clinical microbiologist / ped / ID specialist / interested in diagnostics, antimicrobial stewardship, AI & med. education Professor at HHU Düsseldorf
Joined March 2020
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How often are antimicrobials given in pediatric hematology/oncology, and how often is it appropriate?
We conducted a multi-center point-prevalence study (PPS) in 🇩🇪 and 🇦🇹
What’s more, we checked EACH prescription for appropriateness
Here is what we found —>
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We are hiring / wir stellen ein:
Fachärzt*in / Assistenz*ärztin / Clinician Scientist
uniklinik-duesseldorf.de/fil…
I have started my Professorship for Molecular Medical Microbiology and Infection Immunology at the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf @UniklinikDUS as of 1st May 🎉 🍾
Looking forward to continuing established and starting new collaborations with interested folks!
#ESPID2025 #IDtwitter
@ESPIDsociety
New Vaccines in Town:
Paratyphoid vaccine could become the first to be licensed on basis of controlled human infection model (CHIM)
@AndrewPollard
Cihan Papan retweeted
We are delighted to announce the publication of UTI WikiGuideline in JAMA Network Open. Thank you to the 54 experts from 12 countries for drafting. Special thanks to @zacroBID and @amenalor for leading the effort.
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A heartfelt thank you to the @PaulEhrlichGes for honouring our work with the Wolfgang Stille Award 🙏
here is the link to the paper:
thelancet.com/journals/lanep…
@LancetRH_Europe
Wolfgang Stille award of the @PaulEhrlichGes this year goes to 2 winners: congrats to the working group of @CihanPapan and Dr Tan for two excellent studies published in 2023/2024
p-e-g.org/wolfgang-stille-pr…
Cihan Papan retweeted
New Comment from Yael Lohse and colleagues: Migration background, skin colour, gender, and infectious disease presentation in clinical vignettes.
Read it here: buff.ly/4cZIDJ3
#ESCMIDGlobal2024
David Resnik on why #AI #LLM such as ChatGPT do not qualify as authors of a publications
—> lack of accountability
—> lack of moral responsibility
Among other arguments
@ESCMID
#ESCMIDGlobal2024
Highly engaging talk and discussion on the potentials and perils of large language models #LLM in medicine @GermHunterMD
Hall B
@ESCMID #AI
Tobias Kramer from @ChariteBerlin reporting findings of their cluster-randomized trial on hand hygiene intervention in outpatient hemodialysis centers
#ESCMIDGlobal2024 @ESCMID
Observed even a
Decreased infection rate
Intriguing findings given the not-so-bad baseline compliance rates already
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Nicholas Grassly on the potential of wastewater surveillance for other pandemic-risk viruses, e.g. #Zika #Lassa
Hall I
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ESCMID Study Group for Antimicrobial Stewardship
Business Meeting — the room is packed
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📢Just published🔥
The BV score (TRAIL + IP10 + CRP) discriminates quite well between bacterial and viral respiratory tract infections (RTI).
But how does it perform in #pneumonia caused by Mycoplasma pneumoniae (Mp)?
doi.org/10.1093/infdis/jiad5…
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Finding #2:
Combining clinical features (age, duration of fever, duration of resp. symptoms) with BV performed as well as combining them with PCT (AUC 0.86 vs. 0.87) in terms of discriminatory accuracy
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tl;dr:
- Although BV score differentiates well between bacterial and viral RTI —> use with caution in “atypical” pathogens like Mp
- Although imperfect in Mp —> microbiological testing remains important
- These findings come in time as Mp resurges —> doi.org/10.1016/S2666-5247(2…