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ESCMID's open-access journal with companion podcast (Communicable) for all things infectious diseases, clinical microbiology, AMR & stewardship #IDSky #MedSky #EpiSky #ClinMicro

🗞️ https://www.cmi-comms.org/

🎙️ https://communicable.transistor.fm
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📣 Medical editors call for #action against the decisions being taken in the #USA undermining #medicine and #science, and international #coordination to preserve what has been built across borders.

#IDSky #Clinmicro #MedSky #Episky #publichealth #vaccines

www.cmi-comms.com/article/S295...
From medical editors: A call to the global infectious diseases and clinical microbiology community
Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.Robert F. Kennedy, Senior
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📣 What is a #WISCA?

It's something you should probably use for culture-negative prosthetic joint infections. Local antibiograms alone can be misleading.

This WISCA showed that doxycycline + a fluoroquinolone offer best coverage for #PJI

#IDSky #clinmicro #ortho
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Weighted-incidence syndromic combination antibiogram (WISCA) to guide antibiotic regimens for empiric treatment of prosthetic joint infections: A retrospective cohort study
Prosthetic joint infections (PJIs) are now routinely treated with oral antibiotics, but selecting empiric regimens is challenging, including for treatment of culture-negative PJIs. Although antibiogra...
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February 12, 2026 at 10:10 AM
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On International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we empower women to take on leadership roles in the field of infection, creating strong role models to inspire the next generation. Read more: https://www.escmid.org/about-us/the-society/society-news/empowering-women-in-science/
#WomenInScience
February 11, 2026 at 10:13 AM
🎙️ Just published Communicable E46: Steroids for pneumocystis pneumonia

Hosted by Nav Narayanan & Josh Nosanchuk

w/ invited guests Virginie Lemiale, Elie Azoulay & Emily McDonald

Listen on #Communicable: https://share.transistor.fm/s/0066901c
February 8, 2026 at 11:00 PM
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📣 New #Communicable drops Mon 9 Feb! Nav Narayanan & Josh Nosanchuk host Virginie Lemiale and Elie Azoulay, who led the PIC trial, and Emily McDonald to discuss the utility of adjunctive steroid therapy for pneumocystosis in HIV- individuals. Tune in Monday 🎙️

#IDSky #clinmicro
February 5, 2026 at 11:00 AM
📣 New #Communicable drops Mon 9 Feb! Nav Narayanan & Josh Nosanchuk host Virginie Lemiale and Elie Azoulay, who led the PIC trial, and Emily McDonald to discuss the utility of adjunctive steroid therapy for pneumocystosis in HIV- individuals. Tune in Monday 🎙️

#IDSky #clinmicro
February 5, 2026 at 11:00 AM
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In our new issue, researchers from Belgium report on the detection of West Nile Virus #WNV in several wild #birds over a period of 3 months during 2025 - evidence for them of local WNV circulation in Belgium

🐦 bit.ly/EUS314

#EpiSky #IDSky #MedSky #MicroSky #PublicHealth 🧪🛟🧫
@sciensano.be
January 29, 2026 at 4:33 PM
✨ The journal is delighted to introduce its new associate editor, Anne-Grete Märtson, who leads the Antiviral Pharmacology research group at Leiden University.

Congratulations and welcome! We are so happy to have you on board!

#IDSky #clinmicro
January 30, 2026 at 11:05 AM
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Congratulations to David Foley and the PathWest team for this important publication, especially considering the increase of syphilis in Australia

#MicroSky #IDEpi #IDSky
January 29, 2026 at 11:20 AM
📣 Foley et al assess #syphilis PCR & serology in >8K Australian patients

#Serology: still essential for first infections & reinfections

#PCR: limited add'l benefit in first infections; w/ serology can improve detection of reinfections

#IDSky #clinmicro #diagnosticstewardship

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The utility of combined syphilis PCR and serology during an outbreak in Western Australia: A multicentre retrospective diagnostic evaluation
Syphilis has re-emerged as a global public health concern. Although serology is well established, the role of PCR remains unclear. We evaluated the di…
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January 29, 2026 at 10:52 AM
Spotted at the #CLSI meeting in Arizona: CMI Comms editors (and #Communicable hosts) @dremilymcd.bsky.social, @erinmccreary.bsky.social, Nav Narayanan, and Thomas Tängdén 🫶
January 29, 2026 at 6:17 AM
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📣 New #Communicable drops Mon 26 Jan! In our last episode, we brought you some favorite #clinmicro papers of 2025. We continue this thread in our next episode with top ID papers of 2025, picked by our editors, Josh Davis & Emily McDonald and guest, Steven Tong. ⭐ Tune in Monday🎙️

#IDSky
January 22, 2026 at 10:45 AM
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"Our institutions signal a clear preference for quantity over quality" ➡️ it's time to drop speedy but low-quality and weak science, and steer the weel towards robust, reliable, but slow science -aka degrowth 😊✊📉💪

#ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #PublicationIntegrity #ResearchIntegrity
📣 A peer reviewer used #AI to create a fake review with 6 self-citation prompts. But is s/he the only perpetrator in our system? In the year's first editorial, Angela Huttner explores the depths of the academic-industrial complex.

