Strep GBI 2026 registration is open. Join us for Streptococcus focused research. Keynote from Tom Parks @tom-parks.bsky.social "Streptococcus pyogenes - lessons from the host" 📌 Durham, March 30-31 🌐 strepgbi.wixsite.com/strep-gbi. Registration/abstracts 👉 pay.durham.ac.uk/event-durham.

Why did severe #StrepA infections in children increase after the pandemic? Our new @jamanetworkopen paper suggests COVID restrictions delayed immunity development in young children. tiny.cc/63vt001

Why did invasive #strepA infections increase in young children after the pandemic? In this new @imperialinfect.bsky.social PREPRINT *not peer-reviewed* we look at antibody responses to #strepA and resp viruses in European children before and after the pandemic: www.medrxiv.org/cgi/content/...

Is there still rheumatic fever in the UK? bit.ly/3Py0X1P Join our @rcpch.bsky.social webinar next Friday to hear the answer as well as get a refresher on the clinical features and how we make or refute the diagnosis. #strepA #GAS #RHD #IDSky #PaedsSky #PaedsIDSky

UK adult & paediatric Infectious Diseases clinicians. Would your site be interested in participating in an adaptive platform trial on invasive Group A Strep? We are developing our application currently - so if interested do get in touch with me. #IDSky

🚨 Delighted to share our paper defining a new role for IL-6 in TB. 🚨 We used genetic variation to show *reduced* IL-6 signalling is causally associated with *lower* risk of TB. Lead author @gushamilton.bsky.social #TBSky #IDSky #ImmunoSky www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... Thread 👇 (1/8)