Morphological diagnosis in #parasitology is at risk of disappearance. Thus, there is a need to maintain and pass on skills in parasite morphology. To provide a base for this initiative, #ESCMID Global is hosting a Parasite Morphology Hub (PMH) in its #ESGCP and #ESGITM study groups. Details 👇

Interested in Parasitology? Want to attend an excellent study day in London organised by @tropdoc.bsky.social ? #IDSky #ClinMicro #TropSky #MedSky More details on how to register 👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/uk-neqas-f...

#Malaria progress in jeopardy amid foreign aid cuts. 😢 Read more below: www.who.int/news/item/11...

" #Malaria in pregnancy and its potential impact on neurodevelopment in children: a systematic review" 🦟 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Dear ESGITM Study Group members, Come and join us for our annual business meeting during ESCMID Global 2025: ESGITM Monday, 14.4. 13:30-14:30 Room: Schubert 6 Don’t worry, if you are not attending ESCMID Global in person, you can join us online. Link in the e-mail reminder you received.

Read this editorial and call for action about the leishmaniasis situation in #Syria by our study group #ESCMID #ESGITM www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#WHO verifies #Niger as the first country in the African Region to eliminate #onchocerciasis ❌🦯 ❌ www.who.int/news/item/30...

Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! I'll be reprising the British Infection Association 2024 Barnett Christie Prize Lecture today at the Clinical Infection Departmental Seminar. This time with the opportunity for questions. Come say hello! @ox.ac.uk @ouhospitals.bsky.social

New York's health department issued an alert to physicians on February 3 telling them to test people with type A influenza for the H5N1 strain 'within 24 hours of admission'. 🐦 🤧 www.dailymail.co.uk/health/artic...

Building health system resilience through improving surveillance to react to climactic shocks in real time. #IDSky #EpiSky journals.plos.org/globalpublic...

#Noma is still out there with a burden.

A review of "Evolving Epidemiology of #Mpox in #Africa in 2024" was published in #NEJM. Interesting topic as health security in Sub-Saharan Africa is facing increasing challenges again. 🌍 💉 www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

" #Guinea has wiped out sleeping sickness – will the rest of #Africa follow? Sleeping sickness is no longer a health threat in Guinea, which may be a tipping point in the continent’s efforts to beat the pathogen" 😴 🤢 www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

Global Adventures after #Pandemic: Ensuring Safe Travels for Transplant Patients Thursday, 2025. February 06., 8 AM to 2 PM (Montreal time) Topic: approach and evidence for prevention and treatment of travel related infections for adult and ped. #SOT patients. Info&reg: tts.org/116-tts/educ...

How should S.haematobium infection be managed in non-endemic regions? …This is what we came up with based on 20 years of confirmed cases at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases, London. Thanks to all co-authors including @tropdoc.bsky.social @gaurig03.bsky.social @hannahrafferty.bsky.social on bsky

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned of a suspected new outbreak of the Ebola-like Marburg virus in north-west Tanzania, saying that at least eight people have already been killed by the disease. Read more below 👇🏻 www.who.int/emergencies/...

Effect of household bleach on the structure of the sporocyst wall of Toxoplasma gondii [2021 🧪] This study suggests that the inner layers of the oocyst and sporocyst walls are the main structures responsible for the resistance of the parasite to household bleach. doi.org/10.1051/para...

Clinical characterisation and outcomes of human clade IIb mpox virus disease - a European multicentre observational cohort study (MOSAIC) academic.oup.com/cid/article/...

Don't forget to register for our upcoming webinar on 30 January 2025, 12:30 CET: Healthcare for VFR Travellers, Working with the Migrant Diaspora Registration and more info here: escmid-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Hello World! 🌎🌍🌏 #ESCMID #ESGITM is now on #Bluesky! 🥼🤝🦋

It's a bit sad that Carter didn't live to see the eradication of Guinea Worm. But when it finally happens, this will be his greatest legacy.

High mortality from sepsis in #Tanzania, almost 30%. Interestingly, not assoc with hypotension and timing of antimicrobials and IV fluids not associated with survival. #IDSky academic.oup.com/ofid/advance...

I hope, before the west inevitably turns away, they at least absorb this: "Malaria still kills almost 600,000 people a year globally, and 12% of those deaths occur in the DRC." www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...

Pandemic potential of the Nipah virus and public health strategies adopted during outbreaks: Lessons from Kerala, India journals.plos.org/globalpublic...

Excited to say that in collaboration with colleagues in Australia @latrobeuni.bsky.social we got NHMRC funding to use SpyCATS cohort to build state of the art #StrepA transmission models. Hope to ultimately better understand household transmission & help target interventions in high burden settings.

So proud of Jane Chiodini MBE. Admitted as Honorary Fellow of the the prestigious Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow. Seen here with the President and Past-President. Lovely citation by Prof Jackie Taylor. So well deserved!

My heartfelt thanks to mentors, colleagues & collaborators @oxfordmedsci.bsky.social @ndmoxford.bsky.social @ctmgh.bsky.social @ndm-cghr.bsky.social @ouhospitals.bsky.social @lshtm.bsky.social @uclh.bsky.social @tropdoc.bsky.social @andre-siqueira.bsky.social @marionkoopmans.bsky.social

Apologies it’s 30th January!

Registration is now open and the webinar will be live on 25th January 2025

Please join us for this ESGITM webinar focusing on working with the migrant diaspora to improve healthcare for VFR travellers