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Ilan Schwartz @germhuntermd.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Less is more, ortho-ID edition Another game changer in ortho ID from the group that brought you OVIVA Pts with ortho infections who underwent curative surgery (no DAIR) with local implantation of abx were randomized to <=7d vs >=4w ABx No Dif in 12 mo relapse www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.... #IDSky
Forest plot with primary analysis results which shows no difference in definite treatment failure, definite/probable treatment failure, or definite/probable/possible treatment failure according to treatment durationForest plot showing subgroup analysis which shows no difference between shorter and longer duration antibiotics in any of the subgroups including prosthetic infection, Staph aureus mono infection, and whether local gentamicin was used in mono therapy or combination therapy
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The Lancet Microbe @lancetmicrobe.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
New research article Effects of a community-based intervention bundle on household transmission of [ESBL]-producing Escherichia coli in rural Burkina Faso to target community-level drivers of [ #AMR] in sub-Saharan Africa www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... #IDSky #ClinMicro #OpenAccess #OA
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Sim Coddé @simcodde.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Even reminder dat district Antwerpen binnenkort, in volle klimaatcrisis, heel deze linkse bomenrij kapt voor een extra parkeerstrook.
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Ursula Hofer @hoferu.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Bravo, stewardship in communities. Often ignored as it's difficult to tackle and research inevitably ends up somewhat messy. Nice podcast to go with the paper 👇
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Antibiotic Steward 🅱️C🆔🅿️🌟 @absteward.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
🔥Just published 🔥NEJM SNAP RCT In patients with MSSA bacteremia, cefazolin was noninferior to flucloxacillin or cloxacillin with respect to 90-day mortality and was associated with a lower incidence of acute kidney injury. #idsky www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
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Cefazolin for Methicillin-Susceptible Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia | NEJM
Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia is associated with high mortality. Whether cefazolin or an antistaphylococcal penicillin should be preferred for the treatment of methicillin-susceptible S. aureus ...
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brecht ingelbeen @ingelbeen.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Community-based AMS interventions without biomarker tests can reduce antibiotic use by more than half - even more so for Watch antibiotics, with stable patient care scores. Results from CABU-EICO cluster RCT now published in @thelancetinfdis.bsky.social : authors.elsevier.com/a/1nHCg5E-Uo... #IDsky
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brecht ingelbeen @ingelbeen.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
🔬ARTICLE: MORTALITY AND BARRIERS TO HEALTH CARE ACCESS IN HOMELESS PEOPLE IN PARIS Work by @evelinec.bsky.social ➡️ Median age of death 54 years, 26 years (!!) below general population ➡️ Most deaths due to cancer and cardiovascular diseases - like in the general pop link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Mortality and barriers to healthcare among people experiencing homelessness in Paris: a mixed-methods study - International Journal for Equity in Health
International Journal for Equity in Health - Homelessness is a global problem with significant public health implications. Persons experiencing homelessness (PEH) face poorer health outcomes and...
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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 02/01/2026
Denying medical assistance is unacceptable in any circumstances. Israel’s threat to withhold registration from MSF & other INGOs is a cynical and calculated attempt to prevent organizations from providing services in #Gaza and the #WestBank, #Palestine. ow.ly/XQwE50XR5OE
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Esther van Kleef @esthervk.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
New PREPRINT! tinyurl.com/yynzevrh Thanks to a true transdisciplinary collaboration, we developed and evaluated a low-cost community #AMR intervention set in rural Burkina Faso and DRCongo. Combining #WHO #AWaRe–based feedback/training (medicine providers) and AMR awareness campaigns (community).
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brecht ingelbeen @ingelbeen.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Every year during #WorldAntimicrobialAwarenessWeek I'm surprised by the diversity of media, approaches, and key messages used to reach and mobilize the public or healthcare workers, and to promote better antibiotic use—driven each time by the tireless and unparalleled energy of so many AMR advocates
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brecht ingelbeen @ingelbeen.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Nu het #WAAW is, schreef ik voor EOS een blog over ons onderzoek met CRUN in Burkina Faso. Waarom zijn er zoveel ernstige resistente bacteriële infecties op een plek waar antibioticagebruik niet excessief is? www.eoswetenschap.eu/gezondheid/w... #AMR @itmantwerp.bsky.social
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Waarom jaarlijks nog 200.000 kinderen sterven door antibioticaresistentie
In Europa treft antibioticaresistentie vooral ouderen en ziekenhuispatiënten, terwijl in lage-inkomenslanden vooral kinderen sterven aan infecties die resist...
