Santiago Perez Patrigeon, MD, PhD
@santymd.bsky.social
ID physician Queen’s University and KHSC, Kingston, Ontario 🇨🇦🇲🇽 🇫🇷 runner, non binary 🏳️⚧️. Instagram: nadjagop opinions are my own.#IDSky
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If the current measles outbreak can't be extinguished by January, the anniversary of the first cases in Texas, the US will lose WHO “elimination status”
#Medsky #IDsky #vaccines #publichealth #Pedssky #pediatrics #infectiousdisease
#Medsky #IDsky #vaccines #publichealth #Pedssky #pediatrics #infectiousdisease
C.D.C. Links Measles Outbreaks in Multiple States for the First Time
www.nytimes.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:50 PM
If the current measles outbreak can't be extinguished by January, the anniversary of the first cases in Texas, the US will lose WHO “elimination status”
#Medsky #IDsky #vaccines #publichealth #Pedssky #pediatrics #infectiousdisease
#Medsky #IDsky #vaccines #publichealth #Pedssky #pediatrics #infectiousdisease
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" ... general repository of info.' But knowledge isn’t everything. 'ChatGPT dsn’t know anything other than what it reads in a textbook' or the wider internet. As a reslt, the chatbot has a tendncy 2 'hit the target & miss the point.'" 2/2 #CanSky #MedSky #IDSky
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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Column | We found what you’re asking ChatGPT about health. A doctor scored its answers.
Asking a doctor to review 12 real examples of ChatGPT giving health advice revealed patterns that can help you get more out of the AI chatbot.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:04 PM
" ... general repository of info.' But knowledge isn’t everything. 'ChatGPT dsn’t know anything other than what it reads in a textbook' or the wider internet. As a reslt, the chatbot has a tendncy 2 'hit the target & miss the point.'" 2/2 #CanSky #MedSky #IDSky
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Doctors fight back: Furious medical specialists vow to take Quebec to court over salary law
Doctors fight back: Furious medical specialists vow to take Quebec to court over salary law
Medical specialists say Bill 2 has made doctors afraid to speak to each other for fear of being denounced. They want the law immediately suspended.
bit.ly
October 28, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Doctors fight back: Furious medical specialists vow to take Quebec to court over salary law
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“Many governments and scientists across Africa use the @unaids.org data to understand where more efforts need to be put in place... UNAIDS holds the mirror to the epidemic for everyone to see and act.”
- IAS President-Elect Kenneth Ngure, via @theguardian.com
- IAS President-Elect Kenneth Ngure, via @theguardian.com
UNAids is set to close in 2026 – four years early. Are experts right to be alarmed?
The move to shut the agency comes as aid budgets are being slashed, leading to fears that global progress on HIV may be reversed
www.theguardian.com
October 20, 2025 at 8:20 AM
“Many governments and scientists across Africa use the @unaids.org data to understand where more efforts need to be put in place... UNAIDS holds the mirror to the epidemic for everyone to see and act.”
- IAS President-Elect Kenneth Ngure, via @theguardian.com
- IAS President-Elect Kenneth Ngure, via @theguardian.com
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Ever since I learned about this study enrolling I have been eagerly awaiting the results. Researchers in Uganda took a centuries-old cultural practice mothers carrying babies on their backs in cloth wraps and turned it into a public health tool. You got to love it!
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
Permethrin-Treated Baby Wraps for the Prevention of Malaria | NEJM
Malaria remains a major cause of childhood death in sub-Saharan Africa. We leveraged
the traditional practice of mothers carrying children on their backs in cloth wraps
to assess whether treating t...
www.nejm.org
September 24, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Ever since I learned about this study enrolling I have been eagerly awaiting the results. Researchers in Uganda took a centuries-old cultural practice mothers carrying babies on their backs in cloth wraps and turned it into a public health tool. You got to love it!
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
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CSF testing for suspected neurosyphilis
➡️isolated ocular or otic features: LP not needed
➡️CSF VDRL: specific but not perfectly sensitive
➡️CSF treponemal test: high negative predictive value, for cases with high suspicion despite negative CSF VDRL
doi.org/10.1002/ana....
#IDSky
➡️isolated ocular or otic features: LP not needed
➡️CSF VDRL: specific but not perfectly sensitive
➡️CSF treponemal test: high negative predictive value, for cases with high suspicion despite negative CSF VDRL
doi.org/10.1002/ana....
#IDSky
September 20, 2025 at 3:09 AM
CSF testing for suspected neurosyphilis
➡️isolated ocular or otic features: LP not needed
➡️CSF VDRL: specific but not perfectly sensitive
➡️CSF treponemal test: high negative predictive value, for cases with high suspicion despite negative CSF VDRL
doi.org/10.1002/ana....
#IDSky
➡️isolated ocular or otic features: LP not needed
➡️CSF VDRL: specific but not perfectly sensitive
➡️CSF treponemal test: high negative predictive value, for cases with high suspicion despite negative CSF VDRL
doi.org/10.1002/ana....
