Prof Mike Bromley paints a gloomy picture of how agricultural biocides drives antifungal resistance towards our clinical antifungals @MFIG GCU Research Centre for Health (ReaCH)

The BCx shortage has affected many of us. In collaboration with Valeria Fabre, Dan Diekema, and my mentor Dr. Van, we published in Open Forum Infectious Diseases our approach to the shortage, emphasizing the importance of implementing BCx stewardship academic.oup.com/ofid/advance-a…

Geographical distribution of the Cryptococcus gattii species complex: a systematic review The Lancet Microbe #OpenAccess This paper summaries the geographical distribution of the C. gattii complex members sciencedirect.com/science/articl… ECMM EFISG ISHAM

Geographical distribution of the Cryptococcus gattii species complex: a systematic review. I'm so excited to see this published! Led by Victoria Poplin KUInfectiousDiseases who deserves promotion for the amount and quality of this work alone! (1/2) sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Most of the human fungal pathogens have the ability to escape from phagosome killing. They can hide from recognition, manipulate phagosome maturation, persist inside phagosomes, and escape from phagosomes. nature.com/articles/s4156…

When doctors were aided by LLMs to answer pt msgs, they were less likely to recommend action (eg go to urgent care) than when unassisted, suggesting physicians might adopt the LLM's assessment rather than use LLM to better communicate their own assessment thelancet.com/journals/landi…

Large multinational retrospective analysis of 269 patients with Candida prosthetic joint infections High rate of failure (42%), which did not appear to be linked to immunosuppression, use of azoles, or treatment duration doi.org/10.1093/cid/ci…

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AI generates covertly racist decisions about people based on their dialect Compared to Standard American English, pre-sentencing utterance in African American English more likely to lead LLMs to recommend conviction or death penalty nature.com/articles/s4158…

Join us for Duke ID Week 2024 Party @Palmrestaurant on 10/16, 6pm - 9pm. Calling all Adult ID Faculty, Current & Former Pediatric, Fellows & Staff! #IDWeek2024 #DukeID #IDFellows Eileen Maziarz Ilan Schwartz MD PhD John Perfect

From Nico Cortes-Penfield MD FACP FIDSA 🦴💊 & me: Safe implementation of LLMs in clinical care requires acknowledgment of their limitations & strong regulation to prevent misuse academic.oup.com/cid/advance-ar… An author reply to 2 letters: academic.oup.com/cid/advance-ar… doi.org/10.1093/cid/ci…

🚨New pre-print🚨 2023 was a near-record year for #ValleyFever in #California following transition from drought to atmospheric rivers in winter 2022/23. Following a second wet winter of 2023/24 in California, we forecast continued high incidence of #ValleyFever for 2024 into 2025

Good morning from Colorado Springs! #msgerc2024

Ilan Schwartz Ilan Schwartz MD PhD giving the plenary talk MSGERC Biennial Meeting: Artificial Intelligence in Mycology.

Great start to MSGERC meeting in Colorado Ilan Schwartz MD PhD telling us about AI in mycology. And I mean really teaching us- rather than just throw out words like "Artificial Intelligence" and "Machine Learning" without really knowing what it means like most of us do!!

Congratulations Ilan Schwartz MD PhD on your excellent plenary talk at the MSGERC Biennial Meeting on AI in Mycology!

Visiting Garden of the Gods outside Colorado Springs with colleagues and friends at #msgerc2024

At #MSGERC2024 meeting Fungal infections & climate change driven by Martin Hoenigl🇺🇦🇦🇹 We have to make real serious changes in our environment, otherwise…

Duke #TxID faculty enjoying the Garden of the Gods while working hard at the MSGERC Biennial Meeting. Fungal learning and community building! #MSGERC2024