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Andrew Stewardson
@andrewstewardson.bsky.social
ID physician in Melbourne, Australia.
“If I’m gonna keep using, he’s not gonna waste his time.”

#IDSky

Qualitative analysis of barriers and facilitators to healthcare engagement for people with injecting-related invasive infections using a social ecological framework - Attwood - Addiction - onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Qualitative analysis of barriers and facilitators to healthcare engagement for people with injecting‐related invasive infections using a social ecological framework
Background and aims Injecting-related bacterial infections are increasing in many countries. Systemic infections often require prolonged treatment. Evidence suggests that people who inject drugs who...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
August 16, 2025 at 10:55 AM
“Penicillin susceptibility is real”

Steve Tong presenting the SNAP PSSA silo backbone domain results at ESCMID Global.

@steventong.bsky.social #SNAP
April 12, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Reposted by Andrew Stewardson
Fungal Infections in People Who Use Drugs

✅ Just Accepted
#IDSky
Fungal Infections in People Who Use Drugs
Illicit drug use in the United States continues to rise, alongside an increasing number of severe infections associated with drug use.
buff.ly
March 4, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Reposted by Andrew Stewardson
@andrewstewardson.bsky.social and I are diving into the best IPC papers of the past year for #ESCMID Global 2025—and we want your top picks! 🦠📜
What’s the one paper that made you rethink infection prevention and control? Drop your faves and let’s build the ultimate IPC reading list! ⬇️"
Infection prevention colleagues:

@kalisvar.bsky.social and I are presenting the ‘year in infection control’ at #ESCMIDGlobal next month. We’d love to hear this community’s picks.

What were the most innovative papers in this field in the last year? What papers changed your practice?

#IDSky
March 4, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Infection prevention colleagues:

@kalisvar.bsky.social and I are presenting the ‘year in infection control’ at #ESCMIDGlobal next month. We’d love to hear this community’s picks.

What were the most innovative papers in this field in the last year? What papers changed your practice?

#IDSky
March 4, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Our estimate of the cost of admissions with injection-related infections.
Research by: Freya J. Langham, Stephanie J. Curtis, Mei Jie Tang, Bismi Jomon, Joseph S. Doyle, Olga Vujovic, @andrewstewardson.bsky.social, Hannah E. Carter

@monashuniversity.bsky.social @burnetinstitute.bsky.social

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
February 27, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Reposted by Andrew Stewardson
Haven't posted about SNAP for a while:

But we've just hit 4000 participants. Almost at 3 years since opening.

And submitting two late breaker oral abstracts to ESCMID Global. @escmid.bsky.social

Amazing progress and more to come.

@gurujosh.bsky.social @drtoddlee.bsky.social
February 9, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Congratulations to @simonjoosten.bsky.social for leading this first output from a terrific multidisciplinary team looking at upper room germicidal UV:

‘Ultraviolet radiation vs air filtration to mitigate virus laden aerosol in an occupied clinical room’

#IDSky

doi.org/10.1016/j.jh...
Redirecting
doi.org
January 23, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Reposted by Andrew Stewardson
@acipc.bsky.social happy to get my membership badge as an Emergency Clinician
November 28, 2024 at 1:07 AM
Reposted by Andrew Stewardson
Air Purifiers and Acute Respiratory Infections in Residential Aged Care
A Randomized Clinical Trial.

Air purifiers with HEPA filters in residents’ rooms didn’t reduce the incidence of ARIs. Reductions in ARIs in those who completed the entire study were demonstrated.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Air Purifiers and Acute Respiratory Infections in Residential Aged Care
This crossover randomized clinical trial investigates whether air purifiers with high-efficiency particulate filters reduce the incidence of acute respiratory infections in residential aged-care facil...
jamanetwork.com
November 16, 2024 at 9:50 PM
Infection prevention implementation tips and tricks panel discussion at #ACIPC2024. Includes co-design, attention to detail, culture, patience, conceptual frameworks, hard data, patient stories…and hats.
November 17, 2024 at 4:47 AM
Rebecca McCann giving great example for surveillance data for action, with Western Australian Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infection surveillance reporting by all intravascular devices from 2019. Look at those peripheral catheters. #ACIPC2024
November 17, 2024 at 12:01 AM
Reposted by Andrew Stewardson
Allen Yung's Golden Rules of ID. Copied over from the Other Place for @kottonnelson.bsky.social #IDSky
November 16, 2024 at 12:03 AM