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Sex & gender in Infection... its complicated!!!

Such a pleasure to host these guests alongside @erinmccreary.bsky.social

#IDSky #UTIsky #clinmicro
@escmid.bsky.social

🎙️ Just published #Communicable E48: International Women's Day - are infections & AMR really different in women?

Hosted by Erin McCreary, PharmD & Annie Joseph w/ invited guests Esmita Charani (ZA) & Annette Westgeest (NL)

Listen: https://share.transistor.fm/s/cc75e63e

#IWD2026 #IDSky #clinmicro

Reframing success: lessons on noninferiority trials from GAME CHANGER

📣 New CLARITY articles on the GAMECHANGER trial
The second article by Erin McCreary, PharmD & Ahmad Mourad examines #non-inferiority trials more generally, providing a concise guide to their indications, strengths and weaknesses
#IDSky #clinmicro https://ow.ly/ATub50Yq6Gp

How do we win? The GAME CHANGER trial

📣 New CLARITY articles by Erin McCreary, PharmD & Ahmad Mourad are out to help us understand the GAMECHANGER trial & #cefiderocol The first notes a mortality signal among metallo-β-lactamase–producing infections... #IDSky #clinmicro https://ow.ly/GAqx50Yq6uh

📣 New #Communicable drops Monday, 9 March! In celebration of International Women's Day #IWD2026, Erin McCreary, PharmD & Annie Joseph host Esmita Charani (South Africa) & Annette Westgeest (Netherlands) for a discussion on the impacts of sex and gender in the AMR and ID space.

#IDSky #clinmicro

Coccidioidomycosis: The brief life and enduring impact of Alejandro Posadas

📣 Alejandro Posadas, the Argentine behind #Coccidioides posadasii, was the son of Spanish emigrants. He identified C. posadasii in the wounds of a cavalry soldier, and died of #tuberculosis at 32.

#IDSky #clinmicro #mycology #coccidioidomycosis

https://ow.ly/jkTx50Yp5Ri

Was great hosting you @angelahuttner.bsky.social as our Visiting Professor. We learnt a lot! Not to mention everybody wanting to submit their work to @cmicomms.bsky.social and start UTI clinics!!

Of titans and taxonomy: The naming of Cronobacter sakazakii

📣 Person behind the name

Riichi Sakazaki identified Enterobacter sakazakii, a cause of neonatal sepsis

The genus was renamed Cronobacter after Cronos, the Greek god who devoured his children to prevent their supplanting him

#IDSky #clinmicro Saied Ali

https://ow.ly/ifFo50YlJkp

(Val)ganciclovir dosing for cytomegalovirus: revisiting the 2005 Wiltshire et al. pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic target

📣 How much evidence do we really have for (val)ganciclovir dosing for #CMV prophylaxis or infection?

Anne-Grete Märtson, Erin McCreary, PharmD et al expose the weak underpinnings of current recommendations and practice.

#IDSky #clinmicro #ViroSky

https://ow.ly/wJNF50YlJh8

🎙️ Just published Communicable E47: Drawing the line: the writing, reach and limits of guidelines

Hosted by Angela Huttner & Erin McCreary, PharmD w/ invited guests Pranita Tamma (USA) & Benedikt Huttner (Switzerland)

Listen on #Communicable https://share.transistor.fm/s/a0513ed3

#IDSky #clinmicro

In this 3rd collaboration between SIDP Breakpoints & ESCMID’s Communicable, Erin McCreary, PharmD & Angela Huttner host Pranita Tamma (USA) & Benedikt Huttner (WHO, Switzerland) to discuss #guidelines & guidance, offering a behind-the-scenes look into their development, reach - and limits.

#IDSky

Weighted-incidence syndromic combination antibiogram (WISCA) to guide antibiotic regimens for empiric treatment of prosthetic joint infections: A retrospective cohort study Prosthetic joint infections (PJIs) are now routinely treated with oral antibiotics, but selecting empiric regimens is challenging, including for treatment of culture-negative PJIs. Although antibiogra...

📣 What is a #WISCA?

It's something you should probably use for culture-negative prosthetic joint infections. Local antibiograms alone can be misleading.

This WISCA showed that doxycycline + a fluoroquinolone offer best coverage for #PJI

#IDSky #clinmicro #ortho
www.cmi-comms.org/article/S295...

