Removing ESBL status labels significantly reduced carbapenem use for UTIs without impacting clinical outcomes: doi.org/10.1093/jac/dk… Lourdes R. Menendez Kelsey Williams @bufpharmd Bug Pharmacist 💊🧫 Tim Gauthier OUP Medicine Oxford Journals #JACNews

Interim results of PURPOSE-1 show a promising future for q6month injectables for PrEP! 💉🗓️ bit.ly/PURPOSE1results.

Dual β-lactam therapy for treatment of Mycobacterium abscessus disease 🟢 = synergy observed 🟠 = additive effects only Colour intensity = number of supporting studies Does anyone have experience to share? Which is your favourite combination? doi.org/10.1016/j.cmi.…

Registration is now open for the 2024 SIDP Annual Meeting and Reception taking place on October 15, 2024 in Los Angeles, CA in conjunction with IDWeek! 🦠 Meeting registration is free to all SIDP members. Register TODAY at: buff.ly/3xOHRzb #SIDP2024 #IDWeek2024

Useful antifungal TDM toolkit! Let’s check this out!👇 MSGERC #IDMedEd #IDFellow funguseducationhub.org/fungal-tdm/

MRSA nares screening can reliably be used for de-escalation of anti-MRSA therapy within 28 days of bacterial culture for all patients, including transplant recipients and patients with neutropenia. ⭐NPV = 95.8% across all anatomical culture sites doi.org/10.1093/ofid/o…

LISTERIA OUTBREAK: 28 people are sick, with 2 deaths, in 12 states. Do not eat meats you get sliced at any deli counter, unless it is reheated to an internal temperature of 165°F or until steaming hot. Read more: bit.ly/4cPl2dO

News: Exploratory analysis associates HIV drug abacavir with elevated cardiovascular disease risk in large global trial nih.gov/news-events/ne…

The largest head-to-head randomized clinical trial confirms results and also shows the 2-therapy regimen led to less weight gain. #AIDS2024 #HIV contagionlive.com/view/dovato-sh…

Former Emory Med student Maddie Giegold passed away 5 days before finishing EM residency. She was the sole breadwinner & we really want to support her husband: that would have been important to her. Here is the gofundme link: gofundme.com/f/help-for-mad…

Congratulations to ACCP member Elizabeth M. Sherman and co-authors on the recent publication of their article in Pharmacotherapy! Access the abstract and/or article here: ow.ly/ixGw50SKlhN #MakingAnImpact #ACCP #OpenAccess #TwitteRx Pharmacotherapy

Linezolid's prescribing information updated June 2024 to include a warning/precaution for rhabdomyolysis

#IDTwitter Highly recommend this article Had no idea that the rates of encephalitis without csf pleocytosis was so high. Especially for HSV-1! Also recommend the accompanying editorial by Bloch and Glaser Must read. doi.org/10.1093/cid/ci…

Ready to explore #PharmRes programs? Don’t miss out on the SNPhA x ACCP Virtual Residency Showcase on Nov 12 & 14. 🔹 Connect with program directors for FREE from the comfort your 🏡 🔹 Open to ALL students and residents 🔹 Details: accp.com/meetings/vrfs2…   #SNPhA #ACCP

Providers find it difficult not to treat once they have a positive U/A or UCx, independent of whether it was appropriate to test and when they know the evidence doesn’t show a benefit in treating asymptomatic bacteriuria. Goal needs to be reducing testing. academic.oup.com/ofid/advance-a…

Congratulations to the 2024 ACCP INFD PRN Award Recipients! 🥳 Distinguished Scholar Award, Spencer Durham Clinical Practice Award, Veena Venugopalan New Practitioner Award, Rachel Larry Thank you for all that you do for our patients and the profession! 👏🏽👏🏽

This is the opportunity you’ve been looking for to learn key updates about Mpox, with a focus on best practices in Mpox vaccination, from our amazing speaker: Rodrigo Burgos, PharmD, MPH, from the Univ of Illinois at Chicago College of Pharmacy. Visit sidpec.org

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🆕 Episode of #Breakpoints: Drs. Rhodes & Steed join host Jeannette Bouchard to discuss optimal daptomycin dosing. Expert insight into dapto dosing matters, especially for certain organisms (looking at you, E. faecium), weight approach, CPK, & more! 🎧 sidp.pinecast.co

Dual β-lactam therapy works for M.abscessus Is it useful for M.avium complex (MAC) as well? Statistically significant ⬇️ of meropenem MIC was noted when it's combined with ceftaroline(CPT), cefdinir(CDR) and cefuroxime(CXM), especially with CPT and CDR doi.org/10.1093/jacamr…