#IDSky #clinmicro #peerreview

https://ow.ly/juoW50Y05t6
The beating heart of a broken machine
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January 21, 2026 at 7:55 AM
📣 New #Communicable drops Mon 26 Jan! In our last episode, we brought you some favorite #clinmicro papers of 2025. We continue this thread in our next episode with top ID papers of 2025, picked by our editors, Josh Davis & Emily McDonald and guest, Steven Tong. ⭐ Tune in Monday🎙️

#IDSky
January 22, 2026 at 10:45 AM
📣 A peer reviewer used #AI to create a fake review with 6 self-citation prompts. But is s/he the only perpetrator in our system? In the year's first editorial, Angela Huttner explores the depths of the academic-industrial complex.

#IDSky #clinmicro #peerreview

https://ow.ly/juoW50Y05t6
The beating heart of a broken machine
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January 20, 2026 at 2:23 PM
📣 Who is behind #Kingella kingae, #Elizabethkingia
meningoseptica, and several other bacteria? Anne-Marie Dolan et al describe the legacy of Elizabeth O. King, #CDC microbiologist & World War II army officer, for our #Personbehindthename series.

#IDSky #clinmicro

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Microbiology royalty: Elizabeth O. King and the legacy of Elizabethkingia meningoseptica
The genus Elizabethkingia comprises Gram-negative, nonmotile, nonspore-forming aerobic rods in the family Weeksellaceae. These nonglucose-fermenting organisms were long included within Flavobacterium ...
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January 12, 2026 at 12:40 PM
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Pretty cool that Robin Patel picks Ouli Xie's @lancetmicrobe.bsky.social paper on SDSE and S pyogenes as one of her top 3 clinical microbiology papers for 2025! As expected, Robin does a great job explaining the paper.

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

@onisillos.bsky.social
January 12, 2026 at 3:04 AM
🎙️ Just published Communicable E44: Top clinical microbiology papers in 2025

Hosted by Annie Joseph & Josh Nosanchuk w/ invited guests Robin Patel & Fidelma Fitzpatrick

Listen on #Communicable: https://share.transistor.fm/s/6e5c26ae

#IDSky #clinmicro
January 11, 2026 at 11:00 PM
📣 Are steroids likely to reduce mortality in non-HIV patients with severe PCP? @drtoddlee.bsky.social, @dremilymcd.bsky.social et al. reexamine the Lemiale RCT with a Bayesian lens to find out.

#IDSky #clinmicro #PCP #immunosky #medsky

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Contextualizing the use of corticosteroids in severe Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia through a Bayesian lens
A recent multicenter randomized clinical trial (RCT) of steroids for severe Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia (PCP) in patients without HIV failed to demonstrate a significant benefit in its primary ou...
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January 8, 2026 at 6:33 PM
📣 New #Communicable drops Mon 12 Jan! We kick off the new year with Annie Joseph & Josh Nosanchuk hosting Robin Patel (Mayo Clinic) & Fidelma Fitzpatrick (RCSI) to discuss their top #clinmicro papers of 2025 ⭐ Tune in Monday🎙️

#IDSky
January 8, 2026 at 10:55 AM
📣 #Wastewater surveillance is a powerful tool. In this integrated molecular epidemiologic study of >1000 patients with #influenza, #RSV, or #Covid, it correlates year after year with number of inpatient + ambulatory cases.

#IDSky #clinmicro #ViroSky #EpiSky #OA
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An integrated surveillance study of SARS-CoV-2, influenza virus, and respiratory syncytial virus infections
We aimed to describe recent epidemiological trends of SARS-CoV-2, influenza virus (A/B), and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) in the canton of Geneva, Switzerland, using data from the Sentinella netw...
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January 6, 2026 at 8:15 AM
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My personal favourite @cmicomms.bsky.social episode in 2025 was Ep. 29 "Bacterial Vaginosis & Male Partners".
Super fascinating science alongside someone so passionate about the science. I've even shared this ep to my non-science friends and they thought it was awesome too
🎙️ Just published #Communicable E43: Katie's picks of 2025

Hosted by Angela Huttner & Annie Joseph w/ invited 'guest' Katie Hostettler, managing editor at CMI Communications & Communicable producer

Listen on #Communicable: https://share.transistor.fm/s/0da740f3
January 2, 2026 at 1:04 AM
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One of the biggest challenges I've had coming back to "regular life" in Australia after my time with MSF is dealing with fireworks.
Fireworks in essence are just pretty coloured bombs.
Happy New Year's y'all.
May 2026 bring actual peace and security, equality and equity.
December 31, 2025 at 11:58 AM
🎙️ Just published #Communicable E43: Katie's picks of 2025

Hosted by Angela Huttner & Annie Joseph w/ invited 'guest' Katie Hostettler, managing editor at CMI Communications & Communicable producer

Listen on #Communicable: https://share.transistor.fm/s/0da740f3
December 28, 2025 at 11:00 PM