Out now in @ofidjournal.bsky.social! 🦠🦠Short course, or management without antibiotics, had the same outcomes compared to 10 days treatment following #groupAstrep positive throat swabs in this large cohort. This included no increase in household cases. 💊💊 track.smtpsendmail.com/9032119/c?p=...

Effect of a Widespread Reduction in Treatment Duration for Group A Streptococcal Pharyngitis on Outcomes Including Household Transmission

In this large cohort of patients with group A streptococcal–positive throat swabs, there was no increase in repeat antibiotic treatment, repeat positive th

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📌The need for speed: ultra-rapid high-resolution outbreak analysis in a front-line hospital microbiology laboratory |@medrxivpreprint See how hospital labs can analyse outbreaks fast - no on-site #Bioinformatics needed, cutting delays doi.org/10.1101/2025... 🖥️🧬💻 #AcademicSky #MicroSky 🧪🧫🦠

The need for speed: ultra-rapid high-resolution outbreak analysis in a front-line hospital microbiology laboratory

Many hospital laboratories have technical capacity to perform whole-genome sequencing but lack bioinformatic expertise to analyse sequence data. Sending isolates to reference laboratories creates dela...

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#IDSky colleague from New Zealand @maxgbloomfield.bsky.social sent us his study on environmental benefits when they switched TID cefuroxime to once a day ceftriaxone. They had a 383kg waste reduction! Nice to connect with #IDSky across the globe on sustainability. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38696830/