Ernest Mutengesa

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

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

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.

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) doi.org/10.1056/NEJMra…

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🤯 esr.doctorsvote.app 1/12

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 doi.org/10.1212/WNL.00…

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. 1/n jamanetwork.com/journals/jamai…

Infections associated with freshwater exposure 1/8

1/ 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. /thread twitter.com/DrDidwania_ID/…

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 🇺🇬 🔬😷

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

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

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.

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

@thsseb GPCs! 😎

@EMutengesa What’s was your cut? Bug wise?

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

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

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

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. academic.oup.com/cid/article-ab…