So this interview lasted 2 hours so this “you’re scaring me” part might seem like an overreaction or fearmongering to someone without that context.
There’s a lot of evidence to support my hypothesis that a potential H5N1 pandemic would be worse than COVID.
ID gurus - what are your thoughts on the optimal tx for S. pneumo meningitis that is pansensitive?
ESCMID guidelines: PCN or amp/amox
IDSA guidelines: PCN
NICE guidelines: Ceftriaxone
PCN: lower risk of CDiff, antimicrobial stewardship rizz
Ceftriaxone: fewer infusions, pt already on this
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The danger of course is that this nuance is lost on whoever orders the test and TB gets erroneously “ruled out”. This seems to be more of an issue of education and result presentation that an intrinsic fault in the test
I’ve often wondered about whether we are too dogmatic about this in ID. There are lots of tests (eg all of the physical exam!) that have comparably bad performance characteristics. We don’t pretend they are 100 sens/spec but understand their limitations and do a good bit of Bayesian inference
Great summary Alasdair. I suspect asymptotic carriage is less of a phenomenon in adults - but still happens.
Some of my colleagues would argue though that the specificity is near enough 100% in adults that the diagnosis is made when you get a +ve (NPS) PCR. Anyone got thoughts (or a reference!)?
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Ah amazing - glad you liked it! Please do feel free to add to it
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A global health starter back would be a great public service. I’m an ID clinical academic currently working on bacterial/viral confection in West Africa
This is a really useful insight that hopefully will guide how we prevent future spill overs
Looks like the link Bluesky has made doesn’t work - but clicking the link directly in the text is fine
It's fine on a phone but best read on a browser.
This project started life as a custom markdown template for our research group. The tutorial links to that package and has a section at the bottom on customising the logo and branding for your lab/group.
R markdown is an amazing way to share pre-publication findings with colleagues and collaborators.
If you use R but haven't taken advantage of markdown then I have a tutorial just for you: jackwgoodall.github.io/floreytemplate
It's new so I would love your feedback.
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IMage showing vaccine vials, resarchers etc to illustrate the call for the Eurosurveillance annual theme 2025: "Vaccine-preventable diseases in humans — today's challenges and tomorrow's opportunities"
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🧵Next week, you will see people using something called Benford's Law to try to prove election fraud.
⛔️These people are wrong⛔️
I am a scientist who has published on Benford's Law. Let me tell you what it is and why what they are doing is mathematically incorrect. 1/
(Key **players** this should say!)
I was lucky enough to work on the AMBITION trial (although had nothing to do with the design) and it has to be said that their motivation was to improve treatment options in low resource settings. This is just a happy bonus.
But PICC lines and hospitalisation are risky anywhere (especially if you have no immune system). This feels especially relevant to people how are surprisingly well with crypto but would be very vulnerable to nosocomial complications.
The design is very smart as it has hard fungal dynamic outcomes too. If it didn’t have this then you could easily argue that the risks/benefits of hospitalisation and long term IV access could be different in different countries.
There is an excellent article by the key player in the AMBITION-cm trial on just this topic: academic.oup.com/cid/article/....
This is an amazing idea - using microbiome assessments to account for the inaccuracies that are invariably present in self reported diet recall www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Amazing public service. Thank you!
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Did it. Got approval to stop posting at X. Please #IDSky #MedSky people, feel free to follow @cmicomms.bsky.social, ESCMID's #OpenAccess journal on all things #infectiousdiseases, #clinicalmicrobiology, #AMR, and host of the #Communicable podcast, so I can show that we were right! :-)
"Exposure to healthcare has a large role in the transmission of infectious diseases and acquisition and transmission of antimicrobial resistance"
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Towards shorter, safer, flexible, and more effective treatment regimens for drug-resistant tuberculosis
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@gpollara.bsky.social thank you for spotting the last link wasn’t working! Try again
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We have recently changed CSF viral panel and now get HHV6 results for all patients. Positive results in immunocompetent patients have caused a fair amount of debate (not least because of chromosomal integration). I found this review very helpful.
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