for August 2019
The @WHO has confirmed the UK has lost its ‘measles free’ status. Measles is one of the most infectious diseases known to man and lots of work is underway to combat the rise in cases. Our blog explains the current situation: https://t.co/99jBUnfJiz #ValueofVaccines @DHSCgovuk pic.twitter.com/7P1MANrle7
— Public Health England (@PHE_uk) August 19, 2019
Hi-time for a rant. Believe it or not, IRL I am not a blue owl, I'm actually a scientist and an expert in infectious diseases. #Influenza #trumpwillkillusall #ETTD https://t.co/8BSLCEVesf
— Archimedes-CLOSE THE CAMPS🦉Ω (@Archimedes2020) August 24, 2019
NEW 🔥 in OFID by @@StanDeresinski @LinaMengPharmD @Marisa_Holubar @StanfordASP
— Antibiotic Steward (@ABsteward) August 14, 2019
Oral Fluoroquinolone or Trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole vs. ß-lactams as Step-Down Therapy for Enterobacteriaceae Bacteremia: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. #IDTwitter https://t.co/0373siyyWY pic.twitter.com/adq9vNq6iM
New on CMI>
— Clinical Microbiology and Infection (@CMIJournal) August 27, 2019
Step by step guidance on how to start an antimicrobial stewardship programme in hospital.
Based on feedback from our readers, this article is now fully open-access.#IDTwitter
Link to the full paper:https://t.co/RJ7cwz65B0 pic.twitter.com/Kpng2tqBoW
NEW 🔥🔥 Narrative review in @CMIJournal @SouthAfricanASP@ASPphysician
— Antibiotic Steward (@ABsteward) August 22, 2019
How to start an antimicrobial stewardship programme in a hospital.#IDTwitter please share#antibioticstewardship
⛔ Behind a paywall https://t.co/PeUMA9Vux2 pic.twitter.com/E8OJjJMNvY
JUST RELEASED 🔥🔥🔥
— Antibiotic Steward (@ABsteward) August 2, 2019
ICYMI:Top 🆔/Stewardship Journal Articles Just Released In July 2019https://t.co/HujtgTAptT 📲
A monthly post by @IDstewardship & @ABsteward #IDTwitter #IDMedEd #IDDailyPearl #medtwitter #MedEd #FOAMed
If you find this helpful Please RT/❤️share w others pic.twitter.com/JsKWOk0eaj
The multi-outbreak, multi-country study was run by #DRC’s National Institute for Biomedical Research, @MinSanteRDC, the 🇺🇸 National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, @ALIMA_ORG, @MSF, @IMC_Worldwide & other organizations https://t.co/Jcq97oP55t pic.twitter.com/8VFDcmXrbn
— World Health Organization (WHO) (@WHO) August 12, 2019
Just Published🔥🔥 in CID
— Antibiotic Steward (@ABsteward) August 10, 2019
RESTORE-IMI 1: A Multicenter, Randomized, Double-blind Trial Comparing Efficacy and Safety of Imipenem/Relebactam vs Colistin Plus Imipenem in Patients With Imipenem-nonsusceptible Bacterial Infections. #IDTwitter #RECARBRIO https://t.co/svtffHEhYI pic.twitter.com/jmNrOwocv2
Hello #IDtwitter friends. Excited to announce that in October I'll be joining the @StanfordASP team. We'll be doing all kinds of cool ID and #antimicrobialstewardship stuff, stay tuned! 👍https://t.co/WvjCece6HS
— David Ha (@DHpharmd) August 27, 2019
New online> Contact precautions in single-bed or multiple-bed rooms for patients with extended-spectrum β-lactamase-producing Enterobacteriaceae in Dutch hospitals: a cluster-randomised, crossover, non-inferiority study #AMR https://t.co/b9DOdQbe6t
— The Lancet Infectious Diseases (@TheLancetInfDis) August 24, 2019
NEW 🔥🔥in CID @canuckIDpharm @JayCdoesID @Sara_Alosaimy
— Antibiotic Steward (@ABsteward) August 12, 2019
@IDPharmProf @IDpharmresearch
Daptomycin + beta-lactam combination therapy for MRSA bloodstream infections: a retrospective, comparative cohort study. #IDTwitter https://t.co/RS0aZF8AP0 pic.twitter.com/fhMGf98atO
Outbreaks of once life-threatening infectious diseases have been greatly reduced by vaccines. However, these illnesses can still be spread to people who are not protected by vaccines. https://t.co/oa7FoSyYga pic.twitter.com/mh9NVVk5fl
— AHIP (@AHIPCoverage) August 9, 2019
NEW🌟🌟🌟Masterpiece Review Article #JACnews @KevinJDownes @JFitzMD @IDPharmacometrx @jjliupharmd @hayes_m31 @GwendolynPais
— Antibiotic Steward (@ABsteward) August 2, 2019
Mechanisms of antimicrobial-induced nephrotoxicity ➕paediatric patients. #IDTwitter
A must read for All #medtwitter https://t.co/NSQezh3Qcz pic.twitter.com/bNbNExetyI
NEW 🔥 in #IJAA
— Antibiotic Steward (@ABsteward) August 6, 2019
✨A single, 3g dose of fosfomycin is inappropriate for UTIs caused by K. pneumoniae regardless of the MIC & the fosfomycin dose
✨Findings that further support the likelihood of intrinsic resistance of K.P against fosfomycin #IDTwitter https://t.co/gu5m36GyQv pic.twitter.com/JhbKmjLzF9
NEW 🔥
— Antibiotic Steward (@ABsteward) August 29, 2019
Encephalopathy w beta-lactam therapy is well described especially in cefepime particularly with impaired renal function.