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brecht ingelbeen @ingelbeen.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
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Waarom jaarlijks nog 200.000 kinderen sterven door antibioticaresistentie
In Europa treft antibioticaresistentie vooral ouderen en ziekenhuispatiënten, terwijl in lage-inkomenslanden vooral kinderen sterven aan infecties die resist...
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brecht ingelbeen @ingelbeen.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
a global health journal gives you a limit of 200 words for the abstract of an article you've been working on for years so you decide to use these words to provide historical context 😬 #AMR
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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 01/08/2025
Renewables have taken the lead in Dutch electricity production
The image presents a line graph illustrating the share of electricity generated from fossil fuels and renewables in the Netherlands from 1985 to 2024. 

The horizontal axis marks the years, starting at 1985 on the left and progressing to 2024 on the right. The vertical axis indicates the percentage of electricity generation, ranging from 0% to 100%. 

A brown line represents fossil fuels, which shows a gradual decline over the years, starting near 90% in 1985 and dropping sharply after 2015, approaching close to 40% by 2024. In contrast, a blue line illustrates renewables, showing a slow increase from nearly 0% in 1985 to a significant rise, crossing the fossil fuel line in 2024 to surpass it. 

The title notes the historic shift in Dutch electricity generation, indicating that for the first time, most electricity now comes from renewable sources. 

Data source: Ember (2025), Energy Institute (2024). The graph is licensed under CC BY.
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brecht ingelbeen @ingelbeen.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Open position for an ID modeler @itmantwerp.bsky.social on community-level + healthcare transmission of resistant #AMR bacteria in LRS, working with Clinical Research Unit Nanoro, @esthervk.bsky.social, @bugwonk.bsky.social, KEMRI-wellcome Kilifi, myself,... #IDSky #EpiSky www.itg.be/en/jobs-and-...
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Epidemiologist
Epidemiologist for modelling AMR transmission in LMICMore than 500 staff members at the Institute of Tropical Medicine (ITM) contribute e...
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stevenvangucht.bsky.social @stevenvangucht.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Belgian waste water tells the story: Alpha. Delta. Omicron. Then viral loads dropped 10×. Not luck. Not just Omicron. But population immunity — built by vaccines + infections. Vaccines helped to avoid millions of deaths in the process. Graph: Raphael Janssens 🔗 www.linkedin.com/posts/vanguc...
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brecht ingelbeen @ingelbeen.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Great work at GLASS that @esthervk.bsky.social presented at #ESCMIDglobal, providing regional trends in AMR prevalence in bloodstream infections #AMR #IDSky
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brecht ingelbeen @ingelbeen.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
GLASS report with 2022 AMU data is out #IDSky #AMR iris.who.int/bitstream/ha... It has per capita antibiotic use expressed in DDD per 1000 inhabitants per day, confirming DID is lower in most low-income than in most high-income countries Would be great to link population-wide AMU to AMR prevalence
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Christie Wilcox @nerdychristie.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
If you love strong, pour-over coffee, a team of physicists has a tip: Pour from as high as you can without causing the stream to break apart. That and more of the best in @science.org and science in this edition of #ScienceAdviser: www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪
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brecht ingelbeen @ingelbeen.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
for 4,5 days of #ESCMIDGlobal with permanently 20 sessions in parallel and some #IDSky skeeters posting about sessions I wasn't in, more than once I had the feeling I have when picking a lane in a supermarket. Some bits I learned, mostly relevant for #AMR control intervention implementation in LMIC:
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Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Day in day out, Israel is adding war crime to war crime, with the world looking for something 'new' to worry about. We are running the danger of becoming de-sensitised. Resistance now takes more than to condemn the genocide. We must also oppose the de-sensitisation of our souls!
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The Lancet Microbe @lancetmicrobe.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
New comment The cost of blood cultures: a barrier to diagnosis in low-income and middle-income countries www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... #IDSky #ClinMicro #OpenAccess #OA
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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 14/03/2025
NEW 🧵 Is human intelligence starting to decline? Recent results from major international tests show that the average person’s capacity to process information, use reasoning and solve novel problems has been falling since around the mid 2010s What should we make of this? www.ft.com/content/a801...
