Paul Turner

ACORN team photo

#ResearchHighlight from @moru-mip.bsky.social, @oucru.bsky.social, @kemriwellcome.bsky.social

Prospective characterisation of drug-resistant bloodstream infections in Africa and Asia #ACORN2 a surveillance network assessment

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Paper 👉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Prospective characterisation of drug-resistant bloodstream infections in Africa and Asia (ACORN2): a surveillance network assessment ACORN2 has shown practical implementation of collecting linked clinical-laboratory AMR data in low-income and middle-income countries and identified a significant burden of WHO GLASS BSI. Adoption of ...

Prospective characterisation of drug-resistant bloodstream infections in Africa and Asia (ACORN2): a surveillance network assessment - The Lancet Microbe www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Great work by a tremendous team of collaborators!

@wellcometrust.bsky.social @acorn-amr.bsky.social @who.int

#ResearchHighlight from Cristina Ardura-Garcia & @paulturnermicro.bsky.social, @moru-mip.bsky.social

Factors associated with positive blood cultures in children in nine African and Asian countries: the #ACORN2 surveillance network

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Paper 👉 gh.bmj.com/content/10/1...

Genetic population structure of Haemophilus influenzae at local and global scales - Nature Microbiology Large-scale sequencing and population genomic analyses reveal frequent transmission, a highly admixed global population structure and evidence of pervasive negative selection in Haemophilus influenzae...

#NewResearch

Genetic population structure of Haemophilus influenzae at local and global scales

#microsky #IDsky

@paulturnermicro.bsky.social & co

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Genetic population structure of Haemophilus influenzae at local and global scales - Nature Microbiology Large-scale sequencing and population genomic analyses reveal frequent transmission, a highly admixed global population structure and evidence of pervasive negative selection in Haemophilus influenzae...

A great collaboration with Jukka Corander and colleagues, to define the population structure of this important global pathogen

A first step towards identifying candidate antigens for new improved vaccines...

@tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk @wellcometrust.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🎪 In Cambodia, circus arts are helping raise awareness of antimicrobial resistance #AMR

With antibiotics widely available and language barriers high, creative approaches are key to responsible use
@moru-mip.bsky.social

📖 Read more: www.tropmedres.ac/news/circus-...
#GlobalHealth #Cambodia

Sustainable antimicrobial resistance surveillance: time for a global funding mechanism Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is predicted to outstrip malaria, HIV, and tuberculosis combined as the leading infectious cause of death by 2050. Strengthening the knowledge and evidence base for AMR ...

Sustainable antimicrobial resistance surveillance: time for a global funding mechanism - The Lancet Infectious Diseases www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Hello from the ACORN AMR Investigators

We are delighted to share our first results preprint, covering the >40,000 clinical infection episodes and BSI / AMR data captured by our 19 sites across 9 African and Asian countries

dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...

More coming soon!