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Uppsala Antibiotic Center @uac-uu.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Our coordinator wrote about what our center actually is, and why we think multidisciplinary collaboration is the only way to tackle antibiotic resistance. If you work in AMR, this one's for you: 🔗 www.pathogens.se/editorials/u...

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Uppsala Antibiotic Center @uac-uu.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

New #TheAMRStudio episode out now! 🎙️ Prof. @tovefall.bsky.social on microbiomes, study design & following your passion & skills! Plus: vaginal resistome & new β-lactamase inhibitors from our center! 🎧 Listen: episodes.fm/1441318864/e... #AMR #Microbiome #Scicomm #epidemiology

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Uppsala Antibiotic Center @uac-uu.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Our coordinator sharing powerful messages about #antibioticresistance last night at #pint25 outreach festival.

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Uppsala Antibiotic Center @uac-uu.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Our first-ever UAC Career Day brought alumni + students together for real talk on life after the PhD. From diagnostics to policy, public health to academia, every path was different, every insight valuable! Grateful to all our speakers 💬 📎 Read the recap: bit.ly/careeruac25 #phdlife #AMR

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Uppsala Antibiotic Center @uac-uu.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

🎙️Ep61 of #theAMRstudio is out! Join us as we talk with Prof. Elias Arnér about his work in redox biology and the development of the novel antibiotic candidate, EbsArgent. We also explore: - Resistance of Ceftazidime-avibactam - Mechanisms behind FusB-mediated resistance www.uu.se/en/centre/up...

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Uppsala Antibiotic Center @uac-uu.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Today our PhD student and podcast host Elon Fermér is presenting her half time seminar, focusing on bridging #biofilms & #betalactam + betalactamase inhibitors. This work will be discussed with Erik Holmqvist, Helen Wang & Pål Jarle Jensen from @cansuit.bsky.social as committee.

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Eva Garmendia @evagaresp.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

So well said! Both encouraging because of the opportunities but so discouraging to see we are just not doing enough. #ESCMIDGlobal

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Eva Garmendia @evagaresp.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

What if instead of vilifying over-the-counter #antibioticprescription we taught and educated those potential sellers? @marcmendelson.bsky.social holds the difficult position of arguing against #newantibiotics, but greatly highlights all other aspects that require our attention #ESCMIDGlobal

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Eva Garmendia @evagaresp.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Day 4 and still touching on new topics! Now #probiotics on the scene. Lena Biehl brings evidence of their use for different indications. What’s promising: - use during (not before, not after!) #ab treatment to prevent diarrhea - vaginal use for #UTI, #candidiasis & #vaginosis #ESCMIDGlobal

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Eva Garmendia @evagaresp.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

515.000 deaths, 2.5billion antibiotic doses, and A LOT of money can be saved by vaccination. Mateusz Hasso from @who.int makes a case for widespread immunization to reduce #AMR burden. Here’s the report: www.who.int/publications... #ESCMIDGlobal

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Eva Garmendia @evagaresp.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Vaccines are undoubtedly a way to manage #AMR, directly and indirectly! Adam Cunningham talks benefits and challenges. Vaccination to both #bacteria & #viruses reduces infection, disease burden & #antibiotic use! #ESCMIDGlobal

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Eva Garmendia @evagaresp.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Fusariosis can be as scary as it sounds. Fungal infections might not be as common as bacterial, but when they do happen their #resistance patterns can look like this! 😱 Thanks to @olivercornely.bsky.social for bringing us the new #antifungals coming to the rescue! #ESCMIDGlobal

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Eva Garmendia @evagaresp.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

4th day starts with the #antibiotic pipeline. New drugs for our bugs! Martin Emting develops synthetic antivirulence molecules, aka pathoblockers 🙅🏻‍♀️ These drugs can stop bacteria from infecting by targeting systems like quorum sensing (bacterial communication!). #ESCMIDGlobal

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Gabriele Pollara @gpollara.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Just made a custom feed that pulls in a wide array of hashtags being used at ESCMID Global 2025 May have a few minutes delay, but contains posts with #ESCMIDGlobal #ESCMIDGlobal2025 #ESCMID2025 #ECCMID2025 Feel free to pin it to your timelines. Hope it's helpful #IDSky bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Eva Garmendia @evagaresp.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

How to leverage #free-text data in GP health records? Gjis Danoe presents the BERT&EARNIE #AI driven #surveillance approach. Model can pick up signals of early outbreaks! Great potential for well organized #healthcare settings, where records are routinely gather! #ESCMIDGlobal

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Eva Garmendia @evagaresp.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Couldn’t agree more with @teachepi.bsky.social! Communication is vital, essential, NEEDED for progress! #comms skills should be as important as any other lab skill for scientists, but specially for those working in topics that relate directly with the public #ESCMIDGlobal

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Eva Garmendia @evagaresp.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Final notes on how to address anti-science. Be open, take it seriously and TAKE ACTION! #ESCMIDGlobal

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Eva Garmendia @evagaresp.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

How can we break the **really bad** #sciencenews cycle that ends undermining the power and value of scientific progress? We scientists can help on #scicomm part of it, but little power over click-bait journalism & internet spread. @phdcomics.bsky.social phdcomics.com/comics/archi... #ESCMIDGlobal

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Eva Garmendia @evagaresp.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Listening to the great @marionkoopmans.bsky.social at a #ESCMIDGlobal session on #anti-science and trust in science. The public seems to agree with scientists needing to communicate to general audiences, but not so clear when asked if they should advocate or influence #policy. Why would this be?

