Dr Xin Hui Chan 🕊️

It never rains but pours: disseminated nocardiosis in a renal transplant patient from Nigeria – a case report - BMC Infectious Diseases BMC Infectious Diseases - Nocardiosis is a rare opportunistic infection with high mortality and a tendency to relapse. The causative Nocardia spp. are filamentous Gram-positive aerobic bacteria....

Congratulations and well done, Tom Whitehead, on this excellent case report. Fantastic cross-departmental collaboration @ouhospitals.bsky.social to care for this patient & share his journey. Thank you also to colleagues at @escmid.bsky.social Global 2025 for input.

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Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science
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🧫 Thank you, @escmid.bsky.social, for the kind sponsorship to attend one of your 2025 leadership courses.

💡What an enriching and eye-/heart-opening experience. Love the photo of us practising strategic crisis management!

Rebalancing viral and immune damage versus repair prevents death from lethal influenza infection
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@science.org @niaidnews.bsky.social

Daily Mosnodenvir as Dengue Prophylaxis in a Controlled Human Infection Model | NEJM Approximately half the worldwide population is at risk for dengue. No antiviral prophylaxis or treatment options are available. In a phase 2a, double-blind, randomized trial, we assigned healthy ad...

💊 Exciting news for dengue therapeutics

👏 Congratulations, Anna Durbin and colleagues!

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Not all medicines are equal

⏱️ Some need to be taken at a certain time
🍽️ Some need to be taken with food
🍂 Some may interact with herbal remedies

#MedSafetyWeek

YouTube video by Dr. Glaucomflecken Infectious Disease Doctor Goes To A Soccer Game

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Kyasanur Forest disease: an emerging arboviral threat Kyasanur Forest disease is a neglected tick-borne viral haemorrhagic fever endemic to India's Western Ghats, caused by the Kyasanur Forest disease virus, a flavivirus transmitted by Haemaphysalis spin...

New Review:

Kyasanur Forest disease: an emerging arboviral threat

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Climate change and tuberculosis: an analytical framework Climate change is likely to exacerbate a range of determinants that drive tuberculosis, the world's leading cause of death from a single infectious agent. However, tuberculosis is often neglected in w...

Our framework that informed the @who.int TB & climate change policy brief out now in @lancetrespirmed.bsky.social, exploring the intersections and implications of climate change for the TB epidemic. Key message? TB should be considered a climate-sensitive disease
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Infectious Diseases in People Who Use Drugs Introduction Over the past 2 decades, there has been an unprecedented increase in infectious diseases among individuals with substance use disorders (SUDs). These inclu

SO excited to see this work come out, led by the incredible Laura Marks: doi.org/10.1093/ofid...

Core outcome measurement set for clinical trials in dengue: an international Delphi consensus study (DEN-CORE) Dengue, caused by any one of four distinct virus serotypes, is the most rapidly spreading mosquito-borne viral disease worldwide. It is a primary arboviral infection with increasing global incidence, ...

New Review

Core outcome measurement set for clinical trials in dengue: an international Delphi consensus study (DEN-CORE)

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First evidence in the UK of breeding aegypti mosquito – the main spreader of dengue, chikungunya and Zika The first discovery of Aedes aegypti eggs in the UK shows how climate change and global travel are helping mosquitoes that spread dengue and Zika expand northwards.

"Usutu, which mainly infects birds, was first detected in London blackbirds in 2020 and has been found in birds or mosquitoes every year since, making it now endemic to the UK … Usutu often establishes first, with West Nile following as temperatures rise."

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Estimating the association of antimicrobial resistance genes with minimum inhibitory concentration in Escherichia coli: an observational study Surveillance and prediction of antibiotic resistance in Escherichia coli relies on curated databases of genes and mutations. We aimed to quantify the …

Pleased to see this out today in @lancetmicrobe.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... We estimate the independent effects of AMR genes on MIC at a drug-bug level and challenge the idea that resistance is a binary phenomenon.

