Alex Tatara, MD PhD

Patient-reported perceptions, experiences and preferences around intravenous and oral antibiotics for the treatment of Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia: a descriptive qualitative study.

✅ Just Accepted
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Testing for Sexually Transmitted Infections in Symptomatic Male Military Trainees AbstractIntroduction. A high burden of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) exists among trainees entering United States Air Force Basic Military Trainin

My team’s new article is out!

For male basic trainees who had ICD-10 code for UTI or dysuria:

~50% had a sexual history documented
~70% had a gc/ct test ordered,
-Ultimate diagnosis of gc/ct >>> uti
-Few had any STI testing in 3 years following dysuria

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Implanted devices risk biofilm infections. Biomaterial design affects infection risk, strength, and drug release. This review aids infectious disease clinicians in understanding biomaterials. 🦠💉

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Many thanks for highlighting our work and giving us the opportunity to talk about the exciting intersection between host, microbe, and biomaterial!

We had a wonderful time looking at biomaterials through the lens of ID! Thanks for the RT

📊 Over 50% of LTCF residents in EU/EEA have HAIs. RTIs & UTIs make up nearly 50% of these infections.

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Many thanks to Jay Vyas for writing such an insightful commentary to our article in Clinical Infectious Diseases- pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40470539/.

Congrats to our fantastic ID fellow (Dr. Hannah Blanchard) and ID Faculty (Dr. Hayden Andrews, Dr. Netanya Utay) on their timely publication in @cidjournal.bsky.social on Measles immunity at our HIV clinic!! 👏
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The disappointment after trying to buy dinosaur Elvis taught me a lot of life lessons

I remember playing this for hours at our library!! Can’t wait to watch…

So neat! Do we know why?

@steventong.bsky.social presents the results of the PSSA domain of the SNAP 🫰 trial - the worlds largest trial of staph aureus bacteremia - at #ESCMID2025

fluclox resulted in higher mortality and more AKI compared to penicillin for PSSA

We’ve got something in review that addresses this question (as much as observational data can). Basically we think all ASPs the same compared to cefazolin

Dr Steven Tong presents data on Penicillin vs (Flu)Cloxacillin for penicillin sensitive S.aureus.

1. Penicillin is non-inferior.
2. Rate of AKI roughly half in Penicillin group.
3. More pts in Penicillin group changed Rx - why?
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#ESCMIDGlobal starts soon 🤓
There's a new latebreaker session created to give 2-3 'big' trials their due: 'Trial Run', Sat 16:15
2 #SNAP trials + CloCeBa trial will be discussed in real detail Moderators @vancefowler.bsky.social +Julia Bielicki. @gurujosh.bsky.social @steventong.bsky.social #IDSky

Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia: A Review This narrative review summarizes current evidence on the epidemiology, pathophysiology, clinical presentation, diagnosis, and treatment of Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia.

Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia has a case fatality rate of 15% to 30% and causes 300 000 deaths per year worldwide. This Review discusses management of S aureus bacteremia. https://ja.ma/3RF8b50

Models of Musculoskeletal Infection Care: The Importance of Multidisciplinary Collaboration

We reviewed the latest in ID/Ortho collaborative models- institutional investment is important! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @utswinfdis.bsky.social

SFB2025*

Come join us! Hiring a postdoc to work on immunotherapy to prevent and treat orthopaedic infection. I'll be at SFB2015 in Chicago if you want to chat about life in Dallas at our fabulous program. lnkd.in/evpKR5KE
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🔍 Study on 47 kids with musculoskeletal infections vs. 48 Lyme & 49 inflammatory arthritis. A 3-cytokine panel (IL-6, IL-17A, CSF-1) had AUC 0.90, outperforming 5 common biomarkers (P < .05).

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Excited to announce that we randomised our first patient in the @roadmaptrial.bsky.social today! First of thousands, answering important questions in prosthetic joint infection. See roadmaptrial.com for more deets. #IDSky #PJI #ROADMAP

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

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“I’ll give you something to diarrhea about”

In OFID, Seongman Bae and colleagues elucidate risk factors associated with 30-day infection-attributable mortality in a large cohort of patients with Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia (SAB).

Agreed! Just thought may be less inconvenient than micafungin infusions if that was an option you were considering

Haven’t used it and not ideal, but maybe rezafungin?

【Mayo Clinic CME Orthopedic Infectious Diseases 2025】

👉Comprehensive #OrthoID learning course is coming soon!

👉Great learning opportunity for #IDFellow #IMResident #OrthoResident!

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#IDMedEd #IDFellow #OrthoID #MayoClinicINFD #MSIS #EBJIS

#NIH funding is vital and the returns are superb, as noted by critical translational breakthroughs relevant to chronic fatigue, Parkinson's, prior diseases, cataracts, and hearing loss made with NIH funding in 2024
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