https://www.contagionlive.com/view/from-pathogen-to-infectious-disease-diagnosis-medical-tourism-and-an-outbreak-of-fungal-meningitis



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    Rodney E. Rohde, PhD, MS, SM(ASCP)CM,SVCM,MBCM, FACSc
    Regents' Professor, Texas State University System
    University Distinguished Chair & Professor, Medical Laboratory Science [MLS] Program
    TEDx Speaker & Global Fellow – Global Citizenship Alliance
    Texas State Honorary Professor of International Studies
    Associate Director, Translational Health Research Initiative @txst_THR
    Past President, Texas Association for CLS

    Texas State University
    MLS Program, Encino Hall 350B [office ENC 363]
    601 University Drive
    San Marcos, TX 78666-4616
    512-245-3500 [CLS suite]; 512-245-2562 [office]
    Email: rrohde@txstate.edu
    Pronouns: he/him/his
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