A couple of weeks ago Paul Stoodley passed away. It's hard to put into words what Paul meant to me and many colleagues and friends in the #biofilm field. He was a giant, and he will be sorely missed. biofilms.ac.uk/tribute-to-pro…

There’s an interesting little nugget of data in the ONS Winter Infection Survey report:

➡️ Teachers were up to 44% MORE LIKELY to test positive for Covid compared with the reference group…

…EXCEPT during wave 2.

Now guess when wave 2 was…?

Yup. That was the Xmas holidays.

Correlates of protection against symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 in vaccinated children

Nice study: Children respond very well to vaccination, which is stable over time, and as suspected 2 dosages are near-optimal, with improved immunity after infection.

nature.com/articles/s4159…
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Fantastic keynote by S Sriskandan at #ESCMIDGlobal 2024. Emergence of a new M1 strain of Group-A Strep has caused surges in scarlet fever and invasive Strep Disease since 2014, with massive post-pandemic resurgence. We urgently need effective vaccines against GAS.

Knock knock. Who's there? The globally distributed nitrifying sponge symbionts Nitrosokoinonia and Nitrosymbion.
Great work led by Bettina Glasl! DOME - Microbial Ecology 🧫🔬🦠🧬 Joint Microbiome Facility (JMF) Michael Wagner
Holger Daims Pam Engelberts Joana Séneca Jay Osvatic Bela
academic.oup.com/ismej/advance-…

Es war noch nie eine richtig gute Idee, #Rohmilch zu trinken. Aber jetzt in den #USA noch weniger. Die Virusmenge #H5N1 , die infizierte Kühe im Euter haben, könnte Menschen ernsthaft krank machen. Wieder sehr guter Text von Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 zur #BirdFlu .
statnews.com/2024/04/29/bir…

Co-occurring nitrifying symbiont lineages are vertically inherited and widespread in marine sponges academic.oup.com/ismej/advance-…

Infektion überwiegen.“
➡️Und das Paper zeigt sehr schön, wie ernst das Thema Sicherheit der Impfstoffe genommen wird: strenge Überwachung; jedem kleinsten Signal wird nachgegangen.

Link zum Paper: jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman… 9/9

Ein typisches Beispiel für Desinformation/Lügen.

Homburg: Sicherheitssignal für Myo-/Perikarditis bei #Kinderimpfung gg #COVID19 nun auch bei Kleinkindern!

Studie: „Wir konnten kein statistisches Signal für Myokarditis od.Perikarditis bei Kindern u12 Jahren feststellen…“ 🧵1/9

Avian influenza A ( #H5N1 ) first emerged in 1996 but since 2020, we have seen an exponential growth in the number of outbreaks in birds. In addition to birds, an increasing number of mammals have been affected, e.g. minks, seals, sea lions and foxes.

Recently, multiple herds of…

1/ Interessanter Artikel zur Impfstoff-Entwicklung für den Fall, dass es zu einer #H5N1 -Pandemie kommt. Ob es dazu kommt, ist völlig offen und es gibt keine mögliche Pandemie auf die man sich länger und besser vorbereitet hat. Aber:
statnews.com/2024/04/24/h5n…

Ultrastructural insights into cellular organization, energy storage and ribosomal dynamics of an ammonia-oxidizing archaeon from oligotrophic oceans frontiersin.org/journals/micro…

Giant Viruses Infect Deadly Parasite medienportal.univie.ac.at/en/media/recen…

Ready to join our 7th AMICI (Austrian Microbiome) in-person Symposium on June 17th, 2024 Vetmeduni?🦠Take a look to the program and register📷 vetmeduni.ac.at/en/food-microb… Participation is free, registration is compulsory. See you there! 📷🧑‍💻

The H5N1 outbreak in dairy cows may be much much more extensive than has been reported.

Nearly 40% of pasteurized milk tested from throughout the Midwest (38/150 samples) had evidence of H5N1 RNA.

To prevent a pandemic, we have to get this under control.…

Riesenviren infizieren tödlichen Parasiten🦠
Neues ungewöhnliches Riesenvirus in Kläranlage Klosterneuburg entdeckt. 🔬🔍
Mehr über diese Entdeckung & welche Möglichkeiten diese Viren eröffnen: ⤵
medienportal.univie.ac.at/media/aktuelle…

What a difficult day for being an anti-vaxxer...

Question: Was implementation of the pediatric COVID-19 immunization program of California associated with reductions in the reported pediatric COVID-19 incidence and hospitalizations?

Major Findings: In this case series…

Come join Tim, Thomas and me at Universität Wien CeMESS in trying to discover the structure of small plant derived molecules that make our microbial friends life's harder and use innovative techniques to hunt for the structure of bioactive root exudate metabolites.

COVID-19 Vaccination and Incidence of Pediatric SARS-CoV-2 Infection and Hospitalization

Yes, vaccination helps against COVID-19 and SARS-CoV-2 infection, also in children!

jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…
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2 million people living in private households in England and Scotland were experiencing self-reported long COVID

Symptoms continuing for more than four weeks after a confirmed or suspected #COVID19 infection that were not explained by something else.

➡️ ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulati…