olivierpaccoud.bsky.social
@olivierpaccoud.bsky.social
ID doctor in Paris 🇫🇷, epi & clin mycology PhD candidate 🍄
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✨📄 What about the untapped therapeutic potential of the immune response in invasive aspergillosis ? Here’s some rational, pre-clinical and clinical evidence. Huge thanks to our amazing 🌍 team!
🔗 bit.ly/46kajHr
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September 4, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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 I have the pleasure of being the Community Manager for the next edition of the Medical Mycology 🍄🌍🔬 MOOC Institut Pasteur Paris. 
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August 4, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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Results from our CAST-NET cohort study published. Excellent national coverage of cryptococcal antigen screening in SA but real challenges to act on CrAg+ results to exclude meningitis and dispense pre-emptive antifungals

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July 17, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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Here is the study we were commenting on:

Histoplasma antigenuria prevalence in patients with advanced HIV disease in Côte d’Ivoire: a prospective trial ancillary study

Histoplasma antigenuria is prevalent in persons with advanced HIV in Côte d’Ivoire

academic.oup.com/cid/advance-...
May 16, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Histoplasma antigen screening in advanced HIV disease

✅ Just Accepted
✍️ @GermHunterMD.bsky.social
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Histoplasma antigen screening in advanced HIV disease
doi.org
May 14, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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High Mortality and Associated Risk Factors in Kidney Transplant Recipients with Cryptococcosis - A Nationwide Cohort Study Over a Decade Using USRDS Data

✅ Just Accepted
⭐ Editor's Choice
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High Mortality and Associated Risk Factors in Kidney Transplant Recipients with Cryptococcosis - A Nationwide Cohort Study Over a Decade Using USRDS Data
Cryptococcosis is an invasive fungal disease that significantly contributes to morbidity and mortality among kidney transplant recipients (KTRs).
doi.org
May 9, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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NEW PAPER with @tom-parks.bsky.social and @petedodd24.bsky.social in @ofidjournal.bsky.social

Our tool can estimate extent to which misallocation of person time will result in spurious or optimistic estimates of intervention effects

We find benefits of IVIG in STSS have likely been exaggerated
Quantifying potential immortal time bias in observational studies in acute severe infection
We developed a tool to quantify the impact of misallocation of person time, then used it to demonstrate that published observational studies have likely ov
academic.oup.com
March 18, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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🍄 What determines the duration of antifungal therapy? 🦠💊

This comprehensive review explores the scientific foundations behind treatment duration, identifies key knowledge gaps, and highlights critical future directions in the field. Don’t miss it! 🔥

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www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Duration of systemic antifungal therapy for patients with invasive fungal diseases: A reassessment
Invasive fungal diseases are associated with significant morbidity and mortality, especially among immunocompromised patients, and often prompt for ra…
www.sciencedirect.com
March 15, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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Causes of HIV-related CNS infection in Cameroon, Malawi, and Tanzania: epidemiological findings from the DREAMM HIV-related CNS implementation study

Lots of cryptococcal meningitis in this cohort (40-60% of those with proven diagnoses), mortality similar to trials

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Causes of HIV-related CNS infection in Cameroon, Malawi, and Tanzania: epidemiological findings from the DREAMM HIV-related CNS implementation study
Within the study population, the aetiology of HIV-related CNS infection varied substantially between Malawi, Cameroon, and Tanzania. Additional prospective epidemiological data are needed to inform HI...
www.thelancet.com
February 25, 2025 at 4:42 PM