📢 "Invasive #mosquito surveillance in the #UnitedKingdom 2020 to 2024: First detection of #Aedes aegypti eggs in the UK and further detection of Aedes albopictus 🦟" by Colin Johnston et al. @ukhsa.bsky.social published in @plosglobalpublichealth.org

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How the yellow fever mosquito conquered the world Aedes aegypti further adapted to life around humans when it arrived in the Americas, study of hundreds of mosquito genomes reveals

The invasive form of Ae. #aegypti mosquito evolved within the Americas, after arriving from Africa ~320 ya. Our most recent paper is out @science.org. Years of work with collaborators all around led by J. Crawford! Great resource for the Vector Research community!.
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France reports 1st local dengue case, chikungunya cases rise to 25 According to French health authorities, a total of 10 new episodes of arboviral transmission transmitted by Aedes albopictus have been identified in mainland France: 9 episodes of chikungunya and 1 of...

🦟" #France 🇫🇷 reports 1st local #dengue case, #chikungunya cases rise to 25" via @outbreaknewstoday.substack.com.web.brid.gy
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Novartis gets approval for first malaria drug for babies and children Novartis on Tuesday said it had received approval in Switzerland for Coartem Baby, which it said was the first drug to treat malaria in babies and young children.

Great news for paediatric access to artemether-lumefantrine 🦟 💊

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Pulling the Drug Out From Underneath: Ethical Considerations in the Discontinuation of the Antimalarial Quinidine Abstract. In 2017, the pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly announced it would stop manufacturing quinidine, the only Food and Drug Administration–approved tre

"Regardless of its justification—be it financial, convenience, or otherwise—a lone actor should not be allowed to unilaterally undermine the ethical provision of healthcare in the United States."

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📆 15 June is World Dengue Day

🦟 Dengue is the most important vector-borne viral infection in humans, with record cases in 2024, but no licensed treatments

💊 @who.int are seeking feedback on target product profiles for dengue treatments

🗣️ Do share widely - thank you!

www.who.int/news-room/ar...

Applications for the Barnett Christie Lecture at FIS 2025 are now open!

Each year the BIA invites applications to deliver this highly prestigious lecture at the conference of the Federation of Infection Societies. Find out more and apply 👉 champ.ly/2kIjacU-

Yellow fever breakthrough infections after yellow fever vaccination: a systematic review and meta-analysis Yellow fever breakthrough infections documented in literature are rare, and not necessarily more common 10 years or more after primary yellow fever vaccination. This finding suggests that a single dos...

Given #YellowFever vaccination seems to have become topical, this article might be of interest.

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Thank you for speaking truth to power and including us 🙏

Cover of the June issue showing a person with an umbrella that has a vaccine syringe as the handle and viruses looking like rain

Read our June issue!

Featuring effectiveness of RSV vaccination in older people in the US, malaria prevention in children with sickle-cell anaemia, and testing new serological tools for arboviral infections

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Oxford clinical lecturer receives ESCMID Young Investigator Award and is touchINFECTIOUS DISEASES Future Leader 2025

🏅Thank you,
@tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk @ndm.ox.ac.uk and @medsci.ox.ac.uk
for the news coverage on my work on drugs for vector-borne infections 🦟💊

@escmid.bsky.social

www.tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk/news/oxford-...

Thanks, @gpollara.bsky.social! Sorry to miss you at FIS 2024!

Here we are 📸

Thank you Touch Medical Media for the lovely profile of @escmid.bsky.social Young Investigator Award winners🏅

It was so good to have those precious few minutes amidst the buzz of #ESCMIDGlobal2025 to reflect on my career path in global health 💊🦠🦟☀️

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Thank you, Rajeka! So grateful to @biainfection.bsky.social for the @escmid.bsky.social Young Scientist Travel Grant which led to the @escmid.bsky.social Young Investigator Award the year after.

A packed #ESCMIDGlobal2025 #ESCMIDGlobal! So good to meet old friends and new from around the world in beautiful Vienna.

Thank you @escmid.bsky.social
for the Young Investigator Award and an amazing conference.

Well done Shanghavie Loganathan, Alice Scharmeli, and Tom Whitehead on your posters!

What a special Saturday night receiving the @escmid.bsky.social Young Investigator Award 2025 in Vienna 🇦🇹 from President Robert Skov at the #ESCMIDGlobal opening ceremony recognising a decade of work on drugs 💊 for tropical infections with many amazing global collaborators- thank you 🕊️

@ox.ac.uk