Extrahepatic Manifestations of Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) Infection doi.org/10.1056/nejmra…

🌟 Proud moment! My trainee delivered an outstanding talk on clinical microbiology's role in diagnosing infectious diseases. From uncertain beginnings to bridging lab and clinical settings—excited to see her thrive as a future leader! 🚀 #ProudMentor #ClinicalMicro Retaj

Unprovoked animal attack ( rabid fox?) Wash wound or scratches with soap and disinfectant Take child to ER for evaluation and rabies prophylaxis Don’t suture the wound until prophylaxis s given

Name the disease and pathogen? Hint: milked cow that had lesion on its udder

Antibiotic Steward Bassam Ghanem 🅱️C🆔🅿️🌟 Clinical Microbiology and Infection Emily McDonald Alexander Lawandi Patrick Harris Reflex reporting R is clearly incorrect. Most are susceptible. But care is needed because unlike unselected organisms, the pretest probability of cross resistance is higher We have a similar paper looking at FQ in these bugs and you see the same thing for FQ (false pos and neg)

I don't understand disagreement with changing from pip tazo to penicillin for severe group A strep bacteremia. You don't need the gram negative coverage There's no evidence piperacillin is as good as penicillin for the causative organism. You're only risking harm.

Childhood TB: historical neglect.

Native Joint Infections Dr. Aaron Tande Aaron Tande ✍️There are >350 joints in the human body! #MayoClinicIDUpdates2025 Mayo Clinic Infectious Diseases MayoArizonaID #IDMedEd #IDFellow #OrthoID Musculoskeletal Infection Society European Bone and Joint Infection Society (EBJIS)

Here's a different perspective. We agree the trial is very important. I dont agree that the fact that I do not consider it to be practice-changing is why we don't get nice things in ID. That's a subject for another day. For now, I have a diff't view of WHY the trial is important.

I recently evaluated a pt with a fever of 40.5 C, WBC 15,000, & hypotensive/tachycardic. I was really torn. Could the pt have inflammation of some kind? I wasn't sure. But then, thankfully, I saw that someone had ordered a CRP. And that's when I knew there was inflammation.

It's out on #AAC (ASM): a concise but incisive letter on the lingering false myth of "bacteriostatic" #antibiotics as inferior to "cidal" ones. What an honour to be among authors in a group led by Brad Spellberg. #IDXposts rita murri journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/aa…

The concept of static/cidal antibiotics is neither complex nor context-dependent; it is rather a myth It’s my honor to contribute to this letter spearheaded by Brad Spellberg

Once residency/fellowship applicants can safely acknowledge their lack of interest in conducting research without torching their job prospects, then we will have entered a new utopia with the perfect balance of physicians, scientists, and physician-scientists. It will be

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