#IDSky
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#idboardreview mail sorter recently exposed to unknown powder in envelope and now in ICU with respiratory distress, widened mediastinum, blood cultures gram
Positive rod. What #isolation precaution is needed? #idmeded #meded #idsky #idfellows #IPsky
Positive rod. What #isolation precaution is needed? #idmeded #meded #idsky #idfellows #IPsky
September 16, 2025 at 12:43 AM
#idboardreview mail sorter recently exposed to unknown powder in envelope and now in ICU with respiratory distress, widened mediastinum, blood cultures gram
Positive rod. What #isolation precaution is needed? #idmeded #meded #idsky #idfellows #IPsky
Positive rod. What #isolation precaution is needed? #idmeded #meded #idsky #idfellows #IPsky
Another nail in the coffin of ABC? (and AZT btw) 😅
HIV resistance to dolutegravir varies with co-administered agents
✅ Just Accepted
#IDSky
https://bit.ly/4n0HvtF
✅ Just Accepted
#IDSky
https://bit.ly/4n0HvtF
HIV resistance to dolutegravir varies with co-administered agents
We hypothesized that HIV-dolutegravir-resistance is more frequent when co-administered with nucleos(t)ides with shorter intracellular half-lives.
bit.ly
September 15, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Another nail in the coffin of ABC? (and AZT btw) 😅
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HIV resistance to dolutegravir varies with co-administered agents
✅ Just Accepted
#IDSky
https://bit.ly/4n0HvtF
✅ Just Accepted
#IDSky
https://bit.ly/4n0HvtF
HIV resistance to dolutegravir varies with co-administered agents
We hypothesized that HIV-dolutegravir-resistance is more frequent when co-administered with nucleos(t)ides with shorter intracellular half-lives.
bit.ly
September 14, 2025 at 10:17 PM
HIV resistance to dolutegravir varies with co-administered agents
✅ Just Accepted
#IDSky
https://bit.ly/4n0HvtF
✅ Just Accepted
#IDSky
https://bit.ly/4n0HvtF
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What a pleasure to finally meet @santymd.bsky.social - in Banff, no less - where we are both speaking at the Alberta Society of ID annual meeting #idsky
September 6, 2025 at 4:57 PM
What a pleasure to finally meet @santymd.bsky.social - in Banff, no less - where we are both speaking at the Alberta Society of ID annual meeting #idsky
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I'm not proud of this
Emory University to discontinue its DEI programs, offices
Emory had previously embraced diversity efforts, but interim president Leah Ward Sears wrote that the decision was due to federal laws and mandates.
www.ajc.com
September 5, 2025 at 8:50 PM
I'm not proud of this
I am starstruck!!!
September 6, 2025 at 3:30 AM
I am starstruck!!!
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Must read for all teams consulting infectious diseases #idsky #idmeded #meded #stewardship #voicesofID @cidjournal.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/cid/advance-...
academic.oup.com/cid/advance-...
August 27, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Must read for all teams consulting infectious diseases #idsky #idmeded #meded #stewardship #voicesofID @cidjournal.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/cid/advance-...
academic.oup.com/cid/advance-...
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Dengue vaccine effectiveness during outbreak in adolescents - 50.2% after first dose, 61.7% after 2nd dose, also protective against hospitalization. Protection waned to 49.7% by 90 days. For outbreak intervention, decline may be less meaningful… #IDSky
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Effectiveness of the TAK-003 dengue vaccine in adolescents during the 2024 outbreak in São Paulo, Brazil: a test-negative, case–control study
TAK-003 was effective against symptomatic dengue and hospitalisation with dengue in
adolescents during a large outbreak caused predominantly by dengue virus serotypes
1 and 2. These findings underscor...
www.thelancet.com
August 25, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Dengue vaccine effectiveness during outbreak in adolescents - 50.2% after first dose, 61.7% after 2nd dose, also protective against hospitalization. Protection waned to 49.7% by 90 days. For outbreak intervention, decline may be less meaningful… #IDSky
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Very excited to be here!
May 1, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Very excited to be here!
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A super useful set guidelines for abx prophylaxis in trauma that came out last year which I missed:
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Written by trauma surgeons with many common injuries that DON’T require ppx or alternatively ppx <48 hours
#IDSky
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Written by trauma surgeons with many common injuries that DON’T require ppx or alternatively ppx <48 hours
#IDSky
Antibiotic prophylaxis in injury: an American Association for the Surgery of Trauma Critical Care Committee clinical consensus document
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
April 23, 2025 at 12:53 AM
A super useful set guidelines for abx prophylaxis in trauma that came out last year which I missed:
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Written by trauma surgeons with many common injuries that DON’T require ppx or alternatively ppx <48 hours
#IDSky
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Written by trauma surgeons with many common injuries that DON’T require ppx or alternatively ppx <48 hours
#IDSky
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New #MonkeyPox variant clade Ib recently spread outside Congo with demographic shift - higher case fatality rates for younger people.
