Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health
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CTMGH, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford. Network of research groups based in Oxford and across Africa and Asia. Tackling infectious diseases, from clinical studies to behavioural sciences.
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📢New paper alert!
Rapid, low-cost tests repurposed by researchers can now detect deadly contaminants in medicinal syrups that could help prevent the tragic child deaths seen worldwide
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Rapid, low-cost tests repurposed by researchers can now detect deadly contaminants in medicinal syrups that could help prevent the tragic child deaths seen worldwide
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Rapid, low-cost tests to help prevent child deaths from contaminated medicinal syrups | Infectious Diseases Data Observatory
Professor Paul Newton, who heads the Medicine Quality Research group, is the project lead for large collaboration that has demonstrated that simple, rapid, and inexpensive tests can detect deadly…
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December 5, 2025 at 2:14 PM
📢New paper alert!
Rapid, low-cost tests repurposed by researchers can now detect deadly contaminants in medicinal syrups that could help prevent the tragic child deaths seen worldwide
@oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social @kavlioxford.bsky.social @bevingan.bsky.social
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Rapid, low-cost tests repurposed by researchers can now detect deadly contaminants in medicinal syrups that could help prevent the tragic child deaths seen worldwide
@oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social @kavlioxford.bsky.social @bevingan.bsky.social
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#ResearchHighlight from James Njunge and Jay Berkley @kemriwellcome.bsky.social
Inflammation impairs post-hospital discharge growth among children hospitalised with acute illness in sub-Saharan Africa and south Asia
Read more 👉 www.ndm.ac/tropmed.res-hi
Paper 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Inflammation impairs post-hospital discharge growth among children hospitalised with acute illness in sub-Saharan Africa and south Asia
Read more 👉 www.ndm.ac/tropmed.res-hi
Paper 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
December 5, 2025 at 12:57 PM
#ResearchHighlight from James Njunge and Jay Berkley @kemriwellcome.bsky.social
Inflammation impairs post-hospital discharge growth among children hospitalised with acute illness in sub-Saharan Africa and south Asia
Read more 👉 www.ndm.ac/tropmed.res-hi
Paper 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Inflammation impairs post-hospital discharge growth among children hospitalised with acute illness in sub-Saharan Africa and south Asia
Read more 👉 www.ndm.ac/tropmed.res-hi
Paper 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Low-cost, rapid tests like alcohol test strips & breathalysers can detect toxic contaminants in medicinal syrups
@iddonews.bsky.social
With over 300 child deaths worldwide linked to syrup contamination, these simple tools could save lives.
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With over 300 child deaths worldwide linked to syrup contamination, these simple tools could save lives.
Read more 👉 www.tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk/news/rapid-l...
December 5, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Low-cost, rapid tests like alcohol test strips & breathalysers can detect toxic contaminants in medicinal syrups
@iddonews.bsky.social
With over 300 child deaths worldwide linked to syrup contamination, these simple tools could save lives.
Read more 👉 www.tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk/news/rapid-l...
@iddonews.bsky.social
With over 300 child deaths worldwide linked to syrup contamination, these simple tools could save lives.
Read more 👉 www.tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk/news/rapid-l...
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📝 Read blog by Dr Nathalie Beloum, one of our new WHO/TDR Fellows!
She shares insights into the application process, her upcoming projects, first impressions and hopes for the placement.
@who.int #TDRnews
👉 Read her story www.iddo.org/news/introdu...
She shares insights into the application process, her upcoming projects, first impressions and hopes for the placement.
@who.int #TDRnews
👉 Read her story www.iddo.org/news/introdu...
December 3, 2025 at 10:30 AM
📝 Read blog by Dr Nathalie Beloum, one of our new WHO/TDR Fellows!
She shares insights into the application process, her upcoming projects, first impressions and hopes for the placement.
@who.int #TDRnews
👉 Read her story www.iddo.org/news/introdu...
She shares insights into the application process, her upcoming projects, first impressions and hopes for the placement.
@who.int #TDRnews
👉 Read her story www.iddo.org/news/introdu...
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The Nairobi City County Health Policy, Planning and Financing Directorate team visited @kemriwellcome.bsky.social in Kilifi and met with Executive Director, Prof. @edwinebarasa.bsky.social to discuss research collaborations in national health financing reforms and primary healthcare financing.
