Welcome to Vaccine Day at #VailPedsID2024 featuring talks by Jessica Cataldi MD on vaccine-preventable ds, Suchitra Rao on influenza, Dr. Eric Simoes on RSV prevention strategies, and Dr. Myron Levin on COVID vaccine updates. Follow here for live tweets from Andrew Haynes.

Day 4 of #COpedsID2024 kicks off with our Colorado Pediatric Infectious Diseases section head, Dr. Betsy McFarland, talking to us about evidence behind probiotics in pediatrics

Next we have a talk from one of our great 2nd year Peds ID fellows Priya Vyas. She's presenting an interesting case of an infant with thigh swelling. #VailPedsID2024

Now Sarah Parker is going to tell us what the heck to do about Mycoplasma pneumoniae. #VailPedsID2024 Summary of my current knowledge-

To close our afternoon, Mark Abzug will review something that is actually kind of neglected in currently published guidelines for newcomer screening: Chagas! #VailPedsID2024

Check out our newest review by Dr. Dimo on short durations of abx for AOM - less is more! #IDtwitter #Pediatric #ASP #tweetitrician CU Antimicrobial Stewardship Colorado Pediatric Infectious Diseases link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007/s…

CID: Colorado Pediatric Infectious Diseases 3rd yr fellow, Dr. Erin Ho, shows the clinical impact of Strep pneumo PCR testing of pleural fluid in children with complicated pneumonia: 3X⬆️pathogen detection 25%⬇️pts on MRSA tx 5 days faster time to optimal abx #diagnosticstewardship academic.oup.com/cid/advance-ar…

REGISTRATION IS OPEN: The 42nd Annual Conference on Pediatric Infectious Diseases in Vail, CO #VailPedsID2025 July 27-Aug 1 featuring Colorado Pediatric Infectious Diseases faculty and guest speaker Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon). In-person and virtual options for CME/MOC available: ce.childrenscolorado.org/node/9994

...and we're off! Dr. Edwin Asturias kicking off the start of #VailPedsID2025 with updates from ACIP, followed by a debate between Sarah Parker & Andrew Haynes on controversies in common bacterial infections #strep #UTI #ASP