May be the 1st study in CID to report Ceftaroline-associated encephalopathy in patients with severe renal impairment.#IDTwitter https://t.co/F3Y9J3xhGI pic.twitter.com/qf4gnsSAyH
I so deeply appreciate this piece by @Imani_Barbarin. As a writer & activist on HIV/other infectious diseases, people do need medicine for some conditions and that doesn't make them, or those of us who fight for access, some kind of pharma sellouts. https://t.co/sxIm2YSIX8
— Kenyon Farrow (@kenyonfarrow) August 1, 2019
NEW 🔥🔥🔥#JACAMR
— Antibiotic Steward (@ABsteward) August 26, 2019
Updated good practice recommendations for outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT) in adults and children in the UK. @BSACandJAC @raseaton66 @MGilchrist123 @doctorsanjay#opat @eopat @AntibioticLeeds https://t.co/IPSD66XlzY pic.twitter.com/YnacwUUEzS
I’m using social media to disseminate an infection control research manuscript about how social media can be used to disseminate infection control research. Mind blown. https://t.co/PqOVveMQrD
— Larry Kociolek (@Larry_Kociolek) August 27, 2019
‘Mosaic’ HIV vaccine to be tested in thousands of people across the world https://t.co/mm0RilzChI. Excited that the Emory-CDC HIV CTU has been selected to conduct this study at the Hope & Ponce CRS @HelpEndHIV @JanssenUS @EmoryCFAR
— Carlos del Rio (@CarlosdelRio7) August 1, 2019
A researcher who models the spread of infectious diseases wanted to know if cases of mass violence spread contagiously — like a disease outbreak.
— NPR (@NPR) August 7, 2019
The findings?
Each school shooting and other shooting with 4 or more deaths tends to spark more shootings.https://t.co/pbnCRsPEra
Think of how many infectious complications we have all seen of gunshot wounds -- skin and soft tissue infections, intra-abdominal, thoracic, and brain abscesses, osteo, spinal cord injuries, complicated UTIs, pressure ulcers... When will this stop? https://t.co/UvjFd9gaQM
— Paul Sax (@PaulSaxMD) August 5, 2019
NEW 🔥 in CID @serotavirus @jabarocas @SandySpringerMD
— Antibiotic Steward (@ABsteward) August 17, 2019
Infectious complications of addiction: A call for a new subspecialty within infectious diseases. #IDTwitter https://t.co/DozLsU45MM pic.twitter.com/2XGp6NCkxI
New in @ICHEJournal, @KellyCawcuttMD et al: "Using social media to disseminate research in infection prevention, hospital epidemiology, and antimicrobial stewardship"
— Alexander Sundermann (@SundermannAJ) August 27, 2019
Great review on #SciComm specifically for #InfectionPrevention & #stewardship! https://t.co/jnknPSe9zX pic.twitter.com/8aehbaHqPt
A recent CID study reveals that treatment by ceftazidime, carbapenems & piperacillin-tazobacta present no significant difference in the outcomes of patients infected with P. aeruginosa bacteremia. https://t.co/Inixmsd5Bm #IDSAJournals #ClinInfectDis
— IDSA (@IDSAInfo) August 1, 2019
England adopts @WHO AWaRe framework of antibiotic classification, and meets WHO target of greater than 60% of antibiotics prescribed belonging to the "Access" Category. Great progress on antimicrobial stewardship!💊#DrugResistance #AMRhttps://t.co/aOTeZITB5g
— Marc Sprenger 4PH (@Marcsprenger4PH) August 2, 2019
🤦🏻♀️ CDC to Army Lab: 'Cease and Desist' Studying Deadly Germs;
— Tammy Bruce (@HeyTammyBruce) August 7, 2019
Maryland's Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases temporarily shuttered over safety concerns https://t.co/dbBqZnoxIR
NEW🔥 in OFID @kavitaktrivedi @Kuperrx
— Antibiotic Steward (@ABsteward) August 10, 2019
Impact of PCT Levels Combined with Active Intervention on Antimicrobial Stewardship in a Community Hospital.