December 3, 2025 at 11:46 AM
The Nairobi City County Health Policy, Planning and Financing Directorate team visited @kemriwellcome.bsky.social in Kilifi and met with Executive Director, Prof. @edwinebarasa.bsky.social to discuss research collaborations in national health financing reforms and primary healthcare financing.
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🎥 Watch Dawit Getachew Assefa #DillaUniversity #Ethiopia talk about how his year with IDDO/WWARN - through the @who.int #TDRnews Postgraduate Research Fellowship - how it has positively impacted his career, his institution and his students.
👉https://bit.ly/49ZZU6l
👉https://bit.ly/49ZZU6l
Dawit Getachew Assefa’s Fellowship reflections | Infectious Diseases Data Observatory
Dawit Getachew Assefa, based at Dilla University, Ethiopia, joined IDDO in 2024 for a 12-month placement as part of the WHO/TDR Postgraduate Research Fellowship. He worked on projects across…
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December 3, 2025 at 5:44 PM
🎥 Watch Dawit Getachew Assefa #DillaUniversity #Ethiopia talk about how his year with IDDO/WWARN - through the @who.int #TDRnews Postgraduate Research Fellowship - how it has positively impacted his career, his institution and his students.
👉https://bit.ly/49ZZU6l
👉https://bit.ly/49ZZU6l
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📢 📢 New paper alert!
Read new paper on developing a #VL data reuse platform and research agenda and how they can play a vital role furthering knowledge and optimal treatments for #VisceralLeishmaniasis
#BeatNTDs
www.iddo.org/news/data-pl...
@prabindahal.bsky.social
Read new paper on developing a #VL data reuse platform and research agenda and how they can play a vital role furthering knowledge and optimal treatments for #VisceralLeishmaniasis
#BeatNTDs
www.iddo.org/news/data-pl...
@prabindahal.bsky.social
December 4, 2025 at 8:01 AM
📢 📢 New paper alert!
Read new paper on developing a #VL data reuse platform and research agenda and how they can play a vital role furthering knowledge and optimal treatments for #VisceralLeishmaniasis
#BeatNTDs
www.iddo.org/news/data-pl...
@prabindahal.bsky.social
Read new paper on developing a #VL data reuse platform and research agenda and how they can play a vital role furthering knowledge and optimal treatments for #VisceralLeishmaniasis
#BeatNTDs
www.iddo.org/news/data-pl...
@prabindahal.bsky.social
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Speaker Spotlight: Prof. Sundararaman Thiagarajan
He is one of South Asia’s most influential voices in health systems strengthening, public health policy, and people’s health movements.
Register: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
#Global #Solidarity #GlobalHealth #Bioethics #SouthAsia #India #Nepal
He is one of South Asia’s most influential voices in health systems strengthening, public health policy, and people’s health movements.
Register: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
#Global #Solidarity #GlobalHealth #Bioethics #SouthAsia #India #Nepal
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: A Pluriverse of Solidarities: Solidarity at the Margins, in Institutions, and in Sacred Spaces. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email abo...
This webinar builds directly on insights from the South Asia Regional Global Health Solidarity Workshop held in New Delhi, where experts, youth leaders, grassroots activists, researchers, funders, an...
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December 4, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Speaker Spotlight: Prof. Sundararaman Thiagarajan
He is one of South Asia’s most influential voices in health systems strengthening, public health policy, and people’s health movements.
Register: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
#Global #Solidarity #GlobalHealth #Bioethics #SouthAsia #India #Nepal
He is one of South Asia’s most influential voices in health systems strengthening, public health policy, and people’s health movements.
Register: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
#Global #Solidarity #GlobalHealth #Bioethics #SouthAsia #India #Nepal
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NEWS: ‘Creeping catastrophe’: Climate change is driving global rise in infectious diseases, leading health experts warn
The @ndm.ox.ac.uk study confirmed the three main drivers are climate change, socioeconomic inequality, and antimicrobial resistance.
The @ndm.ox.ac.uk study confirmed the three main drivers are climate change, socioeconomic inequality, and antimicrobial resistance.
