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Andrew Rubio
@andrewbiotics.bsky.social
ID Pharmacist Specialist @ Medstar Montgomery | PGY-2 ID Pharmacy Resident @ HCA Healthcare | PGY-1 Methodist Hospital San Antonio. Opinions are my own.
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🎥 At #MADID2025, Dr. Jiye Park from Massachusetts General Hospital shared data showing no added benefit from extending oral vancomycin after systemic antibiotics for CDI prophylaxis. @mad-id.bsky.social #IDsky #MEDsky

Listen to more of the results here: www.contagionlive.com/view/oral-va...
Oral Vancomycin "Tail" Offers No Added Benefit for CDI Prophylaxis
At MAD-ID 2025, Jiye Park, PharmD, presents findings showing once-daily dosing is effective, with no added benefit from extended vancomycin use after antibiotics.
www.contagionlive.com
May 31, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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Efficacy of a Multicenter Hospital Network's Approach to Enacting Blood Culture Stewardship During a Global Shortage

✅ Just Accepted
#IDSky
Efficacy of a Multicenter Hospital Network's Approach to Enacting Blood Culture Stewardship During a Global Shortage
The recent global blood culture bottle shortage forced hospitals to implement new diagnostic stewardship programs.
doi.org
May 25, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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At little late to post, but I love being an ID Pharmacist working to preserve antimicrobials through education, collaboration, and direct patient care! 💊+🦠#IDPharmacistsDay #SIDPAdvocacy #FutureOfIDPharmacy #PharmacistsLeadingChange @sidpharm.bsky.social
May 23, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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Nothing is better than seeing this study published just in time for ID Pharmacists Day! 🥳 #IDSky
May 19, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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💡 A: In stable FN patients with persistent fever of unknown origin, current NCCN and ECIL guidelines do not recommend changing empiric coverage for Gram-negative bacteria.

⏳ Time to defervescence may last 2-7 days (median of 5 days) for patients on appropriate initial antibiotic therapy. (3)
May 20, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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GUYS. The comment period for this ends in THREE DAYS. PLEASE if you have even a little bit of time, submit a comment here: www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...

Let them know EVERYONE should be able to get COVID vaccines. They BACK DOWN when WE PUSH BACK. www.statnews.com/2025/05/20/f...
FDA will limit Covid vaccines to people over 65 or at high risk of serious illness, leaders say
The FDA announced it will limit access to Covid-19 vaccines going forward to people 65 and older and others at high risk of serious illness
www.statnews.com
May 20, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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I am deeply disappointed by the subdued response of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (@idsainfo.bsky.social) to the dismantling of public health structures, both in the US & globally

Here's what I wrote in the closed listserv (response: 🦗) in hopes of stimulating discussion here #IDSky
February 7, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Summary of new antibiotic agents for the treatment of MDR Gram negative bacterial infections

doi.org/10.1016/S014...

#IDSky
January 17, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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Great🧵on Norovirus

Illness duration short & miserable, but it survives in the environment (think 🛒🧩🧸📟🩺) for 7-12 d

Norovirus reproduction # is ~3-12, meaning each infected person infects 3-12 others😳 (12 is usually schools, daycares)
#MedSky #IDSky #PublicHealth
There is a widespread outbreak of #norovirus, a GI virus that causes projectile vomiting & profuse diarrhea usually lasting 24-48 hrs. Wastewater levels nationwide in 🇺🇸 are high. It’s miserable & incredibly contagious. So many friends are texting SOS, so here’s a 🧵. /1
January 5, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Come be my colleague! A pharmacy supervisor for informatics and automation position is open at MedStar Montgomery Medical Center.
Pharmacy Supervisor - Informatics and Automation in Olney, MD, USA | Pharmacy at MedStar Health
Apply for Pharmacy Supervisor - Informatics and Automation job with MedStar Health in Olney, MD, USA. Pharmacy at MedStar Health
careers.medstarhealth.org
November 22, 2024 at 10:51 PM
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Interested in SIDP’s Antimicrobial Stewardship Certificate Program? To see the program description and to register, please visit buff.ly/3NXfAKW' #IDSky #MedSky @sidpharm.bsky.social
November 12, 2024 at 11:25 PM
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Please join for our MedStar pharmacy residency open house November 22 from 11am-2pm ET! Zoom link:
us05web.zoom.us/j/8484514365...
November 12, 2024 at 6:08 PM
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Wishlist #IDsky ;

-IDJclub resurrection
-ABsteward (Bassam Guanem)
-IdVilchez (Gabe)
-Brad Spellberg
-FungalDoc (Andrej Spec)
-Darcy_ID_doc (Darcy Wooten)
-Paul Sax
-Monica Ghandi
-Carlos del Rio
November 8, 2024 at 12:34 PM
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Can colleagues amplify this appeal to journals and journal editors to open accounts on Bluesky, please? @MicrobioSoc @TrendsMicrobiol @CellCellPress @JBacteriology @jbiolchem @Nature @ScienceMagazine @PNASNews @MolMicroEditors @NAR_Open @NatureMicrobiol @NatureComms @ASMicrobiology 🙏
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November 10, 2024 at 1:13 PM
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Who is still using metronidazole q8h for most indications? There’s definitely an opportunity for less frequent dosing most of the time!

I’ve attached my proposal from last year - feel free to take a look, and hopefully it can save you some trouble and doses for you too!

1drv.ms/w/s!AurvlEJP...
November 10, 2024 at 5:14 PM