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In the newly announced #QSWorldUniversityRankings 2025, #CUHK has achieved a significant milestone by ranking 36th globally. This is an impressive 11-place leap from last year, marking CUHK’s best performance in the league table since it started in 2010. bit.ly/459OYOQ

Join @mip_labCU at this #FrontiersForum webinar to discuss how lessons from COVID-19 can guide the deployment of real-time, global surveillance of pathogens and antimicrobial resistance with a One Health perspective @frontscience Register: fro.ntiers.in/fNAX

Today is International Women and Girls in Science Day and to celebrate we took time with some key female leaders in ESCMID to get their advice for the next generation and how they came to be leaders in our field! Read the full article here: ow.ly/LB8050QzULx

@iscm_micro @ESCMID Many congratulations, Fidelma on being elected to the @ESCMID exec com!!

Huge congrats to Fidelma on being elected to the @ESCMID exec! We know you'll represent Clinical Microbiology, ISCM, and Ireland brilliantly! 🇮🇪

CU Medicine officially announces that MOZAIC™️ , the #microbiome #technology developed by @magic_limited, has been adopted by the local health authority, the Hospital Authority, to provide a territory wide #FMT service to patients in public #hospitals in #HK. bit.ly/3uiL5c4

#PrematurityAwarenessMonth! Premature babies miss out on the important growth and development that happens in the final weeks of pregnancy. #GroupBstrep can also cause preterm birth. This month let's bring awareness of the issue and what we can do to prevent it!

Fascinating presentation from @mip_labCU, looking at #groupBStrep from an Asian perspective. #issad2023

🚨Abstract Submission Deadline🚨 Only two weeks 📅 left to submit your #GroupBStrep work to ISSAD's 3rd Global Conference on Group B Strep in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil! Abstract Submission Deadline: 8th June 2023 ➡️issad.org #meningitis #sepsis #ISSAD2023

🚨Abstract Submission Deadline🚨 Only three weeks 📅 left to submit your #GroupBStrep work to ISSAD's 3rd Global Conference on Group B Strep in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil! Abstract Submission Deadline: 8th June 2023 ➡️ issad.org #meningitis #sepsis #ISSAD2023

Happy 102nd birthday to Sir Anthony Epstein. The virus he discovered with Yvonne Barr and Bert Achong in 1964 continues to surprise us! Most recently implicated in multiple sclerosis and long covid, EBV also plays a role in certain cancers. Important therapeutic target.

"Calling #antimicrobialresistance a 'silent pandemic' doesn't work. Politicians can ignore a silent pandemic. #AMR is a grand pandemic. It can't be ignored." Dame Sally Davies @UKAMREnvoy at the BSAC Spring Conference #BSACSpring2023

Glad to share our review on revisiting Donor screening protocol of FMT in Gut journal. gut.bmj.com/content/early/… Thanks! @sunnyheiwong

#GroupBStrep infection is most common in young babies 👶but has increased in older adult population groups aged between 55 and 75 years. Research into the safety and efficacy of MinervaX's #GBS vaccine💉 for older adults has now begun. #VaccinesWork ➡️bit.ly/41DGUmS

To highlight February's Prenatal Infection Prevention 🗓️, we would like to focus on preventing neonatal 🤰 infections, 'The urgent need to recognise and properly address prenatal-onset #GroupBStrep disease'. Article found here➡️bit.ly/Prenatal-onset… #meningitis #ISSAD2023

Today is 🌍 #worldmeningitisday2022! Why is WMD so important, and how does it affect newborns across the globe, leaving babies with long-term illnesses? A #GroupBStrep vaccine 💉 could stop significant neonatal death. #meningitis #sepsis #pneumonia #Defeatmeningitis #ISSAD2023

@Heiderlab @CUHKofficial @DAAD_Germany @Uni_MR @Yunxiao12955259 Alas we are able to meet face-to-face ...in a beautiful campus with a medieval castle and a P4 lab!!😃

Great and productive meeting with our colleagues from Hong Kong @CUHKofficial for our joint project funded by the @DAAD_Germany @Uni_MR #AMR #Bioinformatics #MachineLearning @Yunxiao12955259

Take your time this weekend and catch up on all of the #ECCMIDtv segments from the congress. We have a lot of great interviews with faculty and members around the community. You can watch all segments on the ESCMID YouTube channel. youtube.com/c/ESCMIDorgOff… #ECCMID2022

South-East Asian group B Streptococcus networking event (SEA-BeaSt) Dr Tim Barkham from Tan Tock Seng Hospital showing data that ‘suggests’ that eating raw fish may account for the majority of GBS bacteraemia in some regional populations.

#ECCMID2022 Late abstract submission is opening soon. This will include not only late-breakers but also late submission of regular abstracts to be included. Late submission is open from February 2 - 16! Learn more: ow.ly/beBy50HuANF