🚨 Hospitals with higher use of an MDRO alert tool placed patients into contact precautions faster (median 2.1 vs 6.3 hours).
Why it matters: Faster identification may strengthen infection prevention efforts.

🚨 Hospitals with higher use of an MDRO alert tool placed patients into contact precautions faster (median 2.1 vs 6.3 hours).
Why it matters: Faster identification may strengthen infection prevention efforts.
📢 Mobile simulation training showed strong learner impact, with 99% of respondents planning to apply what they learned.
Why it matters: Expands access to practical infection prevention education. 🚚🦠
📹 Click below to watch our interview from #2026USCHA featuring Dr Sandra Ann Springer from @yaleschoolofmed.bsky.social.
Dr Springer discusses an mobile retail pharmacy model designed for vulnerable patient groups, including patients with #HIV and #SubstanceUseDisorder. #IDSky
📹 Click below to watch our interview from #2026USCHA featuring Dr Marissa Robinson of Milken Institute School of Public Health and Real Health Impact LLC.
Dr Robinson outlines strategies for clinicians to improve equitable #HIV care and #HIVPrEP delivery. #IDSky #PublicHealthSky
We're at #NACMID2026 in Nashua!
Stop by and connect with the Q-linea team to learn more about ASTar and how rapid antimicrobial susceptibility testing can support timely treatment decisions and patient care.
We look forward to the conversations ahead!
… at the U.S. Army’s secret biological weapons laboratories at Camp Detrick.
Wedum understood something fundamental: You can’t prevent laboratory accidents unless you look for them, investigate them, and learn from them…
🆕 In Leprosy Review Volume 97/3:
Cutaneous eruptions of acute leukemia mimicking leprosy: an interesting case report by G. Ridhi, Lakshmi Rajan, Ilse Horo Paul
A mini-module on wastewater surveillance organised by the EPIET Alumni network will take place on 17 November in Stockholm, just ahead of #ESCAIDE2026!
Registration is open until 23 October – limited spots available: first come, first served!
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It’s our monthly educational activities with all our clinic pharmacists; thru updates/knowledge try to empower them about ID-related interventions in their floors. Hence the name:
Pharmacists Infectious Diseses and Stewardship Collaborative Empowerment Sessions
(rolls of the tongue right?!😅) #IDSKy
More diagnostic tests don't always = better or reduced antibiotic prescribing. Well, not CRP in primary care anyway!
#IDSky #ClinMicro @jac-amr.bsky.social
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Last week in epidemiology - check our regular report on active public health threats - the CDTR and find out what ECDC was focusing its epidemiological surveillance activities on!
Full report for 12-18 September here: bit.ly/4cT7OPz
#IDsky #EpiSky #Epidemiology #PublicHealth
Conference on #LiverDisease in #Africa ( #COLDA) meeting in #AddisAbaba, #Ethiopia. Inspiring enthusiasm from researchers & clinicians to drive advances for #elimination of viral #hepatitis and liver disease in Africa. @sdgactioncampaign.org @whowpro.bsky.social @crick.ac.uk #AfricaCDC #HBV #IDSky 🧪
[Publication] The article "School-based HPV vaccination campaign in a French region during the 2024–2025 school year: Incentives deployed and analysis of parental consent return" is now available.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#IDsky #PapillomavirusVaccines #Schools; #VaccinationCampaign
[Publication] The article "Phage therapy: a national momentum gathering pace" is now available.
🎙️ Just published 'Does oseltamivir harm critically ill patients? The REMAP-CAP results'
Hosted by Erin McCreary, PharmD & Josh Davis with invited guests Steve Webb & Steven Tong 🌟
Listen on #Communicable https://ow.ly/pJAO50ZOfK8 or on #Breakpoints https://ow.ly/p8Ti50ZOfK9
For those attending #IDWeek2026, you are invited to an #IDSky Social Media Meet-Up
⏰ Oct 22 8 PM-10:30 PM
Place: Marriott Marquis Lobby Bar
From our latest issue: Ebola and the Ongoing Tale of US Failures
Check out the piece from @saskiapopescu.bsky.social and a discussion around policies that are failing people. #IDsky #Medsky
Read more: www.contagionlive.com/view/ebola-a...