On International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we empower women to take on leadership roles in the field of infection, creating strong role models to inspire the next generation. Read more: https://www.escmid.org/about-us/the-society/society-news/empowering-women-in-science/
#WomenInScience

#IDSky #clinmicro #PCP

🎙️ Just published Communicable E46: Steroids for pneumocystis pneumonia

Hosted by Nav Narayanan & Josh Nosanchuk

w/ invited guests Virginie Lemiale, Elie Azoulay & Emily McDonald

Listen on #Communicable: https://share.transistor.fm/s/0066901c

📣 New #Communicable drops Mon 9 Feb! Nav Narayanan & Josh Nosanchuk host Virginie Lemiale and Elie Azoulay, who led the PIC trial, and Emily McDonald to discuss the utility of adjunctive steroid therapy for pneumocystosis in HIV- individuals. Tune in Monday 🎙️

#IDSky #clinmicro

📣 New #Communicable drops Mon 9 Feb! Nav Narayanan & Josh Nosanchuk host Virginie Lemiale and Elie Azoulay, who led the PIC trial, and Emily McDonald to discuss the utility of adjunctive steroid therapy for pneumocystosis in HIV- individuals. Tune in Monday 🎙️

#IDSky #clinmicro

In our new issue, researchers from Belgium report on the detection of West Nile Virus #WNV in several wild #birds over a period of 3 months during 2025 - evidence for them of local WNV circulation in Belgium

🐦 bit.ly/EUS314

#EpiSky #IDSky #MedSky #MicroSky #PublicHealth 🧪🛟🧫
@sciensano.be

✨ The journal is delighted to introduce its new associate editor, Anne-Grete Märtson, who leads the Antiviral Pharmacology research group at Leiden University.

Congratulations and welcome! We are so happy to have you on board!

#IDSky #clinmicro

Congratulations to David Foley and the PathWest team for this important publication, especially considering the increase of syphilis in Australia

#MicroSky #IDEpi #IDSky

The utility of combined syphilis PCR and serology during an outbreak in Western Australia: A multicentre retrospective diagnostic evaluation Syphilis has re-emerged as a global public health concern. Although serology is well established, the role of PCR remains unclear. We evaluated the di…

📣 Foley et al assess #syphilis PCR & serology in >8K Australian patients

#Serology: still essential for first infections & reinfections

#PCR: limited add'l benefit in first infections; w/ serology can improve detection of reinfections

#IDSky #clinmicro #diagnosticstewardship

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Spotted at the #CLSI meeting in Arizona: CMI Comms editors (and #Communicable hosts) @dremilymcd.bsky.social, @erinmccreary.bsky.social, Nav Narayanan, and Thomas Tängdén 🫶

Communicable | Communicable Episode 45: Top infectious diseases papers in 2025 In this episode of Communicable, Josh Davis (Newcastle, Australia) and Emily McDonald (Montreal, Canada), plus invited guest, Steven Tong (Melbourne, Australia)—all practicing physicians and clinical trialists— assemble to discuss some of their ‘top infectious diseases papers published in 2025’....

🎙️ Just published Communicable E45: Top infectious diseases papers in 2025

Hosted by Josh Davis & Emily McDonald w/ invited guest Steven Tong

Listen on #Communicable: https://share.transistor.fm/s/9e626f2a

#IDSky #clinmicro

📣 New #Communicable drops Mon 26 Jan! In our last episode, we brought you some favorite #clinmicro papers of 2025. We continue this thread in our next episode with top ID papers of 2025, picked by our editors, Josh Davis & Emily McDonald and guest, Steven Tong. ⭐ Tune in Monday🎙️

#IDSky

"Our institutions signal a clear preference for quantity over quality" ➡️ it's time to drop speedy but low-quality and weak science, and steer the weel towards robust, reliable, but slow science -aka degrowth 😊✊📉💪

#ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #PublicationIntegrity #ResearchIntegrity

📣 New #Communicable drops Mon 26 Jan! In our last episode, we brought you some favorite #clinmicro papers of 2025. We continue this thread in our next episode with top ID papers of 2025, picked by our editors, Josh Davis & Emily McDonald and guest, Steven Tong. ⭐ Tune in Monday🎙️

#IDSky

The beating heart of a broken machine

📣 A peer reviewer used #AI to create a fake review with 6 self-citation prompts. But is s/he the only perpetrator in our system? In the year's first editorial, Angela Huttner explores the depths of the academic-industrial complex.

#IDSky #clinmicro #peerreview

https://ow.ly/juoW50Y05t6

Microbiology royalty: Elizabeth O. King and the legacy of Elizabethkingia meningoseptica The genus Elizabethkingia comprises Gram-negative, nonmotile, nonspore-forming aerobic rods in the family Weeksellaceae. These nonglucose-fermenting organisms were long included within Flavobacterium ...

📣 Who is behind #Kingella kingae, #Elizabethkingia
meningoseptica, and several other bacteria? Anne-Marie Dolan et al describe the legacy of Elizabeth O. King, #CDC microbiologist & World War II army officer, for our #Personbehindthename series.

#IDSky #clinmicro

www.cmi-comms.org/article/S295...

Pretty cool that Robin Patel picks Ouli Xie's @lancetmicrobe.bsky.social paper on SDSE and S pyogenes as one of her top 3 clinical microbiology papers for 2025! As expected, Robin does a great job explaining the paper.

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

@onisillos.bsky.social

🎙️ Just published Communicable E44: Top clinical microbiology papers in 2025

Hosted by Annie Joseph & Josh Nosanchuk w/ invited guests Robin Patel & Fidelma Fitzpatrick

Listen on #Communicable: https://share.transistor.fm/s/6e5c26ae

#IDSky #clinmicro