@neleshg.bsky.social - Nelesh Govender

27 Sep 2025 10:29 +0000

🎉to Charlotte Rabault - she published this after a 6-month fellowship in Joburg In patients aged >90 days, prior antifungal use was associated with non-susceptible Candida bloodstream infection (OR 2.02). In young infants, hospital transmission was more influential. https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/31/10/25-0359_article

09 Sep 2025 17:05 +0000

Abstracts, Clinical Conundrums and FungArt for the Fungal Update conference in London (March 2026) are all now open for submission: mycologyconference.co.uk/abstracts/ https://mycologyconference.co.uk/abstracts/

17 Jul 2025 11:46 +0000

Results from our CAST-NET cohort study published. Excellent national coverage of cryptococcal antigen screening in SA but real challenges to act on CrAg+ results to exclude meningitis and dispense pre-emptive antifungals https://journals.lww.com/jaids/abstract/9900/effectiveness_of_a_national_reflex_laboratory.671.aspx

14 Jul 2025 08:36 +0000

Jayne Ellis presenting data from our cohort with CD4 <100 undergoing CrAg screening in SA at #IAS2025 (poster 2803) 59% (86/146) had CMV viraemia - strongly & independently associated with ⬆️mortality, more than quadrupling odds of death at 6-months (adjusted OR 4.02, 95%CI 1.27-12.7)

14 Jul 2025 08:30 +0000

During 2016–2023, among 21,195 US patients who tested positive for Candida auris skin colonisation, 6.9% were subsequently found to have a positive clinical specimen, 2.8% from blood Probably an underestimate but useful to know https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/31/8/25-0315_article

27 Jun 2025 11:59 +0000

Congrats to Serisha Naicker & our 🌍CryptoADAPT team at Wits, UP, SUN, Imperial, CISM, UZ, Duke for the new @wellcometrust.bsky.social grant Excited to dig into the environmental diversity of Cryptococcus in Africa https://www.wits.ac.za/news/latest-news/research-news/2025/2025-06/investigating-fungi-and-what-makes-them-dangerous.html

04 Jun 2025 16:11 +0000

Hosted by a full panel of trial investigators from the @effecttrial.bsky.social [contains quote post or other embedded content]

25 May 2025 15:35 +0000

Great updates and learning at the histoplasmosis working group meeting at the tail end of ISHAM triennial conference And new targets will be set...

20 May 2025 17:00 +0000

Great to contribute to this week's Naked Scientist podcast on the rising tide of fungal diseases https://www.thenakedscientists.com/podcasts/naked-scientists-podcast/rising-tide-fungal-diseases https://www.thenakedscientists.com/podcasts/naked-scientists-podcast/rising-tide-fungal-diseases?s=09

20 May 2025 16:57 +0000

Congratulations Lottie

15 May 2025 19:12 +0000

"Considering this conflicting evidence, there is equipoise to support a clinical trial in which persons with AHD without overt symptoms suggestive of histoplasmosis and with Histoplasma antigenuria are randomized to pre-emptive antifungal therapy or to observation." [contains quote post or other embedded content]

08 May 2025 13:51 +0000

In 2008, my wonderful 84-year-old grandmother died in hospital with perforated diverticulitis. I was a newly-qualified clinical microbiologist then. When it became clear that she wouldn't recover, I asked for her to be transferred out of ICU, to receive palliative care and to stop antibiotics...

30 Apr 2025 14:46 +0000

Bad news... "A draft budget for the department [HHS], obtained by The New York Times, proposes axing two journals published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Emerging Infectious Diseases and Preventing Chronic Disease."

26 Apr 2025 07:27 +0000

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24 Apr 2025 14:06 +0000

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24 Apr 2025 14:03 +0000

Nice cover of Emerging Infectious Diseases Journal, highlighting the still-mysterious fungal kingdom, a small % of which causes deadly human infections "Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom" -https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/31/5/ac-3105_article

24 Apr 2025 12:04 +0000

Recruiting inpatients living w/ HIV into ADVANCE GERMS-SA cohort study in Johannesburg @raewake.bsky.social Screened 2000, enrolled >500 so far. Primary outcome: incidence severe infections AHD-associated sepsis & AMR summarised in a new @mbio.bsky.social mGem: https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mbio.00769-24