PCT-guided ASP recommendations, when accepted by providers, led to
⬇️ in antimicrobial LOT. #IDTwitter https://t.co/yhxj03irb9 pic.twitter.com/HEFxTCzRRW
NEW 🔥🔥Meta-Analysis in #IJAA
— Antibiotic Steward (@ABsteward) August 31, 2019
found no difference in the mortality rate and microbiological cure in patients treated with CAZ/AVI in monotherapy or in combination therapy for infections due to CRE or CRPA. #IDTwitter https://t.co/A3mmaeMiqZ pic.twitter.com/dMayFcFAdB
Core Antimicrobial Stewardship Interventions in Community Hospitals https://t.co/ipqIFRkhnC so happy to have this article published in @JAMANetworkOpen and proud of my collaborators in @DCASIP_duke @DASON_duke
— Dev Anderson (@Deverick_A) August 17, 2019
New study in ICHE describes outcomes associated with EMR-drive ICU stewardship program based on the "FIVE Moments of Antimicrobial Prescribing" #IDTwitter #MedED @SHEA_Epi
— SIDP (@SIDPharm) August 16, 2019
See full article here: https://t.co/DIg9CYgn7w pic.twitter.com/yIWzkkTm67
It really doesn't help when we exaggerate. Abx resistance isn't going to "wipe out humanity." Humanity existed for 400,000 years prior to available abx. Get a grip.
— Brad Spellberg (@BradSpellberg) August 31, 2019
Antibiotic resistance 'could wipe out humanity before climate change does' https://t.co/GQdw34Ipbm
"Evaluation and Management of Penicillin Allergy: A Review," featuring Theresa Rowe, MD and colleagues.https://t.co/UnBdWSk2Go #antimicrobialstewardship @JAMA_current
— NM Geriatrics (@NMGeriatrics) August 13, 2019
Dolutegravir is recommended as 1st-line therapy for HIV-1 infection & is characterized w a high genetic barrier to the emergence of resistance.
— Antibiotic Steward (@ABsteward) August 30, 2019
NEW🔥 @NEJM
Failure of Dolutegravir First-Line ART with Selection of Virus Carrying R263K and G118R. #IDTwitterhttps://t.co/x99ltWoiUA
NEW 🔥in OFID @FarnazFoolad
— Antibiotic Steward (@ABsteward) August 23, 2019
Impact of Penicillin Skin Testing on Aztreonam Stewardship and Cost Savings in Immunocompromised Cancer Patients.#IDTwitter https://t.co/5Xrv0MIfL8 pic.twitter.com/vaFnZMr1Lr
This is cool. Beta-lactams (particularly nafcillin/oxacillin and cefazolin) are better than vancomycin for MSSA bacteremia. This paper demonstrates differences in key cytokine signaling pathways while on these different antibiotics. https://t.co/iY3KAsJ1JF
— Michael Calderwood (@CalderwoodMD) August 3, 2019
A NEW 🔥large study in CID
— Antibiotic Steward (@ABsteward) August 30, 2019
Pyuria predicts the probability of antibiotic prescribing
As the degree of pyuria ⬆️, the odds of receiving antimicrobials also ⬆️ linearly. #IDTwitter https://t.co/EqPQL09eN0 pic.twitter.com/jHqc6Bqd5V
‘Candida auris: The new superbug on the block’ Slightly alarmist title aside, this is a sober, factual, and helpful article. Thanks @BBCNews https://t.co/71d7jsZg7j
— Jon Otter (@jonotter) August 17, 2019
The doctors compared the camps to "torture facilities".
— Janice Dominic 🌊🌊🌊❄❄ (@oldtiredfeminis) August 3, 2019
The wretched conditions of border camps " ...amplifying the spread of influenza and other infectious diseases..."
