Doctor, specialist in Microbiology and Parasitology. From "CadiCadi". My activity is oriented to clinical microbiological diagnosis, guidance to the clinician on treatment of infection and detection and management of antibiotic resistance. #MedMastodon #MicroMastodon #IDMastodon #clinmicro
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Bibliography of interest that I am finding: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17dQlaL8cZOkAalFlw9GWHi68iuIppPVkwXBc_DFCKXA/edit?usp=sharing
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Fosfomycin versus ciprofloxacin for febrile neutropenia prophylaxis in high-risk haematological patients (FOVOCIP): a phase 3, open-label, multicentre, randomised, non-inferiority trial - ScienceDirect
#Fosfomycin did not demonstrate non-inferiority to #ciprofloxacin in the prevention of #febrileneutropenia in high-risk #haematologicalpatients. The higher incidence of Gram-negative bacteraemia discourages its use
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666776226001109
Complete sequence of Orthohantavirus Andes virus: Swiss resident 2026 - Other Viruses - Virological
On 5 May 2026, the Swiss National Reference Center for Emerging Viral Infections (Geneva University Hospitals) confirmed a case of Andes strain in a Swiss resident who had travelled on the MV Hondius cruise ship.
Thank you for sharing! Had some free time and had a go at making some segment trees. Brief methods: Downloaded all taxid 1980456 nucleotide sequences Separated by segment and made some preliminary alignments and fasttree phylogenies Manually picked the sequences clustering closest with the new virus and remade proper nucleotide alignments and trees for each segment (alignments: mafft localpair, trees: iqtree2, 10,000 UFbootstraps) Here’s the trees (closest clade only) for all three segments: ...
The PCR study of the KLM flight stewardess has been negative, as expected for this virus.
https://substack.com/@insidemedicine/note/c-255397412?r=2gmdo
Breaking News....and it's good! We just broke this on Inside Medicine. A hospitalized flight attendant who worked on a KLM flight that carried a female cruise ship passenger who subsequently died of Andes virus—the hantavirus that has infected several people on a cruise ship—has tested negative for the virus, Inside Medicine has learned. The source was the Director-General of the WHO, Dr. Tedros Ghebreyesus. If the flight attendant had tested positive, it would have been a major escalation in this story. More information on testing and what we know is here... https://insidemedicine.substack.com/p/scoop-dutch-flight-attendant-tests?r=5p3cr&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
Those who landed on the island of Saint Helena are already being detected and controlled.
In the case of the Hantavirus outbreak on the cruise, I am waiting for the flight attendant's PCR result. The logic, so far, of Hantavirus is that the ship's passengers have surely been infected on land and the probable person-to-person transmission could have occurred in the deceased couple.
There is now another patient with hantavirus infection, who is linked to the MV Hondius. The man „had responded to an email from the ship’s operator informing the passengers of the health event, and presented himself to a hospital in Zurich“ according to WHO.
Good article here on the latest about the #hantavirus sicknesses on the cruise ship near Cape Verde.
"Those most at risk are likely to be the ship’s other passengers. For now, the plan is for the Hondius to continue to the Canary Islands, Van Kerkhove says, where Spain will conduct a thorough epidemiological investigation and disinfect the ship.
All the researchers involved stress the challenge of investigating an outbreak on a ship in international waters with so many countries involved. “I think the response has been a wonderful global collaborative effort,” Blumberg says. “It shows the value of networks and people speaking to each other.””
Most complete article I have read about the #Hantavirus outbreak on the #cruise ship:
Cruise ship’s hantavirus outbreak puts researchers in uncharted territory | Science | AAAS
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