Donor-derived infections with Rickettsia typhi (agent of murine typhus) in 2 kidney transplant recipients (1 fatal) Teaching points - 🐭 typhus transmitted by fleas (& transplant) - Cases 📈 in Texas - Death of diffuse 🫁 , 🧠 edema w/o dx=👎 tx - cfDNA MGS (Karius) can dx wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/...

Congrats @sarabelga.bsky.social

Deadline: Sept 2, 2025 Join us Sept 8–9 for the Pamela Tucker Johns Hopkins Course in Transplant & Oncology Infectious Diseases. Learn from top experts & earn AMA PRA Category 1 Credits Designed for ID, transplant, & oncology clinicians & more! For more information + registration: buff.ly/9KVn8lX

We are recruiting an Transplant ID faculty at WashU Medicine Infectious Diseases Division. Come work at one of the largest transplant centers in the country with some of THE BEST ID fellows in the world! facultyopportunities.wustl.edu/Posting/Deta...

Less than one week until #WTC2025! Will we see you there?? #TxID #IDSky

With ACIP sidelined, the Vaccine Integrity Project is convening trusted experts to ensure immunization guidance remains evidence-based, with IDSA leading efforts for immunocompromised and high-risk populations. www.statnews.com/2025/07/03/v...

STAGGERING: This new study of 133 countries is the first to estimate the impact of all USAID’s work. In 2 decades, it has saved *92M* lives. Current cuts, if not reversed, are forecast to cost up to *14M* lives thru 2030. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

How bad will it be? Catastrophic. Proposed cuts to #NSF, #NIH, and #NASA will set the US R&D landscape back 25 yrs+, cause economic and job loss now, and undermine innovations to come. But, this is the WH's *proposed* budget. Speak up now before it is too late. (inflation adjusted $-s below)

While immunocompromised individuals had a heterogeneous antibody response to RSV vaccines, those who received the adjuvanted RSVPreF3-AS01 vaccine showed better neutralization. ja.ma/4iVzJzy

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... nice work @akaraba.bsky.social @williamwerbel.bsky.social et al

I assume this will get a lot of media and mis/disinfo attention, so best to read details in this excellent document to answer Qs. ? does mRNA preF vaccination lead to higher risk for severe RSV disease in infants (namely 8-10m olds). www.fda.gov/media/184301...

Today we report that an engineered skin bacterium, swabbed gently on the head of a mouse, can unleash a potent antibody response against a pathogen. Could lead to topical vaccines that are applied in a cream. @djenetbousbaine.bsky.social led the charge... @natureportfolio.bsky.social 1/55

Great to pod it up with you @matih-id.bsky.social @ethelweld @payalpatel.bsky.social @mariasundaram.bsky.social & co - hope to catch up soon.