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Just found out you can view your calculator app history. My 3rd grade teacher would not be proud of what I found there 🫣

New this week in ICHE: Multisociety guidelines on sterilization & high-level disinfection

Developed by SHEA, APIC, @idsainfo.bsky.social, & others, this guidance updates best practices across devices, settings, and standards aligned with latest CDC updates

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📄: doi.org/10.1017/ice....

Children with Invasive Candidiasis Do Well After Switching IV Antifungal to Enteral Children with invasive candidiasis had successful outcome whether IV antifungal treatment was completed or converted to enteral to reduce risk of infusion site infections and costs.

In case you missed it: Study shows that children with invasive candidiasis have equally successful outcomes when transitioning from IV to enteral antifungals, helping reduce the risks of infection, costs, & hospital stays. #Pedssky #IDsky #MEDsky #AMR #fungal

www.contagionlive.com/view/childre...

Cluster of clonal fluconazole-resistant Candida parapsilosis harbouring Y132F mutation in ERG11 gene in a neonatal ICU in the UK Candida parapsilosis is one of the commonest causes of life-threatening Candida bloodstream infections globally.1,2 Patients admitted to ICUs, premature ne

Good piece of molecular detective work on fluconazole resistant Candida parapsillosis in @bsacandjac.bsky.social

@cmcurtis.bsky.social 👍

#IDSky #ClinMicro #AMR

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🧫🧪🔬🧬 The lack of theoretical, experimental and regulatory standards to assess the "beneficial" effects of 🦠 in complex host-associated microbiomes is out of control.

If papers with improper controls, minuscule effect sizes and misintterpreted data pile up, cleaning up will be impossible!

Transmission as a Key Driver of Resistance to the New Tuberculosis Drugs | NEJM Whole-genome sequencing was used to show that resistance to newer antituberculosis drugs is present in at least 27 countries and that up to a quarter of this resistance may be due to person-to-...

Letter indicates resistance to shorter and less toxic drug regimens for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is emerging and spreading between patients.

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#TB

www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/...

Twice-Yearly Lenacapavir for HIV Prevention in Men and Gender-Diverse Persons | NEJM Twice-yearly subcutaneous lenacapavir has been shown to be efficacious for prevention of HIV infection in cisgender women. The efficacy of lenacapavir for preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in cisgende...

Lenacapavir for HIV Preexposure Prophylaxis
- a Journal 🧵

In a randomized trial involving men and transgender people, twice-yearly lenacapavir (LEN) was highly efficacious at preventing HIV acquisition

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#HIV

(Kelley CF et al. N Engl J Med 2024 Nov 27)
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Antimicrobial resistance–attributable mortality: a patient-level analysis AbstractBackground. The impact of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) on death at the patient level is challenging to estimate. We aimed to characterize AMR-att

#AMR is a risk to antibiotic failure & death, but if this happens, do we record it on death certificates? Our centre data = NO!

👉In 1 year, 4% of deaths were AMR-attributed & NONE were recorded on death certificates!👈

Need to quantify this better to increase awareness! #IDSky @jac-amr.bsky.social

BacDive in 2025: the core database for prokaryotic strain data Abstract. In 2025, the bacterial diversity database BacDive is the leading database for strain-level bacterial and archaeal information. It has been select

New BacDive publication is out 📄

Read about all news and updates of BacDive 🦠, the leading database for prokaryotic strain data! 2.6 million data points on 97,334 strains, a new SPARQL ✨ endpoint, genome-based predictions 🖥️🧬 and more.

#DSMZDigitalDiversity #science 🧪 #databases #FAIRdata

We’ve just published a comprehensive list of bioinformatics resources. Thanks to @kateduncan.bsky.social and @andytruman4.bsky.social for compiling this list: actinobase.org/index.php?ti...

Another #IDSky journal is here!

Welcome to @jac-amr.bsky.social!

(under auspices of @bsacandjac.bsky.social )

#AMR #microsky