Lizbeth Cahuayme MD FIDSA

U-M Health’s Ann Arbor hospitals recognized as No. 1 in Michigan, among best in nation by U.S. News & World Report University of Michigan Health’s Ann Arbor adult hospitals were ranked best in Michigan and in the top 20 in the nation by U.S. News & World Report Best Hospitals rankings for 2025-2026.

Ranked numer 1 in Michigan & among the top in the nation! Go Blue! 🙌 www.michiganmedicine.org/news-release...

Sharpen your ID clinical teaching skills with Emily Abdoler, MD, MAEd, and @darcy-id-doc.bsky.social during the premeeting workshop, “A Bug Worth Catching: Enhancing Clinical Teaching in Infectious Diseases.”

Sign up when you register for #IDWeek2025: idweek.org/registration

Improving Clinical Decision-Making through Education and Reasoning Emily Abdoler, MD, MAEd, clinical educator and educational researcher in the Division of Infectious Diseases, and recent National Academy of Medicine (NAM) Scholars in Diagnostic Excellence 2025 induc...

Great blog about Emily Abdoler’s work on MedEd! medschool.umich.edu/department-n...

Check out this excellent paper by our awesome AS team!

Nice work from Marisa Miceli in the Division.

Great to work with the always awesome Terry Dermody on this chapter in PPID 10th edition and retire my 5th edition from fellowship.

And if you like:
- world-renowned pharmacists
- field-leading microbiologists
- top-notch, innovative stewardship (join my track! 🤗)
- mind-blowing tx ID cases
- brilliant IPE
- fun colleagues
- dedicated allergy service for PCN allergy!!! (🥇, the real draw)

It’s not too late to apply at U-M :-)

He’s had a lot of legendary ones, but this is perhaps the best post by Dr. Sax I’ve read. Heartbreaking though it is at times.

Super proud of our fellows. Three talks at IDweek this year. Marc Trubin on education work with Emily Abdoler, Matt Steinberger on stewardship work with with Tejal Gandhi and Lindsay Petty. Recent fellow and current faculty Louis Saravolatz on his recent paper in CID!

This is what leadership looks like 👇

Why the Sudden Firing of ACIP Members Should Put Every Clinician on High Alert There are certain irrefutable verities when, like me, you’re an infectious diseases specialist married to a pediatrician. Here are our top two, which are deeply interrelated: Infectious deaths in chil...

The head of HHS said he’d preserve ACIP. Then he fired the entire committee.

Now a new panel -- with mostly unclear expertise in clinical trials, vaccines, and ID -- is in place. Time for high alert for changes that could seriously affect public health. #IDSky blogs.jwatch.org/hiv-id-obser...

Here's a write-up from the Michigan Engineering!

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Clostridioides difficile Infection Prevention in a Hospital Setting With AI This quality improvement study examines a 28-month quality improvement program that used an institution-specific AI model to guide Clostridioides difficile infection prevention efforts at a large acad...

One of the great things about ID at UMich is there are hundreds of people doing ID research across campus, which allows for great interdisciplinary collaborations like this one from Krishna Rao (ID) and Jenna Wiens (Engineering) jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

A great night celebrating our talented and hardworking ID fellows, including 3 who are graduating and the winner of the coveted “Green Tapeworm” Award (yes there is one in the trophy in fixative)! #IDsky

Our graduates!

HIV-Superinfection in Kidney Transplant Recipients with HIV who Received Organs from Donors with HIV Transplantation of kidneys from donors with HIV to recipients with HIV is increasing. Among 18 recipients, there was one confirmed case of donor-derived HI

HIV-Superinfection in Kidney Transplant Recipients with HIV who Received Organs from Donors with HIV

“HIV-superinfection in HIV D+/R+ transplant recipients is rare, and the clinical ramifications appear negligible”

#TxID #HIVsky #HOPEact

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New work out from Elizabeth Scruggs-Wodkowski in the Division on ID care in the face of human conflicts. Something to read about, sadly, given the state of the world.
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Patient Information: Hantavirus This JAMA Patient Page describes hantavirus infection and the syndromes it can cause, as well as treatment options and prevention measures.

New @jama.com patient page on Hantavirus by Emily Abdoler and @preetimalani.bsky.social. Dr. Abdoler is known around these parts for picking up on a Hantavirus case in Michigan!
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Thanks @kottonnelson.bsky.social‬ and colleagues for the newest ‪@ttsorg.bsky.social‬ CMV guidelines

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Hello Bluesky, especially #healthpolicy, #healthservicesresearch, #medsky & #publichealth folks!

We're here to share the work of the 760+ @umich.edu faculty who belong to our institute, to help them reach broader audiences & have more impact.

We'll also share our events & services for researchers.

Association Between Left Ventricular Assist Device Infections and Number of Shared Patients Among Care Providers: A Network Analysis For patients on durable left ventricular assist devices (LVAD), prior work has documented that more shared patients among clinicians (connectedness) i…

LVAD infections! Important work from the interdisciplinary team here, including @preetimalani.bsky.social from the Division

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Klebsiella pneumoniae evolution in the gut leads to spontaneous capsule loss and decreased virulence potential | mBio In hospitalized patients, gut colonization by the bacterial pathogen Klebsiella pneumoniae (Kp) is a major risk factor for the development of infections. The genome of Kp varies across isolates, and t...

Nice work from the ID Division (Snitkin) and folks from the Michigan Infectious Disease Genomics Center (Snitkin, Bachman) journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Great write-up about Owen Albin in our ID Division and research on antibiotic use - and stewardship - in the ICU.

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Virus Surveillance

Write up of our work in a UM report on “Real world impacts of federally funded research”
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Patient Information: Typhoid Fever This JAMA Patient Page describes typhoid fever and its symptoms, vaccination options, and disease risk reduction measures.

Nice JAMA patient page piece on Typhoid Fever by @lcahuaymemd.bsky.social and @runwithskizzers.bsky.social.
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Retweeting again in the hopes that members of the media can use this awesome resource when they report on vaccines and calls for "new" placebo controlled trials. @statnews.com @nytimes.com @washingtonpost.com @carlzimmer.com @apoorvanyt.bsky.social

For all you infection preventionists out there...new guidelines on high-level disinfection! From an expert panel, including our own Laraine Washer.
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Efficacy of Baloxavir Treatment in Preventing Transmission of Influenza | NEJM Baloxavir marboxil (baloxavir) rapidly reduces influenza virus shedding, which suggests that it may reduce transmission. Studies of treatment with neuraminidase inhibitors have not shown sufficient...

Really excited to be a part of this study and see it published today!

Efficacy of Baloxavir Treatment in Preventing Transmission of Influenza | New England Journal of Medicine www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

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So amazing to see our ID Division on social media! Please give a follow to Adam Lauring, MD, PhD, the new Chief of Infectious Diseases at the University of Michigan! #IDStrong #WeareID