Consultant & Professor of Clinical Bacteriology Director Scottish Bacterial Respiratory Infection Service, Glasgow. President Scottish Microbiology Association
Glasgow
Joined January 2012
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Andrew Smith retweeted
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.
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.o…
Andrew Smith retweeted
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....
Andrew Smith retweeted
Congratulations to @NHSGGC the first health board in #Scotland to achieve #GAMSAS accreditation
#AMS #AMR #keepantibioticsworking @raseaton66 @BSACandJAC @jacquisneddons
Global Antimicrobial Stewardship Scheme update: BSAC is delighted to announce that NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (@NHSGGC) have been awarded GAMSAS level 3 accreditation bsac.org.uk/global-antimicro…
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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
Andrew Smith retweeted
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.c…
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And as we all know surgical masks are taken from a box marked not for respiratory protection...
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#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
Andrew Smith retweeted
🌈 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/…
Please RT and cite my tool! 😀
ALT Interface of the Color Quest app, freely available at http://boydorr.gla.ac.uk/lucanelli/colorquest/.
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…
@MethodistHosp
Andrew Smith retweeted
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
Andrew Smith retweeted
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
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- the value of international collaborations in improving our understanding of infectious diseases 5/n
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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
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designated as the M1-GLC (Gaelic) sublineage to reflect the historical connections between Iceland and Scotland 3/n
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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
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delighted to be able to contribute to this collaboration on Group A Streptococcus (GAS) transmission eurosurveillance.org/content… funded in part by the @GCH_Charity
identifying a new sublineage ("M1-Gaelic") associated with severe GAS disease in Scotland & Iceland 1/n
Andrew Smith retweeted
Next up in #WAAW2023 - Antimicrobial stewardship in Scotland – past successes, present priorities and future opportunities @SAPGAbx @Frankerr1F @AntibioticScot @alisonstrath @jacquisneddons @Amanjkurdi6 sapg.scot/about-us/meetings-…
