Fungal Awareness Week Day 3. Travel! We're often aware of the fungal infections that happen commonly in our area, but people travel! As physicians, travel histories can help us get to the right diagnosis. If you go into a cave on vacation and have a cough, I'm checking for you for histoplasmosis!
Andre Kalil, MD MPH
@drandrekalil.bsky.social
Practicing Doc, Transplant ID Director, ID/Critical Care, Clinical Researcher & Trialist. Professor, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha.
Come join me for this talk discussing PO antibiotic implementation for osteomyelitis, endocarditis, and Staph aureus bacteremia! The data is there, now its just a matter of implementation and adoption! #IDSky
Don't miss out! Catch up on more landmark trials in #InfectiousDiseases this time surrounding the advancing role of oral therapy💊 📆September 30th ⏰11am CST/12pm EST 🔗https://sidp.maplelms.com/login/index.php
IDWeek is pleased to announce that Andrew T. Pavia, MD, FIDSA, will present this year’s John F. Enders Distinguished Lecture in Medical Virology, “Measles: From Rinderpest to Eradication, and Back.” See @andrewpaviamd.bsky.social present at #IDWeek2026. Register: https://www.idweek.org/registration
In honor of #PeerReviewWeek we would like to thank our peer reviewers for their important and insightful contributions to CMI. We deeply value the time, effort and expertise that goes into writing each peer-review.
Antibiotic Timing in Immunocompromised Patients: Effective Therapy as One Piece of a Complex Equation ✅ Just Accepted 🔗 https://bit.ly/4xS56lw
New Scientific Statement from AHA on Endocarditis!! This is as close as it gets to a new IE guideline POET criteria for PO switch, no more gent for Staph PVE, monotherapy for Staph PVE after valve replacement, ceftriaxone monotherapy for Pen-I Strep, and more!! www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/...
Infective Endocarditis: Diagnosis, Antibiotic Therapy, and Management: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association | Circulation
Since the publication of the 2015 American Heart Association scientific statement on infective endocarditis, its incidence has increased, its epidemiology has changed, and novel diagnostic and treatme...
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This one just makes me smile Henning recites Danish poetry 🫶 We learn POET 1 started with a case series, n=12 (every piece of evidence matters!) The two guests are so humble, thoughtful and curious Have a bit of host-envy, @gurujosh.bsky.social & @dremilymcd.bsky.social!! #IDSky #MedSky
🎙️ Just published Communicable E62: the 'prose' and cons of the POET trial – early oral antibiotic switch for endocarditis Hosted by Emily McDonald & Josh Davis with invited guests Henning Bundgaard and Sami El-Dalati 🌟 Listen on #Communicable: https://share.transistor.fm/s/d5eb49ac #IDSky
Mycosis Study Group has released DrFungus app for phones as a reference companion for yeast and mold infections. iPhone apps.apple.com/us/app/dr-fu... Android play.google.com/store/apps/d... App designed by Dr Matt Pullen. @msgerc.bsky.social
Dr. Fungus
The Dr. Fungus app serves as a companion to the official Dr. Fungus website, the Mycoses Study Group Education and Research Consortium resource for fungal disease education. This app provides up-to-d...
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💥🆕“Hospital Strategies to Improve Sepsis Outcomes” IDSA/ACEP/ASM/PIDS/SCCM/SHEA/SHM/SIDP 👇Free bit.ly/3UnauhT @unmc-id.bsky.social @critcaremed.bsky.social @criticalcarereviews.com #IDSky #MedSky #PCCSky #ICUSky #EMIMCC #Ansky #EMSky #AMSSky #ClinMicro @cidjournal.bsky.social @cmicomms.bsky.social
IDSA/ACEP/ASM/PIDS/SCCM/SHEA/SHM/SIDP Multisociety Position Paper: Hospital Strategies to Improve Sepsis Outcomes
Abstract. Sepsis remains a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in US hospitals despite extensive efforts to improve early recognition and treatment, p
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Happy to share our new essay in @nature.com Nature Health @gidmk.bsky.social & I offer 7 suggestions to improve observational epidemiology and build trust rdcu.be/fCbVp
IDSA and seven other professional societies today released a position paper with evidence-informed recommendations to improve hospital sepsis outcomes. The recommendations cover diagnostics, antimicrobial management, infection prevention and more. Read: bit.ly/4xf7FxO
Meet the newest voices behind Let’s Talk ID! ID physicians @kcawcutt.bsky.social and @cortes-penfield.bsky.social join the podcast as co-hosts for episodes focused on research published in IDSA journals. (1/2)
Our new review is out! We examine the JAK/STAT pathway as a therapeutic target in chronic viral infections, including HIV, hepatitis viruses, SARS-CoV-2 & herpesviruses and the balance between reducing harmful inflammation while preserving antiviral immunity. www.frontiersin.org/journals/imm...
