#createphd2024lusaka - great presentations from our PhD fellows on bacterial infections this morning, and questions from our assembled guests. Thank you to Edwin Armitage Alex J Keeley Anja Saso Kevin Martin Sarah Sturrock

Great talk from Anja Saso on her Pertussis work from MRC Unit The Gambia at LSHTM - lots of late-night lab work and important results! #createphd2024lusaka #CREATEPhD

So cool to share a slot with some really amazing researchers - gigantic shoes to fill, and possibly the greatest group A Strep bromance the world has ever seen Alex J Keeley Edwin Armitage Anja Saso Kevin Martin

New paper from The Gambia looking into health seeking behaviour and beliefs around sore throats. So important for improving diagnosis of StrepA pharyngitis and rheumatic heart disease in Africa. journals.plos.org/globalpubliche… Maria Suau MRC Unit The Gambia at LSHTM London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine #StrepA

New research article #Streptococcus pyogenes carriage and infection within households in The Gambia: a longitudinal cohort study thelancet.com/journals/lanmi… #StrepA #OpenAccess #OA

It was a huge pleasure to be asked to talk to the The Lancet Microbe podcast about our recently published SpyCATS study in Gambia MRC Unit The Gambia at LSHTM Listen here: buzzsprout.com/1794195/151295…. Paper here: thelancet.com/journals/lanmi…

Can we improve diagnosis #StrepA? shorturl.at/xHCfI We evaluated patients with pharyngitis in the Gambia & found all clinical decision rules performed poorly. Molecular tests detected higher burden #StrepA than culture but are too $ for use in low resource settings.

Is Streptococcus dysgalactiae subp. equisimilis (SDSE) just the poor cousin of S. pyogenes? Although it mostly causes disease in adults, there's actually much clinical and genomic overlap! See our review just out in CMR Steven Tong Mark_Davies_Lab Doherty Institute journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/cm…

How much #StrepA do we miss when assessing impetigo using culture? Answer: a lot Journal of Infectious Diseases shorturl.at/3qM7r In our original study we detected StrepA in 51% of lesions in children at MRC Unit The Gambia at LSHTM but this increased to 80% using qPCR.

Thrilled to announce we received an NHMRC Ideas Grant La Trobe University to investigate #StrepA transmission and optimal study design in high burden settings. Can’t wait to start working with Michael Marks, Trish Campbell, Ouli Xie, Mark_Davies_Lab, Edwin Armitage and the whole AI team!

📢 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: medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

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🧵 New paper from MRC Strep A research team out today in Nature Medicine nature.com/articles/s4159… On development of #StrepA #Immunity over life course in #TheGambia raising hope for vaccines on the horizon 1/