@anja2heart.bsky.social
Clinical microbiology π¦ 𧫠- Coffee β- Running ππ½ββοΈ πJo'burg πΏπ¦
Mycosis Study Group has released DrFungus app for phones as a reference companion for yeast and mold infections.
iPhone apps.apple.com/us/app/dr-fu...
Android play.google.com/store/apps/d...
App designed by Dr Matt Pullen. @msgerc.bsky.social
"In response to the global burden of severe #RSV disease among infants, WHO recommends that all countries introduce either the maternal #vaccine ...or the monoclonal antibody"
@who.int makes recommendations for the prevent of RSV - #IDSky + #globalhealth
www.news-medical.net/news/2025053...
A brilliant title that flips the classic quote to reflect how the practice of medicine evolves.
This article pushes back against IV dogma in bone & joint infections, spotlighting the solid evidence for oral therapy.
A much-needed shiftβone I fully stand behind #idsky
The first #Communicable & #Breakpoints collaboration episode drops Mon 5 May! Hosts @angelahuttner.bsky.social
& @erinmccreary.bsky.social interview SNAP trial investigators, @steventong.bsky.social & Joshua Davis, on the results shared at #ESCMIDGlobal 2025. #IDSky #clinmicro
@sidpharm.bsky.social
Rationale behind the use of high-dose sulbactam (SUL) against CRAB infections
Conventional dose:
SUL hydrolysed by Ξ²-lactamasesβ‘οΈcannot reach their targets (PBP1a/1b/3)
High-dose, extended-infusion therapy can overcome the hydrolysis by Ξ²-lactamases
doi.org/10.1093/jaca...
#IDSky
#idboardreview 30 M from Ethiopia in refugee camp x7d now arrived in Europe, has fever x3d f/b chills, dizziness, hepatomegaly, thrombocytopenia, β¬οΈinflammatory markers. Blood smear shown. Dx? #medEd #idmedEd #IDsky
21.02.2025 01:36 β π 9 π 3 π¬ 6 π 0
πJust publishedπ
"Global guideline for the diagnosis & management of candidiasis" provides updated recommendations for managing Candida infections.
It is co-authored by ISAC President @souhakanj.bsky.social & ISAC Secretary General, Anuradha Chowdhary
tiny.cc/dbaa001
@heiman-wertheim.bsky.social
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. #IDsky #Medsky
03.02.2025 20:54 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
#idboardreview 20 F sex worker from China, asymptomatic gets routine STI testing: positive for #gonorrhea vaginal NAAT, treated with 1gram IM ceftriaxone, all other #STI/HIV negative. Followed abstinence until test of cure but repeat test positive. next steps? #idSky #idmeded #meded
04.02.2025 02:14 β π 6 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0
ONE ANTIBIOTIC PK TABLE TO RULE THEM ALL
Absorption takes drug into blood from GI,
Vd spreads drug out to where bug calls home.
And after bacteria are doomed to die,
The drugβs eliminated on the porcelain throne
In the Land of Notion where this table doth lieβ¦
#idSky #microsky #pharmsky #medsky
I ran @USAID health programs for the last 3 years. Trumpβs 90 day Stop Work Order on foreign assistance does serious damage to the world and the US. Examples:π§΅
26.01.2025 15:56 β π 4809 π 2512 π¬ 99 π 329
This is frightening: since 2022 or so, rabies has become endemic in Cape fur seals - all around the coast of the province of S Africa that I live in π± i0.wp.com/www.dailymav...
23.01.2025 08:57 β π 15 π 3 π¬ 3 π 0
Doxy and tige and erava β oh my!Β How do you differentiate their spectra of activity?Β π€¨ With this handy infographic!Β Developed by SIDP members and sponsored by Innoviva Specialty Therapeutics
23.01.2025 13:00 β π 24 π 12 π¬ 0 π 14
Looking for the latest guidance on intra-abdominal infxns? SIDP has you covered! π
Check out this infographic on new #SIS IAI Guidelines developed by Dr. Clara Ni! π This medical education provided by an educational grant from Innoviva Specialty Therapeutics. Download: https://buff.ly/4jrr8Vy
Listened to this on the way home from work. Great discussion on treating the difficult to treat GNBs in S. Africa!
microbemail.captivate.fm/episode/new-...
If you are new on #IDSky, this will get you started.π
22.01.2025 05:22 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
The Staggering Success of Vaccines www.nature.com/articles/d41...
21.01.2025 18:05 β π 6 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0
ICU ID Secrets:
S. aureus (SA) bacteremia is a common cause of bloodstream infection. It is associated with mortality rate > 20-30% (for comparison: 30-day mortality
from an acute myocardial infarction is ~ 10%)
In every case of SA bacteremia, all these steps need to be taken:
@who.int Guideline on management of pneumonia and diarrhoea in children up to 10 years of age. Published last Dec 2024. Included a change to the IMCI (Table 1, recom 2)
Download here: www.who.int/publications...
#PedsSky #PedsIDSky #AMSSky
This is what Africaβs premier cartoonist, Jonathan Shapiro, thinks of Drumpf vs. The world, round 2.
21.01.2025 06:40 β π 55 π 14 π¬ 3 π 0
AHRQ script for talking to nursing home residents and their families about UTIs.
Today I fielded a call from a colleague about βrecurrent UTIβ in a nursing home resident. It turned into a great diagnostic stewardship opportunity where I shared this great resource from AHRQ on talking to residentes and families about UTI/ASB.
www.ahrq.gov/sites/defaul...
#IDSky #MedSky #UTISky
ππ« Narrative Review @cmicomms.bsky.social
@jeffpears0n.bsky.social
Tetracyclines, the Old and the New
πΉTetracycline 1953
β¨Doxycycline 1967
πΉMinocycline 1971
πΉTigecycline 2005
πΉEravacycline 2018
πΉOmadacycline 2018
#IDsky #EMIMCC
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
If you are in Joburg, South Africa, next week, please join us at this seminar at Wits School of Public Health
12 December, 3 PM
ποΈπ₯Article @thetxidjournal.bsky.social
Not Just an Oxymoron: The Utilitarian's Guide to Antimicrobial Stewardship in Transplant Infectious Diseases
Table β¨οΈ2: TID ASP opportunities & initiatives
#idsky #medsky #Txid
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
