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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

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CMI Communications @cmicomms.bsky.social · Feb 5
📣 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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📣 New #Communicable drops Mon 17 Nov!
Next week is World AMR Awareness Week #WAAW2025 and we have a special episode. Nav & Thomas invite Aula Abbara (🇬🇧), Guido Granata (🇮🇹) & Tuomas Aro (🇫🇮/ Trainee Association of ESCMID) to discuss the urgent issue of AMR in war & crisis zones.

#IDSky
November 13, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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📣 How many healthy people in a high-income, low-resistance country will be #ESBL carriers? In this prospective cohort of >700 adults with no at-risk travel history, whole genome sequencing showed 5% prevalence. It was all #Ecoli.

#IDSky #clinmicro #MedSky #OA

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Carriage of extended-spectrum β-lactamase–producing Enterobacterales among healthy adults: a cohort study in Finland
Despite increasing antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in clinical samples in high-income countries, data on healthy community dwellers remains limited. We explored the prevalence and types of extended-spe...
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November 13, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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📣 In a US cohort of >2500 #bacteremia patients, #Serratia marcescens was associated with persistent bacteremia and cardiac devices. Yet WGS showed genetic diversity of isolates: infections are not clonal.

#IDSky #clinmicro #MedSky @vancefowler.bsky.social

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Clinical and genomic characterization of Serratia bloodstream infections
Previously considered a rare opportunistic pathogen, Serratia is now an emerging cause of bacteraemia. We compared the risk factors and outcomes of patients with Serratia bacteraemia relative to other...
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November 10, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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📣The journal is happy to introduce its new fellows joining the editorial board in January!

Congratulations and welcome Laura Jung @laurajng.bsky.social, Rekha Pai Mangalore @rp09.bsky.social, and Victor Dahl @victordahl.bsky.social ✨

#IDSky
November 6, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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📣 NEW: Tara Smith @aetiology.bsky.social replies to our recently published commentary on staying vs leaving Twitter 'Joining the X-odus'

Smith points out "the social cost of harassment and threats on Twitter/X, particularly for women" and more

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#IDSky #clinmicro
Twitter remains a haven of harassment
I am submitting a LTE regarding a recent CMI publication,
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November 4, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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Better: ☺️

🎙️ Just published: Communicable E39: Dengue on the rise

Hosted by @anniejoseph.bsky.social & Nav Narayanan

w/ invited guests Steven Lim & Andre Siqueira @andre-siqueira.bsky.social

Listen on #Communicable:

#IDSky #Clinmicro #MedSky #dengue #virology

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Communicable E39: Dengue on the rise | Communicable | Episode 39
Once confined to the tropics, dengue is spreading via its vector, the Aedes mosquito, to more temperate regions, causing increases in global morbidity, mortality and cost. In 2019, the WHO recognised ...
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November 3, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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🎙️ Just published: Communicable E39: Dengue on the rise

Hosted by @angelahuttner.bsky.social & @erinmccreary.bsky.social

w/ invited guests: Barbara Trautner @bwtrautner.bsky.social & Valéry Lavergne

Listen on Communicable:

#IDSky #Clinmicro #MedSky #UTIsky
Communicable E39: Dengue on the rise
Once confined to the tropics, dengue is spreading via its vector, the...
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November 2, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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📣 New #Communicable drops Mon 3 Nov!
@anniejoseph.bsky.social & Nav host @andre-siqueira.bsky.social (Brazil) & Steven Lim (Malaysia) to discuss #dengue as a rising global health burden, how to diagnose & manage it, and what's in the therapeutic pipeline 🔍

@dndi.org #denguealliance #IDSky
October 30, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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Read about it in my commentary with Gautam Dantas on @gardp.bsky.social and @cmicomms.bsky.social 👉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Ecological strategies to end the war on resistance
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October 27, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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📣In a longitudinal analysis of top ID journals, gender balance is projected for women first authors in 2028 - but for women last authors, only in 2043
The proportion of women editors is projected to remain low

https://www.cmi-comms.org/article/S2950-5909(25)00084-8/

Katharina #IDSky #womeninstem
October 27, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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Interesting - Bluesky definitely a signifixant player in #IDSky community

Comparable share of #IDWeek2025 activity between Bluesky & X reflects recent debate in @cmicomms.bsky.social by @germhuntermd.bsky.social & @drneilstone.bsky.social on merits of 2 platforms
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October 27, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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gardp.bsky.social
📢 Exciting news!

Selected articles from our Antimicrobial Viewpoints series will now be co-published in CMI Communications, @escmid.bsky.social's open-access journal.

This collaboration will expand the reach and amplify the impact of these articles within the antimicrobial R&D community.
October 20, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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🎙️ Just published: Communicable E38: Why do you have to be so complicated? The 2025...

Hosted by @angelahuttner.bsky.social & @erinmccreary.bsky.social

w/ invited guests: Barbara Trautner @bwtrautner.bsky.social & Valéry Lavergne

Listen on Communicable:

#IDSky #Clinmicro #MedSky #UTIsky
Communicable E38: Why do you have to be so complicated? The 2025 IDSA Complicated UTI Guidelines
In this episode of Communicable, Erin McCreary and Angela Huttner are...
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October 19, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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📣 Is there is value in staying on Twitter/X?

