Microbe Mail

By Vindana ChibabhaiMedicine Health & Fitness Education

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November 15, 2022 Syphilis - Sense and Sensibility
Syphilis incidence is on the rise in South Africa and globally. How does one sensibly make a diagnose and manage a case of syphilis at the present time. I spoke to Dr Denasha Reddy about this.
About our Guest:
I am a South African consultant in internal medicine and infectious diseases and currently work at the largest tertiary hospital in the southern hemisphere, Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital (CHBAH) in Soweto, Johannesburg. My clinical and research interests have been in healthcare-associated infections, antimicrobial stewardship (AMS), HIV-associated infections, tropical and travel-relatedinfections.
Linkedin link: https://www.linkedin.com/in/denasha-reddy-ba5b5254/
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28 min
October 25, 2022 Book Review: Bacterial genetics and Genomics
It's great to find a helpful learning resource. Here, I chat to the author of the book "Bacterial Genetics and Genomics", Prof Lori Snyder about the book, who it will be useful for and why this resource is different from others.
About our Guest:
Prof. Lori A. S. Snyder is a Professor in the School of Life Sciences, Pharmacy, and Chemistry at Kingston University, where she is involved in educating undergraduate and graduate students, as well as leading an active and collaborative research group. Prof. Snyder is also active in science outreach activities, including traveling lab visits, offering work experience to teenagers, and participating in public engagement events. Her research focuses on two main areas: combating antibiotic resistant infections and bacterial genetics and genomics. Her novel antimicrobials to stop infant blindness from multi-drug resistant bacterial infections have been featured in Wired (www.wired.co.uk/article/fight-against-super-gonorrhoea) and on the Sparks children’s charity YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQUl5-kC1OQ). Her use of bacterial genome sequence data to uncover new information about pathogens was featured in an interview on the Thermo Fisher Scientific YouTube channel about use of their sequencing system (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_ttuJ6l1hI&t=95s) and in 2013 her contributions were recognized by the Society for Applied Microbiology with the W H Pierce Prize (https://sfam.org.uk/resource/wh-pierce-2013-lori-snyder.html).
Prof. Snyder was twice elected to the Prokaryotic Division committee of the Microbiology Society and services on the Editorial Board of its journal Microbial Genomics, as well as contributing by reviewing many research publications and grant applications.
Find Prof Lori Snyder at:
Twitter: @DrLoriSnyder
Senior Editor: @CrumlyChuck
Publisher: @CRCPress
Book: https://www.routledge.com/Bacterial-Genetics-and Genomics/Snyder/p/book/9780815345695
Book – missing content https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/s3-euw1-ap-pe-ws4-cws-documents.ri-prod/9780815345695/9780815345695_missing_content.pdf
Book - support materials https://routledgetextbooks.com/textbooks/9780815345695/
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36 min
October 05, 2022 Episode Recap 2 of 2
Microbe Mail reached its first birthday milestone. We've created a recap of the year's episodes with some important snippets from each episode.
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30 min
September 13, 2022 Episode Recap 1 of 2
Microbe Mail reached its first birthday milestone. We've created a recap of the year's episodes with some important snippets from each episode.
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38 min
August 23, 2022 Myth Busting Pregnancy and Breastfeeding
With the state of pregnancy and breastfeeding being such a fragile time, a number of myths have developed surrounding the state.
On this episode, Adj Prof Shastra Bhoora and Dr Jarrod Zamparini help me bust some of these myths.
About our Guests:
Dr Bhoora is a specialist obstetrician and gynaecologist with a sub-speciality in critical care. She currently heads the obstetrics critical care unit at Charlottle Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital. She is affiliated with Baylor College in Texas as an Associate professor in maternal critical care.
Dr Bhoora’s interests involve the acute management of obstetrics, gynaecology and trauma emergencies. She has played an instrumental role during the COVID pandemic for obstetric patients. Pregnant women have unique disease processes and if treated timeously are resilient. Dr Bhoora is currently completing her masters in science reflecting on COVID-19 in pregnancy. She promotes IPC principles and AMS among this vulnerable group. She is a master trainer in ESMOE and is passionate about teaching and empowering young minds to advocate for impeccable maternal health care.
Instagram: shastra_bhoora
Twitter: @shastrabhoora
Jarrod Zamparini is a Specialist Physician in the Department of Internal Medicine at Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital (CMJAH) and a Lecturer in the Department of Internal Medicine at Wits.
Jarrod has a special interest in Obstetric Medicine and is in the process of establishing an Obstetric Medicine Unit at CMJAH which, in addition to providing an inpatient service, provides outpatient services in the Medical Problems in Pregnancy Clinic as well as the PMTCT clinic. Jarrod is a founding and executive member of the Society of Obstetric Medicine of South Africa and a member of the International Society of Obstetric Medicine.
Twitter: @JZamps
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26 min
August 02, 2022 Obstacles in Obstetric Infections
Pregnancy is a state that makes many clinicians nervous - with disease processes and medication which can harm both mom and baby.
On this episode, I chat to Adj Prof Shastra Bhoora and Dr Jarrod Zamparini about some conundrums in diagnosing infections in pregnant women.
About our Guests:
Dr Bhoora is a specialist obstetrician and gynaecologist with a sub-speciality in critical care. She currently heads the obstetrics critical care unit at Charlottle Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital. She is affiliated with Baylor College in Texas as an Associate professor in maternal critical care.
Dr Bhoora’s interests involve the acute management of obstetrics, gynaecology and trauma emergencies. She has played an instrumental role during the COVID pandemic for obstetric patients. Pregnant women have unique disease processes and if treated timeously are resilient. Dr Bhoora is currently completing her masters in science reflecting on COVID-19 in pregnancy. She promotes IPC principles and AMS among this vulnerable group. She is a master trainer in ESMOE and is passionate about teaching and empowering young minds to advocate for impeccable maternal health care.