‘Creeping catastrophe’: Climate change is driving global rise in infectious diseases, leading health experts warn
Infectious diseases such as malaria, dengue, and tuberculosis are considered to pose as great a challenge to global health as new or emerging pathogens, according to a major international study led by The Global Health Network at Oxford’s Nuffield Department of Medicine and commissioned by Wellcome.
www.medsci.ox.ac.uk
December 4, 2025 at 9:00 AM
NEWS: ‘Creeping catastrophe’: Climate change is driving global rise in infectious diseases, leading health experts warn
The @ndm.ox.ac.uk study confirmed the three main drivers are climate change, socioeconomic inequality, and antimicrobial resistance.
The @ndm.ox.ac.uk study confirmed the three main drivers are climate change, socioeconomic inequality, and antimicrobial resistance.
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🎉 Big news! Our website just got a makeover - cleaner navigation, fresh layout and a brand-new blog section.
Take a look and tell us what you think! 👀✨
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Take a look and tell us what you think! 👀✨
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December 4, 2025 at 9:00 AM
🎉 Big news! Our website just got a makeover - cleaner navigation, fresh layout and a brand-new blog section.
Take a look and tell us what you think! 👀✨
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Have you viewed our open-access #malaria tools recently? Use them to visualise molecular markers of resistance by location and year www.iddo.org/wwarn/tracki...
December 5, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Have you viewed our open-access #malaria tools recently? Use them to visualise molecular markers of resistance by location and year www.iddo.org/wwarn/tracki...
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Calling all researchers working in #InfectiousDiseases #EmergingInfections or #NTDs? You can use our free tools, resources to support your work www.iddo.org/tools-and-re...
#BeatNTDs
#BeatNTDs
December 5, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Calling all researchers working in #InfectiousDiseases #EmergingInfections or #NTDs? You can use our free tools, resources to support your work www.iddo.org/tools-and-re...
#BeatNTDs
#BeatNTDs
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Speaker Spotlight: Tashi Lhazom
She will speak on solidarity in the context of climate disasters, exploring how communities, governments, and international bodies understand and act differently in moments of crisis.
Register: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
#globalhealth #nepal
She will speak on solidarity in the context of climate disasters, exploring how communities, governments, and international bodies understand and act differently in moments of crisis.
Register: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
#globalhealth #nepal
December 5, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Speaker Spotlight: Tashi Lhazom
She will speak on solidarity in the context of climate disasters, exploring how communities, governments, and international bodies understand and act differently in moments of crisis.
Register: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
#globalhealth #nepal
She will speak on solidarity in the context of climate disasters, exploring how communities, governments, and international bodies understand and act differently in moments of crisis.
Register: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
#globalhealth #nepal
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VACANCY
We’re hiring a Research Culture Facilitator to help shape a research environment that’s supportive, inclusive and equitable.
#ResearchCulture #Equity #Inclusion #AcademicExcellence
📅Apply by 22 December
👉my.corehr.com/pls/uo...
We’re hiring a Research Culture Facilitator to help shape a research environment that’s supportive, inclusive and equitable.
#ResearchCulture #Equity #Inclusion #AcademicExcellence
📅Apply by 22 December
👉my.corehr.com/pls/uo...
December 5, 2025 at 11:00 AM
VACANCY
We’re hiring a Research Culture Facilitator to help shape a research environment that’s supportive, inclusive and equitable.
#ResearchCulture #Equity #Inclusion #AcademicExcellence
📅Apply by 22 December
👉my.corehr.com/pls/uo...
We’re hiring a Research Culture Facilitator to help shape a research environment that’s supportive, inclusive and equitable.
#ResearchCulture #Equity #Inclusion #AcademicExcellence
📅Apply by 22 December
👉my.corehr.com/pls/uo...
#ResearchHighlight from Lynne Elson @kemriwellcome.bsky.social
Guidelines for the treatment of #tungiasis
This neglected tropical skin disease lacked evidence-based treatment until the recently PAHO/WHO guidelines
Read more 👉 www.ndm.ac/tropmed.res-hi
Publication 👉 www.paho.org/en/documents...
Guidelines for the treatment of #tungiasis
This neglected tropical skin disease lacked evidence-based treatment until the recently PAHO/WHO guidelines
Read more 👉 www.ndm.ac/tropmed.res-hi
Publication 👉 www.paho.org/en/documents...
December 3, 2025 at 8:29 AM
#ResearchHighlight from Lynne Elson @kemriwellcome.bsky.social
Guidelines for the treatment of #tungiasis
This neglected tropical skin disease lacked evidence-based treatment until the recently PAHO/WHO guidelines
Read more 👉 www.ndm.ac/tropmed.res-hi
Publication 👉 www.paho.org/en/documents...
