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Today, ESCMID opens the call for late-breaking abstracts for the 6th Conference on #Vaccines in Lisbon. Submit your abstracts and be part of this high-level conference, all about the latest innovations in vaccines. Deadline is 29 Aug⏳

Info: ow.ly/TU6L50WBV0m

#IDSky #clinmicro #MedSky

Getting ahead of pandemic threats with better, faster, AI vaccine design | CEPI

Did you know #AI is already helping the world get ahead of the next pandemic threat? This isn’t about the future, it’s happening now.

Discover how CEPI-backed scientists are applying AI to help design better outbreak vaccines faster than ever ⬇️ bit.ly/4kU9s4x

Grand Rounds returns Tuesday, August 19 at 1pm ET. Visit our calendar to register for Navigating Training as an IMG Fellow: Practical Tips, Support, and Success.

Soon to come in Hall 16, don’t miss the session "Developing guidelines with AI tools: Are they ready for prime time?". Discover how #ArtificialIntelligence could transform the way we create patient-centered guidelines. Be there! #ESCMIDGlobal 2025.

#AI is here + will become key in #antimicrobialstewardship #AMS

Flagged by Prof Thursky @ncas.bsky.social at #ESCMID2025 #ESCMIDGlobal - this paper is a great blueprint for implementing AI in AMS programmes

Link: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Listening to @marionkoopmans.bsky.social giving the ESCMID excellence award lecture “Towards pandemic prevention, moonshot or utopia?” at #ESCMIDGlobal

@escmid.bsky.social

The session covered not just tips for the submission/revision stages & humanizing peer reviewers but also how to communicate your work! All are on stage taking Qs!

@angelahuttner.bsky.social @hoferu.bsky.social @drneilstone.bsky.social @anniejoseph.bsky.social

#ESCMIDGlobal #IDSky #clinmicro

Grafik mit dem Titel „Update zu Poliofunden im Abwasser“. Im Vordergrund ist ein Tropfen Wasser und eine Lupe dargestellt. Die Farben der Illustration sind in Blau- und Lilatönen gehalten.

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In den letzten 3 Monaten gab es nur 2 Nachweise von Schluckimpfstoff-abgeleiteten #Polioviren im #Abwasser: in Düsseldorf und Hamburg.
Erste Funde berichtete das RKI im November – an mehreren Orten und über längere Zeiträume.
Mehr im #EpidBull:
🔗 www.rki.de/DE/Aktuelles...

Assessing the Coverage of PubMed, Embase, OpenAlex and Semantic Scholar for Automated Single Database Searches in Living Guideline Evidence Surveillance: A Case Study of the International PCOS Guidelines 2023 - Journal of Clinical Epidemiology www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...

Writing Center - PLOS This page is your source for scientific writing & publishing essentials. Learn how to write a successful scientific research article with our free, practical guides and hands-on resources for authors ...

Have you checked out our @plos.org Writing Center? There are so many wonderful resources available in this collection of free, practical guides and hands-on resources for authors looking to improve their scientific publishing skillset.

plos.org/resources/wr...

#ESCMIDGlobal:
Outstanding presentation by Eeva Broberg @ecdc.europa.eu on latest developments in #RSV surveillance in the #EU. Newborns are affected by high disease severity whereas the elderly age groups carry the highest risk of mortality due to RSV.
@isirvepi.bsky.social
@escmid.bsky.social

Join us at #ESCMIDGlobal next week!

#ESGREV open meeting
13 April, 9:30-10:30

#ESGREV / #ISIRV
RSV Infections: diagnosis, surveillance and treatment
12 April, 8:30-10:30

#ESGREV / #ICHS
Addressing infection challenges in immunocompromised patients
11 April, 16:15-18:15

@escmid.bsky.social

Immunology Explained: Vaccinating Your Kids This is "Immunology Explained: Vaccinating Your Kids" by JPA Health on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

Childhood vaccines to prevent illnesses that can cause serious harm or death. Not having to worry about these illnesses anymore is proof that vaccines work. Learn more: ow.ly/SLfi50Vpak2.

#ImmunologyExplained #Vaccines #ImmuneSystem

Training the Physician-Scientists of Tomorrow: Institut Pasteur MD-PhD Program In the face of global health crises and growing public health challenges, strengthening the links between scientific research (both fundamental and applied) and clinical practice has become essential....

📚🩺 We are launching our MD-PhD program to bridge clinical practice and scientific research. Our goal: training physician-scientists who can tackle global health challenges with agility and expertise.
#GlobalHealth #MedicalResearch

Submit your abstracts for #BSIYorkshire25 before Tuesday 1 April!

