🚨 PhD opportunity 🚨 Interested in genomics, AI and tacking healthcare associated infections? Like working by the 🏖️? BSMS have just the PhD for you. Check out: findaphd.com/phds/project/o… Global Health @BSMS HPRU AMR aholmes Martin Llewelyn UHSussexResearch

☕ & 🥐 confirmed for in person attendance!

Online registrants get a dedicated moderator who'll ensure you're fully part of discussions 🖥 🎤 🔊

And everyone gets to hear about the latest and greatest advances in Infectious Diseases! 🌟 #IDatUCL2023
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1/3 🎉 Finally preprint ➡ paper JAC-AMR!

🌟 Low CRP values predict negative PCT measurements in #COVID19 🌟

May limit costs of redundant PCT tests & support antibiotic stewardship #AMS . Collab w/ Becka Hardless/Houghton Kordo Saeed et al 👏

academic.oup.com/jacamr/article…

1/ A thread about annual allowance in 20/21👇
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Many will have received a nasty brown envelope from NHS Pensions this week. If you have (and even if you haven't) you may need to take action. Pay attention and share (please RT) with colleagues who may need this!

Pregnant research volunteers needed! Nose drops containing good bacteria may protect babies from infections. 5 visits (at home or hospital) to collect nose/throat/saliva swabs. £100 compensation. 02381204989 [email protected] (University of Southampton).

🚨 Does #tocilizumab stop use of CRP to guide antibiotic prescribing in #COVID19 ?

💡 Our new *preprint* challenges this idea!
medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

After a blood stream infection (BSI), CRP rises even after tocilizumab! 👇 Thread... 1/6

My perspective piece published today in NEJM
Dedicated to our patients and staff at London North West University Healthcare and in loving memory of Koti Padmakar Immaneni, Lakshmi Immaneni and Dr Jagadeesh Babu Madireddi

A Pink Salwar | NEJM nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

wow - quite a graphic! Laura Waters BHIVA @PHE_uk Susan Hopkins Sanjay Bhagani BASHH

I am a ‘foreigner’ dido harding and extremely proud of what I have contributed to NHS NHS England it’s a shame that you don’t appreciate what makes the NHS tick, and makes it the world-class health service that it is…just saying…

Hampshire Court Hotel site closes in a weeks’ time & 🦠 jabs continue @ Jameson House #Chineham #Basingstoke

Everyone is eligible whether registered or not @ GP or UK national or not - more info Chris Reynolds.simon.bound on Facebook

Pic outside Jameson House with Tim Cooper

RIPL are hiring! Check out this consultant post advert to find out how you could apply to join the team! Orfully great place to work. bmj.com/careers/job/13… Rare and Imported Pathogens Laboratory (RIPL)

Clare Warrell Rare and Imported Pathogens Laboratory (RIPL) Tommy Rampling @PHE_uk Hampshire hospitals are also hiring and so it you fancy a move to the most beautiful part of the country, it may be possible to combine the posts.

1/11 Thrilled to FINALLY share:

🚨 Elevated in vivo IL-17A activity in human active #TB vs latent/cured TB 🚨

Supports targeting this cytokine axis to reduce disease pathology & transmission. #tuberculosis

Paper Science Translational Medicine: bit.ly/3el8M9e
Explainer thread:👇

Considering a PhD in HCAI/ AMR? 4 exciting opportunities to work with a fantastically inspiring team at Imperial College NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in HCAI & AMR.
imperial.ac.uk/medicine/hpru-…
HPRU AMR aholmes Esmita Charani Frances Davies Dr Elita Jauneikaite S Sriskandan Timothy Miles Rawson

I’ve signed up - looking forward to it!

Using procalcitonin (PCT) in #COVID19 ?

⚠️High PCT (>0.5) can be excluded by low CRP values (~<65)⚠️
➡️use CRP to avoid redundant PCT tests, save costs & focus on #antimicrobialstewardship #AMS

Team: Becka Hardless/Houghton Kordo Saeed & more. New *preprint*: medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

Nik Joshi We (@LucyCKBell Mahdad Noursadeghi) have been working on exactly this for number of years, generating &
validating gene lists (signatures / modules) downstream of specific cytokine stimulation.

Tyoe I & type II IFN, and IL-10 response genes here. journals.plos.org/plospathogens/…

Ed is an all round superstar and works in blood sciences in Winchester. He was nominated for #cheerforbeer by colleagues for his dedication and stepping into a night shift to keep the rapid Covid lab going at short notice. PathologyHHFT Hampshire Hospitals #shineforwine

Reducing unnecessary antibiotic prescriptions in #COVID19 remains a challenge. Our paper tackling this finally out in BSAC!

Routinely measured inflammatory markers can help exclude bacterial co-infection & promote #antimicrobialstewardship
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