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Anja Ubbink
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Clinical microbiology 🦠🧫 - Coffee ☕- Running 🏃🏽‍♀️
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Mycosis Study Group has released DrFungus app for phones as a reference companion for yeast and mold infections.

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Android play.google.com/store/apps/d...

App designed by Dr Matt Pullen. @msgerc.bsky.social
‎Dr. Fungus
‎The Dr. Fungus app serves as a companion to the official Dr. Fungus website, the Mycoses Study Group Education and Research Consortium resource for fungal disease education. This app provides up-to-d...
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September 18, 2025 at 5:54 AM
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"In response to the global burden of severe #RSV disease among infants, WHO recommends that all countries introduce either the maternal #vaccine ...or the monoclonal antibody"

@who.int makes recommendations for the prevent of RSV - #IDSky + #globalhealth

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WHO releases first-ever position paper on immunization products to protect infants against RSV
Today, the World Health Organization (WHO) published its first-ever position paper on immunization products to protect infants against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) – the leading cause of acute lo...
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June 1, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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absteward.bsky.social
A brilliant title that flips the classic quote to reflect how the practice of medicine evolves.
This article pushes back against IV dogma in bone & joint infections, spotlighting the solid evidence for oral therapy.
A much-needed shift—one I fully stand behind #idsky
May 14, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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escmid.bsky.social
The first #Communicable & #Breakpoints collaboration episode drops Mon 5 May! Hosts @angelahuttner.bsky.social
& @erinmccreary.bsky.social interview SNAP trial investigators, @steventong.bsky.social & Joshua Davis, on the results shared at #ESCMIDGlobal 2025. #IDSky #clinmicro
@sidpharm.bsky.social
April 30, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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drtimothyli.bsky.social
Rationale behind the use of high-dose sulbactam (SUL) against CRAB infections

Conventional dose:
SUL hydrolysed by β-lactamases➡️cannot reach their targets (PBP1a/1b/3)

High-dose, extended-infusion therapy can overcome the hydrolysis by β-lactamases

doi.org/10.1093/jaca...

#IDSky
April 22, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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iuidfellowship.bsky.social
#idboardreview 30 M from Ethiopia in refugee camp x7d now arrived in Europe, has fever x3d f/b chills, dizziness, hepatomegaly, thrombocytopenia, ⬆️inflammatory markers. Blood smear shown. Dx? #medEd #idmedEd #IDsky
February 21, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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🌟Just published🌟

"Global guideline for the diagnosis & management of candidiasis" provides updated recommendations for managing Candida infections.
It is co-authored by ISAC President @souhakanj.bsky.social & ISAC Secretary General, Anuradha Chowdhary
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@heiman-wertheim.bsky.social
Global guideline for the diagnosis and management of candidiasis: an initiative of the ECMM in cooperation with ISHAM and ASM
Candida species are the predominant cause of fungal infections in patients treated in hospital, contributing substantially to morbidity and mortality. Candidaemia and other forms of invasive candidias...
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February 17, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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What could SA lose if Pepfar is stopped? We work it out - Bhekisisa
How much money would HIV and other health programmes in South Africa stand to lose because of US President Donald Trump’s order to freeze foreign funding? We work it out — even though official dashboa...
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February 7, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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contagionlive.bsky.social
Children with invasive candidiasis had successful outcome whether IV antifungal treatment was completed or converted to enteral to reduce risk of infusion site infections and costs. #IDsky #Medsky
Children with Invasive Candidiasis Do Well After Switching IV Antifungal to Enteral
Children with invasive candidiasis had successful outcome whether IV antifungal treatment was completed or converted to enteral to reduce risk of infusion site infections and costs.
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February 3, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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iuidfellowship.bsky.social
#idboardreview 20 F sex worker from China, asymptomatic gets routine STI testing: positive for #gonorrhea vaginal NAAT, treated with 1gram IM ceftriaxone, all other #STI/HIV negative. Followed abstinence until test of cure but repeat test positive. next steps? #idSky #idmeded #meded
February 4, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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idiots-pod.bsky.social
ONE ANTIBIOTIC PK TABLE TO RULE THEM ALL

