Apu Akkad

Would be great to see this on twitter too as that is a place where proper education is truly needed (for non ID docs 😉)

Please keep us who can’t attend posted !

Longitudinal Assessment of the Effect of Invasive Fungal Infections on Transplant Success in Kidney Transplant Recipients Invasive fungal infections (IFIs) significantly impact morbidity and mortality in kidney transplant recipients (KTR), but their effect on allograft fu…

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#IDSKy #MedMyco #TxID

And people are saying the child didn’t die of “measles.” Yet another tragedy

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From @drtoddlee.bsky.social @dremilymcd.bsky.social @angelahuttner.bsky.social @josemolinagb.bsky.social et al in @jama.com Network Open:

Systematic review & Non-inferiority Meta-Analysis of 7 vs 14 days for GNR BSI

4 RCTs, 7 non-inf to 14

#IDSky #ShorterIsBetter

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Prevalence of injecting-related bacterial and fungal infection among people who inject drugs: a systematic review and meta-analysis Despite increasing burden of injecting-related bacterial and fungal infection, there has been no recent synthesis of their epidemiology. We performed a systematic review and meta-analysis evaluating prevalence and incidence of injecting-related infection among people who inject drugs.

Prevalence of injecting-related bacterial and fungal infection among people who inject drugs: a systematic review and meta-analysis

✅ Just Accepted
#IDSky

Tragic Childhood Death from Measles Reminds Us That Some Don't Understand Either the Medical Significance or the Human Heart My ID colleague Dr. Adam Ratner, Chief of Pediatric ID at NYU Medical Center, just published an insightful and remarkably timely book called Booster Shots:  The Urgent Lessons of Measles and the Uncer...

If someone thinks the measles outbreak and childhood death in Texas are "not unusual" or "happens all the time", they are deeply misinformed. h/t @adamratnermd.bsky.social for the inspiration.

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So sad :/

How many are hospitalized? Any deaths?

Madness for sure!

New pre-print from folks @ Copenhagen University Hospital:

🔬 28-month WGS surveillance
🦠 7,760 patient infections
📊 27.1% genetically related, 69% w/ epi link
💰 €1.25M net savings/year if acted upon/prevented!

#IDSky more great evidence for WGS for IP&C

📄: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

And now the price of eggs is even higher

Coccidioidomycosis Prophylaxis in Liver, Kidney, and Heart Transplant Recipients Residing in Endemic Areas Within the United States Our data suggests that abdominal organ transplant recipients residing in CM-endemic areas with no prior CM exposure may not require CM prophylaxis. Therefore, we recommend implementing a shared decis...

Nice collaborative study on valley fever prophylaxis in solid organ (non lung) transplant recipients

#IDsky #TxID

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But at least none of them will have autism, isn’t that right, RFK?

Very true. Cocci serologies not always reliable, especially in the immunocompromised hosts.
Ag helpful, but if truly high suspicion — I’d start treatment.
#TxID#IDsky

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Not sure why the mavs wanted to get rid of Luka so badly….there must be a lot more to this story

Yes all very true, but of course hiv , STIs (etc, all infections) can and do infect anyone of any gender, race, political affiliation etc. maybe they don’t realize or want to realize this. As you said, quite dangerous to censor information from people who may need it.

Yep. But that’s an issue. HIV/STI screening and treatment should not be deleted, it’s quite non controversial

It’s certainly dangerous to be hiding health information, especially in the setting of infectious disease that can affect populations at any time!

Can anyone explain what the Trump admin is trying to accomplish by doing this?? Of course they want censorship and to “MAHA” however hiv and Sti treatments are all factual and based on significant evidence, and do not seem to be going against any pseudoscience. Purge all current information?

How Should Health Care and Public Health Respond to the New US Administration? This Viewpoint discusses scientific, medical, and public health actions, including withdrawing from the World Health Organization, taken so far during the first week of the Trump administration.

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Important for physicians to not sit on the sidelines during this important time. Mass amounts of medical information and FACTs are being deleted, censored from the public and healthcare alike. This admin promised transparency but instead are getting censorship.

Scary to see how much medical information is simply being deleted. How to keep it??
#medsky #IDsky

The all star game has horrible ratings anyway. It’s not even worth watching, even for people who love basketball

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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67 active cases of TB, likely to represent many more. Important for CDC to be on top of this, if they are allowed to..

Drake maye flows really well

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How to prevent infections in the increasingly immunocompromised traveler? Part 1 (non-transplant) is out now! Stay tuned for part 2!
@ritawilson.bsky.social @andhen25.bsky.social @ou.edu
#IDSky #TxID

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Very nice study on a very important and common issue. Does this hold true in the SOT population as well?