Guidelines for the treatment of #tungiasis
This neglected tropical skin disease lacked evidence-based treatment until the recently PAHO/WHO guidelines
Read more 👉 www.ndm.ac/tropmed.res-hi
Publication 👉 www.paho.org/en/documents...
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🎉 Big news! Our website just got a makeover - cleaner navigation, fresh layout and a brand-new blog section.
Take a look and tell us what you think! 👀✨
👉 www.iddo.org
Take a look and tell us what you think! 👀✨
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December 2, 2025 at 5:01 PM
🎉 Big news! Our website just got a makeover - cleaner navigation, fresh layout and a brand-new blog section.
Take a look and tell us what you think! 👀✨
👉 www.iddo.org
Take a look and tell us what you think! 👀✨
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A leading voice in caste justice and grassroots leadership, Dr. Vimal Kumar is a the founder of the Movement for Scavenger Community (MSC), dedicated to ending manual scavenging in India & advancing the dignity & representation of the scavenger community.
Register: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Register: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
December 2, 2025 at 10:08 AM
A leading voice in caste justice and grassroots leadership, Dr. Vimal Kumar is a the founder of the Movement for Scavenger Community (MSC), dedicated to ending manual scavenging in India & advancing the dignity & representation of the scavenger community.
Register: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Register: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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#ResearchHighlight from Julian Natukunda @cghr.ox.ac.uk @gh-solidarity.bsky.social
Climate change, disability, and water, sanitation and hygiene: A scoping review of evidence and interventions in LMICs
Read more 👉 www.ndm.ac/tropmed.res-hi
Full publication 👉 journals.plos.org/globalpublic...
Climate change, disability, and water, sanitation and hygiene: A scoping review of evidence and interventions in LMICs
Read more 👉 www.ndm.ac/tropmed.res-hi
Full publication 👉 journals.plos.org/globalpublic...
November 21, 2025 at 11:57 PM
#ResearchHighlight from Julian Natukunda @cghr.ox.ac.uk @gh-solidarity.bsky.social
Climate change, disability, and water, sanitation and hygiene: A scoping review of evidence and interventions in LMICs
Read more 👉 www.ndm.ac/tropmed.res-hi
Full publication 👉 journals.plos.org/globalpublic...
Climate change, disability, and water, sanitation and hygiene: A scoping review of evidence and interventions in LMICs
Read more 👉 www.ndm.ac/tropmed.res-hi
Full publication 👉 journals.plos.org/globalpublic...
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‘Creeping catastrophe’: #ClimateChange is driving global rise in infectious diseases, alongside #Poverty and #AMR.
Published in Nature Scientific Reports.
Read more:
globalhealthoutbreaks.tghn.org/articles/cre...
📷Yen Hoang Nguyen,
@oucru.bsky.social
@wellcometrust.bsky.social
Published in Nature Scientific Reports.
Read more:
globalhealthoutbreaks.tghn.org/articles/cre...
📷Yen Hoang Nguyen,
@oucru.bsky.social
@wellcometrust.bsky.social
December 2, 2025 at 11:40 AM
‘Creeping catastrophe’: #ClimateChange is driving global rise in infectious diseases, alongside #Poverty and #AMR.
Published in Nature Scientific Reports.
Read more:
globalhealthoutbreaks.tghn.org/articles/cre...
📷Yen Hoang Nguyen,
@oucru.bsky.social
@wellcometrust.bsky.social
Published in Nature Scientific Reports.
Read more:
globalhealthoutbreaks.tghn.org/articles/cre...
📷Yen Hoang Nguyen,
@oucru.bsky.social
@wellcometrust.bsky.social
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✨ Exciting news! ✨
Our website just got a fresh new makeover! 🙌
We’ve reorganised things to make everything easier to find, smoother to navigate & more enjoyable to explore. Plus we’ve launched an new blog section!
Take a look around & let us know what you think
👉 www.iddo.org
Our website just got a fresh new makeover! 🙌
We’ve reorganised things to make everything easier to find, smoother to navigate & more enjoyable to explore. Plus we’ve launched an new blog section!
Take a look around & let us know what you think
👉 www.iddo.org
December 2, 2025 at 10:00 AM
✨ Exciting news! ✨
Our website just got a fresh new makeover! 🙌
We’ve reorganised things to make everything easier to find, smoother to navigate & more enjoyable to explore. Plus we’ve launched an new blog section!
