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Happy Nurses Day! Thank you to Royal Free London for the cupcakes for Nurses Day

.M. Jeffres 🦦 showing the benefits of “cefazolin for all” at MAD-ID The Antimicrobial Stewardship Meeting®️ ⬇️ infections without an ⬆️ in hypersensitivity when cefazolin used over clinda or vanc perioperatively in patients with reported pcn allergies academic.oup.com/ofid/advance-a…

Another interesting paper on sinks and their role in HAIs published in Journal of Hospital Infection. A retrospective analysis of 552 ICUs showed that sinks located in patient rooms are associated with higher rates of HAIs: journalofhospitalinfection.com/article/S0195-…

AMR costs money! A substantial current and future economic burden from AMR in Malawi. Out in PLOS Global Public Health today. High costs for hospitals and patients + poorer quality of life journals.plos.org/globalpubliche… Thanks DRUM Consortium Chris Jewell Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Programme LSTM and others #AMR

Mortality, hospital length of stay and recurrent bloodstream infection... sciencedirect.com/science/articl… UQ Medicine David Paterson

The dynamics of hospital COVID-19 contacts and subsequent conversion to SARS-CoV-2 infection: for Omicron variants, 90% of contacts converted within seven days of exposure. Great work Nneoma Okeke and colleagues. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

You've probably read about this scary outbreak in the news 81 case from 18 US states 🔥Now it's published🔥 Extensively Drug-Resistant P.aeruginosa with carbapenemas gene blaVIM-80 &cephalosporinasgene blaGES-9 associated with Artificial Tears #IDXpost academic.oup.com/cid/article/do…

#Outbreaks course leader Tim Boswell recently published details of a CPE outbreak linked to electric floor scrubbers in @JHIeditor Book our course in March to find out more on outbreak management🦠 Read article👉 ow.ly/jtiv50QInli Book course 👉 ow.ly/VIN750QInlh

This week, thanks to The Fleming Fund, #THET @ Commonwealthpharmacy.org. Makerere University School of Public Health, in partnership with Royal Free Hospital NHS Trust London, hosted a 5-member team. Activities held at mukono hospital in #AMR awareness and #handhygiene.

Further publication from our successful academic partnership led by Diane Ashiru, PhD with The University of Manchester's Pieter van Staa again highlighting the increased risk of sepsis from those living in deprived conditions, alongside other medical/demography predictors link.springer.com/article/10.100…

New research: Global burden associated with 85 pathogens in 2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019 thelancet.com/journals/lanin…

Delighted to contribute to this work on Klebsiella genomes in Malawi. A great team! Longitudinal data show repeated waves of clonal expansion of different, often ward-restricted, lineages, suggestive of hospital-associated transmission. Focus on IPC needed.

Congratulations to Professor Paul Griffiths who was recognised in the King’s Birthday Honours. Professor Griffiths, who worked at the Royal Free Hospital for 38 years, was named an MBE for services to virology. He helped develop a much quicker way of diagnosing and treating an

Locum Consultant in Infectious Diseases Royal Free London @RNOHnhs Infectious diseases inpatient service Microbiology service Bone infection service Renal and liver unit services OPAT and TB services healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/…

【Fluoroquinolones in orthopedic infection: balancing risks and rewards】J Antimicrob Chemother, Aug 2023 👉Important discussion regarding the use of Fluoroquinolones in orthopedic infection! 🇬🇧 academic.oup.com/jac/article/79… #IDMedEd #IDFellow Musculoskeletal Infection Society European Bone and Joint Infection Society (EBJIS) The Joint Approach Podcast

【Mycobacterial Cultures in Orthopedic Samples】Journal of Bone and Joint Infection Oct 2024 #OrthoID #Keyarticle 👉Out of 6,162 samples (2017–2022), 22 patients had M. tuberculosis and 6 had NTM isolated🇬🇧 👉To detect one new bone/joint mycobacterial infection, 229 cultures are needed 👉In low-TB

We have detected a single confirmed human case of Clade Ib mpox. This is the first detection of this Clade of mpox in the UK, the wider risk to the UK population remains low. Read the full story here: gov.uk/government/new…

academic.oup.com/jac/advance-ar… Just published the first case of penicillin-resistant group B Streptococcus isolated from a patient in the UK - though of note this was from 2016 and we have not seen any further resistance since - however a salient reminder that #AMR is ever a possibility

Tracing the transmissionof carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteralesat the patient: ward environmental nexus. Potential for putative patient-patient and patient-ward transmission was shown. #AMR #IPC #HCAI Royal Free London Well done Linzy Elton, PhD and team. rdcu.be/d4mzi