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Natasha Spottiswoode
@NSpottiswoodeMD
Infectious disease doctor. Scientist. Mountaineer. Advocate. Haver of both adventures and misadventures. Opinions are my own.
Oct 30 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
Super excited to share our paper on secondary bacterial pneumonia in patients with COVID-19 - out in Nat Comms! nature.com/articles/s4146… Key findings: #1. 39% of intubated COVID-19 patients in this cohort developed 2ndary bacterial pneumonia & this was strongly associated with mortality & having received steroids.
Sep 12, 2022 • 10 tweets • 5 min read
#1/ A Monday morning tweetorial – on resistant CMV. Had a crash course in this while taking care of a pt with progressive resistance. All slides mine. #2/ What is CMV? It’s a betaherpesvirus, related to HSV/VZV, EBV, and HHV6/7/8. All of them establish lifelong latency – once you have them, you have them. Risk factors: crowded living, more sexual partners, contact with young kids…
Jun 14, 2022 • 11 tweets • 6 min read
My first tweetorial – on #monkeypox. (Disclaimers: my views only, evolving situation)
Let’s talk the what, who, when, and why. Slides are mine. #monkeypox is a dsDNA virus w/ famous relatives. esp. smallpox, a poxvirus w/ whopping 30% mortality rate. Smallpox eliminated) led ppl to learn variolation (ancient technique) + vaccination (w/ cowpox, then vaccinia virus = weak poxviruses). #monkeypox = less deadly smallpox.