Damien Mack

Diagnosing, treating and preventing infection in London @RoyalFreeNHS and @RNOHnhs. Husband. Parent. More bicycles! Tweets are from my own tiny mind.

[Damien Mack @DJFMack]

Locum consultant in infection @RoyalFreeNHS supporting @RNOH bone infection unit, ideal for ID/micro consultant to gain experience in bone and joint infection.
https://t.co/oqa8W2PQLy

[Damien Mack @DJFMack]

Tracing the transmissionof carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteralesat the patient: ward environmental nexus. Potential for putative patient-patient and patient-ward transmission was shown. #AMR #IPC #HCAI @RoyalFreeNHS Well done @LinzyElton and team.
https://t.co/5TFKll1WQ7

[Colin S Brown @colinbrown_id]

https://t.co/aVmZyPucAT
Just published the first case of penicillin-resistant group B Streptococcus isolated from a patient in the UK - though of note this was from 2016 and we have not seen any further resistance since - however a salient reminder that #AMR is ever a possibility

[UK Health Security Agency @UKHSA]

We have detected a single confirmed human case of Clade Ib mpox.

This is the first detection of this Clade of mpox in the UK, the wider risk to the UK population remains low.
Read the full story here: https://t.co/3j7TBjlGJ8

[Takahiro Matsuo (Taka), MD @TakaMatsuo_ID]

【Mycobacterial Cultures in Orthopedic Samples】@JBoneJtInfect Oct 2024 #OrthoID #Keyarticle

👉Out of 6,162 samples (2017–2022), 22 patients had M. tuberculosis and 6 had NTM isolated🇬🇧
👉To detect one new bone/joint mycobacterial infection, 229 cultures are needed
👉In low-TB settings, targeted mycobacterial cultures may be more effective than routine testing

@MSISorg @EBJIS_ #IDMedEd #IDFellow @MayoClinicINFD

https://t.co/4SoPYrHR8o

[Takahiro Matsuo (Taka), MD @TakaMatsuo_ID]

【Fluoroquinolones in orthopedic infection: balancing risks and rewards】J Antimicrob Chemother, Aug 2023

👉Important discussion regarding the use of Fluoroquinolones in orthopedic infection! 🇬🇧

https://t.co/vgb6KwhS92

#IDMedEd #IDFellow @MSISorg @EBJIS_ @jointapproach @MayoClinicINFD #OrthoID

[Damien Mack @DJFMack]

Locum Consultant in Infectious Diseases @RoyalFreeNHS @RNOHnhs
Infectious diseases inpatient service
Microbiology service
Bone infection service
Renal and liver unit services
OPAT and TB services
https://t.co/h7MXdZysiA

[Royal Free London @RoyalFreeNHS]

Congratulations to Professor Paul Griffiths who was recognised in the King’s Birthday Honours.

Professor Griffiths, who worked at the Royal Free Hospital for 38 years, was named an MBE for services to virology. He helped develop a much quicker way of diagnosing and treating an infection called cytomegalovirus in transplant patients.

Read more about his life-saving work here 🔽 https://t.co/k1sihv03X1

[Damien Mack @DJFMack]

@DrDAggarwal @ksbakes @hall_lab @ewan_harrison @Cambridge_Uni @sangerinstitute @MedCambridge @CamInfectDis @CambridgeDDU @ChurchillCol Congratulations Dinesh, great work.

[The Lancet Infectious Diseases @TheLancetInfDis]

New research: Global burden associated with 85 pathogens in 2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

https://t.co/LHjXEa5yFs

[Colin S Brown @colinbrown_id]

Further publication from our successful academic partnership led by @DrDianeAshiru with @OfficialUoM's Pieter van Staa again highlighting the increased risk of sepsis from those living in deprived conditions, alongside other medical/demography predictors

https://t.co/vXPwcG0bmc

[MAKSPH-RFH partnership,Makerere University-RoyalF @MaksphRoyalfree]

This week, thanks to @FlemingFund, #THET @ https://t.co/GOgKry1Q6g. Makerere University School of Public Health, in partnership with Royal Free Hospital NHS Trust London, hosted a 5-member team. Activities held at mukono hospital in #AMR awareness and #handhygiene.

[Healthcare Infection Society @HIS_infection]

#Outbreaks course leader @TimCJBoswell recently published details of a CPE outbreak linked to electric floor scrubbers in @JHIeditor

Book our course in March to find out more on outbreak management🦠

Read article👉 https://t.co/WYUOV8HriB

Book course 👉 https://t.co/8UceRfCyej

[Antibiotic Steward Bassam Ghanem 🅱️C🆔🅿️🌟 @ABsteward]

You've probably read about this scary outbreak in the news
81 case from 18 US states
🔥Now it's published🔥
Extensively Drug-Resistant P.aeruginosa with carbapenemas
gene blaVIM-80 &cephalosporinasgene blaGES-9 associated with Artificial Tears #IDXpost https://t.co/T3q4sxIL2I

[Damien Mack @DJFMack]

The dynamics of hospital COVID-19 contacts and subsequent conversion to SARS-CoV-2 infection: for Omicron variants, 90% of contacts converted within seven days of exposure.
Great work Nneoma Okeke and colleagues.

https://t.co/L9T36O2Dn7

[Patrick Harris @padstamundo]

Mortality, hospital length of stay and recurrent bloodstream infection... https://t.co/aLw13xLipk @UQMedicine @davidantibiotic

[Phil Norville @philnorville]

Another interesting paper on sinks and their role in HAIs published in @jhieditor. A retrospective analysis of 552 ICUs showed that sinks located in patient rooms are associated with higher rates of HAIs: https://t.co/PzjQ2xRmRc

[Erin McCreary @ErinMcCreary]

.@PharmerMeg showing the benefits of “cefazolin for all” at @MAD_ID_ASP

⬇️ infections without an ⬆️ in hypersensitivity when cefazolin used over clinda or vanc perioperatively in patients with reported pcn allergies

https://t.co/xdxMWlGp0c

[Royal Free London IPC Team @rfl_ipcteam]

Happy Nurses Day!

Thank you to @RoyalFreeNHS for the cupcakes for Nurses Day