Do you have 'carriage' isolates of Strep anginosus/Step milleri? Ideal samples would be i.e isolates from studies done for carriage of pneumococcus or Group A Strep. If so get in touch..... Steven Tong Josh Osowicki Claire Turner

Electronic Health Records are key for large scale epi research but rely on accurate data recording. Using OpenSAFELY we demonstrate extremely low coding of LongCOVID relative to other metrics of reported burden such as ONS household survey. eClinicalMedicine – The Lancet Discovery Science shorturl.at/n8q4d

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Joint Postdoctoral Fellowship in Global Health Ethics
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Early bird registrations for #IUSTI2024 close 19 May!

Jennifer Power, ASRH Scientific Co-Chair of the 25th IUSTI World Congress, talks about the 2024 Congress theme, 'Commitment to sexual/reproductive health and human rights'.📽

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1/Our first paper from the TransVIR study in The Gambia is now out! nature.com/articles/s4146… This household prospective cohort study provides unique insights into the epidemiology and immunity to respiratory viruses in an African setting. MRC Unit The Gambia at LSHTM Sheffield Uni - Clinical Medicine 🦠 💉 🫀💙🔬🩺

New research article

#Streptococcus pyogenes carriage and infection within households in The Gambia: a longitudinal cohort study

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#StrepA #OpenAccess #OA

🎉Our new study published today in The Lancet Microbe: SpyCATS longitudinal household cohort study of #StrepA carriage and infection and transmission in The Gambia! thelancet.com/journals/lanmi… [1/7]

Yet another great post London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine jobs.lshtm.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?i… 25% role co-ordinating the critical patient & public engagement work of our project focused on NHS Winter Pressures. Deadline 17th May - APPLY!

Closes in 5 days - apologies the job advert on website says 'modeller' this post is definitely for an epi-stats person with expertise in risk modelling; the other advert in my twitter feed is the one for the modelling post!

CLOSES IN FIVE DAYS!

David Mabey officially retires London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine today after a 40+ year career dedicated to improving health & wellbeing globally. It has been a huge privilege for myself & colleagues to have worked with him. Sadness but also pride at the immense impact David has had worldwide. Thank you.

And here is Ouli Xie thread detailing the SDSE / S pyogenes paper examining transmission and shared genetic elements of isolates from remote north Australian communities collected 20 years ago.
With beautiful figures - even a gif!

Talk of the conference for me 🏆🏆🏆

#ECCMID2024 This slide on #Staph vaccine development feels like it could have been shown with only minor amendments in some of the #StrepA sessions. Amazing what we still dont know about such major pathogens.

#ECCMID2024 last session of conference. In our noses #Staph lives inside the microbiome. Some elements may provide colonisation-protection but some also provide mechanism for horizontal gene transfer and acquisition of virulence factors