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 shift—one 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 β-lactamases➡️cannot reach their targets (PBP1a/1b/3)
High-dose, extended-infusion therapy can overcome the hydrolysis by β-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, ⬆️inflammatory markers. Blood smear shown. Dx? #medEd #idmedEd #IDsky
🌟Just published🌟
"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
bhekisisa.org/health-news-... #IDSky
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
#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
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 drug’s eliminated on the porcelain throne
In the Land of Notion where this table doth lie…
#idSky #microsky #pharmsky #medsky
I ran @USAID health programs for the last 3 years. Trump’s 90 day Stop Work Order on foreign assistance does serious damage to the world and the US. Examples:🧵
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 😱 i0.wp.com/www.dailymav...
Doxy and tige and erava – oh my! How do you differentiate their spectra of activity? 🤨 With this handy infographic! Developed by SIDP members and sponsored by Innoviva Specialty Therapeutics
Looking for the latest guidance on intra-abdominal infxns? SIDP has you covered! 😍
Check out this infographic on new #SIS IAI Guidelines developed by Dr. Clara Ni! 💊 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.🌞
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 Africa’s premier cartoonist, Jonathan Shapiro, thinks of Drumpf vs. The world, round 2.
AHRQ script for talking to nursing home residents and their families about UTIs.
Today I fielded a call from a colleague about “recurrent UTI” 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
🆕💫 Narrative Review @cmicomms.bsky.social
@jeffpears0n.bsky.social
Tetracyclines, the Old and the New
🔹Tetracycline 1953
✨Doxycycline 1967
🔹Minocycline 1971
🔹Tigecycline 2005
🔹Eravacycline 2018
🔹Omadacycline 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
