CMI Communications

16/11/2025

🎙️ Just published: Communicable episode 40: Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in conflict and crisis zones

Hosted by Nav Narayanan & Thomas Tängdén w/ invited guests Aula Abbara (UK), Guido Granata (Italy), Tuomas Aro (Finland)

Listen on : https://share.transistor.fm/s/f848de36

It’s World AMR Awareness Week (WAAW) and we have prepared a special episode in light of that. In this week's Communicable, Navaneeth Narayanan and Thomas Tängdén host Aula Abbara (London, UK), Guido Granata (Rome, Italy) and Tuomas Aro (Helsinki, Finland) to discuss the phenomenon of AMR in...

13/11/2025

📣 How many healthy people in a high-income, low-resistance country will be carriers? In this prospective cohort of >700 adults with no at-risk travel history, whole genome sequencing showed 4.5% prevalence. It was all .

Read the article by Nousianinen et al: https://www.cmi-comms.org/article/S2950-5909(25)00070-8/fulltext

13/11/2025

📣 New drops Mon 17 Nov!
Next week is World AMR Awareness Week and we have a special episode. Nav & Thomas invite Aula Abbara (UK), Guido Granata (Italy) & Tuomas Aro (Finland) to discuss the urgent issue of AMR in war & crisis zones.

10/11/2025

📣 In a US cohort of >2500 patients, marcescens was associated with persistent bacteremia and cardiac devices. Yet WGS showed genetic diversity of isolates: infections are not clonal.

Vance Fowler, Roberta Monardo, Larry Park, et al: https://ow.ly/vUBv50XpisP

06/11/2025

📣The journal is happy to introduce its new fellows joining the editorial board in January!

Congratulations and welcome Laura Jung, Rekha Pai Mangalore and Victor Dahl ✨

04/11/2025

📣 NEW: Tara C. Smith replies to our recently published commentary on staying vs leaving Twitter 'Joining the X-odus'

Smith points out "the social cost of harassment and threats on Twitter/X, particularly for women" and more

https://ow.ly/I6VM50Xmp4V

02/11/2025

🎙️ Just published: Communicable E39: Dengue on the rise

Hosted by Annie Joseph & Nav Narayanan w/ invited guests Andre Siqueira (Brazil) & Steven Lim (Malaysia)

Listen on Communicable: https://share.transistor.fm/s/48ae30ae
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30/10/2025

📣 New drops Mon 3 Nov!
Annie Joseph & Navaneeth Narayanan host Andre Siqueira (Brazil) & Steven Lim (Malaysia) to discuss as a rising global health burden, how to diagnose & manage it, and what's in the therapeutic pipeline 🔍

27/10/2025

📣In a longitudinal analysis of top ID journals, gender balance is projected for women first authors in 2028 - but for women last authors, only in 2043

The proportion of women editors is projected to remain low

https://www.cmi-comms.org/article/S2950-5909(25)00084-8/

19/10/2025

🎙️ Just published, Communicable E38: Why do you have to be so complicated? The 2025 IDSA Complicated UTI Guidelines

Hosted by Angela Huttner & Erin McCreary w/ invited guests Barbara Trautner & Valéry Lavergne

Listen on Communicable: https://share.transistor.fm/s/cf51137d

16/10/2025

📣 Is there still value in staying on Twitter/X?

Neil Stone may make you think again even if you did join the & Ilan Schwartz may make you think again if you didn't

🙏🏼 to both for this thoughtful pro-con: https://www.cmi-comms.org/article/S2950-5909(25)00081-2/fulltext

16/10/2025

📣 New drops Mon 20 Oct!
Angela Huttner & Erin McCreary welcome Barbara Trautner & Valéry Lavergne, the co-chairs of the first IDSA guidelines for complicated UTIs, to discuss this important milestone! Tune in 🎙️