Serin Edwin Erayil

We’re incredibly proud of Dr. Johnathone Yang for representing with passion and professionalism at the Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) meeting in Honolulu last week!

Check out his poster! #IDSky #Pedsky

08.05.2025 16:02 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Hotspot gene conversion between FKS1 and FKS2 in echinocandin resistant Candida glabrata serial isolates - npj Antimicrobials and Resistance npj Antimicrobials and Resistance - Hotspot gene conversion between FKS1 and FKS2 in echinocandin resistant Candida glabrata serial isolates

🧬 Pushing the Boundaries of Medical Research 🧫
Drs. Erayil, Kline, and Selmecki, along with the team from the Selmecki Lab, have uncovered critical insights into a persistent Candida glabrata bloodstream infection that developed resistance while under treatment with micafungin. #IDSky

30.04.2025 22:20 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Excited to publish with @annaselmecki.bsky.social and team on echinocandin resistance in Candida glabrata, in @springernature.com's npj Antimicrobials & Resistance. Read it here: rdcu.be/eicmm

27.04.2025 18:25 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Association of daily body temperature, white blood cell count, and C-reactive protein with mortality and persistent bacteremia in patients with Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia: a post-hoc analysis of... AbstractIntroduction. Classification of patients with Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia (SAB) as complicated versus uncomplicated is based on a combination

Post-hoc analysis of 📷 📷 study in MSSA/MRSA bacteremia:

Persistent fever = indicator for complicated infection

Fever on Day 4️⃣: aOR (3.7 (95% CI: 1.58-8.67)) mortality
Fever on Day 7️⃣: aOR: (8.78 (95% CI: 2.78-27.7)

🚫 assn between ⬆️CRP/WBC and mortality

#IDSky

academic.oup.com/ofid/advance...

31.01.2025 02:33 — 👍 37    🔁 14    💬 2    📌 0

New retrospective eval of 1000 Karius tests

Clinical impact: positive 16%, negative 2%, none 82%(!)

Cx neg IE and fastidious/zoonotic/vector-borne increased likelihood of positive impact, but not immunocompromised status

#IDSky @ichejournal.bsky.social

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39881594/

31.01.2025 18:20 — 👍 46    🔁 11    💬 9    📌 4

Do patients with candidemia need an ophthalmologic examination? Among 308 patients with candidemia, we found a 6% incidence of presumed candida chorioretinitis. The number needed to screen among asymptomatic patients wa

Faculty @serinerayil.bsky.social
explored a critical clinical dilemma.

Their study of 308 patients found that while 6% were diagnosed with presumed candida chorioretinitis, nearly half were asymptomatic. No cases of endophthalmitis were identified. #IDSky
academic.oup.com/ofid/advance...

07.12.2024 14:47 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Ocular Candidiasis:
- No significant association with symptoms or comorbidities.
- more likely to be found >7 days from first +ve candida blood culture.
- Number needed to screen in asymptomatic pts was 20

#IDSky, what has been your practice? @dralicehan.bsky.social @germhuntermd.bsky.social

07.12.2024 15:09 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Infectious Disease physicians in Minnesota at a conference

Great day at Emerging Infections in Clinical Practice and Public Health 2024 conference!

All of our @umn-idim.bsky.social fellows had a great time learning from ID & Public Health experts here in MN!

#IDSky
#MicroSky

22.11.2024 23:53 — 👍 16    🔁 1    💬 3    📌 1

Photos of fellows

🎉 We’re thrilled to welcome to our newest fellows who are joining us on this journey of advancing infectious diseases care, research, and education. 🌟 #MatchDay

04.12.2024 21:27 — 👍 32    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 1

What a great night of wisdom from Dr Trautner. Glad you caught that slide @tomschmidt30.bsky.social. That slide was everything.

21.11.2024 04:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Dr. Trautner, I distinguished infectious disease researcher discussing her career - the highs and lows.

Wonderful evening w/ our @umn-idim.bsky.social folks hosting the one & only, Dr. Barbara Trautner!

