Stuart Campbell
@sc345.bsky.social
MD training in Infectious Diseases splitting time between Brisbane & Darwin, Australia. 🏈: GC Suns (AFL) ⚽︎: LFC (EPL) 🏏: Strikers (BBL) & Aus (Int)
SAVE THE DATE! 3 & 4 July 2026 Hotel Intercontinental, Brisbane, QLD ASID Zoonoses Conference is back for another year. Put this in your calendar as a must attend event.
Asked to do some #idsky teaching for the medical students on Infective Endocarditis. What topic is most high yield? I was thinking presentation, micro, TTE?
⭐️ 📄 ⭐️ Recently @pharmermeg.bsky.social updated this open-access post. Originally published in 2017, the new version has a complete overhaul & provides a downloadable document. This is an article that has been read by by tens thousands of people 🌎🌍🌏. www.idstewardship.com/cross-reacti... #IDsky
Timelapse of the altocumulus undulatus clouds over Brisbane yesterday
Quite looking forward to this week's intrepid teaching #ozbug ID/Immuno/Rheum/Heam panel discussion on PUO, quite a cool topic & way to chat about it!
So interesting! Great outline of the heat hypothesis of C. Auris & others
Rossana Rosa@drrossanarosa.bsky.social · last yr.“So, what if fungi win? I would say they’ve already won.” @acasadevall1.bsky.social Amazing to learn about all the ways in which fungi have won, and how we should think about those powers 🍄👑 #IDSky
Was just talking about this with a colleague today!
Infectious Diseases Fellowship at Indiana University@iuidfellowship.bsky.social · last yr.#idboardreview 50 M w/ F, chills, myalgia, R inguinal lymphadenopathy; eschar by ankle. Recent travel to rural China. Initial BP100/60 HR 70, sinus rhythm. 10d later dizzy, Brady, sick sinus syndrome #idmeded #meded #idsky #idfellows #idfellowship
Thrilled to share our new research led by Jane Davies @menziesresearch.bsky.social on First Nations people in the NT living with chronic hepatitis B. An important study that could inform better care: doi.org/10.1186/s128... #idsky #MedSky #HepSky #LiverSky
#IDSky #MedSky parasiteswithoutborders.com/books/
Books | Parasites without Borders
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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon)@peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · last yr.parasiteswithoutborders.com/books/
First time trying black sapote. Wasn't sure about it and didn't want to make a full smoothie so went crumpet and some double cream, it was quite good.
I'm so sick of Mendeley. What ref manager suggestions does anyone have?
No more conference spam from me for now! Back to the real world tomorrow.
Dr K Plain 🗣️ RE prelim results of a preclin #Qfever vax 🇦🇺 QVAX in Australia but sig. downsides 🆕 QF o-spec polysacc. LPS conjugated to a tetanus toxoid w/ alum adj 💉 Dose ranging in guinea 🐖 find 3x doses equiv to QVAX 🧪 Elicits IGRA response #qfig #onehealth #idsky @qfig.bsky.social
More #Qfever #onehealth - Prof L Epelboin talks about the French Guiana experience. 🌎 Highest rates (~30/100k yearly) globally 😷 Driven by virulent MST17 strain 🧢 QF causes 25% of CAP in Cayenne & worst in E euro. ethnic. 🦥 Outbreaks linked to sloths and capybara #qfig #IDsky @qfig.bsky.social
A/Prof A Bosward talks #onehealth and #Qfever in dairy 🐄. Shows that: ⛽ Cows (& others) are an important reservoir of QF w/ regional clusters 🤒 Infected cows are less productive (longer gestations & 2.4L less 🥛/🐄/🌅) Advocates for Australian uptake of animal QF vax. #qfig @qfig.bsky.social #vetsky
Thank you to everyone who came along to the march asking for a dedicated lane on the Story Bridge for walking, cycling and micromobility.
Dr Horvath et al outlined a diagnostic stewardship intervention for #qfever PCR (w/ compat. clin. synd.) 'TLC for Q': 🍽️ Thrombocytopenia, 🥩 raised LFTs 🎈 raised CRP assoc w/ increase PCR+ in acute QF. Machine learning algorithm found 85% sens, 65% spec. #IDsky #Qfig @qfig.bsky.social
Dr L Taege 🗣️ unpub data RE: placental histo findings w/ #Qfever assoc stillbirth. Only 9 cases prev, this adds another 10 cases. 🔍 Varied degrees of inflam, necrosis, infarcts 🐥 Untreated assoc w/ 2nd trimester IUD, partial Rx pre-term delivery, full Rx no foetal effects #Qfig @qfig.bsky.social
this is loony tunes. vaccine? woah woah woah! we need more huge RCTs. drug approval? no sweat! we’ll just ask ChatGPT.
Scott Morrison Companion of the Order of Australia for his service to the nation. #ScottMorrison #auspol #robodebt #corruption #FFS
The new version of R for AMR is ready! 🧫 Automated antibiograms 💻 Integration to WHONET 🧪 Updated CLSI and EUCAST breakpoints 💡 Free amr-for-r.org #biostatistics #episky #Statistics #AMR
Antimicrobial Resistance Data Analysis
Functions to simplify and standardise antimicrobial resistance (AMR) data analysis and to work with microbial and antimicrobial properties by using evidence-based methods, as described in <doi:10.1863...
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After >10 years of hard work by several teams worldwide, I'm proud to present our global #multi-omic study providing novel insights into the genetic, immunological, and metabolic underpinnings of HAM ( #HTLV-1 associated myelopathy) www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-5...
Multi-cohort cross-omics analysis reveals disease mechanisms and therapeutic targets in HTLV-1-associated myelopathy, a neglected retroviral neuroinflammatory disorder
HTLV-1 is an enigmatic retrovirus triggering a debilitating neuroinflammatory disease, HTLV-1-associated myelopathy (HAM), with unknown pathogenesis. Both HTLV-1 infection and HAM predominantly affect...
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I said no more #LISSSD25 posts but forgot a major highlight! Most sessions started w/ a patient lived experience video, and you can see them all @ lisssd2025.org/patient-stories Looking after patients during thier illnesses is v. stressful so it's great to hear their experiences when recovered.
Patient Stories — LISSSD 2025
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