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IACMAC Publications

Journal “Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobial Chemotherapy” IACMAC journal covers clinical microbiology and infectious diseases problems. “Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobial Chemotherapy” is a journal for therapeutists, surgeons, clinical pharmacologists, obstetrician-gynecologists, urologists, microbiologists, dermatovenerologists, ORT specialists, infectious diseases specialists, pediatricians, epidemiologists. The journal contains articles, guidelines and reviews. The number of pages — 100-110. The journal has been issuing since 1999.

Professional Standards

Guidelines for clinicians

Nosocomial infectious diseases

Community-acquired infectious diseases

• Respiratory infection
  1. SARS
  2. Community-acquired pneumonia in adults: practice guidelines on diagnosis, treatment and prophylaxis
  3. Practice guidelines on antimicrobial therapy of sinusitis
• Urinary tract infections and sexually-transmitted infections
• Infections of different localization

Guidelines for microbiologists

Guidelines on antimicrobial susceptibility testing

• Comparison of results of antimicrobial susceptibility testing of Gram-negative aerobic bacteria by disk diffusion on Mueller-Hinton agar and AGV medium
• Specificities of the susceptibility testing by disk-diffusion method
• Isolation, identification and antimicrobial susceptibility testing of Haemophilus influenzae

Guidelines on determination of resistant mechanism

• Detection of extended spectrum β-lactamases by phenotypic methods in Gram-negative bacteria

Laboratory diagnostics

• Biological specimen collection, transport, and interpretation of microbiological results
• New methods for identification of Listeria monocytogenes
• Rapid phenotypic methods for the detection of diphtheria toxin amongst clinical isolates of Corynebacteria
• Genus Leuconostoc: clinical significance, identification, susceptibility to antimicrobials
• Role and significance of molecular methods in epidemiological analysis of nosocomial infections
• Polymerase chain reaction in diagnostic clinical microbiology
• Laboratory diagnosis of viral infections
• Post-mortem microbiological analysis and interpretation of its results