Serial bloodstream isolates from two critically ill London patients showed heteroresistance, CRZ1 escape mutations, and drug-induced polyploidy despite wild-type FKS1 and susceptible MICs. #Medsky #IDsky
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@leprauk.bsky.social🌟Discover Maria’s Island this October Half Term🌟
Join Lepra Historian, Irene Allen, for a free storytelling of Maria’s Island, written by best-selling author and Lepra Ambassador, Victoria Hislop
📆 30 October 2026
⏰ 12-12.30pm
📍 Colchester Library
@lancetmicrobe.bsky.socialNew research article
Implementation of rapid pan-microbial metagenomics in paediatric intensive care: a single-centre, prospective, observational study
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
#IDSky #ClinMicro #MicroSky #ViroSky #MycoSky #OpenAccess #OA
@ecdc.europa.euWest Nile virus is circulating more widely in Europe this year, with record case numbers & detections further north.
Press release: bit.ly/4ez2YYh
#IDsky #EpiSky #WestNileVirus
@absteward.bsky.socialPlease sign this petition calling on speciality societies to reform the guidelines process #idsky
@ecdc.europa.euAt #IUSTI2026 and still haven’t had a chance to pass by #ECDC booth to say hi?
@guerreroespejo.bsky.social18-year-old woman; right tragus pierced 6 months earlier.
Large, fluctuant, violaceous plaque on the right cheek (A), not improved after abscess drainage and cephalexin.
Biopsy: granulomatous inflammation, no acid-fast bacilli.
Diagnosis?
@bananabenana.bsky.socialWanted to share a new preprint where we use #MALDITOF not just for species ID, but rapid Sequence Typing 🧬
Even without DNA sequencing we can determine strain lineage 🦠, enabling rapid + cheap outbreak detection
Amazing work led by Hoai-An Nguyen
@edmhill.bsky.socialSeasonal influenza summary from latest @ukhsa.bsky.social surveillance report. #IDSky #EpiSky 🧪
🗓️ Based on data up to week 41 2026 (05-11 Oct 2026)
📊 Influenza activity remained stable. Most surveillance indicators reporting baseline levels of influenza.
Report 🔗: www.gov.uk/government/s...
@contagionlive.bsky.socialDr. Zachary Nelson, the WikiGuidelines lead author cautions that population-level antibiogram data may not reliably reflect an individual patient’s risk. #IDsky #Medsky
Watch his full interview: www.contagionlive.com/view/new-uti...
@guerreroespejo.bsky.socialTwo MMR doses remain the best protection; outbreak control depends on vaccination, case finding and timely public-health response.
@eurosurveillance.orgIn our new issue 👉 bit.ly/EUS3141
🔹Researchers from @rivm-nl.bsky.social investigated shigellosis in the Dutch population in times of #AntimicrobialResistance
🔹German researchers found that 1 in 3 parents were hesitant about human papillomavirus #HPV #vaccination for their child
@papertis.bsky.socialAnticoagulation dose in COVID-19?
HERO-19 RCT, 139 inpatients: death or thromboembolism 21% vs 29% with prophylaxis, not significant (HR 0.74).
Karakas, Kluge et al. JAMA Netw Open 2026
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42776529/
Weekly papers by topic, free: https://papertis.com
#MedSky #IDSky
@kakape.bsky.socialThis summer, the @ecdc.europa.eu has so far counted 1715 locally acquired cases of West Nile virus infection, "the highest number of WNV infections in humans ever reported" in Europe.
The disease also spread over a larger are than ever before. 🧪
wnv-monthly.ecdc.europa.eu
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@safabric.bsky.socialNeeded a cheer squad for ID Board Exam today, so I brought my own. Good luck today, everybody! #IDsky
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