Abid Hussain
@amh10.bsky.social
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Medical Microbiologist & Clinical Services Director @UKHSA BPHL. All posts my own. #QI #ClinGov
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Abid Hussain
@amh10.bsky.social
· Sep 6
Resolving a neonatal intensive care unit outbreak of meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus to the single-nucleotide variant level using Oxford Nanopore simplex reads and HERRO error correction
Our laboratory began prospective genomic surveillance for healthcare-associated organisms
in 2022 using Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT) as a standalone platform. While effective
for early outbreak ...
www.journalofhospitalinfection.com
Abid Hussain
@amh10.bsky.social
· Sep 6
Empiric antibiotics for moderate-severe community-Acquired Pneumonia: We ought to serve patients better!
Each day thousands of patients are hospitalized worldwide with Community-Acquired
Pneumonia (CAP), either radiologically confirmed or presumed based on clinical symptoms
only, and each day physicians ...
www.clinicalmicrobiologyandinfection.org
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Alan McNally
@alanmcn1.bsky.social
· Sep 6
Abid Hussain
@amh10.bsky.social
· Sep 6
Teicoplanin total trough concentration and adverse effects in patients with hypoalbuminemia
The association between Teicoplanin (TEIC) total trough concentration (Cmin) and adverse
effects (hepatotoxicity, nephrotoxicity, and thrombocytopenia) in patients with hypoalbuminemia
remains poorly ...
www.jiac-j.com
Abid Hussain
@amh10.bsky.social
· Jul 15
The international and intercontinental spread and expansion of antimicrobial-resistant Salmonella Typhi: a genomic epidemiology study
Independent acquisition of plasmids and homoplastic mutations conferring antimicrobial
resistance have occurred repeatedly in multiple lineages of S Typhi, predominantly
arising in south Asia before s...
www.thelancet.com
Abid Hussain
@amh10.bsky.social
· Apr 26
Brief antibiotic use drives human gut bacteria towards low-cost resistance - Nature
Brief ciprofloxacin exposure in humans drives antibiotic resistance evolution in gut bacteria through selective sweeps, particularly involving DNA gyrase mutations, which persist long after exposure a...
www.nature.com
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Abid Hussain
@amh10.bsky.social
· Apr 15
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· Apr 15
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@amh10.bsky.social
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