“If I’m gonna keep using, he’s not gonna waste his time.”

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Qualitative analysis of barriers and facilitators to healthcare engagement for people with injecting-related invasive infections using a social ecological framework - Attwood - Addiction - onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

“Penicillin susceptibility is real”

Steve Tong presenting the SNAP PSSA silo backbone domain results at ESCMID Global.

@steventong.bsky.social #SNAP

Fungal Infections in People Who Use Drugs

✅ Just Accepted
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@andrewstewardson.bsky.social and I are diving into the best IPC papers of the past year for #ESCMID Global 2025—and we want your top picks! 🦠📜
What’s the one paper that made you rethink infection prevention and control? Drop your faves and let’s build the ultimate IPC reading list! ⬇️"

Infection prevention colleagues:

@kalisvar.bsky.social and I are presenting the ‘year in infection control’ at #ESCMIDGlobal next month. We’d love to hear this community’s picks.

What were the most innovative papers in this field in the last year? What papers changed your practice?

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Our estimate of the cost of admissions with injection-related infections.

Haven't posted about SNAP for a while:

But we've just hit 4000 participants. Almost at 3 years since opening.

And submitting two late breaker oral abstracts to ESCMID Global. @escmid.bsky.social

Amazing progress and more to come.

@gurujosh.bsky.social @drtoddlee.bsky.social

This was a great episode

Congratulations to @simonjoosten.bsky.social for leading this first output from a terrific multidisciplinary team looking at upper room germicidal UV:

‘Ultraviolet radiation vs air filtration to mitigate virus laden aerosol in an occupied clinical room’

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doi.org/10.1016/j.jh...

@acipc.bsky.social happy to get my membership badge as an Emergency Clinician

Air Purifiers and Acute Respiratory Infections in Residential Aged Care
A Randomized Clinical Trial.

Air purifiers with HEPA filters in residents’ rooms didn’t reduce the incidence of ARIs. Reductions in ARIs in those who completed the entire study were demonstrated.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Infection prevention implementation tips and tricks panel discussion at #ACIPC2024. Includes co-design, attention to detail, culture, patience, conceptual frameworks, hard data, patient stories…and hats.

Rebecca McCann giving great example for surveillance data for action, with Western Australian Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infection surveillance reporting by all intravascular devices from 2019. Look at those peripheral catheters. #ACIPC2024

Allen Yung's Golden Rules of ID. Copied over from the Other Place for @kottonnelson.bsky.social #IDSky

@bradgardiner.bsky.social great slide! Should we add leaf blowing to the ‘higher risk’ side?

Thanks for your kind welcome!