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Jonathan Youngs

@JonathanYoungs

Infectious Diseases / Viro doc. Interest in med ethics & fungal disease in flu and COVID. Opinions are often stolen from others.

 London, England
Joined January 2009
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Executive Summary: State-of-the-Art Review: Evaluation and Management of Pelvic Osteomyelitis in Stage IV Pressure Injuries: A Multidisciplinary Collaborative Approach bit.ly/47FGU9K
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Gus Hamilton@gushamilton12 Jul 2024
We have a new comment/analysis out on a recent high profile paper in JAMA IM that aimed to compare cefepime (CPM) vs pip-taz (PTZ) for sepsis using an instrumental variable (IV) Essentially, we think the results are biased due to a collider... 🧵 below. medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
Instrumental variable analysis: choice of control variables is critical and can lead to biased...

Instrumental variable analysis: choice of control variables is critical and can lead to biased...

Instrumental variable (IV) analysis is a widely used technique in econometrics to estimate causal effects in the presence of confounding. A recent application of this technique was used in a high-p...

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Infection doctors will appreciate this moment from #OMITB!
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My twitter account was hacked last night. So beware any odd messages coming from me!
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A case of native #dengue fever has been confirmed in the Paris region. This is the first time that a native case has been recorded in such a northern region of France. connexionfrance.com/article/…

First case of native dengue fever from tiger mosquito in Paris area

This is the first time that a native case has been confirmed so far north

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Replying to @BradSpellberg
@BradSpellberg reading your pressure sore related OM paper/ wiki guideline. I wondered - is there a distinction to be made for acute OM? E.g. is there a role for prolonged Abx (4-6wk) in a hospital onset pressure sore with radiological suggestion of OM, and MSSA surface swabs?
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(Where definitive surgical soft tissue coverage is not an option)
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Tony Breu@tony_breu8 Jan 2023
1/18 🤔Why does the diagnosis of Streptococcus bovis bacteremia immediately raise the specter of colon cancer? If colon cancer leads to barrier disruption and translocation of bacteria into the blood, shouldn't E. coli bacteremia raise the same concern? Is S. bovis unique?
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Don’t say I didn’t warn you
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Is “I’m not an expert on #Monkeypox but…” trending yet?
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Zack Ferguson@zackferguson20 May 2022
I’ve watched over 7 episodes of Grey’s Anatomy and once spent an hour in A&E when I sprained my ankle. Here’s a comprehensive sitrep re: monkeypox, based on exhaustive Facebook research I performed during a bowel movement. Tl;dr the experts are wrong, but I’m not. 🦠 🧵 (1/204)
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So this just happened... WHO recommended 6 month treatment for rifampin resistant #tb. @msfsci @docwak77 #endtb #Practecal #IDTwitter who.int/publications/i/item/…
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Endogenous endopthalmitis, what a counterintuitive term!
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I’m all about evidenced based medicine. But then when I am the one ill, rush out for zinc and vitamin C tablets like some quack.
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Trying to revise, but going down an ostriches & CCHF rabbit hole…
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Apparently double dose may work for omicron COVID PrEP. But table 5 here - IC50 susceptibility reduction looks substantive? gov.uk/government/publicatio…
Summary of Product Characteristics for Evusheld

Summary of Product Characteristics for Evusheld

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100 years on and still striking…
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Some 1920’s health tips from Kew Archives
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youtube.com/watch?v=If61baWF… Not that anyone can know what’s motivating Putin - I learnt a lot from this video. Especially the section on Russian oil/gas pipelines and their discovery of natural gas in waters near Crimea.
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