An Unexpectedly High Incidence of Invasive Fungal Diseases in Solid Organ Transplant Recipients on Belatacept for Organ Rejection Prophylaxis: A Single Center Retrospective Cohort Study ✅ Just Accepted 🔓 Open Access 🔗 bit.ly/3IKX06C

In a new commentary, 2 experts provide advice to immunocompromised persons & clinicians on interventions and important info sources to consider before traveling in a world with #COVID19: ow.ly/k7qg50Rcgpo

📢 A NEW #ISHLT Standards & Guidelines Document on infection definitions for durable and acute #MCS devices is now available online at 🔗 bit.ly/44nNRL9. Check out the top eight takeaways from this document below. ⏬

Association between infectious diseases consultation and mortality in hospitalized patients with Gram-negative bloodstream infection: a retrospective population-wide cohort study ✅ Just Accepted bit.ly/4avkdoJ

🚨Review of sinus/lung imaging for fungi Clinical Microbiology and Infection @jobadd Lung ➡️ CT preferred. Look for nodules, halo, air crescent, etc. Sinus ➡️ CT or MRI. Mucosal thickening, opacification, peri-antral fat infiltration, osseous erosion Added to Aspergillus 📁 transplantid.net/BMI3997L

Winner! 🎉 Ambreen Azhar, MD, MS's poster was chosen as the Sunday, June 2 Best in Congress Poster. Congratulations, Ambreen Azhar! VCU Health Hume-Lee Transplant Center VCU Nephrology

A study of newly vaccinated adults found that short-term side effects after vaccination were associated with greater long-lasting neutralizing antibody responses: ow.ly/paZ550SfE6M

🎇Welcome new #IDFellows! 🎉 Is this your first exposure to a #TxID TxID Early Career Network immunocompromised ID service? Never fear!☑️out our "CORE CURRICULUM" at transplantid.net Lots of American Society of Transplantation (AST) ASTCT IDSA IDSA Medical Education Community of Practice The ISHLT The EBMT guidelines as well!

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A systematic review and meta-analysis of nonrelapse mortality after CAR T cell therapy nature.com/articles/s4159… 🛑 50% of mortality...post CAR-T related to infections... Infections post CAR-T is not a juke... #CART #bmtsm #immunotherapy #tcellrx #ICAN #CRS #CARTcells #CellTherapy

🆕 Antifungal TDM toolkit Download the infographics here: funguseducationhub.org/fungal-tdm/

Excited to have the newest version published - appreciate the teamwork with many including ⁦Raymund Razonable⁩ ⁦Dr Roy Chemaly ⁦Yoichiro Natori⁩ - Consensus Definitions of Cytomegalovirus (CMV) Infection and Disease in Transplant Patients academic.oup.com/cid/advance-ar…

Higher Prevalence of Immunosuppression Among US Adults: Implications for COVID-19 and Respiratory Pathogen Vaccinations ✅ Just Accepted 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/ofid/o…

【Absence of Cerebrospinal Fluid Pleocytosis in Encephalitis】Clinical Infectious Diseases Aug 3 2024 Congrats to @UT_Infectious Dr. Hasbun’s team and Johns Hopkins Department of Medicine! Absence of CSF pleocytosis: 👉24% of HSV-1 👉Acyclovir should not be delayed! doi.org/10.1093/cid/ci… #IDMedEd #NeuroID

#ScholarlySunday features the collaboration of our clinical and research fellows in #OrthoID. What is the role of NGS in the diagnosis of osteoarticular infections? Congratulations Drs. Francesco Petri, @SaidElZein2 and @NischalR3, and your mentors! bit.ly/46OIKoF

How successful is Maribavir for CMV in SOTRs? Duke Infectious Diseases camwolfe Madeleine Heldman, MD, MS (she/her) Open Forum Infectious Diseases 💊40% had sustained viral clearance 💊47% developed MBV resistance or early recurrence 💊Higher VL = More resistance/recurrence Read more in Maribavir 📁! transplantid.net/2E33ZW67

About 1 in 5 COVID deaths were found to be attributable to hospital caseload strain during Delta wave. A detrimental relationship between COVID-19 caseload and survival across all hospital types went far beyond the pandemic’s learning curve: ecs.page.link/C68gg

This is an article that reveals the time physicians spend on the EHR compared to clinical time with patients. Physicians need to be paid for their time spent on the EHR. This time is easy to track, and this would reduce the imbalance of thinking specialties versus surgical

VGCV ppx is common after 🫀 txp - Can Cystatin C be helpful in assessing VGCV dosing? ✨Study in JHLT 💊CysC tended to show lower eGFR 💊Lower CysC eGFR ➡️ More leukopenia 💊Suggests lower doses needed for many pts Find it in CMV 📁! Transplantid.net/Q5X8GCPJ

🆕🔥“Baricitinib: The Immunomodulator of Choice for Severe COVID-19—The Verdict Is in” @CAG_ID_Doc and I just published this new article: #IDXposts #TxID #TwitteRx #MedEd #PulmTwitter University of Nebraska Medical Center UNMC ID 👇 bit.ly/4gd1gdS