Lyle Murray (@LyleWMurray) profile picture
Johannesburg, South Africa
Joined January 2021
Microbe Mail has been conducting interviews at #FIDSSA2024. Keep an eye out for an upcoming episode on "Highlights from the Fidssa Congress 2024" . Interview team consisting of Fathima Suleman , Nonkululeko Mntla and myself. @fidssa1 #medicalpodcast #meded #conference #IDX
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Very well attended #FIDSSA2024 session on Transplant ID 🧠🫁🫀🦠🧫 @LyleWMurray on CMV - two new anti-CMV agents on the block. Letermovir is a novel terminate complex inhibitor but costly and low barrier to R. Maribavir FDA approved for refractory or drug resistant
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🙌🙌 Strong showing of Joburg and @Wits ID at #FIDSSA2024 🦠🧫@LyleWMurray @neleshg @fixoic @EvanShoul @DrRibs_SA @lolrichards @LiorChernick @Tyral7 Uzma Khan, Sharon Sunny, many others!
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🚀🚀🚀 @fidssa1 #FIDSSA2024 congress has started!!! 🦠 Having major FOMO?! It’s not too late to join us! Onsite registration is available! Sandton, May 30 - June 1, 2024 fidssacongress.co.za
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Zapiro's take:
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Guys please stay in the lines. We know some are long, some opened late and some have had issues with scanners but stay the course. Make your voice heard. It’s only one day and this election will be decided by turnout! #countryduty 🇿🇦🗳️ @gwc_za
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NEW podcast Episode release with guest @ABpreservation #meded #AMR #Microbiology #infections #mdr #antibiotics #gramnegative #IDX Listen at: microbemail.captivate.fm/epi… or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Day 1 of the Wits-Imperial Obstetric Medicine Meeting held in Joburg today. Great talks from @WitsHealthFac, @CharlotteMaxJAH, @imperialcollege and @ImperialPeople faculty including @obstetricmedic, @MandishDhanjal, @LyleWMurray, @rbnyakoe and others not on Twitter! (1/3)
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The Annual Stephen Lawn Memorial 2024 takes on an exciting new format! @LSHTM_TB 📅 Tuesday 19 March 2024 ⏰15:00 - 16:30 GMT 'TB and HIV Colliding Epidemics: Voices on the Ground' tinyurl.com/yeyr6tf3 @joylawn @LindaGailBekker @TheUnion_TBLH @TheLancet
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Early bird registration is open for the #FIDSSA2024 conference! Be part of the conversation on how we can combat the challenges posed by infectious diseases in Southern Africa in the 21st century. Sandton, May 30 - June 1, 2024. Register now! fidssacongress.co.za/
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Interested in learning about Tropical Diseases and Hygiene? Come join our @WitsDTMH diploma course at @WitsHealthFac. There is still time to register. Fully online! Please help spread the word... More info on the course at wits.ac.za/course-finder/pos…
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Breaking news - National EML Committee supports recommendation for liposomal amphotericin B as 1st line treatment of HIV-associated crypto meningitis (as per @WHO 2022 guideline) based on safety & cost A real win for 🇿🇦!
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When we use war rhetoric for actions to mitigate #AntimicrobialResistance #AMR we fundamentally miss the point It's not a war against antibiotic-resistant bacteria, it's a war against we humans who have & continue 2 misuse&abuse antibiotics Credit where credit's due #WAAW2023
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Some good news from ⁦@UnionConference⁩ 11% decline in TB incidence per year in South Africa ⁦@WHO⁩ ⁦@StopTB⁩
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"PJP in critically ill patients admitted to ICU is nowadays most encountered in non-HIV patients." This really depends on where you live and work. This was a multi-centre European study so it's reasonable to generalise to resource-rich countries but not to the entire world
🆕📰 from @efisg_escmid and ESGCIP : 🇪🇺 multicenter study on Pneumocystis pneumonia in intensive care units. 8 countries, 18 centers, 600 patients. Mostly non-HIV. 30-day mortality 52%. Increased PPV when combining PCR and B-D-glucans. A lot of data 👇 ccforum.biomedcentral.com/ar…
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Next step - liposomal AmB access to switch to 2022 WHO 1st-line regimen The tender includes LAmB at $38 per 50mg vial - but for 2nd-line use for patients with intractable nephrotoxicity, etc. LAmB access programme for 1st-line treatment in the works 🇿🇦 Watch this space!
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🥳Flucytosine (5FC) procured from Oct '23 for ALL w/ crypto meningitis 🇿🇦 $0.85 per 500mg 💊 in national anti-infective medicines tender: health.gov.za/tenders/ Major milestone for universal access to life-saving💊for people living w/ advanced HIV! How did we get here? A🧵
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Antibiotic Myths for the Infectious Diseases Clinician ✅ Just Accepted 🔗 bit.ly/42CRt9m
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If you have an HIV-related manuscript to submit, please consider the SA Journal of HIV Medicine:
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Replying to @WitsVIDA
@WitsVIDA proudly involved in first study to show 82% efficacy (reduced risk) against severe Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) lower respiratory tract infection (LRTI) by vaccinating their mothers during pregnancy with a RSV protein vaccine. Published in NEJM today.
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