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Empiric antibiotic therapy in suspected sepsis: Impact of gentamicin-based regimens on incident renal failure and mortality
✅ Just Accepted
🔗 bit.ly/3SCJGpH
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This is interesting data about the range of respiratory viruses found in patients presenting at Oz pediatric hospital pre-covid. About a quarter +ve >1 virus. Positivity changes throughout the year.
#PLOSONE: Respiratory virus detections in children presenting to an Australian paediatric referral hospital 2014-19. A comprehensive analysis of seasonality and virus co-detections.
@syd_health @Sydney_ID @SCHNkids @kids_research dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.…
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Nearly two-thirds of antibiotics were introduced during the “golden age of antibiotics”—
The “golden age of antibiotics” lasted from the early 1940s to the late 1960s. It was a period of rapid innovation that transformed medicine. As highlighted in this chart, nearly two-thirds of all antibiotic drug classes were introduced during this period.
Scientists explored natural sources — such as fungi and bacteria — and synthetic sources.
This led to breakthroughs in antibiotics derived from soil-dwelling bacteria, such as streptomycin, tetracyclines, and macrolides, and the mass production of penicillin, which Alexander Fleming discovered in 1928.
However, progress slowed after the 1970s as pharmaceutical companies shifted their focus to chronic diseases. Today, there is a renewed need for innovation to tackle antibiotic resistance.
(This Daily Data Insight was written by @salonium.)
ALT A timeline titled "The Golden Age of Antibiotics" shows when each antibiotic drug class was first available for medical use, with example antibiotics labeled. Classes are color-coded by their source: actinomycetes, other bacteria, fungi, or synthetic. Milestones include the first antibiotics (arsphenamines in 1910), as well as the discovery of many actinomycetes-derived antibiotics, such as streptomycin, and sulfonamides, penicillins, and tetracyclines. Data: Hutchings, Truman, Wilkinson (2019). Created by Saloni Dattani for Our World in Data.
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A great study to finish the year!
Hospital antibiotic stewardship programs with designated funding & resources use less fluoroquinolones, anti-pseudomonal agents, and clindamycin
🆕 in @ASHE_Journal
📰doi.org/10.1017/ash.2024.461
#antimicrobialstewardship
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A night of celebrating women’s achievements ended with men’s violence. Who’s surprised? womensagenda.com.au/latest/a…
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It is distortion of the findings to conclude that the use of filters resulted in a 22% reduction in infections. It was not a statistically significant reduction.
The study of over 6,000 older people showed NO statistically benefit from using these filters. journalofhospitalinfection.c…
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A biomedical first: spatial biology used to find a lifesaving treatment!
Just published @Nature
Deep visual proteomics with #AI leads to effective JAKI treatment for 7 patients with toxic epidermal necrolysis
nature.com/articles/s41586-0… @labs_mann @NordmannThierry
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What a brilliant ep, come to hear @Josh_S_Davis attempt an English accent, stay for Free Willy theory and dosing ceftazidime in whales! Excellent clinical discussion from @EllaMeumann and Prof Currie!
A little teaser for our #Communicable episode 7 on #melioidosis dropping Monday! In the mean time, you can catch up on all of our Communicable episodes ow.ly/2BBr50SUo56!
@Josh_S_Davis @EllaMeumann @ESCMID #CMIComms #OpenAccess #infectiousdisease #clinicalmicrobiology
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Trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole for Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia prophylaxis in patients on hemodialysis: a future tool for the "Swiss Army knife" of antibiotics?
✅ Just Accepted
🔗 bit.ly/3YKT8eQ
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VP: I was a courtroom prosecutor. In those roles I took on perpetrators of all kinds. Predators who abused women. Fraudsters who ripped off consumers. Cheaters who broke the rules for their own gain. So hear me when I say I know Donald Trump's type.
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There has never been a debate with less fact checking from the moderators than this one. Just a complete abdication of responsibility.
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The biggest loser of this debate? @CNN. How do you allow lies to be told and not correct them for everyone watching?
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Have you ever been confused by prostatitis?
When to suspect it? How to diagnose it? How to treat it? Is it acute or chronic?
Read on for more information!
@sargsyanz @EvaAmenta @RizwanSohailMD @MelanieGoebelMD
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Enterococci may not be the main characters in polymicrobial infections, but they can facilitate the pathogenesis of other organisms by different mechanisms
doi.org/10.1016/j.tim.2023.0…
