José M Munita, MD

Asociate Professor
Clínica Alemana - Universidad del Desarrollo, Chile

Disclosure(s): MSD: Grant/Research Support; Pfizer: Grant/Research Support

Infectious Diseases clinician scientist with special interes in bacterial pathogens and antimicrobial resistance.
Currently working in Santiago, Chile, at the Facultad de Medicina Clinica Alemana, Universidad del Desarrollo.
My main research projects aim to provide information about AMR in South America and involve the study of the molecular epidemiology of MRSA, carbapenem-resistant K. penumoniae and VRE, among others.

Poster(s):

• (P-186) Trends in Antimicrobial Resistance Among Adults Across 6 Hospitals in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile, 2018-2022
  Thursday, October 17, 2024

  12:15 PM – 1:30 PM US PT

• (P-310) Evolutionary dynamics of the Chilean-Cordobes MRSA clone allowed the emergence of new MRSA clones in Chile.
  Thursday, October 17, 2024

  12:15 PM – 1:30 PM US PT

• (P-889) Therapeutic Failures of High Inoculum Infections with Cefazolin: Role of A Rapid Test and Prevalence of the Cefazolin Inoculum Effect in Methicillin-Susceptible Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA) Bloodstream Infections
  Friday, October 18, 2024

  12:15 PM – 1:30 PM US PT

• (P-1349) Multi-hospital Dissemination of Ampicillin Resistance Associated with a Frame-shift Deletion in pbp4 of Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus faecalis (VREfs)
  Friday, October 18, 2024

  12:15 PM – 1:30 PM US PT