#idmastodon — Public Fediverse posts
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Chickenpox vaccine should be given to children on NHS, JCVI says
#vaccine #vaccination #infectiousdiseases #IDMastodon #medicine #chickenpox #varicella #VZV
> Until now, UK has said that jab could increase risk of chickenpox and shingles in adults
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"Host cell environments and antibiotic efficacy in tuberculosis"
Nice figure showing the challenges of #antibiotics to get into a cell and target #Mycobacterium tuberculosis
#tuberculosis #TB #IDMastodon #infectiousdiseases #immunology
https://www.cell.com/trends/microbiology/fulltext/S0966-842X(23)00253-6?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS0966842X23002536%3Fshowall%3Dtrue -
Struggling with diagnosing #sepsis? New research proposes a combination of pathogen detection and host transcriptional profiling to quickly and definitively diagnose the condition, support appropriate treatment selection, and fight antimicrobial resistance.
https://thepathologist.com/subspecialties/sequencing-for-sepsis
#PathMastodon #IDMastodon #antimicrobialresistance #antibioticstewardship
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My latest column for #NatureMedicine is a look at early human results of a new class of #antibiotics for #tuberculosis
The mechanism of action is essentially to clog the #mycobacterium's tRNA synthetase - the result of two decades of research on boron-based compounds.