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ESCMID's open-access journal with companion podcast (Communicable) for all things infectious diseases, clinical microbiology, AMR & stewardship #IDSky #MedSky #EpiSky #ClinMicro

🗞️ https://www.cmi-comms.org/

🎙️ https://communicable.transistor.fm
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📣 Medical editors call for #action against the decisions being taken in the #USA undermining #medicine and #science, and international #coordination to preserve what has been built across borders.

#IDSky #Clinmicro #MedSky #Episky #publichealth #vaccines

www.cmi-comms.com/article/S295...
From medical editors: A call to the global infectious diseases and clinical microbiology community
Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.Robert F. Kennedy, Senior
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📣 A peer reviewer used #AI to create a fake review with 6 self-citation prompts. But is s/he the only perpetrator in our system? In the year's first editorial, Angela Huttner explores the depths of the academic-industrial complex.

#IDSky #clinmicro #peerreview

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The beating heart of a broken machine
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January 20, 2026 at 2:23 PM
📣 Who is behind #Kingella kingae, #Elizabethkingia
meningoseptica, and several other bacteria? Anne-Marie Dolan et al describe the legacy of Elizabeth O. King, #CDC microbiologist & World War II army officer, for our #Personbehindthename series.

#IDSky #clinmicro

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Microbiology royalty: Elizabeth O. King and the legacy of Elizabethkingia meningoseptica
The genus Elizabethkingia comprises Gram-negative, nonmotile, nonspore-forming aerobic rods in the family Weeksellaceae. These nonglucose-fermenting organisms were long included within Flavobacterium ...
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January 12, 2026 at 12:40 PM
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Pretty cool that Robin Patel picks Ouli Xie's @lancetmicrobe.bsky.social paper on SDSE and S pyogenes as one of her top 3 clinical microbiology papers for 2025! As expected, Robin does a great job explaining the paper.

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

@onisillos.bsky.social
January 12, 2026 at 3:04 AM
🎙️ Just published Communicable E44: Top clinical microbiology papers in 2025

Hosted by Annie Joseph & Josh Nosanchuk w/ invited guests Robin Patel & Fidelma Fitzpatrick

Listen on #Communicable: https://share.transistor.fm/s/6e5c26ae

#IDSky #clinmicro
January 11, 2026 at 11:00 PM
📣 Are steroids likely to reduce mortality in non-HIV patients with severe PCP? @drtoddlee.bsky.social, @dremilymcd.bsky.social et al. reexamine the Lemiale RCT with a Bayesian lens to find out.

#IDSky #clinmicro #PCP #immunosky #medsky

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Contextualizing the use of corticosteroids in severe Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia through a Bayesian lens
A recent multicenter randomized clinical trial (RCT) of steroids for severe Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia (PCP) in patients without HIV failed to demonstrate a significant benefit in its primary ou...
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January 8, 2026 at 6:33 PM
📣 New #Communicable drops Mon 12 Jan! We kick off the new year with Annie Joseph & Josh Nosanchuk hosting Robin Patel (Mayo Clinic) & Fidelma Fitzpatrick (RCSI) to discuss their top #clinmicro papers of 2025 ⭐ Tune in Monday🎙️

#IDSky
January 8, 2026 at 10:55 AM
📣 #Wastewater surveillance is a powerful tool. In this integrated molecular epidemiologic study of >1000 patients with #influenza, #RSV, or #Covid, it correlates year after year with number of inpatient + ambulatory cases.

#IDSky #clinmicro #ViroSky #EpiSky #OA
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An integrated surveillance study of SARS-CoV-2, influenza virus, and respiratory syncytial virus infections
We aimed to describe recent epidemiological trends of SARS-CoV-2, influenza virus (A/B), and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) in the canton of Geneva, Switzerland, using data from the Sentinella netw...
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January 6, 2026 at 8:15 AM
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My personal favourite @cmicomms.bsky.social episode in 2025 was Ep. 29 "Bacterial Vaginosis & Male Partners".
Super fascinating science alongside someone so passionate about the science. I've even shared this ep to my non-science friends and they thought it was awesome too
🎙️ Just published #Communicable E43: Katie's picks of 2025

Hosted by Angela Huttner & Annie Joseph w/ invited 'guest' Katie Hostettler, managing editor at CMI Communications & Communicable producer

Listen on #Communicable: https://share.transistor.fm/s/0da740f3
January 2, 2026 at 1:04 AM
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One of the biggest challenges I've had coming back to "regular life" in Australia after my time with MSF is dealing with fireworks.
Fireworks in essence are just pretty coloured bombs.
Happy New Year's y'all.
May 2026 bring actual peace and security, equality and equity.
December 31, 2025 at 11:58 AM
🎙️ Just published #Communicable E43: Katie's picks of 2025

Hosted by Angela Huttner & Annie Joseph w/ invited 'guest' Katie Hostettler, managing editor at CMI Communications & Communicable producer

Listen on #Communicable: https://share.transistor.fm/s/0da740f3
December 28, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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💡An important commentary on vaccines from ESCMID by the Vaccines Subcommittee Director, the Chair of the Vaccines Study Group & the ESCMID Executive Committee jointly published in CMI & CMI Comms.

