📣**Academic Clinical Fellowship (ACF) in Infectious Diseases posts now advertised to start in 2024- includes an Imperial ACF ** Oriel advert: oriel.nhs.uk/Web/PermaLink/…

Who should be screened for Carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales and when? New systematic review from the JHI: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhin… #AntimicrobialResistance #IDTwitter #CPE

Assessment of antibiotic appropriateness from the 2016 #PPSEngland: at least 30% of antibiotics prescribed in hospitals are inappropriate Hannah Higgins jasmin islam Susan Hopkins Diane Ashiru, PhD sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Machine learning for microbiologists nature.com/articles/s4157… In this Review, Segata, Waldron and co discuss key concepts of machine learning that are relevant to microbiologists and provide them with a set of tools to apply machine learning in microbiology research.

ESPAUR report out today. 10th annual report. Post pandemic return of antimicrobial resistant infections and antibiotic prescribing. Wealth of insights that will inform our interventions. Huge thanks to all Diane Ashiru, PhD, collaborators and contributors gov.uk/government/pub…

Optimising utilisation of GLASS data to inform cross-border #antimicrobialresistance strategy is a priority ⁦The Lancet Reg Health-Americas⁩ with ⁦Scottjcp⁩ ⁦Luke Moore 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇦🇺⁩ and colleagues sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

🆕️🔥 SHEA position paper Kimberly Claeys Dan Diekema Dan Morgan Diagnostic stewardship to improve patient outcomes and healthcare-associated infection (HAI) metrics #idxposts cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Mpox: the alarm went off; have we gone back to sleep? journals.plos.org/plosntds/artic… Our experience and observations of international efforts, especially in light of the unprecedented 2022 clade II outbreaks in multiple regions, & the ongoing clade I outbreaks in some African countries.

💊What is the effect of different short-term prophylactic antibiotic regimens in transrectal prostate biopsy on incidence of infection? 📊Short-term antibiotic prophylaxis in PB using fosfomycin trometamol/ciprofloxacin has minimal infectious complication doi.org/10.1016/j.jhin…

#Medicine shortages are now "around double what they were a year ago", a parliamentary committee has been told. #medtwitter buff.ly/3OOwTPj

Is de-escalation from echinocandins to azoles a safe strategy in patients with candidemia? 🆕️🔥Systematic review & meta-analysis evaluating the clinical outcomes of antifungal early DES (<7d) in Candida infections in a relatively large sample size ijidonline.com/article/S1201-…

250km of polar travel over the last couple of weeks to carry out our #antimicrobrialresistance and #remotediagnostics research - look forward to sharing the outcomes (and challenges!)! Scientific Exploration Society Chelsea and Westminster Hospital

We'll reveal the winner of the #LongitudePrize on AMR this Wednesday evening - this will be a game-changer in rapid point-of-care diagnostics and the fight against #AMR. Stay tuned! amr.longitudeprize.org | trisdyson Daniel Berman Prof. Dame Sally Davies Dr Abdul Ghafur

Interested in hearing more about mitigating the burden of #SARSCoV2 in at-risk populations with adapted #COVID19 vaccines? Then join me, Prof Albert Osterhaus, and Prof Martina Prelog in a Webinar to explore this on 1 July 2024 at 13:00-14:30CEST

🔥FDA is announcing full approval of SIRTURO® Bedaquiline, a drug for pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) due to multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB), as part of a combination therapy for adults and pediatric patients🔥 View prescribing information: accessdata.fda.gov/drugsatfda_doc…

Is hydrogen peroxide vapour room #decontamination compatible with molecular pathogen detection from the #builtenvironment? Samuel Watkin delivers his verdict… #HISCON

Risk factors and outcome associated with fungal infections in patients with severe burn injury: 10-year retrospective IFI-BURN study Sarah Dellière academic.oup.com/cid/advance-ar…

Disaster and conflict present considerable challenges for managing severe burns - we discuss potential options and, where appropriate, antimicrobial decision making in a complex environment. With Chelsea and Westminster Hospital Luke Moore 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇦🇺 Stephen Woolley Stephen hughes journalofinfection.com/article/S0163-…

10 yrs ago David Cameron warned antimicrobial resistance could take medicine "back to the dark ages". Today we tell the story of a soldier injured in Ukraine whose infections resisted treatment by 9 antibiotics. NHS surgeons had to amputate his leg 1/n thetimes.com/article/5c1877…

Drug-resistant infections are on the rise – so why aren’t we getting any new antibiotics? | Global health | The Guardian ⁦Kat Lay⁩ theguardian.com/global-develop…