Madeline Belk

Registration is now open for the 5th annual ALIDS Conference!

Join us for a FREE CE event with a great lineup of speakers ft. topics around Gram neg resistance, outpatient stewardship, phage therapy & more!

🗓️ Saturday, July 19
📍 Birmingham, AL
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📢 Healthcare friends interested in infectious diseases!

Save the date for the 5th Annual Alabama Infectious Diseases Society (ALIDS) Antimicrobial Stewardship Conference. We are looking forward to another year of great programming & would love to have you join us! 🤓🧫🦠

Antibiotic Treatment for 7 versus 14 Days in Patients with Bloodstream Infections | NEJM Bloodstream infections are associated with substantial morbidity and mortality. Early, appropriate antibiotic therapy is important, but the duration of treatment is uncertain. In a multicenter, non...

🚨 Antibiotic Treatment for 7 versus 14 Days in Patients with Bloodstream Infections

BALANCE trial publication is here !

#IDsky #Medsky

@idjclub.bsky.social

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Happy Antibiotic Awareness Week!! Giving these cuties out during infectious diseases trivia with our pharmacists today ☺️🧫💊

Resistance profiles of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales in a large centre in England: are we already losing cefiderocol? AbstractBackground. Carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales (CPE) pose difficult therapeutic challenges. We aimed to characterize antimicrobial resistance

New paper from my colleagues at UCLH

Nearly 70% (!!!) resistance to Cefiderocol in NDM positive bacteria.

Cefiderocol...we hardly knew ye...

Perfect timing for World Antimicrobial Awareness Week #waaw24 #IDSky

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The aim of this review was to summarize the pharmacokinetic and drug–drug interaction profile of the recently introduced CMV agents letermovir and maribavir #idsky #bookmark #TxID

Presented on ED abx stewardship to our new ED physician group. Highlighted our ASB treatment rates, educated on our UTI guidelines, and showed our compliance with STI screening with CDC recommendations. How do you engage your ED teams for abx stewardship? #IDsky #Pharmsky #Medsky

Hey #IDsky #MedSky 👋

Do you know your
Evans-based Medicine Rules ?

You can now learn them with @skepticaliddoc.bsky.social on 🦋! Welcome 🤗

Good morning.

Word of the Day is as beautiful as it is underused. ‘Confelicity’ is finding joy in the happiness and success of others.

Starting off with a few ABX pearls based on the most common syndromes and topics that we encounter day-to-day. (Please note our website resources too!) 📑

Oral antibiotics for S. aureus bacteremia including endocarditis: sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander Todd C Lee, MD MPH FIDSA, Brad Spellberg, MD, Emily G McDonald, MD MSc; Oral antibiotics for S. aureus bacteremia including endocarditis: sauce for the goo

"If bacteria were sentient,they likely would not care which route antibiotics took on their way to eradicating them. Rather, they would care about how much antibiotic made it to their place of residence & whether it metabolically poisoned them" #idsky 🔥
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#Buesky is really what Twitter used to be. I love seeing folks from all over the world come here and talk medicine, science or even daily life without fear of retaliation or malice. Very happy to be here. ☺️

One of the best state-of-the-art papers yet. I ❤️ the emphasis on non-antibiotic strategies, and not just throwing antibiotics away without a surgical plan in place. #IDSky

Hey #pedsIDSky and #IDSky! Looking for a recent interesting article that I could discuss for my journal club. Diagnostic Stewardship is my main interest but anything #ID will be good to look into! Let's see what others have been reading!

Super informative post!! Close to home as there’s been an outbreak at my kiddos daycare. 4 yo was hardly phased but my poor 2 yo is getting rocked 😣😷

Standing in solidarity with all those taking care of littles this respiratory illness season ❤️‍🩹

Five Achievements You Need To Unlock To Become An Antibiotic Ninja In this article a pharmacist with specialized training in infectious diseases discusses five key areas of study to master in the field of antimicrobial pharmacotherapy, to become an antibiotic ninja. ...

This post may be helpful ❤️

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I love this energy! 🤗

An infographic timeline of antimicrobial resistance.

Gearing up for #usaaw.

Hey there! Thank you! Excited to check out your podcast- the topics look fascinating! 🤓

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Hi #IDSky #PharmSky 👋🏼

I’m Madeline, an ID/ASP pharmacist in the Rocket City 🚀 💫 Here for all the bug/drug content 🧫💊& look forward to engaging with everyone on this platform 🤗