3 Important Things to Know About Antibiotics This Antibiotic Awareness Week, learn when you might need an antibiotic — and when these medications won’t help

Happy #USAAW25 from the antimicrobial stewardship team at @doh.wa.gov! We created a blog post to educate patients and the general public (amongst other fun plans we have for the week!): medium.com/wadepthealth...
#IDXposts #WAAW25 #BeAntibioticsAware

#idboardreview #idxposts 45 M from Connecticut presents in June with fever, chills, headache, myalgia. No focal deficits. Faint macular rash on distal ext, wbc 2700, plt80k, AST140 ALT115 #meded #idmeded #idsky

Don’t know much about geography? Decision support for the evaluation of patients with suspected high consequence infectious diseases | Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology | Cambrid... Don’t know much about geography? Decision support for the evaluation of patients with suspected high consequence infectious diseases - Volume 5 Issue 1

Fantastic #decision_support_system to assess patients coming from abroad for #HCID (high consequences #infectious #diseases). Designed for #UnitedStates #physicians but useful even for specialists of other continents as #Europe.

#IDXposts

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🎥On demand | APSCMI / biomerieux E-learning

ICYMI - Experts introduce the free Microbiology in Clinical Practice course and explain how it can enhance your clinical knowledge.
youtu.be/-0vqLn3NCtA
#IDXposts #clinicalmicro
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Happy ID Pharmacists day 🥳🥳‼️This year's theme is  "Innovation in ID: Pharmacists Leading the Way."  Please join the discussion on Bluesky with SIDP between 12-1 PM EST today 🦠🧫💊#IDPharmacistsDay, #SIDPAdvocacy, #FutureOfIDPharmacy, #PharmacistsLeadingChange, #IDXposts

Too Much Coffee: A Rare Cause of Sore Throat A 25-year-old male from Guatemala presented to the clinic with a 5-year history of sore throat, associated with odynophagia and dysphagia for solids. He re

A 25 yo man from Guatemala with 5y sore throat, odynophagia & oral papules.
Biopsy: non-necrotizing granulomas, multinucleated cells + budding yeasts.
All cultures neg x8w.
Hx: childhood exposure to coffee crop soil.
What’s your differential?! #idsky #idxposts academic.oup.com/cid/article-...

*Navigating the new landscape of infectious diseases*

ISAC President, Prof. Souha Kanj, participated in this highly scientific conference in Catania with colleagues from around the world including ISAC committee member Prof. Macro Falcone
Well done to all involved!
#IDXposts
@souhakanj.bsky.social

The article is getting so much attention from the ID community #idsky #idxposts

Anidulafungin is a useful surrogate marker for predicting in vitro susceptibility to rezafungin among five Candida species using CLSI methods and interpretive criteria | Journal of Clinical Microbiology Rezafungin is a second-generation echinocandin that has shown activity against a range of Candida species including wild-type and azole- and echinocandin-resistant isolates (1–3). Rezafungin has improved chemical and biological properties that are distinct from other echinocandins. Most notably, the modified backbone of rezafungin leads to a stable chemical structure with reduced metabolism and degradation relative to other echinocandins. This results in a longer half-life, which allows for weekly dosing, improved tissue penetration, and reduced organ toxicity (4, 5). Less frequent dosing also results in high front-loaded exposure, which, along with good distribution to and penetration at infection sites may allow earlier mycological clearance from sites of infection with the potential to prevent the emergence of resistance (4, 6–10). Rezafungin was approved in 2023 by the United States Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of candidemia and invasive candidiasis based on clinical efficacy and safety data from the randomized Phase 2 STRIVE and Phase 3 ReSTORE clinical trials (10–12).

🆕💫 #JCM
Anidulafungin is a useful surrogate marker for predicting in vitro susceptibility to rezafungin among five Candida species using CLSI methods and interpretive criteria #IDXposts
@absteward.bsky.social
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Delighted to share the recent webinar held with
@escmid.bsky.social on #AMR in low resource settings and / or displaced populations

Over 1,600 people registered for the live event which was attended by colleagues from 134 countries
Watch now ⬇
youtu.be/X4D2fzqh9-w
#idxposts @souhakanj.bsky.social

Excellent editorial✨
@drandrekalil.bsky.social
Is Antibiotic De-Escalation Safe and Beneficial to Patients with Sepsis? #IDXposts academic.oup.com/cid/article-... #idsky #medsky

Thanks, more interactive , people repost more. Here more lurkers
#idxposts 🔥
#idsky

“The Internet was not designed to give us what we need. It was designed to give us what we want.”