Discussed her career, academic medicine, & the sage wisdom she can pass on to us trainees…

We pulled out all the stops to welcome her, even turned on the snow for her 😉😂☃️

#IDSky
#MinneSnowta

21.11.2024 03:15 — 👍 24    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 3

Vanc+pip/tazo and AKI: a sheep in wolf’s clothing?
For many, the notion that vanc+pip/tazo is nephrotoxic has become accepted dogma
True or pseudo-nephrotoxicity?
A myth as per @pulmcrit.bsky.social
Check his blog:
emcrit.org/pulmcrit/myt...
Below: Visual abstract Miano et Al in ICM #idsky

18.11.2024 03:37 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Any new folks from MN that need to be added to MN ID Pack?

Recent adds are:
@genomd.bsky.social
@devries-aaron.bsky.social
@serinerayil.bsky.social
@umn-idim.bsky.social

Any others to add?!?

#IDSky
#MedSky

go.bsky.app/7PAEndf

17.11.2024 17:25 — 👍 12    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

IDsky community, what reading materials would you recommend our future ID doctors? @sebpoule.bsky.social @gpollara.bsky.social @dralicehan.bsky.social @drtimothyli.bsky.social @germhuntermd.bsky.social @blancagonzalez.bsky.social @handle.invalid

14.11.2024 22:04 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 6    📌 0

Midline vs Peripherally Inserted Central Catheter for Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy This cohort study compares outcomes from midline catheters vs peripherally inserted central catheters for outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy.

Large retrospective study out in JAMA IM today on midline vs. PICC lines for OPAT demonstrating safety in using midlines, especially if <14 days of abx.

Does any center regularly use midlines for OPAT?

#IDSky

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

11.11.2024 23:25 — 👍 54    🔁 13    💬 23    📌 0

visual abstract for the study which concludes that serum galactomannan is unhelpful in patients with lung transplants due to poor sensitivity

ROC curve for BAL galactomannan in diagnosis of invasive aspergillosis. The ROC is pretty decent (shows moderately good sensitivity and specificity)

ROC curve for serum galactomannan for diagnosing invasive aspergillosis in a cohort of lung transplant recipients. Probably the worst ROC I've ever seen, where the curve approaches the diagonal (ie completely worthless)

Diagnostic Performance of Serum & BAL Galactomannan Testing in Lung Transplant Recipients

"Serum GM is not a valuable test in the diagnosis of IA in our LTx recipients, is costly, & does not remove the need for bronchoscopy & BAL GM."

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #TxID #IDSky

11.11.2024 20:02 — 👍 49    🔁 10    💬 1    📌 1

watching #IDsky #Medsky #Pharmsky grow has been the best thing this week ☀️

really missed an online community for selfless knowledge sharing & collaboration 📖

👋🏻 im Erin, ID pharmacist in Pittsburgh. I love immunocompromised ID, antimicrobial stewardship, & building systems that help all patients

11.11.2024 11:34 — 👍 184    🔁 15    💬 7    📌 0

Do patients with candidemia need an ophthalmologic examination? Among 308 patients with candidemia, we found a 6% incidence of presumed candida chorioretinitis. The number needed to screen among asymptomatic patients wa

#IDsky
Do you treat all candidemia the same in terms of ophthalmologic exam? Do you recommend 👀 exam for every candidemia? Or only high grade?
@germhuntermd.bsky.social @fungaldoc.bsky.social @drneilstone.bsky.social @drtimothyli.bsky.social @drtoddlee.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1093/ofid...

12.11.2024 02:01 — 👍 30    🔁 5    💬 5    📌 1

Glad to see our APD from UMN ID here!

IDSky
MedSky

12.11.2024 16:00 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Oh hey! Thanks for the shoutout, Tom. We are glad to have amazing fellows like you at UMN ID.

12.11.2024 21:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Do patients with candidemia need an ophthalmologic examination? Among 308 patients with candidemia, we found a 6% incidence of presumed candida chorioretinitis. The number needed to screen among asymptomatic patients wa

Starting here by sharing our just-published work on the ocular candidiasis question. Hello #IDSky!

Do patients with candidemia need an ophthalmologic examination? academic.oup.com/ofid/article...

12.11.2024 15:28 — 👍 22    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 2