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Max Bloomfield

@maxgbloomfield.bsky.social
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Microbiologist and ID physician. Interest in diagnostic stewardship, epidemiology and practical microbial genomics. Views are my own.

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Max Bloomfield @maxgbloomfield.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Out now in @ofidjournal.bsky.social! 🦠🦠Short course, or management without antibiotics, had the same outcomes compared to 10 days treatment following #groupAstrep positive throat swabs in this large cohort. This included no increase in household cases. 💊💊 track.smtpsendmail.com/9032119/c?p=...
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Effect of a Widespread Reduction in Treatment Duration for Group A Streptococcal Pharyngitis on Outcomes Including Household Transmission
In this large cohort of patients with group A streptococcal–positive throat swabs, there was no increase in repeat antibiotic treatment, repeat positive th
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Rhys White @rhystwhite.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
📌The need for speed: ultra-rapid high-resolution outbreak analysis in a front-line hospital microbiology laboratory |@medrxivpreprint See how hospital labs can analyse outbreaks fast - no on-site #Bioinformatics needed, cutting delays doi.org/10.1101/2025... 🖥️🧬💻 #AcademicSky #MicroSky 🧪🧫🦠
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The need for speed: ultra-rapid high-resolution outbreak analysis in a front-line hospital microbiology laboratory
Many hospital laboratories have technical capacity to perform whole-genome sequencing but lack bioinformatic expertise to analyse sequence data. Sending isolates to reference laboratories creates dela...
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Max Bloomfield @maxgbloomfield.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
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