This platform I tend to use it for my “thinking brain,” whereas other social media sites for my “feeling brain.”

I wonder if we’re able to convert to BlueSky #idtwitter #idxposts #idbluesky?

Thanks for your kind words, means alot to me coming from you!
See you in the other universe #idxposts #idsky

Non-bacterial thrombotic endocarditis: a clinical and pathophysiological reappraisal Abstract. Non-bacterial thrombotic endocarditis (NBTE), formerly recognized as marantic endocarditis, represents a rare cardiovascular pathology intricatel

🆕️⚡️⚡️Non-bacterial thrombotic endocarditis (NBTE), formerly recognized as marantic endocarditis, represents a rare cardiovascular pathology intricately linked with hypercoagulable states, notably malignancy and autoimmune disorders. #idsky #idxposts
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Getting so so much attention from the Infectious Diseases community #idsky #idxposts
In BALANCE, we trust!

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#IDXposts vs #IDsky

*Threads and Mastodon are at the bottom of the lake

UK ID/Micro Blueys:

Your favourite ID:IOTS are heading up to Liverpool for #FIS! We’ll be doing the pub quiz on Wednesday evening, see you all there! (NB: We will not be buying rounds)

#FIS2024 #IDXposts #IDtwitter #IDsky

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@biainfection.bsky.social

I don't think this platform is going to replace X, the functionality of Bluesky is awful , so many technical issues #idsky #idxposts

This article is getting so much attention/interactions from the Infectious Diseases community in the X platform #idsky #idxposts

Ping pong #idxposts #idsky

Generalizability of oral therapy for S. aureus bacteremia or endocarditis: don’t cook the goose Ahmad Mourad, MD, MHS, Thomas L Holland, MD, Timothy C Jenkins, MD, MSc; Generalizability of oral therapy for S. aureus bacteremia or endocarditis: don’t c

"While Lee and colleagues provide valuable insights on the historical underutilization of oral antibiotic therapy, they may have oversimplified considerations for serious S. aureus infections." #idsky #idxposts
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This is the largest cohort to date evaluating clindamycin and echinocandin combination therapy for PCP treatment, encompassing 15 patients. This regimen was used as first-line treatment in 12 cases and as second-line after co-trimoxazole in 3 cases #idsky #idxposts

Only three cases are described with a treatment regimen without using co-trimoxazole using the combination treatment of caspofungin and clindamycin, with good response in two of them. #idsky #idxposts

Echinocandins function by inhibiting the synthesis of β-(1,3)-D-glucan,a component of P. jirovecii cyst cell walls.
Although their efficacy has been demonstrated in animal models, their role in PCP treatment is largely unexplored. #idsky #idxposts

Twitter to Mastodon migration in ID community? Not yet… Part 2 & 3 | Everyday Is A School Day How are the tweets and twoots doing? Let's explore!

If interested in details

Twitter to Mastodon migration in ID community? Not yet… Part 2 & 3
www.kenkoonwong.com/blog/twoot2_3/

BlueSky #IDsky / #IDTwitter / #IDxPosts Dashboard
kenkoonwong.shinyapps.io/idsky/

10 km 🏃 thinking about the good old days of #IDtwitter

I hope it will come back.

Here 🦋 #IDsky or X #IDXposts, or elsewhere, as long as the community is active again 🤘👍

p.s. Follow me on Zwift 🚴 or Strava 🏃 😂

#idtwitter, #idXposts #MEDTWITTER #medX people; if you’ve migrated over here, give us a follow! We’ll start posting here soon!

Not right now though. I’m being forced to watch Peppa Pig.

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No matter #IDtwitter or #IDXposts or #IDThreads or #IDsky ...a good person is a good person (➡️ @hivdocsk.bsky.social ) 😉