I was informed today by my surgical colleagues that their boards state that fidaxomicin is better than vancomycin for c diff. Is that a consensus in the ID community?

I think doggy palliative care services are better on average than human palliative care services.

So i had a consult about someone with a positive igg for strongy. Are any of the transplant id physicians out there ok with only single dose of ivermectin pre transplant? pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31558376/

Multiple-dose versus single-dose ivermectin for Strongyloides stercoralis infection (Strong Treat 1 to 4): a multicentre, open-label, phase 3, randomised controlled superiority trial - PubMed

There was no funding source for this study.

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For those not on the IDSA IDea exchange. I am in the process of trying to get a meeting together for those interested in ID Critical Care society/idsa community. Please dm me your email if you would like to be included/involved.

Remembering Dr. Thomas O'Brien -- expert in antimicrobial resistance, and all-around great guy. Plus, there's that interesting thing about his son ... 😄 #IDSky blogs.jwatch.org/hiv-id-obser...

Dr. Thomas O'Brien -- Expert in Antimicrobial Resistance and Giant in His Field (Literally)

Dr. Thomas (Tom) O’Brien was born in January 1929, in between the discovery of penicillin (September 1928) and the publication of the findings in a medical journal (May 1929). As noted by his longtime...

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I learned about this page today www.phagerounds.com which is a place to connect to live lectures on phage therapies. Highly recommended for the curious.

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Here’s Why I Decided To Buy ‘InfoWars’

Today we celebrate a new addition to the Global Tetrahedron LLC family of brands. And let me say, I really do see it as a family. Much like family members, our brands are abstract nodes of wealth, int...

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