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📢🧬 How can we facilitate a speedy sequencing turnaround time? 🧬📢 journalofhospitalinfection.com/article/S0195-… COG-UK HOCI showed that the likelihood of SARS-CoV-2 sequencing data informing the IPC response was dependent on the return of the results within 5 days 1/3 🧵

A short thread on Group A Strep (GAS), invasive GAS (iGAS), scarlet fever and other conditions. UK Health Security Agency has released an epi report highlighting what we are detecting through notifications and reports from labs and clinicians gov.uk/government/pub… 1/8

Very well deserved - congratulations @BenLindsey1

Congratulations Professor @Thushan_deSilva - very well deserved!

Provision of first class emergency care to all has been a fundamental strength of the NHS since its inception so this is v. distressing to see. There are holes in the cheese outside human control but allowing others to grow ever larger ensures catastrophe thetimes.co.uk/article/f99945…

Great to see this move by Clinical Infectious Diseases & hope it supports more journals to do the same (& to be fair the tide is turning on this issue). Initial paper submission should focus on the research question, data & interpretation. If that bit is not robust, the formatting is irrelevant.

What a rollercoaster of a ride today the way that each and every player stepped up, united as a team and never gave up!!! We are so so so proud of you all 💫🌟💫💪😊🤩 Wakefield Girls' High School

So proud of these girls - national u16 netball finals and although not all results went their way, they all gave everything and ran some of the best teams in the country including eventual finalists very close. Also raised awareness and >£500 for Thrombosis UK

Fully support my junior colleagues striking today. There can be no triumphalism about the strike - terrible that it has come to this - but, since 2008, doctors’ pay has fallen progressively behind competing professions and overseas medics threatening recruitment and retention

Excellent meet experts session on febrile neutropenia with Carlota Gudiol. No role for serial repetition of BCs in patients with *just* persisting fever. Limited role for routine addition of gpos cover. Individualised duration based on clinical status - can often stop earlier

Fabulously energetic, engaging and informative start to the final day of #ECCMID2023 from Clare Warrell introducing the soon to be published updated @biainfection eosinophilia guidelines.

ID:IOTS SELL OUT!!!! We are pleased to announce a collaboration with @biainfection! We’ll shortly have a new website made in partnership with BIA where you can access our shownotes. We hope this will expand our reach to Infection trainees in UK & beyond! Details to follow!

Excellent work from @mikepetrie4, reviewing the outcomes of intended 2- stage exchange for PJI in Sheffield with less than a week of systemic antibiotics in the majority of cases.

Dave Partridge @mikepetrie4 Great work, supported by great lab staff both bms and mla providing solid micro processing and support, team Sheffield LLAU and LabMed

Fully support this. Smoking has multiple harmful infection associations too - poorer outcomes from sepsis, increased surgical site infection, peripheral vascular disease assoc infections as well as the massive increase in incidence and severity of respiratory tract infection

Lowbury lecture - Benedetta Allegranzi Components of a multi-modal response to HCAI. Interventions requiring varied skill-sets emphasising importance of building a strong team in improving patient safety. Healthcare Infection Society @biainfection Microbiology Society #FIS2023

#biaspring2024 - risk of strongy hyperinfection syndrome even with short and lowish doses of steroids and role for PCR if microscopy negative

#biaspring2024 At least as many hospitalisations due to RSV in older adults as in under 5s and significant mortality. Hopefully vaccination of this group will have major impact.