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Nicole Pecora

@nicolepecora.bsky.social
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Co-Director of the Infectious Diseases Diagnostic Laboratory at Boston Children's Hospital

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Nicole Pecora @nicolepecora.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Showcase your brilliance at ADLM 2027 in Chicago, IL, July 25-29! Share your work that advances clinical chemistry, microbiology, molecular diagnostics, point-of-care testing, or data science. Call for Proposals opens 9/14 and runs through 11/3. Submit proposals here: meeting.myadlm.org
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Nicole Pecora @nicolepecora.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Thanks to @sanjatkanjilal.bsky.social and @microbecharmer.bsky.social for their work on this project!
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Sanjat Kanjilal @sanjatkanjilal.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Our findings suggest FEP is safe when molecular panels are negative — with one key exception: bloodstream infections due to E. cloacae complex, where occult resistance reached 4.4%. Worth keeping in mind at the bedside. 6/7
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Sanjat Kanjilal @sanjatkanjilal.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
New paper out in Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy! journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/aac.01661-25 1/7
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Prevalence and genetics of cefepime resistance among the AmpC-producing organisms Citrobacter freundii complex, Enterobacter cloacae complex, and Klebsiella aerogenes | Antimicrobial Agents and Chemot...
Organisms bearing chromosomal AmpC beta-lactamases present significant treatment challenges. They are intrinsically resistant to beta-lactams that are both potent inducers of and good substrates for A...
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Nicole Pecora @nicolepecora.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Our new article out in Journal of #Infection on the use of prospective WGS to understand the spread of MSSA in a NICU. Thanks to my awesome colleagues at BWH! doi.org/10.1016/j.ji... #IDSky #ClinMicro
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology @ichejournal.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
🆕 New in ICHE: WGS surveillance of VRE uncovered undetected hospital outbreaks—spotlighting the PACU as a key transmission locus 📍 Without genomic surveillance, these clusters would’ve been missed #IDSky 📄 doi.org/10.1017/ice....
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