Sad to miss #IDWeek2025 but so excited to see my mentee and our work! Check out her poster (1013) @uconnid.bsky.social #IDBsky #IDsky

In keeping with spooky 💀🎃👻 season, these are some scary do not miss diagnoses! Did you catch them all? #IDBsky #IDsky @uconnid.bsky.social

It’s time for a little twilight zone…I mean prozone 😆 #IDBsky #IDsky

✨ It’s almost International Infection Prevention Week ✨ We are going UP UP UP, it’s our moment! #IDBsky

It’s 🕰️ for Expert Level! How many did you guess correctly⁉️ #IDSky #IDBsky @uconnid.bsky.social

Can you guess correctly? #IDSky #IDBsky #MedSky

"Enough to melt the heart of stone" — vaccination helped the Revolutionary War My mother has a small scar on her shoulder—a mark from the inoculation of vaccinia, a special virus that protected people from the deadly and disfiguring disease of smallpox.

The U.S. is as it is because George Washington decided to vaccinate the army.—Read how vaccination helped the Revolutionary War:

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Eyeglasses and risk of COVID-19 transmission—analysis of the Virus Watch Community Cohort study Respiratory viruses infect individuals via the nose, mouth, and eyes, through contact with surfaces touched by the individual, or via small and larger (i.e., droplet) aerosol particles [1]. Recommenda...

I was curious the other day about what happened to early COVID-19 studies, like the one showing protection by wearing 👓. I did not know there were more studies followed evaluating 👓 and COVID-19 infection! #Episky #IDSKy #IDbsky.

Role of serial fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography-computed tomography (18FDG-PET-CT) in assessing treatment response in treatment naïve chronic pulmonary aspergillosis subjects A complete metabolic response on PET-CT is associated with treatment success in CPA patients treated with six months of oral itraconazole. However, one-fif

Role of PET CT in CPA management. #idsky #idbsky #mycosis #infectiousdiseases

Executive Summary: State-of-the-Art Review: Evaluation and Management of Delusional Infestation Delusional infestation is a condition in which patients have a fixed, false belief that they are infested with living creatures or nonliving objects. It ca

Delusional infestation review. Nice review addressing a condition that ID encounter. #idsky #idbsky #infectiousdiseases

Factors Associated with Poor Clinical and Microbiologic Outcomes in C. auris Bloodstream Infection: A Multicenter Retrospective Cohort Study Candida auris continues to spread across the world. A multicenter retrospective review of bloodstream infections due to C. auris was conducted in Florida a

High mortality in C auris candidemia patient and Pitts bacteremia score can be valuable to assess mortality in C auris candidemia. #IDSky #IDBsky #EpiSky

Antifungal heteroresistance causes prophylaxis failure and facilitates breakthrough Candida parapsilosis infections - Nature Medicine Bloodstream infections with Candida parapsilosis in allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation recipients are associated with heteroresistance to the antifungal micafungin, which can be predicted f...

Heteroresistance Candida parapsilosis colonizing BMT patients. Similar findings with C auris. Likely one/major of the many reasons for breakthrough candidemia in these patients while on antifungals. #idsky #idbsky #episky

Clinical characteristics and mortality risks among critically ill patients with culture-proven coccidioidomycosis: A multi-center study in an endemic region Coccidioidomycosis in patients hospitalized in the intensive care unit are at increased risk of death. While antifungal use did not affect mortality outcom

Our study showing high mortality among patients with severe culture proven coccidioidomycosis in the ICU settings. #idsky #idbsky

Extensively Antibiotic-Resistant Bacterial Infections in Trauma Cases Managed at the Médecins Sans Frontières Tertiary Orthopaedic Center in Mosul, Iraq: A Case Series Abstract. The Médecins Sans Frontières Tertiary Orthopaedic Care center in Mosul, Iraq, provides reconstructive surgery, microbiological analysis, integrat

Report of MDRO infections in Iraq where there is limited access to the appropriate antibiotics. #idsky #episy #idbsky

Heteroresistance: An Insidious Form of Antibiotic Resistance | ASM.org Heteroresistance occurs when some bacteria in a population are susceptible to an antibiotic while others are resistant. How does it develop, and how can scientists tackle this clinical conundrum?

Antibiotics heteroresistance. #idsky #idbsky #infectiousdisease

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I wish #ASM and other societies like #IDSA have BluseSky accounts, but this is a nice video explaining Vancomycin Variable Enterococci by Dr. Westblade #IDSky #IDbsky #InfectiousDisease
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Adaptive immune responses are larger and functionally preserved in a hypervaccinated individual Prime-boost vaccinations can enhance immune responses,1 whereas chronic antigen exposure can cause immune tolerance.2 In humans, the benefits, limitations, and risks of repetitive vaccination remain p...

Case report of the German with SARS-CoV-2 hypervaccination. #infectiousdiseases #IDSky #IDBsky #EpiSky

Fusarium outbreak report kn NEJM. #IDSky #IDBSky #episky #infectious diseases www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Invasive fusariosis in patients with leukaemia in the era of mould-active azoles: increasing inciden... AbstractObjectives. Historically, patients with leukaemia and invasive fusariosis (IF) have experienced poor outcomes in the setting of persistent immunosuppres

An updated invasive Fusariosis in leukemic patients in the age of MATs ppx. #IDSky #IDbsky #infectious diseases

A Clinicopathological Categorization System for Clinical Research in Coccidioidomycosis The clinical manifestations of coccidioidomycosis range from asymptomatic infection to life-threatening pulmonary disease, extrapulmonary dissemination, and men

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