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Andrea Boggild, MD Profile picture
Andrea Boggild, MD
@BoggildLab
Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Toronto // Medical Director, Tropical Disease Unit, Toronto General Hospital // #NTDs #EDI @UHN @UofT
Nov 22, 2022 • 19 tweets • 11 min read
1/19 Hope you can take a break from COVID-19 & Mpox reading for a Tuesday tweetorial on Eosinophilia in the Returned Traveler. This has taken me all of pandemic to push out but with planes in the sky, now is the time to be prepared😊 Buckle up for some serious tissue invasion🪱 2/19 Eosinophils participate in the critical Th2 arm of immunological control of helminthic infections through Fc-receptor-mediated IgE approximation to worm tegument followed by degranulation. Most labs & literature define eosinophils as ⬆️ when they are bw 0.4-0.5 bil/L
Jan 30, 2021 • 12 tweets • 11 min read
❗️Publication alert in honor of #WorldNTDDay❗️Five key points about intestinal #schistosomiasis for migrant health practitioners out in @TMAID1. Congratulations to super⭐️ @BoggildLab alums & trainees @LeilaFMakhani @swana_kopal @ShvetaBhasker 🙌👏💯🤗❤️🔥 A short thread 👇 1/13 2/13 #schistosomiasis in migrants from endemic areas is a chronic helminthic infection in which eggs produced by adult trematodes residing in venous plexi can damage the liver & genitourinary tree due to inflammation over time
Oct 5, 2020 • 27 tweets • 20 min read
1/23 Honored & privileged to have watched Day 1 of the National Dialogues & Action on anti-Black Racism & Black Inclusion in 🇨🇦 Higher Ed. Congratulations to sponsors & organizers for making this happen & for teaching us all who work in academia 🙌👏🔥🙏 utsc.utoronto.ca/nationaldialog… 2/23 👇A thread summarizing Key Insights & Messages for Action that I learned from Day 1, courtesy of super⭐️ panel & plenary speakers Drs. & Profs. Michael Charles, @deanstudentexp, Heather Hines, Alissa Trotz, Dexter Voisin, @MalindaSmith, @ProfWlkr & Mike DeGagne 🙏🙏🔥🙌👏
Feb 9, 2020 • 24 tweets • 25 min read
❗️Just what you’ve been waiting for❗️Sunday @BoggildLab #Tweetorial on Fever in the Returning Traveler!! 🤒✈️🏝🏖💉🦟🌞Buckle up, friends 😊🙏🙏 @MedTweetorials @AcademicChatter #AcademicChatter #MedTweetorials #Fever #Travel #VectorBorneDisease #VaccinesWork 1/23 2/23 Fever = hypothalamic thermostat reset to a ⬆️ temp in response to infection. It’s an adaptive biological response to pathogen invasion that assists w/ immunological control of infections. Most texts refer to fever as temp >38 C. See JAMA paper also: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1302471