2020: A Bad Year with Great Papers in Clinical Microbiology (JCM ed.)

<p>2020 was a great year… for research in clinical microbiology. The COVID-19 pandemic presented unprecedented challenges, including challenges to clinical laboratories. Clinical microbiologists rapidly created a variety of tests for SARS-CoV-2, figured out innovative ways to collect and transport samples for SARS-CoV-2 testing, and also continued their research in areas outside of the pandemic. In this episode of the podcast, three editors of JCM are each going to discuss three of the most important papers published in the journal during 2020.</p> <p><strong>Links:</strong></p> <p><strong>Dr. Simner’s Selections</strong></p> <ol> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Bacteremia and Blood Culture Utilization during COVID-19 Surge in New York City.</span> <a href= "https://jcm.asm.org/content/58/8/e00875-20"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">https://jcm.asm.org/content/58/8/e00875-20</span></a></li> </ol> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Evaluation of Optimal Blood Culture Incubation Time to Maximize Clinically Relevant Results from a Contemporary Blood Culture Instrument and Media System.</span> <a href= "https://jcm.asm.org/content/early/2020/11/24/JCM.02459-20"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> https://jcm.asm.org/content/early/2020/11/24/JCM.02459-20</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></p> <ol start="2"> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Detection of Intestinal Protozoa in Trichrome-Stained Stool Specimens by Use of a Deep Convolutional Neural Network.  </span></li> </ol> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Deep Neural Networks Offer Morphologic Classification and Diagnosis of Bacterial Vaginosis.</span> <a href= "https://jcm.asm.org/content/early/2020/11/02/JCM.02236-20"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> https://jcm.asm.org/content/early/2020/11/02/JCM.02236-20</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></p> <ol start="3"> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Metagenomic Nanopore Sequencing of Influenza Virus Direct from Clinical Respiratory Samples.</span> <a href="https://jcm.asm.org/cont