onisillos · @onisillos
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The September issue of The Lancet Microbe is now online:

thelancet.com/journals/lanmic/

The journal is ๐Ÿ”“, so you are free to explore all of its content, but these hashtags offer a flavour:

#openaccess #SarsCoV2 #COVID19 #streptococcus #pneumococcus #loaloa #loiasis #yellowfever #metapneumovirus #vaccine #pcv #LongCovid #oa

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Gabriele Pollara · @gpollara
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onisillos · @onisillos
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For anybody wishing to read more on group A , a new comment in The Lancet Microbe>

Thoughts on group A streptococci

thelancet.com/journals/lanmic/

#streptococcus

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onisillos · @onisillos
564 followers · 1110 posts · Server scicomm.xyz

New research article in The Lancet Microbe>

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

thelancet.com/journals/lanmic/

#australia #impetigo #streptococcus

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Dr Alex ๐Ÿฉบ๐Ÿšผ · @AlexPed
588 followers · 221 posts · Server mastodon.uno

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

๐Ÿ“Œ Group B Streptococcus (GBS), a bacterium found in the genitourinary or gastrointestinal tract of 10โ€“30% of pregnant women, is an important cause of sepsis, meningitis, and death in less than 3 months of age worldwide

tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10

#streptococcus #pregnant #infants

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Dr Alex ๐Ÿฉบ๐Ÿšผ · @AlexPed
588 followers · 218 posts · Server mastodon.uno

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

๐Ÿ“Œ Group B Streptococcus (GBS), a bacterium found in the genitourinary or gastrointestinal tract of 10โ€“30% of pregnant women, is an important cause of sepsis, meningitis, and death in less than 3 months of age worldwide

tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10

#streptococcus #pregnant #infants

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cahsscanada · @cahsscanada
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Notifications de : Gourme (Streptococcus equi) en , mars 2023. Lien : lnkd.in/g6maWjyb

#maladies #ontario #gourme #strangles #streptococcus

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Mufasa · @ne1for23
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Spike in deadly strep infections linked to wave of , in US kids

Group A strep is known to piggyback on viral infections.

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

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

arstechnica.com/science/2023/0

#flu #rsv #colorado #minnesota #streptococcus #cdc

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onisillos · @onisillos
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New comment in The Lancet Microbe>

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

thelancet.com/journals/lanmic/

#ScarletFever #streptococcus #gas

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Vivek Mutalik · @vivek_mutalik
656 followers · 793 posts · Server fediscience.org

pneumoniae: โ€˜captain of the men of deathโ€™ and financial burden | Society

microbiologyresearch.org/conte

#microbiology #streptococcus

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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.

Source: news.com.au/lifestyle/health/h

#streptococcus

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

#plosbiology #Virulence #Adherence #streptococcus

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PLOS Biology · @PLOSBiology
4644 followers · 730 posts · Server fediscience.org

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

#plosbiology #Virulence #Adherence #streptococcus

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PLOS Biology · @PLOSBiology
4642 followers · 716 posts · Server fediscience.org

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

#plosbiology #Virulence #Adherence #streptococcus

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Ms. Opossum is burnt out. · @anarchodelphis
389 followers · 390 posts · Server zeroes.ca

Boyanton et al, 2022: Supposing that a concurrent diagnosis of & presence of the microbe constitutes a case of group A pharyngitis (GAS-P), after early , GAS-P diagnoses came down by 81.6%.
reddit.com/r/COVIDZero/comment

#pharyngitis #streptococcus #covid19 #mitigations

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Ms. Opossum is burnt out. · @anarchodelphis
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Cordery et al, 2022: pyogenes shows airborne & superspreader tx. 8/32 "settle plates" placed above child height yielded ; 7% of children with emm4+ throat swabs had a positive cough plate compared to 33% of emm3.93+ children.
reddit.com/r/COVIDZero/comment

#streptococcus #spyogenes

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Dr A. Capolongo :mastodon: · @DrACapolongo
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Increase in invasive group A streptococcal ( pyogenes) infections (iGAS) in young in the Netherlands, 2022

๐Ÿ“Œ 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.

eurosurveillance.org/content/1

#streptococcus #children

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Vivek Mutalik · @vivek_mutalik
627 followers · 618 posts · Server fediscience.org

Gaps in the wall: understanding cell wall biology to tackle amoxicillin in pneumoniae - PubMed

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/366385

#AMR #streptococcus #resistance

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Lisa Moore · @Lisa_R_Moore
17 followers · 17 posts · Server genomic.social

Lots of different kinds of bacteria can cause bacterial meningitis, the disease that Jeff Beck died of recently (google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/c). Many bacteria that are implicated, e. g. (not K-12), and , are in biocyc.org.

#Ecoli #streptococcus #mycobacteriumtuberculosis

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Martin Michaelis · @MartMichaelis
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Indeed, we should have learnt something from the . reduce the spread, if you are infected and need to go somewhere.

bbc.co.uk/news/education-64147

#pandemic #facemasks #COVID19 #flu #rsv #RSvirus #StrepA #ScarletFever #streptococcus

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