Nice preprint about #UTI -associated clinical Klebsiella strains, shedding new light on virulence but also (a growing theme... 🤔) how the micro-environment - in this case, presence of urine - can alter these phenotypes #UTISky #MicroSky #IDSky

KlebClub program

🚨 Big news! 🚨

Here the FINAL 2026 Speaker list for our seminar series!!

✨ Get ready for:
• Pathogenesis session
• Pediatrics #Klebsiella
• Translational Microbiology
• #KlebClub Community Flash talks!

Starting April 9th - 9 AM EST!

#KlebClub2026 #microsky #UTIsky #phagesky
Registration is FREE

Dear ESGUTIs, we would LOVE your support on two ongoing surveys within ESGUTI! Please vote and spread the word, we need your expertise 🤩🫶 Thank you, you are the BEST! #UTISky #ESGUTI #ESCMID #IDSky

How do you diagnose and treat CBP? from practice to consensus an ESGUTI project 🦠 #UTIsky, #ESGUTI

A study lead by our amazing Dutch colleagues and UTI researchers to map current approaches worldwide!
@merellambregts.bsky.social @manubilsen.bsky.social
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Interesting human study here on material immunity protecting neonates from E. coli sepsis...with an interesting preclinical mouse piece showing that probiotic E. coli Nissle 1917 introduced preconceptually into intestine can prime useful IgG protective response in neonates

#MicroSky #UTISky #IDSky

Our webinar is here! Tonight! 8pm CET!!! We can’t wait to see you 🎉 (Register now to get your meeting link!)
#ESGUTI #IDSky #UTISky

Sex & gender in Infection... its complicated!!!

Such a pleasure to host these guests alongside @erinmccreary.bsky.social

#IDSky #UTIsky #clinmicro
@escmid.bsky.social

Happy International Women's Day to all amazing women in the #UTI field (which also happens to feature wonderfully supportive men - thank you, chaps!). Many of you ladies have been friends, collaborators, confidantes, & kept me sane. Find them all in the #UTISky starter pack go.bsky.app/QYqt2D4 #IWD

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Cool preprint, might be of interest to @microberamon.bsky.social - wonder if the low oxygen environment in the bladder might affect #AMR in #UTI?

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What a pleasure to give my first talk with a lab coat at Institute of Medical Microbiology, University of Zurich (UZH). Feeling like old school professor. 😅😅 Thank you @weiss-lab.bsky.social for the invitation, and the amazing time with an amazing team. 🥳
#UTI #AMR #organoids #UTISky

Good morning all with an interest in #UTI. Just a note that there’s a #UTISky feed kindly set up by @gpollara.bsky.social, but due to inherent limitations, it doesn’t pick up all posts with the feed hashtag (eg. about 40% of mine don’t get flagged). To not miss anything, put hashtag in search! 🦠 🧫

Well, that was effective use of social media time!

Had totally forgotten about this webinar next Monday!

Look forward to hearing from @immunobladder.bsky.social & @bill-lab.bsky.social

#IDSky #ClinMicro #UTISky @escmid.bsky.social

Also @iainabbott.bsky.social happens to be a super nice guy with amazing PK/PD bladder models 😉 #UTISky

Belated thanks to Bladder Health UK for the kind invitation to speak about our lab's work on #UTI yesterday in Birmingham. I met some great people and had some really fruitful science chats! #UTISky

Don’t forget to register for our first webinar next Monday (9th March) at 8pm CET!!! 🎉🥳🎊 we can’t wait to see you there! @bill-lab.bsky.social @immunobladder.bsky.social

#UTISky #IDSky #ESGUTI #ESCMID

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Iain Abbott leading a roundtable meeting on collaborative UTI research at the Alfred in Melbourne

Iain Abbott leading a roundtable meeting on collaborative UTI research at the Alfred in Melbourne. Josh Davis (attending online) is on a screen behind him.

🙏🏼🙏🏼 @iainabbott.bsky.social for bringing us to the #Alfred Melbourne to build a collaborative UTI platform
He is inclusive: pts, microbiologists/immuno, pharm, ID docs/GPs, trialists (super⭐ Aussies)
@gurujosh.bsky.social attended from Newcastle @steventong.bsky.social will also advise
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Big Ben and Westminster floodlit at night

Very stimulating All-Party Parliamentary Group on #UTI roundtable tonight in Westminster. Lots of energy and passion about how to move forward with better diagnostics and treatments for chronic and recurrent UTI #UTISky

“…and if your MSU yields mixed growths, no more bananas.” #UTISky #ClinMicro

Cefalexin use in UK acute pyelonephritis practice: unaddressed challenges in dosing, breakpoints and clinical evidence Dear Editor in Chief,

Important letter in @bsacandjac.bsky.social on use of cefalexin in treating pyelonephritis.

Is it effective? What's the right dose? 🤷‍♂️

Key quote... 👉 "Critically, there are no EUCAST breakpoints for cefalexin for systemic infection including acute pyelonephritis."

#IDSky #ClinMicro #AMR #UTISky

Predicting bloodstream infection by plasma cell-free metagenomic sequencing: a prospective cohort study mcfDNA-Seq can detect causative pathogens before the onset of some bloodstream infection episodes in profoundly immunocompromised patients. Predictive specificity might be improved by restricting resu...

Plasma cell free metagenomic sequencing to predict / diagnose blood stream infections.

Neat & promising observational data.

Even if unsurprising, remarkable to see increased detection of microbial genomic material as diagnosis nears.

@lancetmicrobe.bsky.social #IDSky #ClinMicro #UTISky #MedSky

This is really interesting! Too fancy /overkill for my sparse, low-traffic niche though #UTISky

Uncomplicated Urinary Tract Infections: From an Invisible Impact to a Visible Change in Complex Care Uncomplicated UTIs may have high recurrence rates in subsets of patients, causing a substantial burden. Increasing antimicrobial resistance in uropathogens

Good overview of an increasingly rapid-evolving field, including newly updated guidelines, non-antibiotic treatments and focus on quality of life. #UTISky

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Nice work Gauri, Mikhail, Kathrin @ktomasek.bsky.social and McKinney lab team! Important work and a lovely human urothelial model for studying #UTI - my favorite subgenre 😉

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A microphysiological human mini-bladder reveals urine-urothelium interplay in tissue resilience and UPEC recurrence in urinary tract infections - Nature Communications In this work, authors develop a “mini-bladder” model with a perfusable lumen that reveals how urine and its solute composition impact tissue resilience and enables cell-wall-deficient uropathogenic Es...

Very happy to see our microphysiological human mini-bladder published! 🎉

We show how urine composition affects tissue health and thus invasivness of UPEC, and how cell wall-deficient UPEC from the tissue reactive UTIs. 🦠

Check it out here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Oh, this Allister Heath Headline Generator is brilliant fun. Check out the results of my first test 👇👇👇 #UTISky

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This looks like an impressive tool for researchers to (safely) interrogate a vast database of UK health records - provided you know how to code. All sorts of interesting questions you could ask about e.g. antibiotic usage patterns in #UTI #UTISky 🤔

Recurrent and chronic UTIs have a huge impact on patient's quality of life and is an area of research which is often overlooked and understudied. There are massive gaps in our understanding which we can fill to... (1/3)

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