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Infectious Diseases @infectiousdz.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Cholera in Angola: As of 11 March 2025, a total of 6,651 cholera cases have been reported in Angola, with 240 death (Case Fatality Rate of 3.6%) The outbreak creates a risk for spread Despite no cholera in Namibia for over a decade, 1 case has been confirmed in Namibia, just south of Angola border
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Michael Wagner @michiwagner4.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Before the introduction of measles vaccine in 1963 and widespread vaccination, major epidemics occurred approximately every two to three years and caused an estimated 2.6 million deaths each year www.who.int/news-room/fa...
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Measles
Measles remains one of the leading causes of death among young children globally, despite the availability of a safe and effective vaccine.
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brecht ingelbeen @ingelbeen.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Nee (wat het artikel ook concludeert) Is dit nu misinformation of disinformation @de-standaard.bsky.social?
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Ben Coates @bencoates1.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
“If Roosevelt had told Churchill to sue for peace on any terms with Adolf Hitler and to fork over Britain’s coal reserves to the United States in exchange for no American security guarantees, it might have approximated what Trump did to Zelensky” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/o...
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Opinion | A Day of American Infamy
A dreadful moment for Ukraine, for the free world, for the legacy of an America that once stood for the principles of the Atlantic Charter.
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Donald Tusk @donald-tusk.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Dear Volodymyr Zelenskyy, dear Ukrainian friends, you are not alone.
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Valérie Masson-Delmotte @valmasdel.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Why Wikipedia matters In June 2019, American anti-vaccination activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. visited Samoa to meet with local anti-vaccination activists" The measles outbreak began in September 2019. Over 5,700 cases of measles and 83 deaths had been reported. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Sa...
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2019 Samoa measles outbreak - Wikipedia
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Esther van Kleef @esthervk.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Rather than resistricting risk monitoring to reactive outbreak response, we highlight effective applications that enhance early detection and prevention of outbreaks. This aligns with #CollaborativeSurveillance @who.int and its advocacy for integrated/ cross-sectoral approaches to ID surveillance.
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brecht ingelbeen @ingelbeen.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
NEW PAPER: When and how to embed risk data in infectious disease surveillance? Problem: Traditional infectious disease surveillance consisting of facility-based reporting of cases, often delays outbreak response due to disease progression, healthcare seeking, diagnostic and reporting lags. 1/5
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
“Copenhagen reported that 62% of its residents are now commuting to work or school by bike — an increase from 52% in 2015 & 36% in 2012, when the City Council launched a 14-year-plan to improve the quality, safety & comfort of cycling.” #Copenhagen chose. They keep choosing even better every year.
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Copenhagen has taken bicycle commuting to a whole new level
Cycling has been a part of that good life in Copenhagen for decades. In recent years, it has enjoyed yet another unfathomable surge in popularity — taken to the next level thanks to constantly improvi...
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Devastating www.tbsnews.net/bangladesh/o...
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Over 1,000 icddr,b employees laid off due to US funding cuts
Following the US government's directive, we have suspended all projects and research activities funded by them until further notice, AKM Tariful Islam Khan, senior manager (communications) at icddr,b,...
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International Society of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy @isacworld.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
🎥On demand Prof. Timothy Walsh (@ineosoxford.bsky.social) presented his excellent lecture on "#Antimicrobialresistance in the 21st century: Communication About ID with Public and Politicians – pre and post UNGA" at the 33rd ICC. Watch⬇️ youtu.be/lu3gib3Mra0 @souhakanj.bsky.social
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ICC 2024 | Antimicrobial resistance in the 21st century
YouTube video by ISAC / APUA
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brecht ingelbeen @ingelbeen.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
ICARS is now also on bluesky. Hopefully soon followed by more researchers from LMIC working on AMR or ID control interventions #IDSky Let's try to highlight a bit of the AMR intervention or implementation research in LMIC here
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salehaljadeeah.bsky.social @salehaljadeeah.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
We need to discuss the impact of sanctions on access to health. Read our correspondence published at the Lancet and titled “Sanctions and the right to health in post-Assad Syria”. @rravinetto.bsky.social @gorikooms.bsky.social www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Sanctions and the right to health in post-Assad Syria
Dec 8, 2024, marked the end of the five-decade long regime of Bashir al-Assad and the Assad family in Syria, characterised by systemic repression, human rights abuses, and crimes against humanity.1 After the protests of 2011, Assad's response involved indiscriminate bombings, targeting of health-care facilities and health-care workers, and the use of internationally prohibited chemical weapons, triggering one of the worst humanitarian crises since World War 2.1
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Raffaella Ravinetto @rravinetto.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Congratulations to Placide Mbala, recognized as one of @natureportfolio.bsky.social 10 most influential people in #science for 2024! His groundbreaking work in #DRCongo on #mpox is inspiring, and this is well deserved: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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This doctor raised the alarm about a deadly mpox outbreak that went global
Placide Mbala is part of Nature’s 10, a list of people who shaped science in 2024.