CMI: https://ow.ly/HUGM50XNByv
CMI Comms: https://ow.ly/xmbk50XNByx

#IDSky #clinmicro
December 23, 2025 at 11:52 AM
📣 New #Communicable drops Mon 29 Dec!
In this year-end special, Angela Huttner & Annie Joseph invite managing editor & Communicable producer Katie Hostettler to discuss her favorite episodes. Also, all editors share some of their highlights of the year.❄️🧣

#IDSky #clinmicro
December 23, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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A great discussion about science on social media by @cmicomms.bsky.social
As a scientist and the creator of the #AMR feed, I love the capacity in Bluesky to be able to easily see the science, to find similar researchers, new papers etc. X was getting too noisy for finding your people #IDSky #MedSky
December 16, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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Thanks for the rich discussion.

My twitter regret was that I was too meek 😆 Instead I just wrote strident editorials that got largely ignored

Fortunately my day job keeps neck deep in the literature without the need for socials 😅
December 15, 2025 at 7:23 PM
🎙️ Just published: Communicable E42...

Hosted by @angelahuttner.bsky.social & @marcbonten.bsky.social

w/ invited guests Ilan Schwartz @germhuntermd.bsky.social, Neil Stone @drneilstone.bsky.social & Tara Smith @aetiology.bsky.social

Listen on #Communicable:

#IDSky #Clinmicro #IDTwitter
Communicable E42: Should doctors stay at X (Twitter) or leave it?
During the COVID-19 pandemic with lockdown mandates and social...
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December 14, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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One of my favorite podcast 🫶 let's have a look 👀 next monday !
📣 New #Communicable drops Mon 15 Dec!
@angelahuttner.bsky.social & @marcbonten.bsky.social invite Ilan Schwartz @germhuntermd.bsky.social , Neil Stone @drneilstone.bsky.social & Tara Smith @aetiology.bsky.social to debate staying on or leaving Twitter for alternatives 🎤

#IDTwitter #IDSky #clinmicro
December 11, 2025 at 8:39 PM
📣 New #Communicable drops Mon 15 Dec!
@angelahuttner.bsky.social & @marcbonten.bsky.social invite Ilan Schwartz @germhuntermd.bsky.social , Neil Stone @drneilstone.bsky.social & Tara Smith @aetiology.bsky.social to debate staying on or leaving Twitter for alternatives 🎤

#IDTwitter #IDSky #clinmicro
December 11, 2025 at 8:34 AM
📣 Systematic review on ESBL+ #Enterobacterales in HIC community dwellers over time:

Median prevalence in 2002 was 3% but now is 19%
8-37% of family members become #ESBL carriers
Few data on interventions to prevent community transmission

#IDSky #clinmicro #MedSky
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Community human-to-human transmission of multidrug-resistant Enterobacterales in high-income countries: A systematic review
Multidrug-resistant Enterobacterales (MDRE) are widespread globally, representing a major health burden [1–3]. In recent years, faecal carriage of MDRE, namely extended-spectrum β-lactamase producing ...
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December 10, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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🔥Community human-to-human transmission of multidrug resistant Enterobacterales in high-income countries: a systematic review @cmicomms.bsky.social @escmid.bsky.social @esgap.bsky.social

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December 8, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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🤔 I’ll admit — I’m still wrapping my head around DOOR in clinical trials. I’m used to P-values and classic non-inferiority, but DOOR feels different.
Breaking down the DOOR in DOTS RCT @cmicomms.bsky.social
#idsky #EMIMCC
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Breaking down the Desirability of Outcome Ranking (DOOR): unpacking the methodology behind the Dalbavancin as an Option for Treatment of Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia (DOTS) trial
Desirability of Outcome Ranking (DOOR) outcomes such as the primary outcome of the DOTS (Dalbavancin as an Option for Treatment of Staphylococcus aure…
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December 3, 2025 at 8:57 PM
📣Extra proud of this one:

ESCMID's Trainee Assoc @taescmid.bsky.social reflects on its critical role in peer-reviewing #Communicable podcast episodes:

Our model "sets a precedent for inclusive academic publishing" 😀🎙️
#IDSky #clinmicro #MedEd #MedSky #peerreview

www.cmi-comms.org/article/S295...
Listening, learning and leading: empowering the next generation through podcast reviewing
Launched in spring 2024, the podcast Communicable, hosted by the editors of CMI Communications, has quickly become a trusted forum for exploring emerging and sometimes controversial issues in infectio...
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December 2, 2025 at 4:14 PM
We are very excited to have launched this new collaboration with @gardp.bsky.social! 🚀

This first jointly published commentary on #AMR by @kevinsblake.bsky.social & Gautam Dantas can also be read on our journal page: www.cmi-comms.org/article/S295...

#IDSky #clinmicro
December 1, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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Diagnostic stewardship improves pt care, saves money, & makes doctors' lives easier... what's not to love?

Recording this ep gave me loads of ideas to put into practice...
December 1, 2025 at 8:59 AM