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Sutezolid in combination with bedaquiline, delamanid, and moxifloxacin for pulmonary tuberculosis (PanACEA-SUDOCU-01): a prospective, open-label, randomised, phase 2b dose-finding trial
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Sutezolid in combination with bedaquiline, delamanid, and moxifloxacin for pulmonary tuberculosis (PanACEA-SUDOCU-01): a prospective, open-label, randomised, phase 2b dose-finding trial
Sutezolid, combined with bedaquiline, delamanid, and moxifloxacin, was shown to be efficacious and added activity to the background drug combination, although we cannot make a final dose recommendatio...
www.thelancet.com
July 10, 2025 at 7:42 AM
What if we had a drug against all stages of Plasmodium falciparum? PfSnf2L’s essential role and sequence divergence make it a potential drug target for treating malaria.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Plasmodium blood stage development requires the chromatin remodeller Snf2L - Nature
Plasmodium falciparum Snf2L is an ISWI-related ATPase that actively repositions P. falciparum nucleosomes in vivo.
www.nature.com
April 25, 2025 at 4:46 AM
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Dawson et al. found that combining quabodepistat with bedaquiline and delamanid in HIV-neg adults with drug-susceptible tuberculosis was safe, well tolerated, and showed similar early bactericidal activity to conventional therapy.

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Safety, pharmacokinetics, and early bactericidal activity of quabodepistat in combination with delamanid, bedaquiline, or both in adults with pulmonary tuberculosis: a randomised, active-controlled, o...
In this 14-day trial, quabodepistat plus delamanid plus bedaquiline, a novel three-drug combination, appeared to be safe, well tolerated, and provided robust early bactericidal activity in adults with...
www.thelancet.com
April 14, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Once again: Doxy PEP effectively prevents infections with Neisseria gonococcal, Chlamydia and syphilis.
March 26, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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New research:

The effect of pertussis vaccination in pregnancy on the immunogenicity of acellular or whole-cell pertussis vaccination in Gambian infants (GaPS): a single-centre, randomised, controlled, double-blind, phase 4 trial

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
The effect of pertussis vaccination in pregnancy on the immunogenicity of acellular or whole-cell pertussis vaccination in Gambian infants (GaPS): a single-centre, randomised, controlled, double-blind...
Vaccinating women with Tdap-IPV in pregnancy was safe and well tolerated in a sub-Saharan African setting and boosted the quantity and quality of pertussis-specific antibodies in infants in early life...
www.thelancet.com
March 26, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Looks like a daily cup of coffee in the morning could lower your risk of cardiovascular mortality while a cup at another time wouldn't.
January 8, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Human rabies has become a very rare disease in the Americas due to pre- and postexposure vaccinations/prophylaxis. One would wonder why this individual did not receive any PEP.
A person in Fresno county, California has died from rabies, perhaps from a bat bite.

It's a terrible death. This sucks.
November 26, 2024 at 7:47 PM
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Surprise! Your friends (& your friends’ friends) shape your microbiome! Scientists found that bacteria in your 💩 were a better predictor than demographics like age group, gender, or wealth, of who you’re friends with: www.nature.com/articles/s41.... 🤯

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Your friends shape your microbiome — and so do their friends
Analysis of nearly 2,000 people living in remote villages in Honduras reveals who’s spreading gut microorganisms to whom.
www.nature.com
November 22, 2024 at 1:38 PM

The trend to short treatment duration is becoming more and more clear.

The BALANCE trial: Among hospitalized patients with bloodstream infection, antibiotic treatment for 7 days was noninferior to treatment for 14 days. 🧪

#idsky

www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
Antibiotic Treatment for 7 versus 14 Days in Patients with Bloodstream Infections | NEJM
Bloodstream infections are associated with substantial morbidity and mortality. Early, appropriate antibiotic therapy is important, but the duration of treatment is uncertain. In a multicenter, non...
www.nejm.org
November 22, 2024 at 1:37 PM
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Relevant to everyone on the platform! Bluesky is the new destination for X/Twitter’s health and science community. Here’s why www.statnews.com/2024/11/21/b... via @statnews @katiepalmer.bsky.social
Bluesky is the new destination for X/Twitter’s health and science community. Here's why
#MedTwitter is migrating en masse from X to Bluesky, suddenly making it an essential hub for scientific discourse. Here's why.
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November 21, 2024 at 8:31 PM