Cefdinir Versus Cephalexin for the Treatment of Uncomplicated Urinary Tract Infections Due to its poor bioavailability and urinary excretion, cefdinir may be a suboptimal agent for UTI treatment. Our findings demonstrate that patients treated

‼️Just shared at #IDWeek2025 & now published in @ofidjournal.bsky.social cephalexin vs. cefdinir for tx of uUTI in females. Spoiler: Cefdinir was independently associated with/failure & cefdinir pts were twice as likely to fail. Let’s stop Rx’ing cefdinir for UTI! 🛑💊 academic.oup.com/ofid/article...

The Trump admin is in the midst of laying off 1,100-1,200 HHS staff. The CDC's outbreak responders, gone. The office producing CDC's weekly journal MMWR is gone. CDC staff securing sensitive data, gone. Worker safety, gone. Immunization group, gone.

Instead, Congress watches RFK "make the proof"

RFK Jr. names 8 new members of vaccine advisory panel Several of the new members appear to have a history of expressing anti-vaccine sentiment.

I'll give non-anti-vaxxers a chance but I know what Malone, Kulldorff, Levi, & Pebsworth will do.

They're going after the HPV, HBV, MMR, & polio vaccines. Cancer & child mortality will skyrocket. Kids in iron lungs for the first time in 60 yrs. Make America Dead Again
www.axios.com/2025/06/11/r...

One Hundred Days, Incalculable Losses For nearly fifteen years, I served in leadership positions in extramural divisions of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

One Hundred Days, Incalculable Losses

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🆕 Episode of #Breakpoints:
Dr. Jeannette Bouchard is joined by experts Dr. Romney Humphries, Emily Fox, & Matt Miller to discuss the hot topic of blood culture stewardship! This medical education was provided by an education grant from bioMerieux.

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As an ID doctor who has treated #measles, let me be clear: cod liver oil, steroids & clarithromycin don’t work.

Vitamin A may help prevent ocular complications in some with severe disease. The best way to avoid measles? Don’t get it.

How? Get vaccinated. #VaccinesWork

Statement on Removal of Vaccine Promotion and ACIP Meeting Postponement

Infectious Disease Society of America issues a statement on the political interference with the CDC vaccine information and the advisory committee on immunisation www.idsociety.org/news--public...

Discordant Data? Don’t Despair! Check out this week’s KASIC pearl to learn about Discordant Susceptibility Results: Ciprofloxacin and Levofloxacin ➡️ kymdro.org/kasic/?p=8122

#IDSky #AntimicrobialResistance #antimicrobialstewardship #rxsky #pharmacy #FOAMed #NPs #PAs

Just notified that the 2025 Presidential Advisory Council on Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria (PACCARB) meeting was cancelled as a result of this.

Valuable meeting on antimicrobial resistance & such a disappointment this is cancelled.

#IDSky #EpiSky

PACCARB: www.hhs.gov/ash/advisory...

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To everyone joining #IDSky! Happy Friday Y’all!