Our ID division is well represented at #IDWeek2025, come find us at a talk or a poster!

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Evaluation of the safety of cefazolin monotherapy in outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy at a large academic medical center

✅ Just Accepted
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IDSA Foundation board member Dr. Jasmine Marcelin was in DC this week for #ALC54, an event hosted by the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation. Dr. Marcelin spoke on a panel, highlighting IDSA's efforts to diversify the ID workforce, advance health equity and expand access to care.

Interested in learning about how a UTI order panel w/ clinical & laboratory reflex criteria can potentially impact UCx rates & CAUTIs? Join Esther Banker, PharmD & Yi Guo, PharmD, BCIDP from Montefiore Pharmacy residency in our latest SIDP Journal Club series (sidp.org/BCIDP), worth 1.5h of credit!

Are you a trainee in Nebraska with an interest in Infectious Diseases?

Submit your research or interesting case report to the annual Nebraska ID Society meeting trainee abstract competition! #IDSky @unmccom.bsky.social

Learn more and submit your abstract here:
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Congrats to Dr. Keintz, @bryanidpharmd.bsky.social, and Dr. Van Schooneveld on their recent publication in @ashejournal.bsky.social:

"Utility of urine culture in men with uncomplicated cystitis in ambulatory settings"

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Nice paper this week highlighting again the uselessness of serial ESR/CRP for many ID indications.

Really pleased to see an increasing focus in our OPAT community on diagnostic stewardship, working to decrease the number of unnecessary labs ordered, on behalf of both patients and OPAT personnel!

Dr. Keintz is interviewed in this @contagionlive.bsky.social article about her most recent paper in @ashejournal.bsky.social

Read the paper here:
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@unmc.bsky.social ID: We describe the development and validation of an electronically-captured appropriate antibiotic use metric for ambulatory UTIs using coding data bit.ly/3Ws3Ogm

Whelp. I decided to hop on the bandwagon & here I am!

🆕💫Analysis of a collection of A. fumigatus from a global surveillance program:
Voriconazole has excellent parameters to be used as a surrogate for isavuconazole susceptibility in situations where isavuconazole susceptibility testing is not feasible
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