Irkutsk anti-plague institute death prompts quarantines and conflicting official accounts. Learn more about the individual case and prevention, transmission, and treatment of pneumonic #plague. #IDsky #Medsky
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@contagionlive.bsky.social🧫 Mycoplasma & Ureaplasma are not one resistance phenotype.
🇮🇹 5-year data:
Ureaplasma spp. → ciprofloxacin R 39.5%
M. hominis → azithromycin R 60.5%
Species identification matters.
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@guerreroespejo.bsky.social#Measles 2026, four continents:
👉Americas 52,480 confirmed cases (PAHO, Sep 7);
- US, within the Americas, 3,887 cases (Oct 1)
👉Bangladesh 20,124 confirmed and 172,720 suspected;
👉Africa 143,222 suspected and 1,392 deaths (Africa CDC);(1/2)
@castltrastondrs.medsky.network#Medsky🧪#iDsky #publichealth The core finding of these studies- Host factors, not #Mycobacteriumtuberculosis lineage, predict unfavorable outcomes in drug-susceptible #pulmonarytuberculosis:
@cmijournal.bsky.socialA systematic review and meta-analysis comparing shorter-course (2∼5 days) vs. longer-course (≥7 days) antibiotic therapy for children with acute uncomplicated UTIs: www.clinicalmicrobiologyandinfection.org/article/S119... #IDSky #clinmicro #MedSky
@cmicomms.bsky.social🎙️ Just published Communicable E64: Getting micro on macrolides for community-acquired pneumonia
Hosted by Marc Bonten & Emily McDonald with invited guests Valentijn Schweitzer & Sylvain Lother 🌟
Listen on #Communicable: https://share.transistor.fm/s/deec5589
@contagionlive.bsky.socialDr. Zachary Nelson reviews #UTI guideline updates from medical societies, which highlight evolving recommendations, including a major shift in classification. @zacrobid.bsky.social #IDsky #Medsky
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@aliciaault.bsky.socialVaccines.gov website is still non-functional as of today.
@aliciaault.bsky.socialFifth Pennsylvania person to die from measles: A 20 YO unvaccinated woman receiving leukemia treatment got measles, ultimately developed double pneumonia and died after the family decided to discontinue use of a ventilator.
@guerreroespejo.bsky.socialEurope, carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae:
➡️NDM (New Delhi metallo-β-lactamase) carriers rose from 20% (2019) to 50% (2025) of isolates;
➡️KPC (Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase) fell from 50% to 25%.
Preliminary ECDC data, 21 countries.
(1/2)
🔎 Any idea what this strange blue object was used for?
The “Blue Henry” (Blauer Heinrich) was a portable sputum flask used by tuberculosis patients.
It even appears in Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain, set in a tuberculosis sanatorium.
🎨 Artwork by Anna Dumitriu.
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@josephmarcusid.medsky.socialA #IDSky question on Journal Club.
The vast majority of articles we discuss are RCTs, while trainees (due to time constraints of training) participate generally in observational research.
How to you practice with trainees critically appraising this type of research to improve their own projects?
@shorten2trial.bsky.socialThe OPTIMISE trial aimed to test 7 vs 14 days for treating MDR infections in ICU patients.
Although underpowered due to early stop, no signal of inefficacy was observed for short treatments
Pseudomonas were underrepresented in this trial 🙁
@springermedicine.com#MedCase - How do you recognize varicella zoster virus encephalitis when early clinical, CSF, and neuroimaging findings are nonspecific?
In two cases, metagenomic next-generation sequencing proved key to diagnosis.
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