Virginia Pierce
@vmpiercemd.bsky.social
Clinical Microbiologist at Michigan Medicine. Associate Professor of Pathology and Pediatrics at University of Michigan Medical School. Views are my own.
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Powerful opinion piece in today’s NYT from Perri Klass (gift link): www.nytimes.com/2025/07/04/o...
#PedsID #IDSky #PedsSky
#PedsID #IDSky #PedsSky
Opinion | ‘I Never Want to See a Case of Polio, but I’m Very Fearful I Will’
www.nytimes.com
July 4, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Powerful opinion piece in today’s NYT from Perri Klass (gift link): www.nytimes.com/2025/07/04/o...
#PedsID #IDSky #PedsSky
#PedsID #IDSky #PedsSky
Reposted by Virginia Pierce
OK, last day of World Antibiotic Awareness Week #WAAW, guess it's time for that 🧵.
1/8 Our lab + MGH Clin Micro lab piloted a novel, rapid test that returns both genotypic & phenotypic susceptibility information based on gene expression profiling. Worked well (95% overall agreement) on clinical BCx
1/8 Our lab + MGH Clin Micro lab piloted a novel, rapid test that returns both genotypic & phenotypic susceptibility information based on gene expression profiling. Worked well (95% overall agreement) on clinical BCx
Paper from the lab, now online at J Clin Micro: clinical pilot study of our transcriptional approach to rapid phenotypic antibiotic susceptibility testing (w a pinch of genotype on the side). Led by RA Eleanor Young (1st 1st-author paper!) & ID doc David Roach.
🧵 once I finish a grant proposal!
🧵 once I finish a grant proposal!
Clinical pilot of bacterial transcriptional profiling as a combined genotypic and phenotypic antimicrobial susceptibility test | Journal of Clinical Microbiology
Exposure to antibiotics causes differential transcriptional signatures in susceptible
vs resistant bacteria. These differences can be leveraged to rapidly predict resistance
profiles of Escherichia co...
journals.asm.org
November 24, 2024 at 11:09 PM
OK, last day of World Antibiotic Awareness Week #WAAW, guess it's time for that 🧵.
1/8 Our lab + MGH Clin Micro lab piloted a novel, rapid test that returns both genotypic & phenotypic susceptibility information based on gene expression profiling. Worked well (95% overall agreement) on clinical BCx
1/8 Our lab + MGH Clin Micro lab piloted a novel, rapid test that returns both genotypic & phenotypic susceptibility information based on gene expression profiling. Worked well (95% overall agreement) on clinical BCx
Reposted by Virginia Pierce
Public Health is justice and we compromise it at great peril
“It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.”
James Baldwin
“It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.”
James Baldwin
November 14, 2024 at 10:14 PM
Public Health is justice and we compromise it at great peril
“It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.”
James Baldwin
“It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.”
James Baldwin