With a strong #ECR focus, this is an excellent opportunity to showcase your research🔬

The meeting will include sessions exploring host-pathogen interactions, immune regulation in #haematology, and skin #immunology

🔗 bit.ly/417XYSY

Mysteries surrounding cow flu have scientists concerned about future outbreaks One year after the first infections were reported, it's still unclear how H5N1 virus jumped into U.S. cattle—and why it keeps doing so

One year after the first infections were reported, it's still unclear how H5N1 virus jumped into U.S. cattle—and why it keeps doing so. scim.ag/4hRM5qO

NIH to ax grants on vaccine hesitancy, mRNA vaccines Move reflects vaccine skepticism of health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

NIH is abruptly terminating at least 33 research grants for projects studying why some people are hesitant to receive vaccines or evaluating strategies that could encourage vaccine uptake. scim.ag/4how23i

#Pertinent 👇

Learn with us about building basic #bioinformatics workflows - another of our #GenEpiBioTrain programme courses is coming soon!

📅 19 and 21 March
⏰ 9:00AM - 12:30PM
🌐 Register here ➡️ bit.ly/4iuhvnA

#IDsky #EpiSky #ITsky #BioSky

New MRI Study Uncovers Hidden Lung Abnormalities in Children With Long COVID Long COVID is more than just lingering symptoms—it may have a hidden biological basis that standard medical tests fail to detect. A groundbreaking study using advanced MRI technology has uncovered sig...

New MRI Study Uncovers Hidden Lung Abnormalities in Children With Long COVID.

"The study found reduced blood flow in the lungs, correlating with severe fatigue and breathing issues. This breakthrough could lead to better diagnostic tools and treatments for young patients"

Application of methodological strategies to address unmeasured confounding in real-world vaccine safety and effectiveness study: a systematic review Uses of real-world data to evaluate vaccine safety and effectiveness are often challenged by unmeasured confounding. The study aimed to review the application of methods to address unmeasured confound...

Application of methodological strategies to address unmeasured confounding in real-world vaccine safety and effectiveness study: a systematic review - Journal of Clinical Epidemiology www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...

Two-decade health-related quality of life and performance on physical function tests in mid-aged women: Findings from a prospective cohort study - Journal of Clinical Epidemiology www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...

Europe needs a sustainably funded influenza research and response network Influenza viruses have caused four pandemics during the last century.1 The 1918 H1N1 pandemic claimed 20–50 million lives, the 1957 H2N2 pandemic and the 1968 H3N2 pandemic claimed 1–4 million lives e...

📢 Europe needs a funded influenza research network

H5N1 is spreading among animals, raising concerns about human adaptation. The U.S. has a rapid-response system. Europe must act now to establish a coordinated network to mitigate future pandemic risks.

Read more: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

New from ericamd.bsky.social et al:

🏥 Hospital-onset bacteremia in the neonatal intensive care unit: strategies for risk adjustment

▶️ Unit- and patient-level risk adjustment impacts infant hospital-onset bacteremia standardized infection ratio rankings

#IDSky

📄: doi.org/10.1017/ice....

Artificial intelligence to semi-automate trustworthiness assessment of randomized controlled trials: correspondence: response to Au et al - Journal of Clinical Epidemiology www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...

Wellcome Connecting Science k-mer for Biodiversity Genomics workshop Dates: 1-6 June 2025 Location: Wellcome Genome Campus, UK Application and bursary deadline: 11 March 2025

Last chance to secure your 2025 place on our k-mer for #Biodiversity Genomics workshop! #KmerWorkshop25

⏰ Apply by 11 March

Get the most out of genome analysis of non-model organisms with k-mer #bioinformatics-based methods🧬

Join @sangerinstitute.bsky.social Tree of Life experts

📎 bit.ly/42xmqzL

#Immunology out now @science.org

Machine learning, using the sequences of an individual's B and T cell receptors, has the potential to diagnose immune-related diseases.

https://buff.ly/3QvxSVf

By Maxim Zaslavsky, Erin Craig, @anshulkundaje.bsky.social , @scottboydlab.bsky.social et al.

Very interesting analysis - especially for those of us meta-analyzing RTC data & global aspects of respiratory viruses. 👇

YouTube video by Institut Pasteur EDUCATION What Makes Us React Differently to Viruses? | My PhD at the Institut Pasteur – Yann Aquino

🔬 What Makes Us React Differently to Viruses? #MyPhDAtTheInstitutPasteur

This is the question Yann Aquino explored in his PhD at the Institut Pasteur & how factors like genetics and environment shape the response to infection by viruses like SARS-CoV-2.

Read his thesis 👉 bit.ly/YAPhD
@pasteur.fr

More North-South collaboration will strengthen disease surveillance in the UK, South Africa, and the world The North-South partnership between the Genomic Surveillance Unit (GSU) at the Wellcome Sanger Institute and the Centre for Epidemic Response and Innovation (CERI) at Stellenbosch University (SU), has...

A new project will track respiratory viruses, like influenza and SARS-CoV-2, in real-time to boost pandemic preparedness in both the United Kingdom and South Africa 🦠

Read more: ⤵️
www.sanger.ac.uk/news_item/mo...