Andrew Smith

This is the place where the first fever hospital in Glasgow stood in 1865. Listen closely and you can still hear the bedpans rattling and the faint cries of Nurse, nurse.... They made space for sick people and kept them separate from non-fever patients. We can do this.

Welcome to Dr Martyn Wilkinson as the new Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Hospital Infection📗 Dr Wilkinson will lead the journal into its next chapter, continuing its mission of publishing high-quality research. Read Martyn's first interview: ow.ly/bWrh50WVHX5

Great example of cross borders collaboration in difficult times. “……27 countries and territories: prospective surveillance by the IRIS”Consortium.Co-ordinated by Prof Angela Brueggemann @UniofOxford. eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%…

@EvonneTCurran Oh yes GAS by aerosol transmission 👍

You see you only have to look for airborne transmission, when you can't explain transmission by direct contact (arrrh) #bias OWH 1843 could not and did not explain transmission by contact alone...

I love a good introduction. And here is a good introduction - except you have to add "not in the UK" as the guidance writers still cannot see beyond droplets and AGPs. We are even behind the WHO - who if you remember said....

Congratulations to @NHSGGC the first health board in #Scotland to achieve #GAMSAS accreditation #AMS #AMR #keepantibioticsworking @raseaton66 @BSACandJAC @jacquisneddons

Who and how Antimicrobials are prescribed has changed. Our #AMS initiatives need to acknowledge and embrace this nss.nhs.scot/media/5668/a... #WAAW2024 #WAAW @SAPGAbx @Frankerr1F @NHSNSS

They are in the air. In every sample. Care is delivered in a bioaerosol soup. Now tell me again why hands are No 1. Or better still show me the citations that evidence it. journalofhospitalinfection.com/article/S0195-…

And as we all know surgical masks are taken from a box marked not for respiratory protection...

#surgicalprophylaxis guidelines, #AMSchampions and culture and sensitivity testing just some of the key themes in University of Ghana medical centre #cwpams visit Joined by leads from Ghana Police Hospital to share learning #GhanaSAPG

🌈 Started as a joke, ended up publishing it in #PLOSOne.🎨Step beyond basic colors and move past the traffic light system 🚦! Red, green, and yellow in plots and maps isn't ideal for colorblind viewers. Bookmark my App: boydorr.gla.ac.uk/lucanelli/colo… Please RT and cite my tool! 😀

eurosurveillance.org/content/10.280… @MethodistHosp @HMPathology @EdinburghUni @UofGlasgow @uni_iceland @Landspitali & to @GCH_Charity @Williams_T_C

Chapeau to Beres et al in recent collaboration between Houston, Iceland & Scotland. Identification of a new M1uk sub-lineage M1Gaelic ! Absence of International surveillance for GAS infections is a worrying gap. eurosurveillance.org/content/10.280… @MethodistHosp

big thank yous due to all those that made this possible: the Musser Lab @MethodistHosp @HMPathology @EdinburghUni @UofGlasgow @uni_iceland @Landspitali & to @GCH_Charity END

as we enter another GAS season (hopefully less marked than the one we saw in 2022-3) it will be interesting to see what lineages are now becoming dominant, and drill down into whether it was lineage virulence, a drop in herd immunity, or an unfortunately ... 6/n

- the value of international collaborations in improving our understanding of infectious diseases 5/n

the paper illustrates a number of points: - the speed of pathogen spread in a highly interconnected world - the dynamic nature of GAS evolution and transmission - the value of whole genome sequencing in understanding pathogen epidemiology 4/n

designated as the M1-GLC (Gaelic) sublineage to reflect the historical connections between Iceland and Scotland 3/n

the Musser Lab in Houston, Texas analysed a large dataset of GAS isolates from Scotland and Iceland they found that almost all invasive GAS isolates in Iceland in the 2022-3 season belonged to the highly virulent M1UK lineage and furthermore clustered within a sublineage 2/n

delighted to be able to contribute to this collaboration on Group A Streptococcus (GAS) transmission eurosurveillance.org/content/10.280… funded in part by the @GCH_Charity identifying a new sublineage ("M1-Gaelic") associated with severe GAS disease in Scotland & Iceland 1/n