The #WesternPacific & #SoutheastAsia have high endemic burden. Are we ready for strategy planning against clade Ib? 🦠
Viewpoint👉 tinyurl.com/yh579kbh #IDSky #MedSky
The #WesternPacific & #SoutheastAsia have high endemic burden. Are we ready for strategy planning against clade Ib? 🦠
Viewpoint👉 tinyurl.com/yh579kbh #IDSky #MedSky
April 11, 2025 at 12:08 AM
New #MonkeyPox variant clade Ib recently spread outside Congo with demographic shift - higher case fatality rates for younger people.
The #WesternPacific & #SoutheastAsia have high endemic burden. Are we ready for strategy planning against clade Ib? 🦠
Viewpoint👉 tinyurl.com/yh579kbh #IDSky #MedSky
The #WesternPacific & #SoutheastAsia have high endemic burden. Are we ready for strategy planning against clade Ib? 🦠
Viewpoint👉 tinyurl.com/yh579kbh #IDSky #MedSky
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Several colleagues at the CDC are waking up this morning to emails notifying them they are no longer employed. A cruel purge that will cripple the agency and its mission of protecting public health.
I stand with public health.
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I stand with public health.
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Layoffs begin at Atlanta-based CDC, other US health agencies
The layoffs include 2,400 jobs at the CDC.
www.wsbtv.com
April 1, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Several colleagues at the CDC are waking up this morning to emails notifying them they are no longer employed. A cruel purge that will cripple the agency and its mission of protecting public health.
I stand with public health.
www.wsbtv.com/news/local/l...
I stand with public health.
www.wsbtv.com/news/local/l...
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Two more cases of HIV cure after stem cell transplant - the 8th and 9th.
The treatment is too dangerous and gruelling for anyone not facing a terminal cancer diagnosis but each case may provide clues to a cure for all.
@lizhighleyman.bsky.social reports from #CROI2025.
www.poz.com/article/two-...
The treatment is too dangerous and gruelling for anyone not facing a terminal cancer diagnosis but each case may provide clues to a cure for all.
@lizhighleyman.bsky.social reports from #CROI2025.
www.poz.com/article/two-...
Two More People May Be Cured of HIV After Stem Cell Transplants
One experienced viral rebound after an initial treatment interruption but remains in remission after stopping antiretrovirals a second time.
www.poz.com
March 12, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Two more cases of HIV cure after stem cell transplant - the 8th and 9th.
The treatment is too dangerous and gruelling for anyone not facing a terminal cancer diagnosis but each case may provide clues to a cure for all.
@lizhighleyman.bsky.social reports from #CROI2025.
www.poz.com/article/two-...
The treatment is too dangerous and gruelling for anyone not facing a terminal cancer diagnosis but each case may provide clues to a cure for all.
@lizhighleyman.bsky.social reports from #CROI2025.
www.poz.com/article/two-...
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"In the 19th century, it was incredibly dangerous to be a child.
As of 1900, about 18 percent, or nearly one in five, American children died before their fifth birthday. ..."
What changed? Better sanitation, medical advances - and vaccines. www.vox.com/health/40268...
As of 1900, about 18 percent, or nearly one in five, American children died before their fifth birthday. ..."
What changed? Better sanitation, medical advances - and vaccines. www.vox.com/health/40268...
What was childhood like before vaccines?
The anti-vax movement has gone mainstream, but before these shots, grief and loss marked the lives of children.
www.vox.com
March 7, 2025 at 11:11 PM
"In the 19th century, it was incredibly dangerous to be a child.
As of 1900, about 18 percent, or nearly one in five, American children died before their fifth birthday. ..."
What changed? Better sanitation, medical advances - and vaccines. www.vox.com/health/40268...
As of 1900, about 18 percent, or nearly one in five, American children died before their fifth birthday. ..."
What changed? Better sanitation, medical advances - and vaccines. www.vox.com/health/40268...
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Gender equality doesn’t just 'happen.'
Women’s rights must be fought for and protected.
Our responsibility is clear.
To lead by example and create a world where opportunities are fair for all.
Not just today, but every single day.
#InternationalWomensDay
Women’s rights must be fought for and protected.
Our responsibility is clear.
To lead by example and create a world where opportunities are fair for all.
Not just today, but every single day.
#InternationalWomensDay
March 8, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Gender equality doesn’t just 'happen.'
Women’s rights must be fought for and protected.
Our responsibility is clear.
To lead by example and create a world where opportunities are fair for all.
Not just today, but every single day.
#InternationalWomensDay
Women’s rights must be fought for and protected.
Our responsibility is clear.
To lead by example and create a world where opportunities are fair for all.
Not just today, but every single day.
#InternationalWomensDay
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Reposted by Santiago Perez Patrigeon, MD, PhD
Family includes everyone! ❤️
November 17, 2024 at 9:40 PM
Family includes everyone! ❤️