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Clinician Scientist | Consultant infectious diseases | Mycobacterial infections | TB | NTM
🥳 Herzlichen Glückwunsch! Großangelegte Studie des @fzborstel.bsky.social über Plasmide bei nicht-tuberkulösen Mykobakterien (#NTM) wurde von der Deutsche Gesellschaft für Hygiene und Mikrobiologie als 𝗣𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗵 ausgezeichnet!
▶️https://fz-borstel.de/de/aktuelles/news/news-2025/ntm-plasmide
genomemedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Check out our new paper on plasmids in non-tuberculous mycobacteria!
IDSA and HIVMA are deeply concerned by the abrupt cancellation of 92% of USAID foreign assistance awards and the impact the action will have on many. Our statement: buff.ly/b2czy4r
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The removal of #HIV- and #LGBTQ-related resources from the websites of CDC and other health agencies is deeply concerning.
Access to this information is crucial for ID and HIV health care professionals.
Our full statement: https://buff.ly/42AO8LI
The New England Journal of Medicine Preventive Levofloxacin in Children Exposed to Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis A PLAIN LANGUAGE SUMMARY Visual representation of children and adolescents with household exposure to an adult patient with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis. Read the full Plain Language Summary at NEJM.org.
In the TB-CHAMP trial, researchers assessed the efficacy and safety of preventive treatment with levofloxacin in children and adolescents with household exposure to an adult index patient with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis. Full trial results: nej.md/41AXgQd
#MedSky #IDSky
"Our current economic system is clearly willing to sabotage planetary and human health in pursuit of profit, capital accumulation, and economic growth."
Degrowth proposes a new logic for the global economy
#ChristmasBMJ
www.bmj.com/content/387/...
Are Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex lineages predictors for extrapulmonary TB?
We are happy to see this collaboration between the Gesundheitsamt Frankfurt, FZ Borstel, ECDC, Labor Limbach, and University Hospital Frankfurt now published:
www.clinicalmicrobiologyandinfection.com/article/S119...
Am FZB untersuchen wir die Evolution von
#Antibiotikaresistenzen, z.B. im Mikrobiom oder bei Lungenpathogenen wie Haemophilus influenzae. Diese Bakterien können schwere Erkrankungen, wie Lungenentzündung oder #Sepsis hervorrufen und weisen zunehmend Resistenzen gegen Breitbandantibiotika auf.
#AMR
