Ernest Mutengesa

ID/Virology Registrar • Interests in neuro-infection, imported fever

[Ernest Mutengesa @EMutengesa]

@Rocket_Medical do you deliver products in the uk - and how much is your pleurX system?

[Ashwin Rajenesh MD @ashwinrajenesh]

"Is there a doctor on the plane?"✈️🩺
Responding to in-flight medical emergencies.
#MedTwitter

[NHS England @NHSEngland]

This #BlackHistoryMonth, meet Karel, a Medical Photographer who is making healthcare imagery more inclusive.

The @uhbwNHS project addresses a crucial gap in healthcare imagery – the shortage of photographs available to clinicians that show conditions on darker skin tones.

[Timothy Li @drtimothyli]

Shiga toxin–producing E.coli (STEC) infection and microangiopathy including hemolytic-uremic syndrome (HUS)

Risk factors for HUS:
➡️STEC with Shiga toxin 2 (e.g. E.coli O157)
➡️Age <5
➡️Antibiotic use (⭐avoid in immunocompetent with bloody diarrhoea)

https://t.co/TZtpOfSO2q

[U Bhalraam (Raam) @CardioShades]

After many weeks of development, @DoctorsVoteUK is finally releasing SlipSpector® 🎉. This app helps you check if your Statutory Deductions are accurate on your ESR generated NHS Payslip!
(Tax/NI/StudentLoan/Pensions)

It works for ALL NHS STAFF🤯

https://t.co/5FYvFNiXcH

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[Timothy Li @drtimothyli]

Zoonotic causes of bacterial meningitis

⭐ Streptococcus agalactiae sequence type 283 (ST283), which can be found on freshwater fish, is another pathogen that can cause meningitis in otherwise healthy adults

https://t.co/8d88rQqxp6

[Robert Dickson @robertpdickson]

Most patients with sepsis don't need anti-anaerobic antibiotics. But most get them anyway. Why not, what's the harm?

I worry the harm is considerable.

Our new study in @JAMAInternalMed: using a 15-month pip-tazo shortage to answer this question.

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https://t.co/1nOhsUaio0

[Timothy Li @drtimothyli]

Infections associated with freshwater exposure

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[Jonathan Ryder, MD @JonathanRyderMD]

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TIL about BORSA/MODSA, so cue the #IDTwitter #Tweetorial.

Thanks to the many contributors on @DrDidwania_ID's post on a very interesting variation of Staph aureus that phenotypically matches MRSA, but does not carry the correct genotype.

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https://t.co/USgXYj5e1t

[Fiona Cresswell @cresswell_fiona]

What a treat to spend the day coordinated the #TB module on @LSHTM DTM&H in London. Brilliant sessions from clinicians like @ChristineSekag1 @docwak77 @ankurgw @ChristopherCous Paul Fine & Alison Grant @LSHTM_TB. 70+ brilliant students including my colleague Enock from 🇺🇬 🔬😷

[Ernest Mutengesa @EMutengesa]

A collection of my favourite slides from this last month in the lab - featuring hyphae, plasmodium, mycobacterium cording and GPCs accompanying GNRs! 👨🏾‍🔬🔬🦠 #IDTwitter

[Ernest Mutengesa @EMutengesa]

Ever wondered what the inside of a MALDI-TOF mass spectrometer looks like? #IDTwitter #micro

[Animesh Singh @DrAnimeshSingh]

Remember that a junior doctor will come out of university with higher debt than economics student, they will have higher costs of training & moving house every 6-12m and work more hours.

[Ernest Mutengesa @EMutengesa]

Thank you Amrit! I saw Cali just yesterday btw!!

[Amrit Sachar 🇵🇸 #StopTheGenocide @apksachar]

@EMutengesa Good luck Ernest. You will be great!

[Ernest Mutengesa @EMutengesa]

@thsseb GPCs! 😎

[Ernest Mutengesa @EMutengesa]

Day 1 in the lab. Combined infection training let’s go! #IDTwitter

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

Warm welcome to our new intake of specialist trainees in Infectious Diseases and Microbiology in our London program!

The future of ID is in safe hands

#IDTwitter

[Keith Siau @drkeithsiau]

Lumbar puncture on a patient with a headache. What’s the diagnosis?

[Paul Sax @PaulSaxMD]

State of the Art: Acute Encephalitis

Outstanding review of one of the most challenging consults in all of ID. Each case difficult, frightening, memorable -- and often devastating to patients and their families.
https://t.co/7oal5uEA1s

[Ernest Mutengesa @EMutengesa]

Representing RFH massive 🔥🙌🏾

[Anika Rahim @ani_ruok]

And shout out to the legendary @EMutengesa - best MC/hype man/IMT buddy 📣 I could ask for