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Communicable E65: Quarterly catch-up (October 2026 edition)

Communicable E65: Quarterly catch-up (October 2026 edition)

S3E65 · · 49:22

In this episode of Communicable, Emily McDonald returns for another ‘Quarterly catch-up’ and is joined by Angela Huttner as co-host. Together, they review four recent randomised clin...

Communicable E64: Getting micro on macrolides for community-acquired pneumonia

Communicable E64: Getting micro on macrolides for community-acquired pneumonia

S3E64 · · 50:15

In this episode of Communicable, hosts Emily McDonald and Marc Bonten are joined by Sylvain Lother and Valentijn Schweitzer for a discussion on the use of macrolides in community-acq...

Communicable E63: Does oseltamivir harm critically ill patients? The REMAP-CAP results

Communicable E63: Does oseltamivir harm critically ill patients? The REMAP-CAP results

S3E63 · · 01:03:09

At the Critical Care Reviews meeting in Belfast in June this year, REMAP-CAP investigators presented results suggesting that oseltamivir may be harmful in critically ill patients wit...

Communicable E62: The 'prose' and cons of the POET trial – early oral antibiotic switch for endocarditis

Communicable E62: The 'prose' and cons of the POET trial – early oral antibiotic switch for endocarditis

S3E62 · · 52:15

In this episode of Communicable, Emily McDonald and Josh Davis host Henning Bundgaard and Sami El-Dalati for a discussion on early oral antibiotic switch for endocarditis, focusing o...

Communicable E61: We will make you love PK/PD, part 3

Communicable E61: We will make you love PK/PD, part 3

S3E61 · · 52:53

In this episode of Communicable, Amy Legg (Brisbane, Australia), Rekha Pai Mangalore (Melbourne, Australia) & Angela Huttner (Geneva, Switzerland) return for the third part of the ‘W...

Communicable E60: Quarterly catch-up (August 2026 edition)

Communicable E60: Quarterly catch-up (August 2026 edition)

S3E60 · · 49:12

In the second edition of 'Quarterly catch-up', CMI Communications editors Emily McDonald and Erin McCreary round-up the biggest news in infectious diseases and review clinical microb...

Communicable E59: 'Ask me anything' – EUCAST and CLSI leadership explain

Communicable E59: 'Ask me anything' – EUCAST and CLSI leadership explain

S3E59 · · 01:09:25

In this episode of Communicable, Nav Narayanan and Thomas Tängdén kick off the first 'Ask me anything' episode, inviting EUCAST and CLSI leadership Sören Gatermann, Christian Giske a...

Communicable E58: Reducing hospital-acquired pneumonia – the HAPPEN trial and how it happened

Communicable E58: Reducing hospital-acquired pneumonia – the HAPPEN trial and how it happened

S3E58 · · 54:27

In this episode of Communicable, Angela Huttner and Josh Davis are joined by Brett Mitchell, Aline Wolfensberger and Lauren Clack to discuss the HAPPEN trial to prevent hospital-acqu...

Communicable E57: We will make you love PK/PD, part 2

Communicable E57: We will make you love PK/PD, part 2

S3E57 · · 47:26

In this episode of Communicable, Thomas Tängdén and Rekha Pai Mangalore return for part 2 of the ‘We will make you love PK/PD’ series. In this round, they are joined by Iris Minichma...

Communicable E56: Frequentist vs Bayesian for clinical trial analysis – 99% probability you’ll want to listen to this

Communicable E56: Frequentist vs Bayesian for clinical trial analysis – 99% probability you’ll want to listen to this

S3E56 · · 01:05:21

In this episode of Communicable, Emily McDonald and Josh Davis are joined by Roger Lewis (USA) and Ian Marschner (Australia) to compare and contrast Bayesian and frequentist statisti...

Communicable E55: Bonus episode – Bundibugyo ebolavirus outbreak

Communicable E55: Bonus episode – Bundibugyo ebolavirus outbreak

S3E55 · · 57:23

In this bonus episode of Communicable, hosts Anne-Grete Märtson and Angela Huttner invite Martin Grobusch (University of Amsterdam; ESCMID Emerging Infections Subcommittee) and Danie...

Communicable E54: ESCMID Global Late Breakers, part 2

Communicable E54: ESCMID Global Late Breakers, part 2

S3E54 · · 55:55

Our editors – Marc Bonten, Erin McCreary, Anne-Grete Märtson, Angela Huttner, and Josh Davis – are back for part two of the ESCMID Global Late Breakers series, summarising five more ...

Communicable E53: ESCMID Global Late Breakers, part 1

Communicable E53: ESCMID Global Late Breakers, part 1

S3E53 · · 01:00:09

The ESCMID Global Late Breakers series returns to Communicable! Five CMI Communications editors – Marc Bonten, Josh Davis, Angela Huttner, Anne-Grete Märtson, and Erin McCreary – han...

Communicable E52: ESCMID Global Trials, PETER PEN and ASTARTE

Communicable E52: ESCMID Global Trials, PETER PEN and ASTARTE

S2E52 · · 01:00:25

In this collaborative episode of Breakpoints and Communicable, the hosts revisit the “trial run” session from ESCMID Global, a format designed to facilitate critical discussion of ma...

A message to listeners, 4 May 2026

A message to listeners, 4 May 2026

STrailer · · 01:08

This is a short message to Communicable listeners to inform them that the next episode will be released on Friday, 8 May, as it is a collaboration episode with Breakpoints, the podca...

Communicable E51: We will make you love PK/PD, part 1

Communicable E51: We will make you love PK/PD, part 1

S2E51 · · 47:48

Communicable is launching a new series on everything related to pharmacokinetics (PK) and pharmacodynamics (PD). Kicking off this series are hosts Thomas Tängdén, Erin McCreary and A...

Communicable E50: Quarterly catch-up (April 2026 edition)

Communicable E50: Quarterly catch-up (April 2026 edition)

S2E50 · · 58:57

This is the first episode of the 'Quarterly catchup' series, in which CMI Communications editors discuss important and useful articles that have come out in the last 3 months to unde...

Communicable E49: Outbreaks & how to handle them

Communicable E49: Outbreaks & how to handle them

S2E49 · · 54:47

In this episode of Communicable, hosts Angela Huttner and Marc Bonten invite two members of the ESCMID Emerging Infections Subcommittee, Martin Grobusch (Amsterdam, Netherlands) and ...

Communicable E48: International Women's Day - are infections & AMR really different in women?

Communicable E48: International Women's Day - are infections & AMR really different in women?

S2E48 · · 39:24

Yesterday was International Women's Day. In light of that, Communicable prepared a special episode in which hosts Erin McCreary and Annie Joseph are joined by Esmita Charani (South A...

Communicable E47: Drawing the line - the writing, reach, and limits of guidelines

Communicable E47: Drawing the line - the writing, reach, and limits of guidelines

S2E47 · · 01:00:09

In this third collaboration between SIDP’s Breakpoints and ESCMID’s Communicable podcasts, hosts Erin McCreary and Angela Huttner invite two veteran authors of guidelines and guidanc...