Jo emailed me - I have given her it and received the manuscript 🙂

Early life serological profiles and the development of natural protective humoral immunity to Streptococcus pyogenes in a high burden setting Streptococcus pyogenes leads to 500,000 deaths annually; many due to rheumatic heart disease in low-income settings. Limited understanding of natural protective immunity to S. pyogenes hinders vaccine...

📢 Preprint - not peer-reviewed🤞:

Development of #immunity to #StrepA in The Gambia. We assessed IgG to conserved and M protein antigens across the life course, exploring association with protection against infection:

www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

#IDSky #Immunosky

Lindsay Loadhan please

Is there still rheumatic fever in the UK? bit.ly/3Py0X1P Join our @rcpch.bsky.social webinar next Friday to hear the answer as well as get a refresher on the clinical features and how we make or refute the diagnosis. #strepA #GAS #RHD #IDSky #PaedsSky #PaedsIDSky

Streptococcus pyogenes pharyngitis elicits diverse antibody responses to key vaccine antigens influenced by the imprint of past infections Nature Communications - Streptococcus pyogenes is a deadly bacteria without a vaccine. Here, researchers measured antibodies in serum and saliva from a strep throat human challenge trial. Baseline...

This #StrepA paper was a LONG labour of love from a great team 😊 Equal first & senior author credits buried at the very end, so I want to highlight the critical contributions of Dr Hannah Frost & @njmoreland.bsky.social & Dr Danika Hill @precisionvaxlab.bsky.social rdcu.be/d2gBV

🎉 I'm a #newPI , and I'm so excited to share our new paper out in Nature Comms today! 🧵
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Quick intro for the new followers:
I'm from Monash Uni in Melbourne, and we study T and B cell responses to viruses, bacteria & parasites with the goal of improving vaccines. #ImmunoSky #MicroSky

Wake up sheeple

Also are hashtags still cheugy and embarrassing now that we all are over here on bsky

I considered being demure and lowkey about how cute our little Ranni is, but have decided ultimately not to break the habit of a lifetime #shiba

I don’t know her personally (you might!), but Marie Anne Chattaway at UKHSA is the head of the Salmonella reference unit within GBRU. I read her papers whenever I come across them and she is very research active. I’d definitely send her an email if you weren’t hankering for a break from salmonellae!

Saw a small indie band this eve

One of my all time favourites!

Not entirely sure I want to have an online voice these days, but I do love science, ID, and microbiology (especially streps). In the time-tested tradition, here’s a photo of my new puppy, Ranni, as a placeholder while I figure this thing out.