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| Date (2023)| Speaker | Paper/Topic |
| -------- | -------- | -------- |
| 11th Aug | Fergus Hamilton (Bristol) | CRP-IL-6 axis and infection outcomes |
| 18th Aug | Clark Russell | Retrospective review of microbiology specimens referred to Great Ormond Street Hospital for molecular testing 2022-23|
| 25th Aug | Ed Rycroft | Daptomycin usage in NHS Lothian |
| 1st Sept | Peter Davies (Glasgow) | Impact of blood culture transport delays |
| 8th Sept | Katharine Relph | [Treatment of erythema migrans with doxycycline for 7 days versus 14 days in Slovenia: a randomised open-label non-inferiority trial. Stupica et al. Lancet Infectious Diseases 2023.](https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(22)00528-X/fulltext) |
| 15th Sept | Callum Cairncross | [Pitavastatin to Prevent Cardiovascular Disease in HIV Infection. Grinspoon et al. NEJM 2023.](https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2304146) |
| 22nd Sept | Daniella McLenaghan | [A controlled human infection model of Streptococcus pyogenes pharyngitis (CHIVAS-M75): an observational, dose-finding study. Osowicki et al. Lancet Microbe 2021.](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35544165/) |
| 29th Sept | No journal club | ... |
| 6th Oct | No journal club | ... |
| 13th Oct | Anika Rahim | RATIONS trial |
| 20th Oct | No journal club | ... |
| 27th Oct | Meghan Perry | Clinical Infection Research Group research in progress |
| 3rd Nov |Amy Stewart|Adjunctive steroids in bacterial pneumonia|
| 10th Nov |Areeb Arshad|[Deep learning-guided discovery of an antibiotic targeting Acinetobacter baumannii. Liu et al. Nature Chemical Biology 2023.](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41589-023-01349-8)|
| 17th Nov |No Journal Club|...|
| 24th Nov |Kate Templeton|Wastewater surveillance: view from Scotland|
| 1st Dec |No Journal Club|...|
| 8th Dec |Callum Mutch |[SABATO trial. Kaasch et al. medRxiv 2023.](https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.07.03.23291932v1) |
| 15th Dec |Lilly Tian|[Oral Lipid Nanocrystal Amphotericin B for Cryptococcal Meningitis: A Randomized Clinical Trial. Boulware et al. Clin Infect Dis 2023.](https://academic.oup.com/cid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/cid/ciad440/7246927)|
| 22nd Dec |Natalie Lee|[Maribavir for Refractory Cytomegalovirus Infections With or Without Resistance Post-Transplant: Results From a Phase 3 Randomized Clinical Trial. Avery et al. Clin Infect Dis 2022.](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34864943/)|
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| 5th Jan |No Journal Club|...|
| 12th Jan |Luca Fontana|Persistence of Ebola virus in body fluids: A study of survivors of the 2018-20 DRC outbreak|
| 19th Jan |Lisa Kilday|Pulmonary Mtb molecular diagnostics|
| 26th Jan |Durga Kulkarni|Epidemiology of human metapneumovirus-associated acute respiratory infections in older adults |
| 2nd Feb |Martin McHugh|Genomic investigation of antimicrobial resistant enterococci in Scotland|
| 9th Feb |Alex Chung|[Estimating the potential risk of transmission of arboviruses in the Americas and Europe: a modelling study. Zardini et al 2024.](https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(23)00252-8/fulltext)|
| 16th Feb |Joseph Anderson|Audit of streptococcal joint infections|
| 23rd Feb |Meghan Perry|CIRG Research in Progress|
|1st March| No journal club|...|
|8th March|No journal club|...|
|15th March|Anna Smielewska|Liverpool experience of in-house 16s PCR|
|22nd March|TBC||