Why New York’s polio outbreak has put global experts on high alert #polio #globalhealth telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…

Larry the cat has been spotted chasing off a fox from Downing Street 🐱🦊 Today's top stories: trib.al/Rx0iR33

🧵 on NIV in #ARDS 🫁 I’ve seen A LOT of inappropriate use of NIV in #COVID19 & have often ranted about it on Twitter. There’s also lot of new data on NIV that’s been inconsistent & confusing. Let’s break some of it down. I’ll also add in some highlights from #LIVES2022

So excited to share an #IDTwitter collaborative article! Together with Nico Cortes-Penfield MD FACP FIDSA 🦴💊 Todd C. Lee Steven Tong Emily McDonald @JGPharmD and Irani Thevarajan, we did a systematic review & meta-analysis on gent & rifampin in Staph prosthetic valve endocarditis! academic.oup.com/ofid/advance-a…

Vaccine effectiveness (VE) of the bivalent booster vaccines against COVID-19 hospitalisation in England -> first data now out in the UKHSA vaccine surveillance report 1/7 assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/upl…

1/18 🤔Why does the diagnosis of Streptococcus bovis bacteremia immediately raise the specter of colon cancer? If colon cancer leads to barrier disruption and translocation of bacteria into the blood, shouldn't E. coli bacteremia raise the same concern? Is S. bovis unique?

Sajid Javid says we need to pay £20 for a GP appointment and £66 to go to A&E as a way to solve the NHS funding crisis. He’s wrong because there are so many better options in my new report on funding the NHS. A thread…..

In honor of vancomycin's 65th birthday this week, and Todd C. Lee's challenge, here's another potential example where linezolid is superior ... MRSA pneumonia! 🧵 1/x x.com/ABsteward/stat…

Finally got round to writing #R script to semi-automate producing antibiotic/temperature/inflammatory marker chart for #ID patients with complex prolonged treatment Please feel free to use. Constructive feedback welcome. gitlab.com/ollielloyd/ant… ID:IOTS podcasting / idiots-pod.bsky.social Callum P Mutch

👏👏BIG NEWS IN PENICILLIN ALLERGY!🧵/ To recap, a penicillin allergy is associated with bad outcomes for the individual and society, from treatment failures, to healthcare associated infections, to antimicrobial resistance Erica S. Shenoy, MD, PhD Eric Macy /1 jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

Sign our petition calling for the regulation of healthcare managers in the wake of the Lucy Letby case. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/6426…

ONE ANTIBIOTIC PK TABLE TO RULE THEM ALL Absorption takes drug into blood from GI, Vd spreads drug out to where bug calls home. And after bacteria are doomed to die, They’re mostly eliminated on the porcelain throne In the Land of Notion where this table doth lie. 1/2

Taken the plunge and learnt to write #R packages. Rewritten this script as a package {antibiogantt} Still needs work especially on documentation gitlab.com/ollielloyd/ant… Callum P Mutch Azul Zorzoli ID:IOTS podcasting / idiots-pod.bsky.social NHS-R Community

Okay 𝒌𝒆𝒗𝒊𝒏 𝒌𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒓, you asked for a combo Abx therapy rant, so here it comes (I guess Im taking requests now! ;)). There are 3 philosophical reasons to use combination Abx therapy (see my Mandell chapter for this discussion in detail). But they all apply differently to difft dzs.

This 4th updated IDSA guidance document focuses on infections caused by: 🟢ESBL Enterobacterales 🟢AmpC β- lactamase-producing Enterobacterales 🟢CRE 🟢DTR P. aeruginosa 🟢CRAB 🟢Stenotrophomonas maltophilia #IDXposts

More and more metrics are being added to the UK Health Security Agency data dashboard. So I’ve written `UKHSAdashR` to easily download this data into #R. Based on `ukcovid19` package released by PHE previously. github.com/silverfoxdoc/U… Callum P Mutch ID:IOTS podcasting / idiots-pod.bsky.social Azul Zorzoli NHS-R Community

Pulmonary infections according to types of immunosuppression

UK Secondary Care colleagues - the ACDP Viral Haemorrhagic Fever (Contact HCID) guidance has been updated and is now available online, including an updated VHF risk assessment algorithm: gov.uk/government/pub…