@drneilstone.bsky.social may make you think again even if you did join the #Xodus

& Ilan Schwartz @germhuntermd.bsky.social may make you think again if you didn't

🙏🏼 to both for this thoughtful pro-con

#IDSky #MedSky

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Joining the X-odus: Contrasting perspectives on whether infection specialists should leave X (formerly Twitter)
Social media is a cultural and communications phenomenon that is an integral part of life in the 2020s. Twitter was founded in 2006 and became a leading social media platform with an active user base ...
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October 16, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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New pro/con perspective piece by @drneilstone.bsky.social & yours truly

Joining the X-odus: Contrasting perspectives on whether infection specialists should leave X (formerly Twitter)

That I'm sharing it here belies where I stand on the issue

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Joining the X-odus: Contrasting perspectives on whether infection specialists should leave X (formerly Twitter)
Social media is a cultural and communications phenomenon that is an integral part of life in the 2020s. Twitter was founded in 2006 and became a leading social media platform with an active user base ...
www.cmi-comms.org
October 16, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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📣 New #Communicable drops Mon 20 Oct!
@angelahuttner.bsky.social & @erinmccreary.bsky.social welcome Barbara Trautner @bwtrautner.bsky.social & Valéry Lavergne, the co-chairs of the first IDSA guidelines for complicated UTIs, to discuss this important milestone!

#IDSky #UTIsky #MedSky #clinmicro
October 16, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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📣 In an Australian population-level cohort, Singh et al observe small but significant seasonal variations in #AMR among community #UTI isolates. Another opportunity for targeted #stewardship interventions.

www.cmi-comms.org/article/S295...

#IDSky #clinmicro #medsky #Ecoli
Seasonal trends in antimicrobial resistance of urinary Escherichia coli isolates
This study aimed to examine seasonal variations in antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in Escherichia coli urinary isolates from community and hospital settings in the Illawarra-Shoalhaven region, New Sout...
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October 13, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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✨NEW open call for articles 📣
What's in a name? That's exactly what we want you to tell us in this new series we have just launched, "Person behind the name". Read the call and submit your piece here: www.cmi-comms.org/article/S295...

#IDSky #clinmicro
Banner announcing the journal's new series on "the person behind the name" and a call for articles
October 9, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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absteward.bsky.social
What’s in a name?” Even microbes carry stories. @cmicomms.bsky.social
is launching a new series exploring the people behind eponymous organisms—those whose names live on through microbes like Escherichia or Pasteurella. Open call for submissions #idsky
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The person behind the name – an open call for articles in a new series for CMI Communications
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October 8, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Interesting discussion about peer review; I particularly enjoyed the history.
October 6, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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🎧 Serge Horbach, assistant prof at @isis-radboud.bsky.social, is part of this podcast episode on the past and future of journal peer review. 👇 #STS #scientificintegrity #peerreview
October 6, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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🎙️ Just published: Communicable E37: 'Peer review is broken'

Hosted by @angelahuttner.bsky.social & @anniejoseph.bsky.social

w/ invited guests: Melinda Baldwin @mbaldwin.bsky.social & Serge Horbach

Listen on Communicable:

#IDSky #Clinmicro #MedSky #peerreview #AI
Communicable E37: 'Peer review is broken'
Contrary to popular belief, peer review has only recently become an...
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October 5, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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📣 New #Communicable drops Mon 6 Oct! @angelahuttner.bsky.social & @anniejoseph.bsky.social invite experts Melinda Baldwin @mbaldwin.bsky.social & Serge Horbach to discuss the history of peer review, its relevance today & alternative models such as #LLMs.

#IDSky #clinmicro #medsky #peerreview #AI
October 2, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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📣 In a cohort of 2,850 adults undergoing hip #arthroplasty in Belgium, post-op #infection was rare (1.2%) & early (74%), but #autoimmune inflammatory #arthritis & pre-op anemia emerged as major risk factors.

#IDSky #MedSky #PJI #orthosky #surgsky #OA

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Postoperative hip arthroplasty infections: A monocentric retrospective study in Liège University Hospital, Belgium, 2015-2023
Despite significant progress in prevention, periprosthetic joint infection (PJI) remains a major complication following hip arthroplasty. Our aim was to identify risk factors for hip PJI in order to i...
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September 30, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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📣 In a cohort of 670,000 Finnish children, late preterm (34-36w) exposure to #corticosteroids leads to a small but significant increase in hospitalizations for #infection in early childhood
Difference holds in exposure-discordant siblings
#IDSky #PedSky #MedSky #OA

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Graphical abstract describing the study by Katri Raikkonen et al: In a cohort of 670,000 Finnish children, late preterm (34-36w) exposure to corticosteroids leads to a small but significant increase in hospitalizations for infection in early childhood.
September 26, 2025 at 4:40 AM