Are 100% single-patient hospital rooms associated w reductions in the acquisition of common multidrug-resistant organisms & nosocomial infections compared with ward-type rooms? NEW🔥 Study Todd C. Lee JAMA Internal Medicine might answer this question #IDtwitter jamanetwork.com/journals/jamai…

Dr. Jay Keystone passed away peacefully today. Jay was a global leader in Travel and Tropical Medicine, a gifted clinician and teacher, and a wonderful guy. He will be missed by countless patients, trainees, mentees, and colleagues. ASTMH @_ISTM #IDtwitter

Procalcitonin monitoring in a community ICU was associated with a non-significant decrease in antibiotic use and wide variability in inter-prescriber protocol adherence #IDWeek2019 cdmcd.co/wZpJxk (poster #1995)

With a map like this, it seems like it is time to say goodbye to the Z-pack everywhere in the U.S. for CAP.

Our latest publication in JAMMI Canada Journal: a pilot study of a province-wide #antibiotic use tracking and reporting system #VisualAbstract jammi.utpjournals.press/doi/abs/10.313…

There appears to be an autochthonous, mosquito-transmitted case of Zika virus in southern France. This would have been acquired in August when southern France has the appropriate climate and competent mosquito vectors. ecdc.europa.eu/en/publication…

Inter-disciplinary, rounds-based prospective audit and feedback is associated with lower antibiotic use in general medicine. 🆕 Our latest paper in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology cambridge.org/core/journals/… #visualabstract #antimicrobialstewardship

One of the most clever Halloween yard displays I've seen in Toronto is also a great public service announcement, pumpkins and carrots make up measles virus with a "Vaccinate your Kids" headstone underneath in the City's East End. #halloween2019

🆕How can we nudge clinicians to choose more appropriate #antibiotic therapy? Our scoping review just published in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology maps the literature on nudging strategies in microbiology reports. Read the full text here: cambridge.org/core/journals/… #VisualAbstract

The more we use antibiotics unnecessarily, the less effective they become. One of the ways we can fight #AntibioticResistance is to use antibiotics wisely. choosingwiselycanada.org/antibiotics

Anyone seen these antibiotic characters lurking around? Michael Garron Hospital #AAW2019 #AntibioticAwarenessWeek #AntibioticResistance

1. HIV PEP-in-Pocket ("PIP"), an HIV prevention strategy for those with a low frequency of high-risk exposures. Here is longer term follow-up of 79 patients using PIP, with ~100 PIP-years of follow-up. No HIV seroconversions. tinyurl.com/tad8ejp #HIVPIP #PrEP CATIE

Any health care worker staying on the front lines of this #nCoV2019 is a hero, given how easily the virus can spread to doctors and nurses that are performing pulmonary procedures or screening panicked people in ER facilities. Rest in peace, Dr. Liang.

A very important analysis for those trying to understand how 2019-nCoV is spreading nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

Procalcitonin -guided antibiotic duration combined with #antimicrobialstewardship was associated with 27% adjusted decrease in overall antibiotic use in our community hospital ICU Unity Health Toronto doi.org/10.1016/j.jcrc…

THREAD: In Canada to date we have only seen travel-related #COVID19 cases. This will soon change. China's containment attempts gave us time. We cannot squander this by being complacent. The time to increase funding, improve communication and prepare is now. 1/

Janine McCready Junior Powi Susy Hota MD MSc @Abx_ID_Doc Mark Downing Carly Weeks André Picard Isaac Bogoch Alon Vaisman David Fisman Public Health PHAC Toronto Public Health Public Health ON CBC Health News BC Centre for Disease Control Canada could be perfect country to see whether #COVID19 can be contained at this point. Universal healthcare, many have paid sick leave, all cases to date can be traced to travel, testing has been rapid. Let's not screw this up Ontario Ministry of Health! Be proactive. Janine McCready Junior Powi

I want to highlight this from the incredible thread by the Italian ICU MD: "the epidemiological disaster is taking place. And there are no more surgeons, urologists, orthopedists." 1/3

This is a big step. I wonder how IPAC in Toronto and elsewhere will react. André Picard Theresa Boyle Susy Hota MD MSc Mark Downing Alon Vaisman David Fisman Andrew Morris Janine McCready 𝐒𝐮𝐦𝐨𝐧 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐤𝐫𝐚𝐛𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢 Michael Fralick Jonathan Zipursky Lauren Lapointe-Shaw Kieran Quinn MD PhD

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