The PRIDA online journal club focused on microbiology and infectious diseases takes place via zoom every second Friday from March to October every year. The event calendar has the session dates.
We discuss interesting health literature relevant to LMIC locations. Our presenters are from many different countries, and any range of medical topics are encouraged to be presented from the relevant peer reviewed literature. The course facilitators assist presenters to select a paper for review and are able to provide practical assistance prior to their session via zoom.
Access is free and there is no obligation to present or comment, however all are encouraged to participate and ask questions. The sessions are not recorded. If you wish to join, contact . You will then receive communications (via a WHATSAPP group) about the reviewed papers.
Time: 12pm AEST (7.15am: New Delhi, India, 7.30am: Kathmandu, Nepal, 9am: Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 11am: Dili, Timor-Leste, 12pm: Port Moresby, PNG, 1pm: Honiara, Solomon Islands, 1pm: Port Vila, Vanuatu, 2pm: Suva, Fiji, 3pm: West Samoa Time, WST
Papers discussed in 2026
| Date | Presenter | Article Title | Journal | Publication year |
| 06.03.26 | Fauzia Andrini Djojosugito | Prevalence of major INSTI and HIV-1 drug resistance mutations in pre- and antiretroviral-treated patients in Indonesia doi: 10.52225/narra.v4i3.1022 | Narra J | 2024 |
Papers discussed in 2025
| Date | Presenter | Article Title | Journal | Publication year |
| 07.03.25 | Ben Knippenberg | GPT-4-based AI agents-the new expert system for detection of antimicrobial resistance mechanisms? doi: 10.1128/jcm.00689-24 |
Journal of Clinical Microbiology | 2024 |
| 21.03.25 | Ririn cahyarini | Mycobacteria develop biofilms on airway epithelial cells and promote mucosal barrier disruption. doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2024.111063 |
iScience | 2024 |
| Leli Saptawati | Xpert Ultra Assay on Stool to Diagnose Pulmonary Tuberculosis in Children. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciaa583 |
Clinical Infectious Diseases | 2021 | |
| 04.04.25 | Pristiawan | Evaluation of the Vitek®️ Reveal™️ system for rapid antimicrobial susceptibility testing of Gram-negative pathogens, including ESBL, CRE and CRAB, from positive blood cultures. doi: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2024.116503 |
Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease | 2024 |
| Rosantia Sarassari | Klebsiella pneumoniae ST147 Harboring blaNDM-1, Multidrug Resistance, and Hypervirulence Plasmids. doi: 10.1128/spectrum.03017-23 |
Microbiology Spectrum | 2024 | |
| 18.04.25 | Dewi Santosaningsih | Persistent bloodstream infection in children: examining the role for repeat blood cultures. doi: 10.1128/jcm.00998-24 |
Journal of Clinical Microbiology | 2024 |
| Inta Prilandari | Utility of anaerobic blood cultures in the clinical management of infectious patients. doi:10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2025.116702 |
Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease | 2025 | |
| 02.05.25 | Rebecca Ford | Highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5N1) virus infections in humans. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa2414610 |
New England Journal of Medicine | 2025 |
| 16.05.25 | Ben Knippenberg | Antibiotic Treatment for 7 versus 14 Days in Patients with Bloodstream Infections. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa2404991 |
New England Journal of Medicine | 2025 |
| 30.05.25 | Josephine Chanoan | Impact of multidrug resistance on outcomes in hematologic cancer patients with bacterial bloodstream infections. doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-66524-w |
Scientific Reports | 2024 |
| Priscilla Paua | Characteristics and Outcomes of Bloodstream Infections in a Tertiary-Care Pediatric Hematology-Oncology Unit: A 10-Year Study. doi: 10.3390/jcm11030880 |
Journal of Clinical Medicine | 2022 | |
