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Paul Sax @paulsaxmd.bsky.social · 3d

Tremendous honor -- thank you so much @idsainfo.bsky.social and especially @darcy-id-doc.bsky.social #IDSky
www.idsociety.org/education--t...

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Journal of Clinical Investigation @jci.org · 5d

A major barrier to HIV cure is a population of T cells that harbors replication-competent proviruses

Here, Robert F. Siliciano & team report most viruses in the latent HIV-1 reservoir are resistant to autologous neutralizing antibodies: www.jci.org/articles/vie...

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CIDRAP @cidrap.bsky.social · 5d

Pakistan, Nigeria report new #polio cases

The cases include three wild poliovirus type 1 and three circulating variant poliovirus type 2.

www.cidrap.umn.edu/p...

Photo: Sanofi Pasteur / Flickr cc

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Nature Communications @natcomms.nature.com · 5d

A serological study highlights the role of sex workers & non-sexual household transmission in the ongoing outbreak of mpox (clade Ib) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

@LeandreMurhula @LucaMZaeck @MarionKoopmans
#mpox #virology #PublicHealth

Serological evidence of clade Ib Mpox transmission by sex workers and within household in South Kivu, DRC - Nature Communications

Serological studies are needed to understand the ongoing clade Ib mpox outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and neighboring countries. Here, the authors conduct a cross-sectional serological study in South Kivu, highlighting the role of professional sex workers and household transmission in mpox epidemiology.

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 7d

Now Jeanne Marrazzo, the Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases has been fired by #RFKJr in retaliation. This administration is corrupt. Matthew Memoli: remember this man's name, MAGA grifter who scored $500M for his research. www.statnews.com/2025/09/04/n...

Two former top NIH officials say they were forced out in retaliation for objecting to grant terminations

Whistleblower complaints by two former top NIH officials offer their inside accounts of the Trump administration’s targeting of vaccine science.

www.statnews.com

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Waggoner Lab @labwaggoner.bsky.social · 7d

Phenotypic and epigenetic profiles of circulating NK cells in spontaneous HIV-1 controllers @ebiomedicine.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @radboudumc.bsky.social

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Contagion® @contagionlive.bsky.social · 7d

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) provided more information on a multistate outbreak and genomic testing. #IDsky #Medsky

Listeria Outbreak Update: 3 More Illnesses and 1 Death Linked to Packaged Meals

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) provided more information on a multistate outbreak and genomic testing.

www.contagionlive.com

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Darcy Wooten (she/her) @darcy-id-doc.bsky.social · 7d

This review on OIs is 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥!!!

www.iasusa.org/wp-content/u...

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Demetre Daskalakis @drdemetre.bsky.social · 7d

Why HHS Is Wrong to Bring Back the Stigmatizing Name Monkeypox
time.com/7321965/mpox-m… @nikkiromanik.bsky.social

https://time.com/7321965/mpox-m…

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Waggoner Lab @labwaggoner.bsky.social · 8d

CTLA-4 blockade shifts the B cell repertoire towards autoimmunity @jci.org @yalesph.bsky.social
www.jci.org/articles/vie...

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Yijia Li @yijiali89.bsky.social · 8d

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 8d

A landmark new study in JAMA Pediatrics shows the HPV vaccine is doing exactly what it promised & more. 17yrs after rollout, adolescent vaccination has slashed HPV infxns not only among those vaccinated but also those unvaccinated, showing powerful herd protection.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Population-Level Effectiveness and Herd Protection 17 Years After HPV Vaccine

This cross-sectional study investigates population-level effectiveness and herd protection in the first 17 years after human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination among adolescent girls and young women at ...

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 9d

Cutting funding for HIV treatment and prevention is short sighted and will reverse progress that has been achieved through decades of consistent funding and prioritization. We cannot allow this to happen.
www.nbcnews.com/health/sexua...

Republicans seek deep cuts to HIV prevention and treatment funding

Cuts proposed by the Trump administration and House Republicans could drive up new HIV cases by more than 200,000 by 2030, one expert projects.

www.nbcnews.com

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Yijia Li @yijiali89.bsky.social · 10d

Hahahahaha

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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 11d

Gonna echo what other physicians are saying: DO NOT TAKE PEDIATRIC ADVICE FROM AN ADULT SURGEON (especially one who has demonstrated that he’s lackey material)

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 11d

It was from the head of the FDA, Martin Makary:

"A study out of Hopkins actually showed that treating a fever can prolong the duration of illness in a young kid. Maybe that's because a fever is a body's natural way of ridding an infection."

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Waggoner Lab @labwaggoner.bsky.social · 11d

Balancing IL-17–mediated protection and IFN-γ–driven pathology at mucocutaneous barriers @cp-trendsimmuno.bsky.social
www.cell.com/trends/immun...

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Rick Guasco @rickguasco.bsky.social · 11d

On National Gay Men’s HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, replace stigma, judgement and gossip with awareness, information and open conversation. #NGMHAAD

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Waggoner Lab @labwaggoner.bsky.social · 12d

Age-related changes in glycocalyx are associated with reduced T cell responsiveness @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Yijia Li @yijiali89.bsky.social · 13d

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Jeremy Barr @jeremyjbarr.bsky.social · 14d

Excited to annouce the latest research published by our lab, which is led by Dinesh Subedi and is out today in Nature Microbiology.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Rational design of a hospital-specific phage cocktail to treat Enterobacter cloacae complex infections - Nature Microbiology

The Entelli-02 phage product containing five phages has frontline potential to address infections caused by the multidrug-resistant Enterobacter cloacae complex.

www.nature.com

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Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 14d

UCLA’s funds reinstated after yesterday’s court order! Thanks to the brave researchers and their amazing counsel, including Dean Chemerinsky, who brought suit. This is just another turn in the ongoing fight, but a great result for now.

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Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · 15d

🚨 Microbiologists! We are recruiting Assistant / Associate Professors in 3 collaborative areas of our U. Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
1) MMG (my dept): fundamental research in med micro
2) Peds ID / I4Kids institute
3) Center for Vaccine Research
🔗 to all 3 w/info: www.linkedin.com/posts/vaughn...

Faculty Professor Associate - Full-Time | Vaughn Cooper

We are recruiting Faculty microbiologists in three (3) different, complementary, and collaborative areas at the University of Pittsburgh associated with the School of Medicine. 1) Fundamental researc...

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Yijia Li @yijiali89.bsky.social · 15d

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Clinical Infectious Diseases @cidjournal.bsky.social · 15d

Randomized pragmatic trial of the comparative effectiveness of chicken egg-based inactivated, mammalian cell-culture-based inactivated, and recombinant protein quadrivalent seasonal influenza vaccines in US Military Health System

✅ Just Accepted
#IDSky
🔗 https://bit.ly/4pOOFmG

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