A mini zine about my infectious diseases life

On Monday, the Abiotrophia saga continued as she revealed her secrets On Tuesday, live scenes of me after wound clinic

On Wednesday, my epic quest to find and eliminate unnecessary urine culture orders hidden in order sets continued (it’s epic)

On Thursday, I crossed off everything in my to-do list and that’s an accomplishment On Friday, I philosophized about Pseudomonas VAP

A mini zine about My Infectious Disease Life
Issue #12

susceptibility secrets, exhaustion, QUESTS, productivity, pneumonia philosophy

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Next #IDSky crossword up. Foodborne infections!

Answers coming tomorrow. #MedSky #EpiSky

It's a beautiful day to add an informatician to your Bluesky feed!

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Table 1. Flavivirus Testing Results of the Investigation of Japanese Encephalitis Virus Transmission through Solid Organ Transplantation.

Infection with Japanese encephalitis virus, a mosquito-borne flavivirus, was identified in a patient who received a liver transplant from a donor who resided in California. Read the full report: nej.md/4uPTWNf

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#Medsky🧪 #IDsky #Immunosky #publichealth PDLIM2, a PDZ-LIM domain-containing protein expressed highest in the lung and immune cells, serves as a unique tumor suppressor & immune modulator,

#Medsky🧪 #iDsky #immunosky #Publichealth This trial addresses a critical gap in #LongCOVID management by providing the largest source of evidence to guide medical care for #POTS in LC patients
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Who Died of What in the American Revolutionary War? Disease, Battle, and Survival in the Late 18th Century The Dead of the Jersey

My attempt at an epidemiological look at US Revolutionary War deaths. Thankfully I had the work of giants like Ken Burns and PBS with great data to work off!
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Poor control of pulmonary viral replication in COVID-19 patients with early respiratory failure Severe respiratory failure is the leading cause of intensive care unit (ICU) admission and mortality in critically ill COVID-19 patients. However, whe…

In the pandemics, a mainstream theory proposed that in critical status, viral replication was over. Here we show that 60% of ventilated patients had replicative virus in the lungs, with 20% in high levels, mainly those with early resp. failure. #IDsky #COVID19

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Rounding styles on inpatient ID consult services @ofidjournal.bsky.social #IDSky
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Providing the Best Infectious Diseases and Primary Care to Our Patients With HIV: Time for Delivery Models to Evolve Advances in care for patients with human immunodeficiency virus have simplified the management of infectious disease–related conditions, yet primary care h

Should ID provide primary care to patients with HIV?

Point and counter point in @cidjournal.bsky.social

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Work as primary care for PLWH: doi.org/10.1093/cid/...

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Probable Japanese Encephalitis Virus Transmission through Organ Transplantation | NEJM Infection with Japanese encephalitis virus, a mosquito-borne flavivirus, was identified in a patient who received a liver transplant from a donor who resided in California.

Weird case of a liver transplant recipient in Idaho dying of Japanese encephalitis virus, which does not circulate in the US. The donor was a trauma patient who had received blood transfusions prior to death, and been exposed to seaports in southern California, but had not traveled to Asia #IDSky

Invasive Meningococcal Disease outbreak 2026: technical briefing 1

a UK colleague passed this along #IDSky - www.gov.uk/government/p...

Does levofloxacin 250mg still treat anything nowadays? Our institution uses this dose for neutropenia prophylaxis. Or is this basically placebo at this dose. #IDSky @ebhirsch.bsky.social @zacrobid.bsky.social @mmpharmd.bsky.social @idiots-pod.bsky.social

Vaccination Coverage by Age 24 Months Among Children Born ... This report describes vaccination coverage by age 2 among ...

Thanks to our friends at the MMWR for carrying on with their excellent work.

“Efforts to improve and maintain high levels of vaccination coverage could help to reduce the morbidity and mortality associated with vaccine-preventable diseases.”

