NEW: Kamala Harris has announced that, If elected, she will make it a FELONY to continue vancomycin if the MRSA swab is negative.

Importancia del diagnóstico mediante biomarcadores Diego Cáceres IMMY Curso Micosis Entre Nosotros

Approach to Neutropenic Fever

The best doctors don't just follow guidelines. The best doctors known when to go off the guidelines.

【Community-Acquired Pneumonia 】JAMA, Sep 16, 2024 JAMA 👉Congratulations Valerie Vaughn🎉 👉Great summary review on community-acquired pneumonia with beautiful Figures and Tables! jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/… #IDMedEd #IDFellow

More is not always better. Adding vancomycin to cefazolin as surgical prophylaxis in patients undergoing arthroplasty does not improve outcomes in patients not known to be MRSA colonized. Outcomes WORSE for knee arthroplasty. Just don't. nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NE… #IDWeek2024

This Halloween I am going as an unnecessary meropenem prescription

Tengan cuidado cuando carguen gasolina en Gavin La Cañada en Periférico, te pasan una terminal "que no tiene señal" con la cual obtienen tu NIP y posteriormente te empiezan a hacer cargos a tu tarjeta.

【CMV infection risk: Solid organ transplant vs Hematopoietic stem cell transplant】 Let's understand D+/R- being the highest risk in SOT vs D-/R+ in HSCT! Level: Intermediate #IDMedEd #IDFellow #TxID #Cytomegalovirus

Happy to share our review on polyomaviruses in HSCT, thankful for ⁦Hannah Imlay⁩’s mentorship on this work! mdpi.com/1999-4915/17/3…

【Staphylococcus lugdunensis】 Let's review the 5 key characteristics of S. lugdunensis that can lead to virulent infections! Level: Intermediate Frequency: ★★☆☆☆ #IDMedEd #IDFellow #IMResident #MedStudent

Oh no! The pipeline is still not dying! We're not even half way through the current 5 year period in the graph... Also, the Table is getting awfully full!

【TB medications for CKD/HD patients】 EMB and PZA should be reduced to three times a week! Level: Intermediate Importance: ★★★ #IDMedEd #IDFellow #pulmonaryfellow #nephrologyfellow #IMResident

【TB medications for CKD/HD patients (advanced)】 Updated to add several other regimens, including those for extensively drug-resistant TB depending on your needs! Level: Advanced Importance: ★★★ #IDMedEd #IDFellow #pulmonaryfellow #nephrologyfellow #IMResident

Just published 🔥 Debridement, antimicrobial therapy, and implant retention (DAIR) as curative strategy for acute periprosthetic hip and knee infections: a position paper of the European Bone & Joint Infection Society (EBJIS) #idxposts #OMWiki jbji.copernicus.org/articles/10/10…

Vaccination strategies for solid organ transplant candidates and recipients: insights and recommendations doi.org/10.1080/147605…

It’s that time of the year!!!! Get ready to rumble #IDWeek2025 #IDXposts

Creative lace idea

A brilliant UCLA Hematologist, Dr. Gary Schiller, said something to me when I was a medical student that I didn't understand at the time, but in retrospect, turns out to have had a profound, long-lasting impact on me. Specifically, on how I view the concept of "expertise".