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Eva Garmendia @evagaresp.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

The new frontier for them would be to have the #utilizerID and add the new #utilizerAST test which will provide answer to 3-5 antibiotics commonly used for UTIs #ESCMIDGlobal

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Eva Garmendia @evagaresp.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Emre Iseri from Utilizer present their method, based on a chromogenic agar on a dipstick, marrying the traditional culture method with the urine analysis tests. Easy, simple and quick to give results. #ESCMIDGlobal

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Eva Garmendia @evagaresp.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Patrice Nordmann brings us their cheap, easy & rapid test to detect #betalactamase activity in urine samples from #UTI patients. The test is based on Nitrocefin, which changes color if hydrolized when the enzymes are present. The hope is to bring it directly to the doctors office #ESCMIDGlobal

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Eva Garmendia @evagaresp.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

In the wake of deploying new agents like new #metalobetalactamaseinhibitors, new tests look to find their usability from the get go, as resistance to these compounds can be already out there. Octavio Raro presents the NitroSpeed Taniborbactam platform based on hydrolization #ESCMIDGlobal

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Eva Garmendia @evagaresp.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Christian Moguet brings their lateral flow test to detect DHA AmpC #betalactamase in enterobacterales. Current work shows that the test has high sensitivity and can differentiate between low and high expression of the enzyme, which correlates with resistance phenotype #ESCMIDGlobal

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Eva Garmendia @evagaresp.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Starting the third day with #rapidAST. What’s new trying to get faster AND better? Julia Rogers presents a new lateral flow test that can detect the presence of an important betalactamase: KP2 #carbapenemase Test like this would be incredibly helpful in low-resource settings!

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Eva Garmendia @evagaresp.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

The past, present and future? of #theAMRstudio podcast right before the #scicomm & #podcasting session at #ESCMIDGlobal So great to see the inspiring stories of @idiots-pod.bsky.social & Breakpoints @erinmccreary.bsky.social, examples to follow!

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Eva Garmendia @evagaresp.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Colleague Sheida Heidarian presenting her e-poster on #hereroresistance on #enterococcus. Mainly found for gentamicin, daptomycin through point mutations & for tigecycline via gene amplification. #ESCMIDGlobal

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Eva Garmendia @evagaresp.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Patient-centric view of #uUTI at the GSK integrated symposium. As a woman that has had recurrent UTIs in her youth, I love this take! I agree wholeheartedly with all these points, which can be reached if doctors would have more time for each patient! Btw, pivmecillinam is THE BEST! #ESCMIDGlobal

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Eva Garmendia @evagaresp.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

When normal traditional #phagetherapy via phage isolation proves to be difficult… is there other way? Panos Kalatzis presents a tripartite strategy that includes also lysis from prophages, and endolysins to target #ESCMIDGlobal

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Eva Garmendia @evagaresp.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

How to treat a rather pesty microbe like #mycobacterium? Gregory Phelps brings us a phenicol prodrug with a new mechanism of action that exploits intrinsic resistance and that shows collateral sensitivity for standard of care drugs. #ESCMIDGlobal

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Eva Garmendia @evagaresp.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Innovative #therapeutics! First up the use of mRNA platforms to deliver monoclonal antibodies for treatment! Successful production and titers! #ESCMIDGlobal

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Eva Garmendia @evagaresp.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

A new one for me! Using #phagetherapy for #UTI treatment. Here Saima Aslam present the reasoning for this, and some pointers how to organize #clinicaltrials centering the outcomes more towards the patient. Will this kind of therapy be reality in the coming decade? #ESCMIDGlobal

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Eva Garmendia @evagaresp.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Impressive collection of examples by the #PhageinLyon program helping >100 patients in their bone & join infection clinic, presented by Tristan Ferry Phages are specially good in these cases because they can target #biofilms effectively, and work in synergy with #antibiotics #ESCMIDGlobal

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Eva Garmendia @evagaresp.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Phage clinical rounds! Albeit being still difficult to regulate & use it broadly, #phagetherapy can be incredibly useful in some cases. Today we saw examples of a person recovery after 600days of hospitalization, and the #Achromophage trial, aiming to gather evidence for further use. #ESCMIDglobal

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ESCMID @escmid.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

📣ESCMID is now on Threads & BlueSky! 🧵🦋 Keep up w/ #ESCMID activities all year 🫠 Help build our ID community & follow us on our newest platforms! By doing so, you will be entered to win cool prizes at #ESCMIDGlobal 2025 & beyond. ✨ Campaign ends today! #IDSky #clinmicro #campaign #day4 #giveaway

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Eva Garmendia @evagaresp.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

