Stav is our amazing HIV clinic pharmacist and does so much for our patients 🥰🥰🥰 #IDPharmacistsDay #PharmacistsLeadingChange

Advanced Pharmacy Australia (AdPha)@adphaau.bsky.social · last yr.

🙌 Today we're celebrating #InfectiousDiseases Pharmacists Day – recognising the vital role ID pharmacists play in safeguarding public health through antimicrobial stewardship, infection prevention and expert patient care. 📽️ Featured is Stav Mantas FANZCAP (InfDis). speaking about her journey.

To kick off a new series ID/AMS Reading Lists series, SIDP is here to help you "Hit 'Em with Your Best Nudge"! Check out this noticeable (and unnoticed) nudge comments in AMS! #IDSky #rxsky #pharmsky #AMSsky #medsky #SIDP #EvidenceBasedMedicine #IDPharmacy #Microbiology #Nudge #NudgeComments

Greatly appreciate the ECIL 10’s emphasis of #antimicrobialstewardship in FN of hemato-oncology patients by Prof Mikulska and others Collab w/ hematologists and pharmacy Know when to use new abx and time ⏳is of the essence. #ESCMIDGlobal 🙏

@elisemitri.bsky.social highlights the evidence and what’s next in antimicrobial allergies - lots happening in this space #antimicrobials2025 #AMSsky

Great speakers @michyong.bsky.social @cindyclau.bsky.social in the @ausantibiotics.bsky.social #antimicrobials2025 pharmacy symposium where Q&A sessions are turning into patient consults sessions 😉

Consider linezolid dose reduction in the following - elderly, renal impairment, hepatic dysfunction, concomitant clarithromycin @cindyclau.bsky.social #antimicrobials2025

“In wine there is truth, in beer there is strength, in water there is bacteria” 💯

Australian Society for Antimicrobials@ausantibiotics.bsky.social · 2y ago

Plenary 3 -Prof Rachel Thomson #NTM infection risk influenced by various #environmental factors, house dust, rainfall, temperature, aerosolisation from water to the air etc … so pretty much everywhere 😅 #antimicrobials2025 #IDsky #AMSSky

NTM found in house dust 😱 Rachel Thompson on NTM epidemiology #antimicrobials2025 #ASA

What’s on the horizon for COVID for immunocompromised patients? Monoclonals, interferon nasal spray, T-cell therapy @michyong.bsky.social #antimicrobials2025 #ASA

Controversy - free range vs antibiotic free chickens? Which would you prefer?! 🫣🫣🫣#antimicrobials2025

Even more evidence that we should put our efforts on unrestricted antibiotics - high volume of use with low rates of appropriateness! @cazchen.bsky.social compares 2023 #NAPS and #NAUSP data #antimicrobials2025 #ASA

Another amazing whirlwind talk from @erinmccreary.bsky.social on the new antifungals featuring Nora 🐶 #antimicrobials2025 #ASA

This is another reason why topical antimicrobials should be #AMS targets 😳😳😳 @thefunguskidd.bsky.social presents on T.indotineae resistance

Another name change for Candida auris - “Candidozyma” belonging to the family “Metschnikowia” 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫 #antimicrobials2025 #ASA

Low MIC for zidebactam so cefepime-zidebactam is like giving two active agents rather than just adding an enzyme inhibitor #antimicrobials2025 #ASA

Privilege to be presenting in the same session with these superstar pharmacists 🤩🤩🤩 #antimicrobials2025

Australian Society for Antimicrobials@ausantibiotics.bsky.social · 2y ago

Proferred Papers #3 Showcasing #AMS pharmacist research- antimicrobial consumption& quality data #NAPS #NAUSP, #IVOS to save nursing time, novel work behind the scenes of #AMU #AMS reports @sonkoning.bsky.social @nikhil-singh.bsky.social @ncas.bsky.social @ncicancer.bsky.social #antimicrobials2025

IVOS not only has great benefits for our patients but saves nursing time 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻 Great presentation from @nikhil-singh.bsky.social #antimicrobials2025 @ausantibiotics.bsky.social

Sadly I feel like this is many of our AMS rounds 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️ #AMSsky

Claudia P. Cortes@cla-cor.bsky.social · 2y ago

A classic from the other (dark) side of the moon

Long term suppression antibiotics often done - but is there sufficient evidence to support this?? @jillianlau.bsky.social nice to see SOLLA being highlighted for #WAAW2024 #AMSsky

Entertaining and informative session from @trubianojason.bsky.social on disseminating research #WAAW #AMSsky

🔥BALANCE RCT🔥 74 hospitals in 7 countries 3,608 patients A 7-day course of antibiotics for hospitalized patients with bloodstream infections was non inferior to 14d within a 4% prespecified margin for mortality at 90 days #idsky www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Antibiotic Treatment for 7 versus 14 Days in Patients with Bloodstream Infections | NEJM

Bloodstream infections are associated with substantial morbidity and mortality. Early, appropriate antibiotic therapy is important, but the duration of treatment is uncertain. In a multicenter, non...

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This is hands down still my fav #WAAW activity!! @brxad.bsky.social is a genius!!

Bradley Langford@brxad.bsky.social · 2y ago

It's World AMR Awareness Week! As a #WAAW tradition, join the 300,000+ others who completed the "Which Antibiotic Are You" personality quiz. It's a fun way to engage colleagues and the general public about #AMR. Try it here ➡️ quiz.tryinteract.com?fbclid=IwZXh... #WAAW2024 #IDSky

To kick off World #AMR Awareness Week this year why don't you try out our little Emoji Quiz! 🤔 👉🏼 www.superbugs.online/emojis 🐅🚴🏼‍♂️ #WAAW #WAAW2024

The Emoji Quiz — Superbugs - The microbial world in, on and around us

What kind of antibiotics are there? What do they do? Which infections can be treated with them? Who discovered them? Are there bacteria resistant to them? And why do they have to have such complicated...

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Lessons from practice for immunocompromised hosts by Dr Ai Li Yeo and A/Prof Claire Dendle #ForbesWeek #IDSky 1. There can be more than two pathologies in immunocompromised patients

The ABCs after organ transplantation! Great oration from @kottonnelson.bsky.social #ForbesWeek #IDSky #TIDSky

Interesting! SubQ meropenem. “Subcutaneous meropenem appears to be well tolerated and has a favourable pharmacokinetic profile. Either 1.5 g twice daily or 3 g as a 24 h subcutaneous infusion could be considered for future evaluation.” academic.oup.com/jac/advance-...

Safety, tolerability and pharmacokinetics of subcutaneous meropenem as an alternative to intravenous administration

AbstractBackground. Subcutaneous delivery of antibiotics is a practical alternative to IV administration. Meropenem is commonly used to treat infections ca

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