Armaghan-e-Rehman Mansoor
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Armaghan-e-Rehman Mansoor
@armansoor.bsky.social
Transplant ID physician at University of Kentucky, with a strong interest in antimicrobial and diagnostic stewardship. Hopeful for a world with equitable access to ID diagnostics and therapeutics
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Impact of VRE-active perioperative prophylaxis in liver transplant patients colonized by Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci

VRE infections often complicate liver transplants. Does screening & 🎯 peri-op ppx help?

This multicenter, retrospect. study suggests no

academic.oup.com/cid/advance-... #TxID
Impact of VRE-active perioperative prophylaxis in liver transplant patients colonized by Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci
Active prophylaxis targeting vancomycin-resistant Enterococci (VRE) did not reduce early VRE infections after liver transplantation (LT) in VRE-colonized p
academic.oup.com
March 17, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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WHO-certified Neglected Tropical Diseases Eliminated in 2024

🇨🇻 🇪🇬-Malaria
🇧🇷 🇹🇱 - Lymphatic filariasis
🇯🇴-Leprosy
🇹🇩-African Trypanosomiasis
🇵🇰 🇮🇳 🇻🇳- Trachoma

www.npr.org/sections/goa...

#IDSky
9 countries said goodbye to a devastating disease in 2024
Nine countries eliminated a disease in 2024. Here's how Pakistan pulled it off — fulfilling a young boy's dream of eliminating blindness caused by bacterial infections.
www.npr.org
December 31, 2024 at 10:40 PM
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If you start reading Mandell, Douglas, and Bennett’s Principles and Practice of Infectious Disease nonstop at 11:07 pm, 12/31, you will finish it sometime in August
January 1, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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Also helpful: if Biomerieux’s BIOFIRE Filmarray is Flu A pos, but negative for H1N1 and H3N2 ➡️ repeat as per manufacturer’s recommendation. If same result:
➡️ possible H5N1, send to reference lab
#IDSky #ClinMicro
December 24, 2024 at 9:17 AM
Our ID program has openings for the upcoming academic year! The UK ID program offers extensive clinical exposure and dedicated mentorship in all things ID! #idbluesky #idfellowship #match2024
The University of Kentucky Infectious Disease program has openings for the 2025-6 academic year! Our program offers robust clinical experiences in ID as well as dedicated training in infection prevention, stewardship, Txp and bone/joint ID. Trainees get protected research time and support!
December 4, 2024 at 7:04 PM
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First post on Bluesky, let’s share some websites offering many free illustrations for scientific figures 🖼️ 🧪 🌍 :

scidraw.io

bioart.niaid.nih.gov

www.phylopic.org

More well known but very nice though: www.freepik.com
SciDraw | Scientific Drawings
SciDraw - an open repository of science drawings
scidraw.io
November 23, 2024 at 6:57 AM
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This is a nice and informative prospective study of donor-derived Mycoplasma and Ureaplasmain lung transplant recipients from our Duke Colleagues. Nicely done Patrick Tam! #TxID #IDSky www.amjtransplant.org/article/S160...
Donor-derived Mycoplasma and Ureaplasma infections in lung transplant recipients: A prospective study of donor and recipient respiratory tract screening and recipient outcomes
Mycoplasma hominis and Ureaplasma species are urogenital mollicutes that can cause serious donor-derived infections in lung transplant recipients. Best practices for mollicute screening remain unknown...
www.amjtransplant.org
November 23, 2024 at 2:52 AM