🎥 The first BreathForDx webinar is now online! We discuss community engagement and early steps in breath-based diagnostics for infectious diseases. 👉 Watch it here: breathfordx.org/project-reso... #BreathForDx #GlobalHealth #Diagnostics #EUresearch #Webinar #CommunityEngagement

Prof Lord Ara Darzi, writing in @observeruk.bsky.social, warns that axing the Fleming Fund, Britain’s landmark antimicrobial resistance initiative ( #AMR ), would be a deadly retreat. With 5 million annual global deaths, the stakes couldn’t be higher. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

🌬️ Discover the Power of Breath in Diagnostics! Over the past months, we’ve been working across Europe and South Africa to develop breath-based tools for diagnosing respiratory infections — and now you can see what we’ve been up to. 📺 Watch the full video here: 👉 breathfordx.org/project-reso...

Despite molecular diagnostics for TB, 40% of patients are still diagnosed clinically. We also found a 50% higher mortality in this group, suggesting overtreatment/missing conditions other than TB. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @imperialinfect.bsky.social @uniheidelberg.bsky.social

Excited to be presenting an outline of our @ec.europa.eu funded B-Path programme to advance breath-based diagnostics for respiratory infections at PREPARE-EU @uniheidelberg.bsky.social @cdenki.bsky.social @digbywarner.bsky.social

BreathForDx is a EU-funded research initiative aimed at improving early diagnosis of respiratory infections through exhaled breath aerosol (XBA) sampling. It combines non-invasive diagnostic innovation with clinical research to detect tuberculosis and viral infections. breathfordx.org

Enhanced tuberculosis diagnosis with computer-aided chest X-ray and urine LAM in adults with HIV admitted to hospital (CASTLE study): A cluster randomised trial #IDSky

Great to see utility of rapid TB dx being demonstrated tinyurl.com/jvfka44d. Graet to be part of ongoing development of dx for drug resistant TB with R2D2 TB Network @cdenki.bsky.social and teams in Georgia/Philippines/SA.

How Glasgow's 1957 #tuberculosis screening programme could help countries today. #episky #IDsky 🛟🧪🦠 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Tuberculosis: a biosocial problem that requires biosocial solutions www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Time to stop funding/doing more vit D in TB trials?

Are Bacteria Sensitive or Susceptible? A Micro-Comic Strip 😂 S: Susceptibile or Sensitive ? Which one you use? Me : Susceptible #idsky #microsky #medsky journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Footprints in Kenya ‘show distant relatives of modern humans coexisted’

A systematic review showed that there is still scant evidence to confidently confirm the benefit-risk of antibiotics use in preventing subsequent GAS #idsky #medsky

New β-lactams allow treating Pseudomonas that were untreatable, but… are they better than previous options? This meta-analysis of RCTs shows they are not superior to prior alternatives when available: www.ajicjournal.org/article/S019... 👐🏻 Use them wisely, make them last #PsWatch #AMSsky #IDsky

🚨New Publication🚨 led by @biancasossen.bsky.social In a 7 country study, we found that urine Xpert Ultra was as sensitive & more specific than AlereLAM for #TB diagnosis in people with #HIV Also predicts mortality and allows detection of Rif resistance. authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S... 🧪🛟

🔥Everyone's favorite #shorterisbetter table is updated🔥 "BALANCE is now published, so the table is now updated! GNB bacteremia is now listed as Bacteremia(non S.aureus) Neary 5,000 patients have now been randomized to 1 vs. 2 Constantine Units for non S. aureus bacteremia " Dr.Spellberg #idsky

Glad my first post on bsky is to highlight a review just out today by our group - discussing how digital health tech can optimise AMU. Let's ensure we build in equitable access and global solutions www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...