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We are looking to recruit a locum consultant microbiologist. We are a friendly department active in research on the South coast. Please consider applying jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadv…
#NHSjobs #microbiology #infectiousdiseases #opat #clinicalmicrobiology #nhs
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🔥🔥Just published🔥🔥
Our NEW @Wiki_Guidelines @JAMANetworkOpen
A stellar cast of auth🌟rs @zacroBID @amenalor @BradSpellberg @DrToddLee @DrEmilyMcD
Guidelines for the Prevention Diagnosis,and Management of Urinary Tract Infections in Pediatrics& Adults
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam…
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Just published @NEJM
AIRFLO RCT🔥
Ziresovir ,a selective, orally administered RSV F protein inhibitor, treatment reduced signs and symptoms of bronchiolitis in infants and young children hospitalized with RSV infection #idxposts
nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NE…
Does anyone use patient reported outcome measures (PROMs) or regularly collect data to gauge how their ID service is performing? #IDtwitter #IDxtwitter
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Wow. It's published!
Our new article that will spark some good active discussion among ID people!
🆕️🔥 @CMIJournal by ID master @BradSpellberg & 🌟s @DrToddLee @DrEmilyMcD
Revisiting Diagnostics: ESR and CRP:It's Time to Stop the Zombie Tests
clinicalmicrobiologyandinfec…
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Major academic publishers' revenue and what they pay authors and reviewers:
Revenue:
Elsevier: $3.9 billion
Springer Nature: $2 billion
Taylor & Francis: $800M
Wiley: $1.8 billion
They pay:
Academic authors: $0
Peer reviewers: $0
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Louder, for the people in the back: Delirium with pyuria does not equal UTI!
Antibiotics for delirium in older adults with pyuria or bacteriuria: A systematic review - Stall - 2024 - Journal of the American Geriatrics Society - Wiley Online Library agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wi…
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🚨New study suggests healthcare workers should wear N95 masks when respiratory infections are high.
Wearing an N95 reduced viruses in exhaled breath by 98% vs ~70% for surgical masks.
Will CDC look at this data + WHO updates in its upcoming guidelines?
thelancet.com/journals/ebiom…
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🆕️⚡️⚡️Multicenter Randomized Controlled Trial
Effect of Metagenomic Next-Generation Sequencing on Clinical Outcomes of Patients with Severe Community-Acquired Pneumonia in ICU #idxposts
journal.chestnet.org/article…
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🆕️🔥Systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials #IJID
Doxycycline prophylaxis for the prevention of sexually transmitted infections
200 mg doxycycline after sex significantly reduced the risk of chlamydia and syphilis. #idxposts
ijidonline.com/article/S1201…
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Are you surprised?!
🆕️🔥Systematic review and meta-analysis
In the context of endemic or non-outbreak settings, discontinuation of isolation for VRE patients has not been associated with an increased rate of HA-VRE infections #idxposts
sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Yesterday, at the International AIDS Conference (#AIDS2024) in Munich, we got one of those thrilling moments you hope for when attending a scientific conference -- but don't usually get!
Here's what happened. @LindaGailBekker @drmoupali
blogs.jwatch.org/hiv-id-obse…
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Evidence suggests that, in adults, the abundance of certain microbes in the gut follows a #circadian rhythm.
The researchers found that the #microbiome maintains these day-night rhythms even when they're extracted from the body & grown in the lab.
livescience.com/health/the-g…