| 13.06.25 | Fialaui’a Lefauaitu | Molecular Study of Rotavirus A Infection in Children with diarrhea, before and after Vaccine Introduction in Brazzaville and Pointe-Noire, Republic of the Congo. doi: 10.26502/ami.936500100 |
Archives of Microbiology & Immunology | 2023 |
| Java Esera | Clinico-genomic study reveals association of dengue virus genome high frequency mutations with dengue disease severity. doi: 10.1038/s41598-025-00462-z |
Scientific Reports | 2025 | |
| 27.06.25 | Alaiula Fa’asalaina-Roy | Carriage of antimicrobial-resistant Enterobacterales among pregnant women and newborns in Amhara, Ethiopia. doi: 10.1016/j.ijid.2024.107035 |
International Journal of Infectious Diseases | 2024 |
| Uila Laifa Lima | Incidence and Causes of Cellulitis Among Patients at Tupua Tamasese Meaole Hospital in Upolu, Samoa in 2019. doi: 10.7759/cureus.48318 |
Cureus | 2023 | |
| 11.07.25 | Soteria Sekuini | Antibiotic Treatment for 7 versus 14 Days in Patients with Bloodstream Infections. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa2404991 |
New England Journal of Medicine | 2025 |
| 25.07.25 | Archana Pratap | Predicting the use of antibiotics after initial symptomatic treatment of an uncomplicated urinary tract infection: analyses performed after a randomised controlled trial. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2019-035074 |
BMJ Open | 2020 |
| Pranil Naidu | Blood culture bottles remain efficient months after their expiration date: implications for low- and middle-income countries. doi: 10.1016/j.cmi.2024.06.014 |
Clinical Microbiology and Infection | 2024 | |
| 08.08.25 | Akanesi Maileseni | How reliable is ChatGPT as novel consultant in infectious disease and microbiology? doi: 10.36519/idcm.2024.286 |
Infectious Diseases & Clinical Microbiology | 2024 |
| Helina Lovai | Antibiotic Treatment Duration for Community-Acquired Pneumonia in Outpatient Children in High-Income Countries – A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciac374 |
Clinical Infectious Diseases | 2023 | |
| 22.08.25 | Ruth Margis | Health Impact and Cost-Effectiveness of HIV Testing, Linkage, and Early Antiretroviral Treatment in the Botswana Combination Prevention Project. doi: 10.1097/QAI.0000000000002996 |
Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes | 2022 |
| 05.09.25 | Hefizati Jaya | Efficacy and safety of individualised versus standard 10-day antibiotic treatment in children with febrile urinary tract infection (INDI-UTI): a pragmatic, open-label, multicentre, randomised, controlled, non-inferiority trial in Denmark. doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(25)00075-1 |
The Lancet Infectious Diseases | 2025 |
| Andrea Britton | Rabies diagnostics and surveillance using One Health practices. | N/A | N/A | |
| 19.09.25 | Senerita Taituave | Serum-Based Diagnosis of Pediatric Tuberculosis by Assay of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Factors: a Retrospective Cohort Study. doi: 10.1128/JCM.01756-20 |
Journal of Clinical Microbiology | 2021 |
| Te Haypheng | A Case Report: Severe Dengue Infection and Coinfection with Human Parainfluenza Virus-3. | Cambodia Journal of Public Health | 2024 | |
| 03.10.25 | M Helmi Aziz | Seroprevalence, incidence estimates, and environmental risk factors for dengue, chikungunya, and Zika infection amongst children living in informal urban settlements in Indonesia and Fiji. doi: 10.1186/s12879-024-10315-1 |
BMC Infectious Diseases | 2025 |
| Nuualofa Jasmine Mauiliu | Malignant Otitis Externa: Causes for Various Treatment Responses. doi: 10.5152/iao.2020.7709 |
The journal of International Advanced Otology | 2020 | |
| 17.10.25 | Stephen Tuautu | Management of Sepsis at Malietoa Tanumafili II Tuasivi Hospital, Samoa (hospital audit). | ||
| 31.10.25 | Felicia Aviana | In Vitro Antibiotic Resistance in Bacterial Infected Eczema at Ho Chi Minh City Hospital of Dermatology. doi: 10.3889/oamjms.2019.067 |
Macedonian Journal of Medical Sciences | 2019 |