Absorption takes drug into blood from GI,
Vd spreads drug out to where bug calls home.
And after bacteria are doomed to die,
The drug’s eliminated on the porcelain throne

In the Land of Notion where this table doth lie…

#idSky #microsky #pharmsky #medsky
January 26, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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I ran @USAID health programs for the last 3 years. Trump’s 90 day Stop Work Order on foreign assistance does serious damage to the world and the US. Examples:🧵
January 26, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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This is frightening: since 2022 or so, rabies has become endemic in Cape fur seals - all around the coast of the province of S Africa that I live in 😱 i0.wp.com/www.dailymav...
January 23, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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sidpharm.bsky.social
Doxy and tige and erava – oh my!  How do you differentiate their spectra of activity?  🤨 With this handy infographic!  Developed by SIDP members and sponsored by Innoviva Specialty Therapeutics
January 23, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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sidpharm.bsky.social
Looking for the latest guidance on intra-abdominal infxns? SIDP has you covered! 😍

Check out this infographic on new #SIS IAI Guidelines developed by Dr. Clara Ni! 💊 This medical education provided by an educational grant from Innoviva Specialty Therapeutics. Download: https://buff.ly/4jrr8Vy
January 22, 2025 at 10:54 PM
anja2heart.bsky.social
Listened to this on the way home from work. Great discussion on treating the difficult to treat GNBs in S. Africa!

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January 22, 2025 at 3:25 PM
anja2heart.bsky.social
If you are new on #IDSky, this will get you started.🌞
January 22, 2025 at 5:22 AM
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The Staggering Success of Vaccines www.nature.com/articles/d41...
The Staggering Success of Vaccines
Vaccines are the first step toward health equity in many parts of the world.
www.nature.com
January 21, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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imcrit.bsky.social
ICU ID Secrets:

S. aureus (SA) bacteremia is a common cause of bloodstream infection. It is associated with mortality rate > 20-30% (for comparison: 30-day mortality
from an acute myocardial infarction is ~ 10%)

In every case of SA bacteremia, all these steps need to be taken:
January 22, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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kiefferferraris.bsky.social
@who.int Guideline on management of pneumonia and diarrhoea in children up to 10 years of age. Published last Dec 2024. Included a change to the IMCI (Table 1, recom 2)

Download here: www.who.int/publications...

#PedsSky #PedsIDSky #AMSSky
January 21, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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edrybicki.bsky.social
This is what Africa’s premier cartoonist, Jonathan Shapiro, thinks of Drumpf vs. The world, round 2.
January 21, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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drrossanarosa.bsky.social
Today I fielded a call from a colleague about “recurrent UTI” in a nursing home resident. It turned into a great diagnostic stewardship opportunity where I shared this great resource from AHRQ on talking to residentes and families about UTI/ASB.

www.ahrq.gov/sites/defaul...

#IDSky #MedSky #UTISky
AHRQ script for talking to nursing home residents and their families about UTIs.
January 17, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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absteward.bsky.social
🆕💫 Narrative Review @cmicomms.bsky.social
@jeffpears0n.bsky.social
Tetracyclines, the Old and the New
🔹Tetracycline 1953
✨Doxycycline 1967
🔹Minocycline 1971
🔹Tigecycline 2005
🔹Eravacycline 2018
🔹Omadacycline 2018
#IDsky #EMIMCC
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January 13, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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madhupai.bsky.social
If you are in Joburg, South Africa, next week, please join us at this seminar at Wits School of Public Health

12 December, 3 PM
December 6, 2024 at 1:53 PM
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🆕️🔥Article @thetxidjournal.bsky.social
Not Just an Oxymoron: The Utilitarian's Guide to Antimicrobial Stewardship in Transplant Infectious Diseases
Table ✨️2: TID ASP opportunities & initiatives
#idsky #medsky #Txid
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November 25, 2024 at 2:45 PM