C. Morel comes in like a storm with a paradigm change for us in #AMR and policy. What are we really implying but not saying, beyond all our “micro” talk? TREATABILITY! With it we can have a single actionable & measurable target, getting us closer to effectively reduce #AMR impact. #ESCMIDGlobal

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Eva Garmendia @evagaresp.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

To start with Joseph Lewnard presents recent data that models and reviews HOW MUCH we could reduce #AMR deaths in #LMICs just applying properly what’s already available: 😷 infection prevention & control 💦🧼 water, sanitation & hygiene 💉 vaccines A WHOLE 10%! #ESCMIDGlobal

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Eva Garmendia @evagaresp.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

As a 3-year tradition now, #ESCMIDGlobal is hosting a science-policy forum, with #AMR at the center of it all. At the last #UNGA in September a new declaration was signed up, with specific targets set. But will action follow? @drtedros.who.int from @who.int opens the forum with a call for action.

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Eva Garmendia @evagaresp.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Starting #ESCMIDGlobal in this #EducationalFriday (confusing, btw!!) talking #riskcommunications. @mariusgilbert.bsky.social bring us his experience jumping directly into the pool of #scicomm during #covid19. “Science as a narration” - such a good take! 👏🏻👏🏻

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Uppsala Antibiotic Center @uac-uu.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Our coordinator is already in Vienna! Let us know if you wanna meet, chat, grab a coffee or all once! We are on the lookout for our upcoming speakers… will that be you? We wish you all a productive and entertaining meeting! 🤓

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Uppsala Antibiotic Center @uac-uu.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

🎙️ New episode of #TheAMRStudio is out! We speak with @vancefowler.bsky.social, co-lead of the ARLG network, about his decades research and the work of the ARLG. In the news, hear about our student's recent paper on a method to study AMR dynamics in 🐷 farms, and more! www.uu.se/en/centre/up...

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Uppsala Antibiotic Center @uac-uu.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Join us for our next webinar on Friday March 7th! Our students Filip Ilievski & Carla Sacchi will present their work on #BacterialTranslation & #antibiotic R&D innovation with a #sustainability twist! Grab your lunch and coffee and join us at www.bit.ly/UACmar25

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Uppsala Antibiotic Center @uac-uu.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Starting today our webinar series for 2025, featuring our own students’ research! Today Xiguo He shares work on #nanoparticles & #drugdelivery, & later Talia Berruga will talk to us about #bacterialhybrids & resistance #evolution Join us at bit.ly/UACfeb25!

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Uppsala Antibiotic Center @uac-uu.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Today we are at the 1st conference on #AntibioticResistance organized by @vetenskapsradet.bsky.social with special focus on practice, product & policy. Our director opened the meeting talking about our #multidisciplinary approach to research & education, including our Nordic collaboration 🇸🇪 🇩🇰 🇫🇮 🇳🇴

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Uppsala Antibiotic Center @uac-uu.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

The 2025 season of #theAMRstudio is here! 🎧 In this episode, we chat with Dr. @evanmou.bsky.social, a vet-turned-computational biologist passionate about nature & birds! We also cover new research on probiotics & plasmid interactions. Listen: bit.ly/AMRep58 #AMR #AntibioticResistance #SciComm

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Uppsala Antibiotic Center @uac-uu.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

There is no better way to wrap up a week than by learning! Next week’s Friday, Feb 7th (12:30-14:00 CET), we are kickstarting our 2025 webinar season, this year featuring our PhD students and all things #AMR. Next up: Bacterial #hybrids 🧬 & #DrugDelivery 💊 👉🏻Join us at bit.ly/UACfeb25

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"A nanosized drug delivery platform for optimal intestinal absorption of poorly permeables with focus on oral antibiotics" - Xiguo He

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Uppsala Antibiotic Center @uac-uu.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

UAC is now opening its research school to all PhD students at Uppsala University & the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, our two Uppsala Universities! Are you doing your PhD on a topic relating to #AMR and/or #resistance? Then you might want to join! Learn more at: bit.ly/UACschool

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Uppsala Antibiotic Center @uac-uu.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

🚨 More Big News! 🚨 We have secured funding for 2025-2028! This means enhanced activities in education, and international collaboration, with a brand new associated phd research school in #AMR 🌍🔬 Keep an eye out for our new open program early 2025! Read the news👇 www.uu.se/en/centre/up...

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Uppsala Antibiotic Center @uac-uu.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

New episode at #theAMRstudio! 🎧 Listen to Prof. Olivier Rubin, who shares his expertise on #AMR as a “creeping crisis,” drawing on parallels with climate change and famine governance. 🌍 With him, we gain new perspectives on this global challenge Check the episode page👇 www.uu.se/en/centre/up...

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Uppsala Antibiotic Center @uac-uu.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Big News! Uppsala University has secured 48 million SEK for research on #AMR on the latest Swedish research council’s calls! This funding supports innovative projects including new #diagnostics, #treatments, and behavior-focused solutions, among other topics! Read more👇 uu.se/en/centre/up...

Uppsala University is awarded major funding for research on antimicrobial resistance

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