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America’s Raw-Cheddar Chaos The FDA has linked an E. Coli outbreak to contaminated cheese. The company that makes it refuses to agree to a recall.

In more earth-shattering news, unpasteurized dairy is not, in fact, good for you…

www.theatlantic.com/health/2026/... #IDSky

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On-demand access 52nd Annual Remington Winter Course in Infectious Disease

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A national survey of the infectious diseases and antimicrobial stewardship pharmacist workforce in the US: work settings, characteristics, employment activities, resources and needs

📣Results from a national survey of ID/AMS pharmacists! Grateful to @sidpharm.bsky.social for sponsoring this project and for all the amazing people who contributed! Huge thank you to everyone who participated and to @ashejournal.bsky.social for publishing our work!👏

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Switch to single-tablet bictegravir–lenacapavir from a complex HIV regimen (ARTISTRY-1): a randomised, open-label, phase 3 clinical trial Bictegravir–lenacapavir STR demonstrated non-inferior efficacy to complex regimens, with a similar safety profile and increased treatment satisfaction. Bictegravir–lenacapavir offers new opportunities...

“Switch to single-tablet bictegravir–lenacapavir from a complex HIV regimen (ARTISTRY-1): a randomised, open-label, phase 3 clinical trial.”
Publié ce jour dans @thelancet.com.
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Interesting paper on potential solutions to a growing threat about which most people are unaware. I know bacterial #AMR is a huge deal, but last time I attended a talk on the rising threat of fungal resistance, I left the hall terrified. #IDSky #ClinMicro 🍄 🍄‍🟫 ☣️

Guess we’re okay not having aztreonam-avibactam AST for now still, but soon we will need it

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Nice preprint about #UTI -associated clinical Klebsiella strains, shedding new light on virulence but also (a growing theme... 🤔) how the micro-environment - in this case, presence of urine - can alter these phenotypes #UTISky #MicroSky #IDSky

Participants of this workshop at Education Friday will walk away w/ skills to design learner-centred case-based scenarios, single best answer questions, and receive peer & facilitator feedback.

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The conversation spans various topics, including legal battles over vaccine recommendation authorities, declining vaccine coverage, resurgence of diseases such as measles and ...
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Next #IDSky crossword up. Vaccine-preventable infections!

Answers coming tomorrow. #MedSky #EpiSky

Dengue Suppression by Male Wolbachia-Infected Mosquitoes | NEJM Wild-type female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes that mate with male A. aegypti mosquitoes that have been infected with the wAlbB strain of Wolbachia pipientis bacteria produce nonviable offspring owing t...

This is wild! (please excuse pun)

Large, randomized study showing that Wolbachia‑based Aedes mosquito population suppression alone can significantly reduce dengue infections in a real‑world, dense urban setting!

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The White Plague Returns?: Tuberculosis and the Fragility of Public Health First for the headline question.

After 30 years of decline, tuberculosis cases started rising again in the U.S. post-COVID and globally. One of the biggest lessons from epi history is simple: Diseases don’t disappear all that often, but the infrastructure keeping them at bay does.
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Measles Cases and Outbreaks Find the latest numbers of confirmed U.S. measles cases. CDC updates this page weekly.

CDC measles update: as of 3/26, 1,575 confirmed cases in 31 states.

There were 285 cases in 2024 and 2,285 in 2025.

Around 90% of cases in 2025 and 2026 are from US outbreaks. Only 69% were in 2024.

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Vaccination Coverage by Age 24 Months Among Children Born ... This report describes vaccination coverage by age 2 among ...

By age 24 months, for kids born in 2021-22, significant decreases for influenza vaccine; smaller decreases for birth dose of HepB, rotavirus, pneumococcal conjugate and primary series Hib. Decreases observed for all vaccines.

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Communicable E31: Climate change and fungal spread

(23:51) Therapeutic Hyperthermia Potential: Historically, elevated body temperature was used as a therapeutic tool, such as treating syphilis with malaria-induced fever. The concept of therapeutic hyperthermia, or ...

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