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Dr Charlotte Patterson
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UK Infectious Diseases & Microbiology Doctor @NHS | Epidemiologist @UKHSA | Field Epidemiology Fellow c2023 #UKFETP | Daughter & Dog Mum 🐕🦮👧👧👧 | Peak District resident and walking enthusiast 🏔️likes/reposts don’t mean I agree
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We had high hopes for an #IGRA platform overcoming barriers to use in high #tuberculosis burden settings. Unfortunately it didn't perform as expected, esp in young children #idsky #tbsky
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Great to work with a fantastic team at Malawi Liverpool Wellcome prog & @lshtm.bsky.social
Low concordance between QIAreach QuantiFERON-TB, a novel interferon-gamma release assay, and QuantiFERON-TB Gold Plus, in a population-based survey in Blantyre, Malawi
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January 3, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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#JustPublished!
ECDC: wastewater #poliovirus detections in the EU call for continued strong surveillance and high vaccination coverage rates.

Read full statement: bit.ly/49fIyQ9
#Polio #cVDPV2
Wastewater poliovirus detections in the EU call for continued strong surveillance and high vaccination coverage rates
Following the recent detections of several wastewater samples positive for poliovirus in three EU countries between September and November 2024, ECDC urges all relevant stakeholders to remain vigilant...
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November 29, 2024 at 6:59 PM
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Alternative PJP prophylaxis carries risk of breakthrough infection and barriers to initiation. Since most recovered from adverse effects of TMP-SMX and tolerated resumption, providers should re-trial TMP-SMX when feasible. #idsky #medsky #Txid
November 29, 2024 at 10:58 AM
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November 28, 2024 at 11:10 PM
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Prof Alison Rodger shares the preliminary findings of the NICHE Study #BHIVA24. It explores associations between different factors including shame, depressive/anxiety symptoms & socio-economic markers. You can read more about the study here: www.ucl.ac.uk/global-healt...
Needs Informed model of Care for people living with HIV (NICHE)
NICHE is a five year programme of research aimed at improving mental and physical wellbeing in people living with HIV (PLWH).
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November 29, 2024 at 11:44 AM
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Just published the first case of penicillin-resistant group B Streptococcus isolated from a patient in the UK - though of note this was from 2016 and we have not seen any further penicillin resistance since - however a salient reminder that #AMR is ever a possibility
A case of penicillin-resistant group B Streptococcus isolated from a patient in the UK
AbstractObjectives. In England, group B streptococci (GBS; Streptococcus agalactiae) are considered universally susceptible to penicillin. Reports from Afr
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November 24, 2024 at 1:48 PM
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Welcome to World AMR Awareness Week & #EAAD 2024

Aim: to increase awareness of global antimicrobial resistance & to encourage best practice.

Tools, themes & signpost to key resources are available via the toolkit

www.gov.uk/government/p...

#AntibioticGuardian #WAAW2024
November 18, 2024 at 7:14 AM
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Disappointed not to be joining #UKFETP, #EPIET and #EUPHEM colleagues at #ESCAIDE2024 in Stockholm today, but the weather in the Peak District is helping make up for i!t ❄️☀️ #peakdistrict #maternityleave
November 20, 2024 at 12:26 PM
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New paper from my colleagues at UCLH

Nearly 70% (!!!) resistance to Cefiderocol in NDM positive bacteria.

Cefiderocol...we hardly knew ye...

Perfect timing for World Antimicrobial Awareness Week #waaw24 #IDSky

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Resistance profiles of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales in a large centre in England: are we already losing cefiderocol?
AbstractBackground. Carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales (CPE) pose difficult therapeutic challenges. We aimed to characterize antimicrobial resistance
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November 18, 2024 at 10:34 AM
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Noooo... I thought Group B streptococcus was always penicillin susceptible! 😱

#IDSky #MicroSky #AMR (1/2)

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A case of penicillin-resistant group B Streptococcus isolated from a patient in the UK
AbstractObjectives. In England, group B streptococci (GBS; Streptococcus agalactiae) are considered universally susceptible to penicillin. Reports from Afr
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November 18, 2024 at 10:17 PM