Sitting in their own feces. Fed uncooked frozen food.#Immigration #KidsInCages https://t.co/dxWG5mOTyu
NEW 🔥🔥 Review Article in @PharmacoJournal @cynth_ID
— Antibiotic Steward (@ABsteward) August 12, 2019
Treatment of Helicobacter pylori in Special Patient Populations. #IDTwitter https://t.co/hyvKjRCkwH pic.twitter.com/o3rGVdBcqM
Looking forward to speaking at next weeks #Sepsis summitDublin Castle -#sepsis & #antimicrobialstewardship @EM_Krockow & I had a few thoughts on this .... @vidamthamilton @SimonHarrisTD @paulreiddublin @npsoIRL https://t.co/TrBJsBq7aI
— Fidelma Fitzpatrick (@FfitzP) August 26, 2019
🚨 New antibiotic FDA-approved!!!
— Bug Pharmacist 💊🦠 Tim Gauthier (@IDstewardship) August 20, 2019
Here are my 📝 cliff notes on #lefamulin #Xenleta
➡️ https://t.co/uy7hYwN5EV
Anything you would add? 💬 Let me know!! pic.twitter.com/puHynr0XYO
In response to the #Ebola outbreak in the DRC being declared a public health emergency, #IDSAJournals have curated a special collection of articles about the virus. All articles will be freely available through Oct. 31. https://t.co/R1A5CjtDiI @WHO pic.twitter.com/YlwC48GfFU
— IDSA (@IDSAInfo) August 22, 2019
New from @SouthAfricanASP, @ASPphysician, @NCAS_Aus, & Prof. Pulcini @CMIJournal! 'How to start an antimicrobial stewardship programme in a hospital' - implementation- and practice-focused guide - https://t.co/45UtSWtuJB pic.twitter.com/K1m24Tny36
— NCAS_Australia (@NCAS_Aus) August 22, 2019
Q: Does antibiotic stewardship help individual patients?
— Save Antibiotics (@saveantibiotics) August 24, 2019
A: Yes. Inappropriate and unnecessary antibiotic use not only drives #antibioticresistance, it also jeopardizes patient safety. https://t.co/AjAucVSwB4
Very happy to announce this special issue of #BIOETHICS on #ethics of #AntibioticResistance, edited by our @CARe_GU team. Contributions by @juliansavulescu, @EM_Krockow, @anetrid, @JasperLittmann, @_euzebiusz_, @shoffmania, et al.
— Christian Munthe (@christianmunthe) August 19, 2019
MORE HERE: https://t.co/mVq8b7j7rZ#AMR #ABR pic.twitter.com/6x8NKiSA0T
Ibuprofen and other common drugs may help #AntibioticResistance spread.
— Microbes&Infection (@MicrobesInfect) August 11, 2019
Researchers found that five commonly-used non-antibiotic drugs appear to encourage gene swapping between bacteria.https://t.co/i9KFGkHCb3 pic.twitter.com/oLeNbmiDiO
NEW 🔥🔥@TheLancetInfDis
— Antibiotic Steward (@ABsteward) August 24, 2019
Non-inferiority versus superiority trial design for new antibiotics in an era of high antimicrobial resistance: the case for post-marketing, adaptive randomised controlled trials. #IDTwitter cc @syctong @mfkuepp @padstamundo https://t.co/76Pp326AZZ pic.twitter.com/wdOPFNs0Bq
Delighted that our article on international antimicrobial stewardship competencies has now been published https://t.co/Nv30i7QUC5 Big thanks to the great team who worked on it!
— Molly Courtenay (@ProfMCourtenay) August 16, 2019
Microbial collections are resources for the present + future generations of scientists. One fungal strain was used as an insecticide 15 years after deposited in a collection! Learn more about microbial collections in our latest Microbial Sciences article: https://t.co/GV4HIMbL5I
— ASM (@ASMicrobiology) August 17, 2019
Sensitive and Specific Detection of Antibodies against MERS Coronavirus, our latest study is now online. Emerging Infectious Diseases journal - CDC https://t.co/36ZWahJ5g2
— Bart Haagmans 🦠🐪 (@bart_haagmans) August 19, 2019
via @CDCgov
Exciting opportunity for student teams to collaborate in developing innovations to improve #AntimicrobialStewardship in low- and middle-income countries. Applications due to @Innovate4AMR Sep. 16th, 2019!
— MSH (@MSHHealthImpact) August 9, 2019
Learn more at https://t.co/ZLRdwDS86M #AMR #globalhealth #HealthSystems pic.twitter.com/Xn4wK0eQpO
Created by Cameron Forbes. Last updated November 10, 2019 at 15:41 EST.