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bugwonk.bsky.social
Infectious disease epidemiologist at Centre for Global Health Research, Oxford. 🤓🧀☕️🚴🏼🦠💉💊
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#ResearchHighlight from Mo Yin @moru-mip.bsky.social Cost-effectiveness of a short-course #antibiotic treatment strategy for the treatment of ventilator-associated #pneumonia: an economic analysis of the #REGARDVAP trial Read more 👉 www.ndm.ac/tropmed.res-hi 👉 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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Are you researching #InfectiousDiseases #EmergingInfections #malaria or #NTDs? The datasets we host harmonise tens of thousands of individual patient data, enabling researchers to answer new questions from existing data. Learn more www.iddo.org/data-sh... #BeatNTDs

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Systematic review of antibiotic durations in @jac-amr.bsky.social n=315 RCTs 85% demonstrated equivalence or non-inferiority of shorter therapy Only 7% in ICU, 14% in LMIC, and 15% low risk of bias academic.oup.com/jacamr/artic...

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🚨 New preprint!! How can antibiotic-resistant bacteria increase in abundance in the human gut microbiome, even without antibiotics? 🧐 We show that strain-specific ecological interactions are key to understanding resistance dynamics in microbial communities. 🧵👇 1/5 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Seven is the new fourteen..... for days of antibiotic treatment of bloodstream infections? Read my new post, inspired by the BALANCE study published in NEJM 👇 letstalkscience.eu/2024/11/26/s...

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#MeetOurResearchers interview with Proochista Ariana @ndmoxford.bsky.social Building capacity for #GlobalHealth impact Our MSc in International Health and Tropical Medicine fosters effective solutions & global health leadership Watch the video 👉 www.tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk/wall-of-face...

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🔥BALANCE RCT🔥 74 hospitals in 7 countries 3,608 patients A 7-day course of antibiotics for hospitalized patients with bloodstream infections was non inferior to 14d within a 4% prespecified margin for mortality at 90 days #idsky www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

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Read more about this here -> www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Today 3pm GMT, 4pm CET: webinar to discuss latest Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance study www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... with panelists Dr. Mohsen Naghavi, Dr. Tomislav Mestrovic,  Dr. Gisela-Robles Aguilar. Register here washington.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Just finished recording next #Communicable show w/ Ben Cooper (Oxford @bugwonk.bsky.social) & Pernette Bourdillon (WHO) on falsified antimicrobials & how they affect #AMR Turns out they're true-crime detectives (if a little nerdy 😎) @cmicomms.bsky.social will do a better teaser soon! IDSky MicroSky

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Bet practices in AMR surveillance - lecture/webinar series from Dr Geetanjali Kapoor of the One Health Trust www.tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk/gram/researc... #AMR

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👣 💊💊💊 👣💊💊💊💊💊 👣💊 calculate your antibiotic footprint here 👉🏼 www.antibioticfootprint.net/calculator/ #AMR

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Live now: High-Level Meeting on antimicrobial resistance 2024 - General Assembly, 79th session webtv.un.org/en/asset/k11... #AMR

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Great commentary from Ramanan Laxminarayan ahead of the UNGA AMR meeting later this month www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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