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Pre-XDR Mycobacterium tuberculosis in cattle. Plus some M. orygis (again) academic.oup.com/ofid/advance-a…

And I want to thank Ildiko ☕️ for helping me better understand how success is measured and reported, by different stakeholders.

Great to have Babak Javid here and glad he got to enjoy Montreal at its most beautiful!

Amazing legacy, great scientist! Julian was so encouraging in conversation and enthusiastic about new ideas.

Question to academics: I've been on several editorial boards before, but until now, never been asked to sign a 16-page legal contract, including a section on my obligations. Unpaid role. Is this the new norm?

Hi David Q1: in infectious diseases, yes, the host response can be very heterogeneous to the same pathogen. One well studied example is leprosy. Q2: what are the IBD phenotypes? Hopefully the type of research described above in this thread will help determine.

The first step in resisting an infectious disease is blocking infection from ever being established. Key step for TB, but less studied than next step (infection to disease). Important findings from a unique natural experiment. Kudos to Erwin Schurr and team!

Amazing thesis work led by Sarah Danchuk now submitted for review and posted as preprint: ssrn.com/abstract=51598…. Short summary: M. bovis & M. orygis manifest enhanced virulence compared to M. tuberculosis in natural model (calves) and small animal model (mice).

Yes, pre-treatment with streptomycin used for GI infections to reduce colonization resistance from gut flora. Pre-treatment not needed for lung infections, which despite a million-fold lower dose than GI infection, led to more severe disease.

Now out! The Lancet seminar on Tuberculosis authors.elsevier.com/a/1kjOaV-4XOwRS

Sihem Belhocine put this quote at the start of her thesis: "If many remedies are prescribed for an illness, you may be certain that the illness has no cure." Anton Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard, 1904 (the year he died of tuberculosis). Does this adage hold true in 2025?

Congratulations to our colleagues in Infectious Diseases with 4 FRQ awards. Todd C. Lee Guillaume Butler-Laporte and Drs. Lawandi & Costiniuk (not on Twitter-X)

Fantastic opportunity to bring your science to McGill and to live/work in the great city of Montreal!

This review by Don Vinh highlights the diversity in intrinsic fungal susceptibility across individuals and populations, through genetic- and autoantibody-mediated processes. hubs.la/Q03kDJ-v0 📘 In our Clinical #Immunology Collection: hubs.la/Q03kFj_p0 #FOCIS2025

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Thrilled to share our study Immunity how a TB-vaccine (BCG) and a fungi fragment (b-glucan) synergistically train neutrophils against cancers A big shout out to Leonardo Jurado the entire team and collaborators Josefowicz Lab Ajitha Thanabalasuriar Eva Kaufmann authors.elsevier.com/a/1lJal_OR%7Ey…

In Canadian Thoracic Society guidelines, moderate, or low, or very low quality evidence led to conditional recommendations: phac-aspc.gc.ca/tbpc-latb/pubs…

Boyd’s Surgical Path, 1967: “It has been suggested that mesenteric lymphatic obstruction plays a part and that infection may enter the intestinal lymphatics...causing on the one hand a mesenteric adenitis and on the other edema and granuloma formation in the wall of the bowel”

Has anyone looked at whether presence of granulomas is associated with specific genetic variants? Jean-Frederic Colombel Judy Cho Dr Mark Silverberg

Could TB vaccine trials be faster, smaller, cheaper? Our new Lancet Respir Med piece argues that including asymptomatic bacteriologically confirmed TB disease in the primary endpoint could be transformative—if the right evidence is generated. doi.org/10.1016/S2213-…