The September issue of The Lancet Microbe is now online:

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanmic/issue/current

The journal is #OpenAccess 🔓, so you are free to explore all of its content, but these hashtags offer a flavour:

#SARSCoV2 #COVID19 #Streptococcus #pneumococcus #LoaLoa #loiasis #YellowFever #metapneumovirus #vaccine #PCV #LongCovid

#OA

Asymptomatic throat carriage as source for Group A transmission.
#IDMastodon #StrepA #GAS #streptococcus #bacteria #transmission #microbiology #MedMastodon #medicine #epidemiology #throat

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanmic/article/PIIS2666-5247(23)00068-X/fulltext?dgcid=raven_jbs_aip_email

For anybody wishing to read more on group A #Streptococcus, a new comment in The Lancet Microbe>

Thoughts on group A streptococci

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanmic/article/PIIS2666-5247(23)00138-6/fulltext

New research article in The Lancet Microbe>

Evaluating the role of asymptomatic throat carriage of #Streptococcus pyogenes in #impetigo transmission in remote Aboriginal communities in Northern Territory, #Australia: a retrospective genomic analysis

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanmic/article/PIIS2666-5247%2823%2900068-X/fulltext

Preparing for Group B #Streptococcus vaccine. Attitudes of #pregnant women in two countries

📌 Group B Streptococcus (GBS), a bacterium found in the genitourinary or gastrointestinal tract of 10–30% of pregnant women, is an important cause of sepsis, meningitis, and death in #infants less than 3 months of age worldwide

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21645515.2023.2195331

Preparing for Group B #Streptococcus vaccine. Attitudes of #pregnant women in two countries

📌 Group B Streptococcus (GBS), a bacterium found in the genitourinary or gastrointestinal tract of 10–30% of pregnant women, is an important cause of sepsis, meningitis, and death in #infants less than 3 months of age worldwide

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21645515.2023.2195331

Notifications de #maladies : Gourme (Streptococcus equi) en #Ontario, mars 2023. Lien : https://lnkd.in/g6maWjyb #gourme #strangles #streptococcus

Spike in deadly strep infections linked to wave of #flu, #RSV in US kids

Group A strep is known to piggyback on viral infections.

Health officials in #Colorado and #Minnesota documented an unusual spike in deadly, invasive infections from #Streptococcus bacteria late last year, according to a study published this week by the #CDC.

The spike is yet another oddity of post-pandemic disease transmission, but one that points to a simple prevention strategy: flu shots.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/03/spike-in-deadly-strep-infections-linked-to-wave-of-flu-rsv-in-us-kids/

New comment in The Lancet Microbe>

Do not forget pregnant and post-partum women during group A streptococcal disease outbreaks

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanmic/article/PIIS2666-5247(23)00064-2/fulltext

#GAS #Streptococcus #ScarletFever

#Streptococcus pneumoniae: ‘captain of the men of death’ and financial burden | #Microbiology Society

https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/micro/10.1099/mic.0.001275#tab2

A one-year-old boy in NSW has had to have limbs amputated as a result of a devastating illness spreading in Australia.

Cases of Strep A, also known as group A Streptococcus, have doubled in Western Australia in the past 3 months and Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria have all seen a spike in cases too.

#Streptococcus

Source: https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/health-problems/nsw-oneyearold-loses-legs-to-devastating-strep-a-infection-as-case-numbers-spike/news-story/e65b7cf4aea80dda432bfcf1216dad83

Competence in #Streptococcus controls genetic transformation, biofilm formation & virulence. @JWVeening &co show that it's also crucial for host #adherence, involving the fratricin CbpD, which exposes #virulence factors to the cell surface #PLOSBiology https://plos.io/3DtTwmJ

Competence in #Streptococcus controls genetic transformation, biofilm formation & virulence. @JWVeening &co show that it's also crucial for host #adherence, involving the fratricin CbpD, which exposes #virulence factors to the cell surface #PLOSBiology https://plos.io/3DtTwmJ

Competence in #Streptococcus controls genetic transformation, biofilm formation & virulence. @JWVeening &co show that it's also crucial for host #adherence, involving the fratricin CbpD, which exposes #virulence factors to the cell surface #PLOSBiology https://plos.io/3DtTwmJ

Boyanton et al, 2022: Supposing that a concurrent diagnosis of #pharyngitis & presence of the microbe constitutes a case of group A #Streptococcus pharyngitis (GAS-P), after early #COVID19 #mitigations, GAS-P diagnoses came down by 81.6%.
https://www.reddit.com/r/COVIDZero/comments/10nyrni/boyanton_et_al_2022_supposing_that_a_concurrent/

Cordery et al, 2022: #Streptococcus pyogenes shows airborne & superspreader tx. 8/32 "settle plates" placed above child height yielded #Spyogenes; 7% of children with emm4+ throat swabs had a positive cough plate compared to 33% of emm3.93+ children.
https://www.reddit.com/r/COVIDZero/comments/10nv4ey/cordery_et_al_2022_streptococcus_pyogenes_shows/

Increase in invasive group A streptococcal (#Streptococcus pyogenes) infections (iGAS) in young #children in the Netherlands, 2022

📌 A more than twofold increase in the annual number of notifiable invasive group A streptococcal (iGAS) infections compared to the annual average in the pre-COVID-19 pandemic years was observed in the Netherlands in 2022. This increase was even higher children aged 0-5 years, with 42 iGAS notifications in this age group in 2022.

https://www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2023.28.1.2200941#html_fulltext

Gaps in the wall: understanding cell wall biology to tackle amoxicillin #resistance in #Streptococcus pneumoniae - PubMed
#amr
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36638546/

Lots of different kinds of bacteria can cause bacterial meningitis, the disease that Jeff Beck died of recently (https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/01/12/health/bacterial-meningitis-explained-wellness/index.html). Many bacteria that are implicated, e. g. #Ecoli (not K-12), #streptococcus and #mycobacteriumtuberculosis, are in biocyc.org.

Indeed, we should have learnt something from the #pandemic. #facemasks reduce the spread, if you are infected and need to go somewhere. #COVID19 #flu #RSV #RSVirus #StrepA #scarletfever #Streptococcus

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-64147209