There's no justification for continued use of molnupiravir. Australia changed official guidance, yet the clinical impact seems limited. Recent sequences indicate Japan, S Korea, Australia, & USA are the major MOV users. Most recent seq, uploaded today from Korea, pictured below.

Interested in multi-genera plasmid transmission? Then come to Hall C at 11am today and hear what Kiki Xanthopoulou has to say. ESCMID DZIF Bonn-Köln Uniklinik Köln #ECCMID2024 #ESCMIDGlobal2024

Based on our current wastewater surveillance data SARS-CoV-2 KP.2 variant almost close to 50% dominant while it having a tight race with it’s JN.1 variant in South and East Asia.

The reason why JN.1 + #FLiRT (Spike R346T & F456L) would have been a better choice

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[🔴Paper] What antibiotic is likely to exceed critical resistance levels in my region?🌍

nature.com/articles/s4146…

Our tentative response in Nature Communications. “Global surveillance of antimicrobial resistance in food animals using priority drugs maps”. Work led by Cheng Zhao
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An immunocompromised man, who was chronically infected with BA.1.17 for more then 1,5 years, until unfortunately he died because of his underlying disease, was tested repeatly. 50 nucleotides mutated

Big thanks to this patiënt and to Magda Vergouwe, Marcel Jonges , Matthijs Welkers et al.

Are we FLiRTing with a new Covid wave? New data on age-specific Covid interactions and self-amplifying vaccines. In the new Ground Truths (link in profile).
Thanks JWeiland Daniele Focosi, MD PhD MSc Federico Gueli 🏳️ Ben Murrell and so many others for continuing to keeping close 👀 on #SARSCoV2

New research: Global burden associated with 85 pathogens in 2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

thelancet.com/journals/lanin…

Detailed Mpox presentation on the new clade that has emerged in the DRC, which following our naming scheme was named as Clade Ib. Clade I of Mpox is more severe and seems to be a recent emergence from non-human reservoir. Detailed results at: medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

Congratulations 🎉 Gertjan Medema

Hepatitis on track to overtake TB as world’s biggest infectious killer

#Hepatitis #TB #HepB #HepC #globalhealth

telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…

Good news! The XBB vaccine is available at the Thai Red Cross and the Tropical Medicine Travel Clinic (Victory monument).

There's a lot of COVID circulating in Thailand right now, please take precautions, vaccines help reduce your chance of hospitalisation and long COVID.

#WorldParkinsonsDay

The prevalence of Parkinson's disease has doubled in the past 25 years.

#GutMicrobiota has been linked to the illness. Scientists suspect that specific bacteria induce aggregates in the digestive system, spreading to the brain.

Want to know more?👇

Register today!!!
IWA Webinar: Wastewater surveillance in non-sewered settings …rbasedepidemiologicalsurveillance.net/events/iwa-web…

Encouragement to work hard more. Wining outstanding research award at International Symposium on Antimicrobial Agents and Resistance ISAAR 2024 for developing antibody therapy for drug resistance bacterial pneumonia Thanks 🙏 everyone who helped this journey

Wastewater surveillance in non-sewered settings - International Water Association iwa-network.org/learn/wastewat…

Super preprint on automated microscopy of #microclots in #LongCOVID by carrie dalton and colleagues: medrxiv.org/content/10.110… #TeamClots

Avian influenza infection in human - Viet Nam - human infection with influenza A(H9) virus
Seems like Avian influenza slowly merging with human transmission
promedmail.org/promed-post/ ProMED World Health Organization (WHO)