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Mai El-Sadany @maitelsadany.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
A moment that will be captured in the history books. Saydnaya personifies the terror of the Syrian regime. Known as the "human slaughterhouse," it was site to the secret executions of 13,000 people in a single 5 year period & continued to hold thousands of unjustly detained.
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Antibiotic Steward 🅱️C🆔🅿️🌟 @absteward.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
🆕🔥 systematic review and meta-analysis #CMIJournal 6 RCTs,10 adjusted cohorts& 22 unadjusted cohorts N=11,566 Early transition to oral antibiotics was noninferior to continued IV antibiotic treatment for bacteraemia & sepsis #idsky #medsky www.clinicalmicrobiologyandinfection.com/article/S119...
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DEFINE_ME
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brecht ingelbeen @ingelbeen.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Alternatives for antibiotics in RTI in 1ary care #IDSky Compared w/ usual care, antibiotic use lower in gel-based spray group IRR 0·65 (95%CI 0·50–0·84), in saline spray group 0·69(0·45–0·88), and in behavioural website group 0·74(0·57–0·94) Days of illness lower in gel-based & saline spray groups
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brecht ingelbeen @ingelbeen.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
I wonder how a study could fully calculate in prescribers' behaviour. How would antibiotic use change when eliminating prescribers' uncertainty about potential bacteria underlying the diarrhoea episodes? #IDSky
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brecht ingelbeen @ingelbeen.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Effect of vaccines on antibiotic use: using attributable fractions of diarrhoea episodes in birth cohorts in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Tanzania, a study estimated the hypothetical effect of 6 single + 3 combined vaccines on antibiotic use #EpiSky #IDSky www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Amy Maxmen, PhD @amymaxmen.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Bird flu virus detected in raw milk in California. It's important to study these samples to see if the virus is live, or fragmented and non-infectious, like it has been in pasteurized milk samples. www.latimes.com/environment/...
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Bird flu virus detected in California raw milk
An independent Stanford research detected bird flu virus in a retail sample of Fresno-based Raw Farm milk.
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brecht ingelbeen @ingelbeen.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
"while 5% of health spending is on prevention, 50% of the reduction in mortality rate is attributable to prevention" Chris Dye (UOxford) #ESCAIDE
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Ed Conway @edconway.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Because that dirty-looking salt being spread by trucks on our roads is actually the remains of an ancient ocean (actually two ancient oceans), buried deep beneath our feet. Most of the stuff being spread in London comes from a single mine in Cheshire - at Winsford. 2/14
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brecht ingelbeen @ingelbeen.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
exactly when the infectious disease and epi science communities finally reconnect on this app, a few human H5N1 cases without animal link to get things a bit going 😬😬😬
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Stanford Antimicrobial Safety & Sustainability Program @stanfordasp.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
🌟 ABX Pearl of the Day: Optimizing duration of treatment for CAP 💊 🩺 A: While 2019 IDSA guidelines recommend 5 days, new data supports 3-day course of ABX for floor-status, immunocompetent patients with uncomplicated CAP who clinically respond within 3 days. #IDsky #MedSky #PharmSky 🔗for more info
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CMI Communications @cmicomms.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
★ Just published: #Communicable podcast episode - substandard & falsified antimicrobials: what is their effect on patients & #AMR? @angelahuttner.bsky.social & guests Pernette (WHO) & Ben (Oxford @bugwonk.bsky.social ) explore this public health issue. share.transistor.fm/s/7e493bef #IDSky #MedSky
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brecht ingelbeen @ingelbeen.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
I'll try to post here from time to time something fascinating I read or found out. much of it is related to antimicrobial resistance and the factors that fuel it globally, since that is my job, but there will also be some emerging infectious diseases other than resistant bacteria
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brecht ingelbeen @ingelbeen.bsky.social · 02/02/2024
STUDY PROTOCOL: cluster RCT to evaluate a behavioural intervention to improve antibiotic use, quality of (primary) care and reduce household transmission of ESBL Enterobacteriaceae, in rural Burkina Faso and DR Congo trialsjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
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Evaluating the effect of a behavioural intervention bundle on antibiotic use, quality of care, and h...
Background Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a rising threat in low-resource settings, largely driven by transmission in the community, outside health facilities. Inappropriate antibiotic use is one o...
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