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If you are in (or can come to) Australia and you see BJI patients (i.e. you are an ID physician!), please come along! We based the idea on EBJIS - true collaboration between orthopaedics and ID/Micro.

Our paper studying FUBCs in GN-BSIs, just published in Clinical Microbiology and Infection! Link to article here:👉 clinicalmicrobiologyandinfection.com/article/S1198-…

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Steven Tong Brad Langford Kevin Brown Kevin Schwartz ICES IHPME #IDtwitter

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Nice work from the TB-PRACTECAL group, phase 2b-3 trial Catherine Berry 🆔 😊👍

Australasians (Australia & NZ) do a lot of RCTs!
Humbling as an American.
⁦Joshua Davis⁩ on the upcoming ROADMAP rct of prosthetic joint infection

The ASIDANZ #asid2024 #Frank Fenner Award for Advanced Research in ID is Joseph Doyle for research on clinical implementation studies to find innovative testing/treatment models to achieve #WHO global goal of #viral #hepatitis elimination by 2030.
See: bit.ly/3PaJHQm

An exciting milestone in the SNAP Trial to have randomised 100 neonates, children and adolescents alongside adults! On track to surpassing the largest paediatric SAB trial in the world this year. Steven Tong Joshua Davis AnitaCampbell Brendan McMullan Amanda Gwee Philip Britton

🆕️⚡️🌟 Narrative Review with clinical vignette Clinical Microbiology and Infection Andrew Stewardson Steven Tong Joshua Davis
How I manage severe bacterial infections in people who inject drugs #PWID #IDXposts
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💥 Which trial…? Clinical Microbiology and Infection This one’s an old #IDTwitter favourite! With Steven Tong & a 🌟 cast. Trials like this are worth doing, “not because they are easy, but because they are hard.” 🚀 🌕 Here are a few thoughts on how we might do it 😊 (A. TOGETHER!) doi.org/10.1016/j.cmi.…

The SNAP Trial for Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia passed 2000 participants this month. We are now almost 2 years since opening. Beginning at one site and now at 93 sites in 8 countries. The 4th scheduled analysis planned for mid April.

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Do clinical trials of antimicrobial agents give clinicians the information they need in order to change guidelines and revise their prescribing patterns?
A thread on a new way to analyze clinical trial results

Congratulations Mo Yin ADVANCE-ID Network on a great VAP trial! thelancet.com/journals/lanre…

Excited to have finally launched our trial, SIMPLY-SNAP! In this study within a trial, we are randomizing eligible SNAP Trial patients in select Canadian sites to either a typical full-length consent process or a simplified layered consent process.

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Thanks to World Hepatitis Alliance who recently caught up with public health specialist and Menzies PhD student, Kelly Hosking Kelly Hosking to chat about the Hep B PAST project.
Check out the article on page 18-19 of the latest edition of Hep Voice magazine!

Hi #IDTwitter and #IDXposts . I'm not convinced Twitter (X) is still useful for us ID people any longer . . .but I am about to post my #top10 ID papers of 2023 - please amplify and comment! Antibiotic Tweets Antibiotic Steward Bassam Ghanem 🅱️C🆔🅿️🌟 Marc H. Scheetz Andrej Spec, MD, MSCI Ilan Schwartz MD PhD