Take a look around & let us know what you think
👉 www.iddo.org
Our website just got a fresh new makeover! 🙌
We’ve reorganised things to make everything easier to find, smoother to navigate & more enjoyable to explore. Plus we’ve launched an new blog section!
Take a look around & let us know what you think
👉 www.iddo.org
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NEW: Infectious diseases like malaria, dengue, and tuberculosis are considered to pose a major challenge to global health.
The study warns that climate change, poverty, and drug resistance are combining to create a rising crisis - a potential 'creeping catastrophe' if ignored.
The study warns that climate change, poverty, and drug resistance are combining to create a rising crisis - a potential 'creeping catastrophe' if ignored.
New study warns of 'creeping catastrophy' as climate change drives a
Infectious diseases such as malaria, dengue, and tuberculosis are considered to pose as great a challenge to global health as new or emerging pathogens, according to a major international study led
www.ox.ac.uk
December 2, 2025 at 1:43 PM
NEW: Infectious diseases like malaria, dengue, and tuberculosis are considered to pose a major challenge to global health.
The study warns that climate change, poverty, and drug resistance are combining to create a rising crisis - a potential 'creeping catastrophe' if ignored.
The study warns that climate change, poverty, and drug resistance are combining to create a rising crisis - a potential 'creeping catastrophe' if ignored.
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1.3 million disposable e-cigarettes were thrown out in the UK each week in 2022.
Discover the work Oxford researchers are doing to enable clean battery technologies ⬇️
https://www.ox.ac.uk/climate-and-environment/energy#group-section-Batteries-and-energy-storage-wVkLb2iu56
Discover the work Oxford researchers are doing to enable clean battery technologies ⬇️
https://www.ox.ac.uk/climate-and-environment/energy#group-section-Batteries-and-energy-storage-wVkLb2iu56
December 2, 2025 at 3:02 PM
1.3 million disposable e-cigarettes were thrown out in the UK each week in 2022.
Discover the work Oxford researchers are doing to enable clean battery technologies ⬇️
https://www.ox.ac.uk/climate-and-environment/energy#group-section-Batteries-and-energy-storage-wVkLb2iu56
Discover the work Oxford researchers are doing to enable clean battery technologies ⬇️
https://www.ox.ac.uk/climate-and-environment/energy#group-section-Batteries-and-energy-storage-wVkLb2iu56
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📢 New Blog Alert!
Read new post by Dr Nathalie Beloum, one of our new @who.int #TDRnews Fellows. Here she shares her journey through the application process, her first impressions, the projects she’ll be working on and her hopes for the placement
👉 Read her story www.iddo.org/news/introdu...
Read new post by Dr Nathalie Beloum, one of our new @who.int #TDRnews Fellows. Here she shares her journey through the application process, her first impressions, the projects she’ll be working on and her hopes for the placement
👉 Read her story www.iddo.org/news/introdu...
December 2, 2025 at 3:15 PM
📢 New Blog Alert!
Read new post by Dr Nathalie Beloum, one of our new @who.int #TDRnews Fellows. Here she shares her journey through the application process, her first impressions, the projects she’ll be working on and her hopes for the placement
👉 Read her story www.iddo.org/news/introdu...
Read new post by Dr Nathalie Beloum, one of our new @who.int #TDRnews Fellows. Here she shares her journey through the application process, her first impressions, the projects she’ll be working on and her hopes for the placement
👉 Read her story www.iddo.org/news/introdu...
#ResearchHighlight from Jay Berkley @kemriwellcome.bsky.social
Plasma lipopolysaccharide levels predict mortality in acutely ill children in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Read more 👉 www.ndm.ac/tropmed.res-hi
Full publication 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Plasma lipopolysaccharide levels predict mortality in acutely ill children in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Read more 👉 www.ndm.ac/tropmed.res-hi
Full publication 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
December 2, 2025 at 10:15 AM
#ResearchHighlight from Jay Berkley @kemriwellcome.bsky.social
Plasma lipopolysaccharide levels predict mortality in acutely ill children in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Read more 👉 www.ndm.ac/tropmed.res-hi
Full publication 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Plasma lipopolysaccharide levels predict mortality in acutely ill children in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Read more 👉 www.ndm.ac/tropmed.res-hi
Full publication 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...