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Infectious diseases, clinical trials, staphylococcus and streptococcus. Reader and runner. Go Hawks!
My top 10 ID papers for 2025. Full citations and descriptions available at clarityinitiative.org/hot-takes
Also see/hear our Communicable podcast episode on this at communicable.transistor.fm/episodes/com...
What were your top 10? Any thoughts about what I missed welcome!
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🎙️ 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
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📣 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🎙️
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C gattii?
22.01.2026 07:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Great to see this paper and editorial! Convincing for HIV and C neoformans.
Where is the field regarding non HIV patients? And also C gattii meningitis? Are there trials being conducted in these populations?
We're going to randomise patients in SNAP to: 1) clopidogrel vs no clopidogrel (CLOPIDO SNAP #1) and; 2) aspirin vs clopidogrel for those already on aspirin (CLOPIDO SNAP #2).
20.01.2026 04:38 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0💊Drug Hypesensitivity Symposium 2026 - #DHS2026
Registrations are now open for our amazing 3-day #drugallergy & #antibioticallergy program in Melbourne 23-25th October 2026.
Stellar international🌏speaker lineup. @allergy-eaaci.bsky.social @thedohertyinst.bsky.social
➡️https://dhs2026.org/
Agree. It's a short, well researched, and strangely moving book. Well worth reading.
18.01.2026 18:45 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
I see patients with TB every week. I can access modern diagnostics and treatments. Reading this book reminded me that is not the case in much of the world.
TB kills 1.25 million per year.
A disease of injustice.
Everything Is Tuberculosis: John Green www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...
We are genotyping and phenotyping as many of the isolates as we can get hold of (will be most). So the analysis of blaZ and cefazolin inoculum effect will follow once done. Can't wait to see what this shows!
Altogether there were 1341 participants in SNAP, so much larger than CloCeBa.
Saw the post on X also - but I've decided today to deactivate my X account!
Agree with others that the numbers are too small in CloCeBa to draw strong conclusions.
Across the board in SNAP, cefazolin was better (15% mortality vs 17%). Similar in the 100 odd patients with endocarditis.
Exciting news - there's a spot open in the #IDepi team at @thekidsau.bsky.social !
Prof Chris Blyth is looking for a Research Officer to work on influenza research
1-year initial contract based in Perth
Slight bias (my team/boss) but it's a fantastic opportunity!
#EpiSky #AcademicSky #AusAcademia
Now I'll have a look at how Covid-19 deaths have changed over time.
See the quoted thread for discussion of how cases, emergency department visits, and hospitalizations have changed over time.
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That's a pretty cool idea!
Laurens Manning has done some of the research with antibodies. Suggests that SDSE is the predominant cause of lower limb cellulitis!
academic.oup.com/ofid/article...
Ouli’s a clinician who developed incredible bioinformatics and coding skills. Plus the smarts to use those skills to communicate ideas
12.01.2026 20:34 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Pretty 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
The other thing that hasn't been well measured is secondary GAS infections (that are not 'invasive'). Possible that some of these are prevented.
10.01.2026 11:21 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0We selectively do this in Australia. Always tricky with how rare the outcome is: ‘The secondary attack rate among household contacts was 0.219% (7 individuals) before and 0.047% (7 individuals) after’.
We are doing a RCT, but the primary outcome is throat recovery of GAS, not clinical infection
Intrigued. Can’t wait to listen!
08.01.2026 10:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The 3rd and 4th commentaries on recent ID trials are up on the CLARITY website (we aim to publish in depth reviews of important ID stuies).
This time looking at the GAMECHANGER trial:
clarityinitiative.org/commentaries...
@erinmccreary.bsky.social with Ahmad Mourad
@gurujosh.bsky.social
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Collage titled "Most Viewed JAMA 2025," featuring medical diagrams and study results: lung scans, iron absorption, DNA repair, biofilm formation, coffee consumption/abstinence study, and organ system treatments.
The numbers are in.
This year's most popular JAMA content spans a range of topics, from coffee and #AFib to #osteoporosis to #SepticShock. What was your favorite article in 2025—and did other readers agree?
🔗 ja.ma/49dIcKr
Nice to see #MethodologyMonday again!
15.12.2025 08:47 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Congrats!
08.12.2025 08:26 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Non pay walled link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1mCdH3AjoX...
07.12.2025 03:32 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1
🆕🔥State of art review article by 🌟 s
@drtoddlee.bsky.social @steventong.bsky.social
Navigating the Challenges in Staphylococcus aureus Bloodstream Infection: A Practical Guide to Management #idsky #EMIMCC
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
New article about how to manage Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia. Led by Hadar Mudrik-Zohar. Includes @seanong.bsky.social @drtoddlee.bsky.social
#IDSky #SNAP_trial
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
A reflection on decades of work to improve skin health in remote Australian communities: www.nhmrc.gov.au/about-us/res...
@ashabowen.bsky.social @nhmrc.bsky.social @thedohertyinst.bsky.social
A group of ID clinical researchers passionate about clinical research and evidence appraisal has just launched the CLARITY initiative (clarityinitiative.org), which aims to improve the generation and interpretation of evidence in ID and Microbiology.
30.11.2025 23:39 — 👍 17 🔁 11 💬 1 📌 0📣 We're thrilled to be part of #CLARITY, an initiative led by Josh Davis @gurujosh.bsky.social & @steventong.bsky.social for physicians, pharmacists & #clinmicro specialists passionate about #clinicalresearch & #evidence appraisal.
Join us! 🌱
#IDSky #MedSky #MedEd
www.cmi-comms.org/article/S295...
