Abi Manesh

Infectious Diseases, CMC Vellore, India

[Abi Manesh @abi_manesh]

@doxycyclinitin @KavithaSaravu @MicrobeTweets Great work! Nice paper.

[K-Tech CoE Data Science & AI - NASSCOM @ktech_DSAI]

Want to keep yourself engaged during the holidays? Here is a list of 12 valuable #datascience projects you can work on.

Find out more here - https://t.co/WBrX3N0EGy

@ITBTGoK @Startup_Kar @OfficialIndiaAI @sudeep247 @theaigroup @DataScienceCtrl

[Abi Manesh @abi_manesh]

Nice work! https://t.co/UCTOzMLbyL

[Abi Manesh @abi_manesh]

Great list!

[Joshua Davis @Josh_S_Davis]

Here are my top 10 non-COVID clinical ID research papers of 2020. Criteria:
1) My opinion!
2) Published in 2020
3) Practice changing, paradigm-shifting or dogma-refuting
#IDtwitter #Top10
Summary attached and details on rest of this thread.

[Francisco Marty, MD @FranciscoMarty_]

So if the sicker patients, who had a higher probability of presenting later in the course of #COVID19 preferentially were assigned #remdesivir, then the effect of #remdesivir would be diluted, leading to a decreased observed effect.

[Abi Manesh @abi_manesh]

A nice read! https://t.co/lIZ3GK5cMa

[Abi Manesh @abi_manesh]

5 good books for a lousy year - you can't go wrong choosing them! https://t.co/J1SEy4WPUf via @billgates

[Abi Manesh @abi_manesh]

Ah! we definitely need more drugs against these. In Vitro Susceptibility Testing of Omadacycline against Nontuberculous Mycobacteria (NTM) https://t.co/jVSPYLWRAY

[Abi Manesh @abi_manesh]

‘It will change everything’: DeepMind’s AI makes gigantic leap in solving protein structures https://t.co/Z6C2p4rMpb

[Paul Sax @PaulSaxMD]

Low vitamin D levels may correlate with worse outcomes in many diseases.

But supplementing does not necessarily improve outcomes. In fact, it almost never does.

(Still waiting for a truly convincing study in any infection.)

Lather, rince, repeat.

https://t.co/RlqpSCPlRC

[Abi Manesh @abi_manesh]

Snakebite steals millions of years of quality life in India https://t.co/xTKrWURV91

[Abi Manesh @abi_manesh]

Interesting read! https://t.co/Rkk8OPws4g

[Abi Manesh @abi_manesh]

@EbyDan2007 @TheLancet Looks like one needs to balance the small risk of resistance against the impact of prophylaxis wrt infection morbidity and death especially in situations where health care availability and access may be a significant problem.

[Shmuel Shoham @ShohamTxID]

Transplant pt. Diarrhea x 4 weeks. Weekly CMV viral loads 308,166, 66 and then 51. Not on therapy. Biopsy on week 4 shows CMV colitis. Key point: Viral load may be low or even negative despite tissue invasive CMV GI disease

[G Kang @GKangInd]

Sam, MBBS classmate we are honoured to know. Truly outstanding academic innovator. Always a conflict about how much can be achieved in India and outside. But many know Sam finds ways to serve here too. @OffCMCVellore @VCMCFoundation https://t.co/l7arXoXat3

[Kavitha Saravu @KavithaSaravu]

Enriching talk on newer antifungals and nuances of treatment of #mucormycosis by none other than @FranciscoMarty_ at #CIDSCON2020 @CidsIndia

[Kavitha Saravu @KavithaSaravu]

Live: #Scrub typhus, what's new? By @GeorgeMVarghese @CidsIndia on going at virtual CIDSCON 2020

Scrub typhus is no longer restricted to tsutsugamuchi triangle.

[David Dowdy @davidwdowdy]

This tweet may appear random, but I've been struck by how much our current discourse reflects anger & distrust rather than strength & positivity. In that vein, a reflection on 10 values my dad embodied before he passed away - and that I hope my daughter might sometime see in me.

[Abi Manesh @abi_manesh]

@doxycyclinitin @_qjm_ Congrats Nitin 👏👏

[Abi Manesh @abi_manesh]

@vishnuvy @drayushagarwal @rajan_roopa @Anu_Gupta_AIIMS @Biswamohan13 @AJTMH @ASTMH Thank you for this important data - it questions many assumptions in the area of NCC! Congrats for this wonderful work.