American Society for Microbiology

Many people disagree with me.

Among them, the American Society of Microbiology.

en masse, they have been one of the biggest purveyors of what I will call disinformation.

And you can say, well, where's the data for that? I can't give you now, but I have the biosafety now.

There are 91 essays where, and about probably 10 of those take out articles from the American Society of Microbiology with references in that, why they go over the top.

And so I'll go to the end.

What can we do about it? Because ultimately, what are we going to do about it? This is, I think there are two ways of handling it.

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And secondarily, Ivins was not wearing gloves, which is crazy to be handling like bioweapons.

Some months after this, the president of the American Society for Microbiology emailed the membership stating that the perpetrator had...

Because they had seen the profile, the FBI profile, and was like, this person had microbiological training and immediately called the FBI with names.

And Haig would call the FBI as well and, of course, is like, it's this guy, Bruce Ivins.

You too.

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So now you're probably on the mindset, what the fuck? You know, why did you even include this? Well, don't be mad because we kind of spin back around.

In 1947, Theodore Roseberry, who was in the Society of American Bacteriologists, wrote a paper called Experimental Airborne Infection.

Interestingly enough, in this paper, he talks about how he received lots of support from from the technical staff at Camp Detrick.

So it circles back around that people at Camp Detrick were taking part in lethal airborne diseases during the 1947 Roswell incident.

Served in the Students Army Training Corps in World War I.

He also was a captain and medical officer for the Air Corps in World War II.

He was also a member of the Society of American Bacteriologists.

and also a member of the Society of Experimental Biology and Medicine.

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Just published August 25th, 2026, the Infectious Diseases Society of America, American College of Emergency Physicians, American Society for Microbiology, Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society, Society of Critical Care Medicine, Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America, Society of Hospital Medicine, and Society of Infectious Diseases Pharmacists' newest position paper on hospital strategies to improve sepsis outcomes.

this paper outlines practical evidence informed recommendations for hospital-based sepsis improvement with a focus on infection related aspects of sepsis care in today's rapid update we'll just be going over a summary of recommendations so for the full position paper make sure to check it out on guidelinecentral.com let's get started starting with the section on diagnostic testing and pathogen detection Implement multiplex nucleic acid amplification tests for positive blood cultures, paired with active antimicrobial stewardship program support to ensure timely interpretation, treatment optimization, and follow-up.

Use clinical decision support strategies to optimize blood culture, ordering practices including appropriate indications for initial and follow-up cultures.

Implement universal chlorhexidine gluconate bathing with either universal or targeted MRSA nasal decolonization for all icu patients and for non-icu patients with invasive devices implement structured programs to ensure daily toothbrushing for all hospitalized patients and lastly section on emerging and promising strategies not recommended for routine implementation automated sepsis prediction tools, host immune response-based sepsis diagnostics, culture-independent rapid diagnostics for bloodstream infection, multiplex nucleic acid amplification test panels for lower respiratory samples, procalcitonin-guided antibiotic duration.

And there you have it.

Make sure to check out the full position paper from the Infectious Diseases Society of America, American College of Emergency Physicians, American Society for Microbiology, Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society, Society of Critical Care Medicine, Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America, Society of Hospital Medicine, and Society of Infectious Diseases Pharmacists and other related clinical decision support tools at guidelinecentral.com.

In 2019, he founded Sunfire Biotechnologies, a Birmingham-based startup that provides clinical stage MOPA services to vaccine developers globally.

Moon is a senior member of the U.S. National Academy of Inventors, a fellow of the American Society of Microbiology, and the Infectious Diseases Society of America Institute.

and most recently, the recipient of the 2026 ASM Award for Applied and Biotechnological Research.

Our second guest is Dipman Chanda, PhD, a senior licensing associate at UAB's Bill L. Harbert Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

This Week in Microbiology is brought to you by microbe.tv and is supported by the American Society for Microbiology.

To learn more about microbes, visit microbe.tv and asm.org. [upbeat music] This is TWIM, This Week in Microbiology, episode 362, recorded on August 20th, 2026.

I'm Vincent Racaniello, and you're listening to the podcast that explores unseen life on Earth.

Thank you.

I'm Vincent Racaniello.

You can find me at microbe.tv. I'd like to thank the American Society for Microbiology for their support of TWIM, and Ronald Jenkees for the music.

This episode of TWIM was edited by Ray Ortega.

Thanks for listening, everyone.