Sapha Barkati
@SaphaBarkati
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#DYK? Our accredited course "Providing Health Care to Refugee, Immigrant & Migrant Populations" has an entire day of infectious diseases updates for clinicians. Join us online or in person at @McGillU June 12-14. #RefugeeHealth. #MigrantHealth. #ImmigrantHealth #Healthcareaccess
Register now for this upcoming @McGillGHP McGill Global Health Program course focusing on helping professionals understand and manage health care issues faced by refugees, immigrants and migrant populations In-person or online For more info and to register:
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Intravenous Liposomal Amphotericin B Efficacy and Safety for Cutaneous and Mucosal Leishmaniasis: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
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AbstractBackground. Tegumentary leishmaniasis is often subject to limited funding, underpowered studies, and a paucity of high-quality interventional studi
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From course co-director Dr. Sapha Barkati: "This course is not just about lectures. It is a chance to meet clinicians with wide ranging expertise in all areas of travel and tropical medicine, discuss cases, and see how they think about problems." More at https://t.co/N1BmNNFTsR
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Today, we recognize the 1 billion people worldwide who suffer from severe illness, lifelong disability, and other social and economic consequences caused by #NTDs. Amid other pressing global health challenges, we must remain #100PercentCommited to beating #NTDs. #WorldNTDDay
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A previously healthy 14-year-old boy who lived on a farm presented with a 1-month history of episodic headaches associated with vomiting. What is the most likely diagnosis? https://t.co/kQrNuVF5bo
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Monkeypox in Montréal: Epidemiology, Phylogenomics, and Public Health Response to a Large North American Outbreak | Annals of Internal Medicine
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Background: Monkeypox, a viral zoonotic disease, is causing a global outbreak outside of endemic areas. Objective: To characterize the outbreak of monkeypox in Montréal, the first large outbreak in...
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New research: Epidemiological and clinical characteristics of patients with monkeypox in the GeoSentinel Network: a cross-sectional study https://t.co/53Es72xlWW
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Clinical manifestations of monkeypox infection differed by HIV status. Recommendations should be expanded to include pre-exposure monkeypox vaccination of groups at high risk of infection who plan to...
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Join us to ASTMH Clinical Pre-Meeting Course "The Big Syndromes in Tropical Medicine: A Practical Clinical Update on the Diagnosis and Management of Tropical Diseases". When: October 13 and 14 from 1-5pm ( Eastern Standard Time). Register here:
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ICYMI 🆕⚡⚡State of art Review Article @NatRevImmunol Monkeypox: disease epidemiology,Immunopathogenesis, immune evasion, host immunity and clinical interventions(vaccines and therapeutics) #IDTwitter #MedEd #TwitteRx #MedTwitter
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New research: Protection against omicron (B.1.1.529) BA.2 reinfection conferred by primary omicron BA.1 or pre-omicron SARS-CoV-2 infection among health-care workers with and without mRNA vaccination: a test-negative case-control study https://t.co/prU09vQPWU
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A zombie snail It's been taken over by a parasite controlling its motor functions & eye stalks, mimicking caterpillars. The parasitic worm wants the snail to be eaten by birds, in whose intestines it will reproduce [read more: https://t.co/wBnf9NqYMJ]
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The worm visible in the gallbladder is Ascaris lumbricoides, the commonest parasite within the GI tract #LiverTwitter #MedEd (Via @R31naDeInvierno) https://t.co/c3sU3vDb1i
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🔥 from the nejm Description of 528 #Monkeypox cases in 16 states ➡️95% of transmission through sex ➡️64% had <10 lesions ➡️73% had anogenital lesions ➡️29% had other STI 🚫 ☠️ Congratulations to @SaphaBarkati, Luke Harrison and Marina Klein! https://t.co/keNBsUBRSG
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Congratulations to investigators from the McGill Division of Infectious Diseases and the MI4 clinical research platform for their contribution to the description of monkey pox outbreak! @SaphaBarkati, Marina Klein, Luke Harrison. @mcgillu @MI4Innovates
In this report, 528 cases of monkeypox across 16 countries are described. Rash, mucosallesions, fever, lethargy, and lymphadenopathy were common clinical findings. Few patients were hospitalized. https://t.co/SPTVK1vBRl
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📢 Published today in @NEJM to aid #monkeypox diagnosis: A global collaborative case series led by @ShareEastLondon @QMUL describing 528 confirmed infections from 43 centres in 16 countries + an image library. @rcgp @RCPhysicians
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Before April 2022, monkeypox virus infection in humans was seldom reported outside African regions where it is endemic. Currently, cases are occurring worldwide. Transmission, risk factors, clinica...
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