Max Bloomfield
@maxgbloomfield.bsky.social
Microbiologist and ID physician. Interest in diagnostic stewardship, epidemiology and practical microbial genomics. Views are my own.
Out now in @ofidjournal.bsky.social! 🦠🦠Short course, or management without antibiotics, had the same outcomes compared to 10 days treatment following #groupAstrep positive throat swabs in this large cohort. This included no increase in household cases. 💊💊
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Effect of a Widespread Reduction in Treatment Duration for Group A Streptococcal Pharyngitis on Outcomes Including Household Transmission
In this large cohort of patients with group A streptococcal–positive throat swabs, there was no increase in repeat antibiotic treatment, repeat positive th
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August 1, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Out now in @ofidjournal.bsky.social! 🦠🦠Short course, or management without antibiotics, had the same outcomes compared to 10 days treatment following #groupAstrep positive throat swabs in this large cohort. This included no increase in household cases. 💊💊
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Reposted by Max Bloomfield
📌The need for speed: ultra-rapid high-resolution outbreak analysis in a front-line hospital microbiology laboratory |@medrxivpreprint
See how hospital labs can analyse outbreaks fast - no on-site #Bioinformatics needed, cutting delays
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See how hospital labs can analyse outbreaks fast - no on-site #Bioinformatics needed, cutting delays
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The need for speed: ultra-rapid high-resolution outbreak analysis in a front-line hospital microbiology laboratory
Many hospital laboratories have technical capacity to perform whole-genome sequencing but lack bioinformatic expertise to analyse sequence data. Sending isolates to reference laboratories creates dela...
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February 13, 2025 at 9:30 PM
📌The need for speed: ultra-rapid high-resolution outbreak analysis in a front-line hospital microbiology laboratory |@medrxivpreprint
See how hospital labs can analyse outbreaks fast - no on-site #Bioinformatics needed, cutting delays
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
🖥️🧬💻
#AcademicSky
#MicroSky
🧪🧫🦠
See how hospital labs can analyse outbreaks fast - no on-site #Bioinformatics needed, cutting delays
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
🖥️🧬💻
#AcademicSky
#MicroSky
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#IDSky colleague from New Zealand @maxgbloomfield.bsky.social sent us his study on environmental benefits when they switched TID cefuroxime to once a day ceftriaxone. They had a 383kg waste reduction! Nice to connect with #IDSky across the globe on sustainability.
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pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38696830/
Incorporating patient, nursing and environmental factors into antimicrobial stewardship: effects of simplifying treatment from cefuroxime to ceftriaxone - PubMed
This simplification of our AG from a three-times-daily to a once-daily antibiotic resulted in considerable savings for our hospital (roughly 1.7 full-time equivalent nurses and over a tonne of waste y...
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November 21, 2024 at 5:22 PM