Mucorales identified in a direct BAL smear with KOH calcofluor white From a case that was negative by culture, beta-D-Glucan & lung biopsy! #MayoClinMicro #clinmicro #IDtwitter #microbiology #fungi #mucormycosis

Hot-off-the press in AAC. Proof of principle that you can get rid of resistance genes using CRISP_Cas system. Would it work one day? No one knows but, at least, an efficient system seems to be available ASM Antibacterial Resistance Leadership Group journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/AA…

Here's a Tick Tweet to remind everyone to prevent tick bites! COVID isn't the only pathogen out there to worry about. Here are 3 female Ixodes scapularis ticks (vector for Lyme disease) in unengorged, partially engorged, and fully engorged states. Yuck!

This was a fun review to write. Unfortunately, there isn’t a perfect test to determine if someone is infectious.

Hot off the press in #AACJournal. Novel approaches to treat resistant Gram-negative infections are urgently needed. Antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs), primarily used in anti-cancer therapy, are promising approaches. ASM ASM Texas Medical Center Chapter Antibacterial Resistance Leadership Group journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/AA…

After a tough, long week- all I needed to life my spirits was: - interesting cases on-call - learning about new bugs & drugs - open my Instagram to see someone way cooler than me share my work. Thank you Jonathan Van Ness ♥️ Refusing vaccines is a privilege. #clinmicro #CovidVaccine

Still wondering if there are tests to determine whether an individual with #COVID19 is “infectious”? I had a great conversation with JClinMicro EIC EIC, Alex McAdam on this topic! asm.org/Podcasts/Edito…

🆕💥💥 #AAC ASM Ayesha Khan, Ph.D. Cesar Arias Evaluation of susceptibility testing methods for aztreonam and Ceftazidime/avibactam combination therapy on extensively drug-resistant Gram-negative organisms #IDTwitter #medtwitter #TwitteRx journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/AA…

"Uncertainty in evaluating treatment outcomes in carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii infections" Commentary by Jess Howard-Anderson now available in #AACjournal ASM Neil Clancy Sam Aitken @JGPharmD pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34424045/

Hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae🦠💜 LIM Medium (Bromocresol purple) 🧫💜 📸: Wataru Hayashi (林 航)

Out now! Promising AST methods that clinical labs can use to test synergy of 2 antimicrobials & guide combination therapy for MDR infections in future! Proof of concept w/ aztreonam + caz/avi against CRE Micah Bhatti, MD, PhD Cesar Arias ASM JClinMicro EIC bit.ly/comboAST

One-Step Detection and Classification of Bacterial Carbapenemases in 10 Minutes Using Fluorescence Identification of β-Lactamase Activity bit.ly/3zbMcrv ASM

New guidance for diagnosis & management of rare, high morbidity & mortality fungal infections! Featuring Trichosporon, Malassezia, Pseudozyma, Rhodotorula, Sporobolomyces, Geotrichum, Kodamaea, Saccharomyces & Saprochaete/Magnusiomyces 🍄🧫 Audrey Schuetz doi.org/10.1128/mBio.0…

Excellent resource for micro boards prep!

A huge proportion of SARS-CoV-2 is transmitted by people who have no symptoms. pnas.org/content/118/34… (note that this data is pre-Delta)

Direct contact w/ COVID-19 patients increased the likelihood of seropositivity, but health care workers who wore a mask during exposures were less likely to be seropositive, a study in a recent CID supplement found. bit.ly/3ynbp1X #ClinInfectDis #IDSAJournals CDC

A new multicenter case-control analysis in CID found that during March–May 2021, SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccines were highly effective at preventing COVID hospitalizations among U.S. adults. 📄:bit.ly/3ycy8wH #IDSAJournals #ClinInfectDis

Weekend Digest Name the pathogen! 5 Clues: TMP-SMX, levofloxacin, minocycline, ceftazidime, ticarcillin-clavulanic acid

Metagenomic Sequencing as a Pathogen-Agnostic Clinical Diagnostic Tool for Infectious Diseases: a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Diagnostic Test Accuracy Studies bit.ly/3t1S18B ASM