Instagram: shastra_bhoora
Twitter: @shastrabhoora
Jarrod Zamparini is a Specialist Physician in the Department of Internal Medicine at Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital (CMJAH) and a Lecturer in the Department of Internal Medicine at Wits.
Jarrod has a special interest in Obstetric Medicine and is in the process of establishing an Obstetric Medicine Unit at CMJAH which, in addition to providing an inpatient service, provides outpatient services in the Medical Problems in Pregnancy Clinic as well as the PMTCT clinic. Jarrod is a founding and executive member of the Society of Obstetric Medicine of South Africa and a member of the International Society of Obstetric Medicine.
Twitter: @JZamps
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24 min
July 19, 2022 Goldilocks and the course of antibiotics
Do you know the real reason antibiotics are prescribed for 7 days or 14 days at a time? And how much evidence is there for that duration. Listen as host Vindana Chibabhai talks to Dr Kim Pieton (Roberg), an infectious Diseases physician about the length of the antibiotic course as Goldilocks would want it...not too long, not too short, but just right!
About our Guest:
I am the proud mother of two beautiful little girls, age 4 & 5, who provide daily laughter, insight and inspiration!
My work passion is infectious diseases - all infections fascinate me, with particular interest in viruses like Hepatitis C & HIV, bacteria like treponemes and tropical infections like malaria, schistosomiasis, and arboviruses.
I love working out the 'puzzle' - getting to a diagnosis (whether infectious or not) and all the steps it takes to get there. I also love the stories and history behind infections and the treatment of these diseases. Evolution to cure!
An infectious disease specialist remains one of the most fulfilling careers because of the huge satisfaction in diagnosing and being able to cure the vast majority of infections - and if not cure, certainly control to provide a long, happy, healthy, uncomplicated life!
In addition to children and work, I love cooking, flowers and gardening, reading fiction, entertaining friends and travelling to new countries.
Kim is on Facebook and Twitter: @Kim55254631
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32 min
July 05, 2022 Spilling the Micro Lab Beans
There are some weird and wonderful things that the Microbiology laboratory technologist/technician sees behind the scenes in the infectious diseases diagnostics process. Here, host Vindana Chibabhai chats to Yola Tatoba, a technician at the Microbiology Laboratory based at Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital about these weird and wonderful things.
About our Guest:
I am a Medical Technician at CMJAH Microbiology Laboratory NHLS. I've been working there for 9 years now. I participated in a few validations and EQA's. I also have a Law Diploma and studying towards my law degree. I enjoyed Microbiology up to this far.
I am on Instagram as @yolaokuhle
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25 min
June 21, 2022 Walking the thin line - Catheter related bloodstream infections
Intravenous lines are an integral component of modern medical care. Can we imagine delivering care without it? However, they are not without harm. On this episode, host Dr Vindana Chibabhai talks to Dr Molebogeng Kolojane about catheter related bloodstream infections - what they are, risk factors, diagnosis, management...and of course, preventing them!
About our Guest:
Dr Molebogeng Kolojane is a Clinical Microbiologist at the National Health Laboratory Service and a lecturer at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. She is based at the Infection Control Services Laboratory (ICSL) at Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital (CMJAH) in South Africa. Molebogeng is practicing as an outreach pathologist in the Johannesburg West Rand and Ekurhuleni District hospitals. Her special interests are in Infectious Diseases, Infection Prevention and Control (IPC), and is involved in outbreak investigation, establishing antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) programs in outreach health care facilities and supports laboratories in district hospitals.
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23 min
June 07, 2022 Decrypting Cryptococcus
Cryptococcus species causes close to a quater of a million cases of severe disease and > 180 000 deaths...universally fatal if untreated. In this episode of MM, host Dr Vindana Chibabhai, chats to Prof Nelesh Govender about recent changes and expected changes in the diagnosis and management of Cryptococcal disease.
2022 WHO Cryptococcal Disease Management Guidelines here
ACTA Trial
Ambition Trial
About Prof Nelesh Govender:
I run a research group in medical mycology in South Africa, among a select few worldwide working in public health mycology. A major theme of my research is HIV-associated fungal diseases, many of which are life-threatening. My research activities span: 1) laboratory science (including characterisation of established/emerging fungal pathogens and diagnostic test development/evaluation), 2) population-based observational epidemiological studies, 3) cost-effectiveness modelling of public health interventions and treatments and 4) clinical trials. This research is aligned to my work as a centre head at the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (www.nicd.ac.za) where I run South Africa’s national mycology reference laboratory. Our group serves as a World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for antimicrobial resistance. Our public health research is primarily funded through NICD but also partly through grants from the US National Institutes of Health, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), CDC Foundation, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, UK Medical Research Council, UK National Institute for Health Research and NHLS Research Trust.
Twitter @neleshg
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34 min

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Are you looking for a medical podcast covering every day issues in diagnostic tests, antimicrobial therapy and management of infections that is relevant to a low or middle income setting? A show that simplifies complex concepts in an easy to follow conversational format? You've come to the right place. This is Microbe Mail - a medical podcast for the busy practitioner or student covering topics in microbiology, infectious diseases and infection control.