Important piece of work that guides much of our OPAT practice in UK.
It's also impressive in its acceptance of the evidence. Literally the guideline for use of IV antibiotics is advocating for use of oral antibiotics instead! 👏
#IDSky #ClinMicro #AMR #OPAT
🔥Just published
2026 Updated good practice recommendations for OPAT in adults & children in the UK
Oral antimicrobial therapy should always be used in preference to IV where these have equivalent efficacy unless there are other relevant factors*
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Wanted to like this. But now I'm worried how it'll be interpreted! 😅
This is both hilarious in its hypothetical accuracy on what makes a cool Nature paper nowadays, but also utterly frightening.
Imagine overlaying this prompt with some more details and maybe data for half the desired story.... 😨
#AcademicSky
Given some on here have shown an interest in reading about bacterial staining today, this is something to get your teeth into
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Super exciting news 🚨
I am hiring a technician to join my brand new lab at the University of Birmingham! @imibirmingham.bsky.social
Come and support my BBSRC-funded research on understanding how staphylococci survive antibiotics. Please share! 🧫🧪
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRH271/a...
ha ha, that's a good point - the % increase in saturated fat consumption by the tallow may become negligible. Thank you, learnt something new....
Malawi, 2004. I came home from the hospital & drew a picture of siblings with #measles. It was striking; I hadn’t seen it in the UK. Now #vaccination rates are slipping, it’s back. It’s highly infectious & risks deadly complications both during acute infection & long term. #VaccinesWork. #IDSky 🧪
that's v sad, and a good point, but also an impressive sketch!
This is why I always correct text and capitalise the word Gram! 😅🧐
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A cute drawing of a pill holding a plant and the message: switch to PO, great for patients, better for our planet
Happy Earth Day, and switch to PO! 🌱💊
#IDSky #MedSky #PharmSky
@sustainabil-id.bsky.social
Quite. Infantino needs the AFC votes more than he needs Italy...
And yet we're all still going to do it anyway, let's be honest! 🤷♂️ #IDSky
🆕💥🟢Multisite Retrospective Cohort Study with @timlaheymd.bsky.social
Do C-Reactive Protein (CRP) Measurements Predict Treatment Failure in Native Vertebral Osteomyelitis?
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What even is tallow? @caulfieldtim.bsky.social
Sounds unhealthy!
Excellent case study for students to learn about publication bias! 😔
Wow that feels like a lifetime ago that it was a critical question to know the answer to!
yes that is true. Equivalence of corticosteroids remains a bit of a mystery to me.
what kind words Louis, thank you. Glad you felt it was worth your time!🙏
Excellent review of a very puzzling question in the TB field. The role of IL-17. The others do a terrific job of describing different vantage points.
The future of diagnostics in Africa
New paper @nature.com on how diagnostics offer a pathway to self-reliance in health security and universal healthcare in the Africa region
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
China Town?
Super proud to be part of the BALANCE+ family 😇
#IDSky
Love this - all marketing is good marketing. Even immune markers have an age and significant milestones.
CD40 - important molecule - not to be sniffed at! #ImmunoSky
thank you v much.
It's written deliberately as a pseudo-debate for 2 different sides of the argument, but ultimately (predictably) we felt it's all a context issue (hence the title), providing some thoughts on when this cytokine is beneficial, and when it isn't.
Happy to hear your thoughts on it.
Great progress on vaccines & host-directed therapies (HDT) in TB. Our review on IL-17👇
🎯protective early on & post-vaccine in animal models 👉desirable for vaccines?
🎯Drive pathology in TB disease👉target for HDT to limit post-TB lung damage?
With @ahri-news.bsky.social @plos.org #TBSky #ImmunoSky
This is what science can do 👏
Three European countries have reached ≥90% HPV vaccine uptake in girls—a major step toward preventing cervical cancer and other HPV-related cancers.
When science, policy, and trust align → real impact.
Adjunctive immunomodulation to improve outcomes from a respiratory infection! 👀 👇
#IDSky #mycoplasma
A sobering but very important observation about war and antibiotic resistance
#IDSky #ClinMicro #AMR
Ah thank you, I didn't know that