Frontiers | Targeting the JAK/STAT pathway in chronic viral infections: opportunities and challenges for immunomodulation
The discovery of the Janus kinase/signal transducer and activator of transcription (JAK/STAT) pathway as a key regulator of immune function and inflammation ...
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Happy to be part of this free online series introducing the use of statistics within clinical trials, conceived and developed by the superstars of ADVANCE-ID #IDSky #MedSky #EpiSky
Demystify clinical trial design & enhance your research toolkit!📊✨ Join our statistical seminars supported by @advance-id.bsky.social & @who.int Explore clinical trial theory & real-life examples with global experts. Master the numbers in the mission against disease here: ad-id.co/stats
Clinical metagenomics: a call to action CCR Journal Watch https://criticalcarereviews.com/latest-evidence/journal-watch
Time to Antibiotics and Mortality in Immunocompromised versus Non-Immunocompromised Patients with Suspected Sepsis 🔁 Repost 🔗 https://t.co/jPnbwGmsla
Thanks for sharing your important story on the candidemia uncertainty challenges.To reduce this uncertainty and improve our patients’ outcomes we developed a specific candidiasis prediction rule for our ICUs at the University of Nebraska Medical Center 👇Free Access link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Validation and comparison of clinical prediction rules for invasive candidiasis in intensive care unit patients: a matched case-control study - Critical Care
Introduction Due to the increasing prevalence and severity of invasive candidiasis, investigators have developed clinical prediction rules to identify patients who may benefit from antifungal prophyla...
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New #IDSAGuidelines out now! IDSA has released updated evidence-informed guidance on the management of antimicrobial-resistant infections: www.idsociety.org/practice-gui...
We're grateful for the wonderful feedback and thank you to everyone who made #ICHS2026 a success! "The event was outstanding, and each session was both engaging and insightful." For more information on ICHS Educational opportunities please visit ichs.wildapricot.org/upcoming-and...
Time to Antibiotics and Mortality in Immunocompromised versus Non-Immunocompromised Patients with Suspected Sepsis ✅ Just Accepted 🔗 https://bit.ly/4vO28g9
This review explores why MICs can vary between methods, highlights key sources of testing discordance, and discusses clinically important phenomena such as tolerance and heteroresistance that standard MIC testing may miss: www.clinicalmicrobiologyandinfection.org/article/S119...
Skipping to conclusions: Is one negative follow-up blood culture sufficient in Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia? ✅ Just Accepted ✍️ steventong.bsky.social 🔗 https://bit.ly/4gT9xXR
"One unsolved problem is the profound gap between a better understanding of the pathophysiological background of the [ #septicshock ] resuscitation process and the translation of this knowledge to contemporary research design and clinical practice." link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Twenty-five years of septic shock hemodynamic resuscitation trials: a conceptual perspective - Critical Care
Background Twenty-five years of septic shock resuscitation trials have progressively transformed the physiological understanding of shock and the way bedside interventions are conceptualized. Early st...
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Come join us at the 2026 Nebraska ID Conference! Have an amazing speaker panel, 3 different tracks (stewardship, long term care, and NIDS), and posters from trainees! www.eventbrite.com/e/2026-nebra...
New research article First nationwide full-genome characterisation of human-derived #AndesVirus in Chile: a retrospective genomic epidemiology study www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... #IDSky #ClinMicro #ViroSky #hantavirus #OpenAccess #OA
In a secondary analysis of the BALANCE randomized clinical trial, 7 days of antibiotics was not associated with increased mortality compared to 14 days among patients with uncomplicated bloodstream infection. ja.ma/4vTJNiz
📣 In the July 2026 issue: Association between early SARS-CoV-2 viral rebound and post-COVID conditions among immunocompromised patients: cohort study www.clinicalmicrobiologyandinfection.org/article/S119... #covid #IDSky #MicroSky
🎙️ Just published Communicable E58: Reducing hospital-acquired pneumonia – the HAPPEN trial and how it happened Hosted by Angela Huttner & Josh Davis w/ guests Prof Brett Mitchell, Aline Wolfensberger & Lauren Clack #IDSky #clinmicro Listen on #Communicable: https://share.transistor.fm/s/825e18f4