Is the recommendation to rule out TB in anyone living with HIV and with a pulmonary infiltrate still current?
Should we add qualifiers (not virologically suppressed, in settings of high prevalence)?

pretty wild our major guidance document for preventing transmission of TB in healthcare settings is nearly 20 years old (only minimally updated in 2019) 😅 Jorge Luis Salinas

ESCMID and IDweek

Please tell me team America won! Guillermo Rodriguez-Nava (Guiro)

#WeWillPrevail with the invaluable support of our ESCMID colleagues, that makes us 💪🏻

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Hard choice, love/hate TB and malaria. Find malaria slightly more fascinating because parasites > bacteria. Of course this is an emotional response, not based on data.

CLABSI surveillance in 2024

Mentorship

The team led by Dr. Dan Livorsi proposed a novel metric for ASP programs on previously overlooked aspects of antibiotic prescribing. Congratulations!!!

Novel risk-adjusted metric to compare hospitals on their antibiotic-prescribing at hospital discharge academic.oup.com/cid/article/do…

How awesome to see medical progress. Sickle cell is a synonym of my medicine residency in Birmingham, Alabama. Hope many more can access these treatments.

At SHEA's #SHEASpring2024 , Stanford CDH Travel Award Recipient @G_ROD_11s presented his work, 'A #MachineLearning Exploration of #SocialDeterminantsofHealth & Hospital-Onset Bacteremia, Northern California, 2019–2023.' Love to see our awardees in action!

Rat data visualization

Low tech, education only, quality improvement initiatives

We need to strive for a happy medium. Aim for the optimal number of type of tests sent.

PPE overuse

Contact precautions debates

Impact of Blood Culture Contamination on Antibiotic Use, Resource Utilization, and Clinical Outcomes: A Retrospective Cohort Study in Dutch and US Hospitals

🔓 Open Access
bit.ly/3SBXEaT

Syphilis Treatment: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Investigating Non-Penicillin Therapeutic Strategies

✍️ by Gustavo @AlexMarra73
🔓 Open Access
bit.ly/4ciQUrn

These two SHEA celebrities make Stanford proud! 👏🏻

Vicky, 2nd yr peds ID fellow (@LPCH_IDProgram), was the SHEA Epi Project Competition finalist (GI surg site infxns)!

Gui (@G_ROD_11), 2nd yr adult ID fellow, was awarded the Jonathan Freeman Scholarship for his epi work!

Great talk by Diana Vilar Compte on Infection Prevention challenges in low- and middle-income countries! One of the most influential teachers in my career and in Healthcare Epi in Mexico. Introduced me to evidence-based medicine and clinical epi in Med School! Orgullo FacultadMedicinaUNAM