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Global TB Program @globaltb.bsky.social · 9h

Today is #InternationalDayoftheGirlChild, a time to acknowledge the potential and successes of girls worldwide. It is also an opportunity to highlight the impact of #TB on their health and pledge our support for providing every girl with access to prevention, diagnosis, and treatment options.#EndTB

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University of Minnesota Infectious Diseases @umn-idim.bsky.social · 8h

High CRP = high risk.
In a Ugandan cohort of 1,378 people with advanced HIV (CD4 ≤200), Dr. Boulware’s team found that CRP ≥10 mg/L predicted a 4× higher risk of hospitalization and 10× higher risk of death within 30 days. #IDSky

Predictive value of C-reactive protein for hospitalization and mortality among people with advanced HIV disease in Uganda receiving the WHO-recommended package of care

Among Ugandan outpatients with advanced HIV, elevated serum CRP (≥10 mg/L) predicted 30-day risk of opportunistic infection, hospitalization, and death. Ea

academic.oup.com

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UW Infectious Disease Fellowship Program @uwidfellowship.bsky.social · 8h

Cefidericol was not inferior for mortality but was the source of all the serious adverse events in this study comparing cefiderocol to standard of care for healthcare-associated GNR blood stream infections.

For CRE subset, verdict less clear… #IDSky

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Cefiderocol versus standard therapy for hospital-acquired and health-care-associated Gram-negative bacterial bloodstream infection (the GAME CHANGER trial): an open-label, parallel-group, randomised t...

Among patients with a hospital-acquired or health-care-associated Gram-negative bloodstream infection, cefiderocol resulted in non-inferior 14-day mortality compared with standard of care. Adverse eve...

www.thelancet.com

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UW Infectious Disease Fellowship Program @uwidfellowship.bsky.social · 8h

Commentary from Lancet ID… #IDSky

Another benefit? Ensitrelvir does not have that awful lingering taste effect (dysgeusia).

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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UW Infectious Disease Fellowship Program @uwidfellowship.bsky.social · 9h

Interesting phase II look at oral ensitrelvir, an oral antiviral with same target as Paxlovid, impact on COVID clearance.

Slightly slower clearance than Paxlovid, much better than placebo, and without the drug-drug limitations of ritonavir boosting… #IDSky

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Antiviral efficacy of oral ensitrelvir versus oral ritonavir-boosted nirmatrelvir in COVID-19 (PLATCOV): an open-label, phase 2, randomised, controlled, adaptive trial

Both ensitrelvir and nirmatrelvir accelerate oropharyngeal SARS-CoV-2 viral clearance. Ensitrelvir is an effective alternative to currently available antivirals in treating COVID-19. Although COVID-19...

www.thelancet.com

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UW Infectious Disease Fellowship Program @uwidfellowship.bsky.social · 9h

The morning news on measles is not good… #IDSky

MN case count jumps to 20, mostly unvax kids… www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...

270 kids quarantined nationwide… www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Central OH outbreak… www.dispatch.com/story/news/h...

SC outbreak… scdailygazette.com/2025/10/09/1...

Minnesota's measles case count jumps to 20, with most unvaccinated children

Dakota County in Minnesota is reporting three new measles cases, bringing the state's total number this year to 20.

www.cbsnews.com

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UW Infectious Disease Fellowship Program @uwidfellowship.bsky.social · 9h

From the National HIV Curriculum Podcast hosted by UW, reviewing 2 great papers that looked at seroprotective response to the Heplisav HBV vaccine in people living with HIV… #IDSky

www.hiv.uw.edu/podcast/epis...

National HIV Curriculum Podcast - episode - literature-review - the-bee-hive-study-major-findings-two-publications - National HIV Curriculum

www.hiv.uw.edu

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UW Infectious Disease Fellowship Program @uwidfellowship.bsky.social · 9h

Screening, diagnosis and treatment of HPV-associated anogenital warts from the National STD Curriculum Podcast… #IDSky #MedSky

www.std.uw.edu/podcast/epis...

National STD Curriculum Podcast - episode - expert-interviews - hpv-anogenital-warts -

A free educational website from the University of Washington STD Prevention Training Center.

www.std.uw.edu

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UW Infectious Disease Fellowship Program @uwidfellowship.bsky.social · 1d

With important work on both RSV and COVID, UT’s Dr. Jason McClellan recognized with MacArthur Fellowship… #IDSky

cns.utexas.edu/news/accolad...

Virus Slayer Awarded ‘Genius Grant’ by MacArthur Foundation

The award recognizes Jason McLellan’s work to investigate how viruses infect our cells and to develop new treatments for infectious disease.

cns.utexas.edu

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UW Infectious Disease Fellowship Program @uwidfellowship.bsky.social · 1d

For pertussis, both the WHO and modified case definitions missed a large proportion of true cases, suggesting need for improved case definition… #IDSky

Original article 👉 academic.oup.com/jid/advance-...

www.cidrap.umn.edu/pertussis/wh...

WHO pertussis case definition misses many infections, needs revision, study suggests

Compared with the WHO pertussis case definition, a modified definition including apnea and omitting cough duration improved sensitivity but lowered specificity.

www.cidrap.umn.edu

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UW Infectious Disease Fellowship Program @uwidfellowship.bsky.social · 1d

No MMWR update yesterday due to gov’t shutdown so we’ll run with last week’s update on Tularemia! Fluoroquinolones and doxycycline now first line treatment… #IDSky

www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...

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Infectious Diseases Fellowship at Indiana University @iuidfellowship.bsky.social · 1d

#idboardreview pt w/hx of tb lymphadenitis (s/p rif/inh x10mo) 10yr ago. S/p renal transplant 3yrs ago & now 3mo intermittent fever, anorexia, weight loss, fatigue, ascites: exudative 800 wbc 59%lymph, ADA upp limit of normal, AFB neg, exp lap peritoneal biopsy granuloma #IDsky #idmeded #meded

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UW Infectious Disease Fellowship Program @uwidfellowship.bsky.social · 2d

Good clarification! Thank you

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UW Infectious Disease Fellowship Program @uwidfellowship.bsky.social · 2d

In phase I trial, trivalent vaccine shows efficacy against typhoid and non-typhoidal salmonella, leading causes of invasive disease in children in sub-Saharan Africa… #IDSky

www.cidrap.umn.edu/salmonella/v...

Original article 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Vaccine for typhoid, invasive Salmonella shows promise in phase 1 trial

www.cidrap.umn.edu

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UW Infectious Disease Fellowship Program @uwidfellowship.bsky.social · 2d

Interested in Emerging Infections? #IDSky

University of Minnesota Infectious Diseases @umn-idim.bsky.social · 2d

🦠 Save the date!
Emerging Infections 2025
📍 Minneapolis, MN | 🗓️ Nov 21, 2025

Now in its 31st year, this conference cohosted by Mayo Clinic, the University of Minnesota, and MDH unites clinicians, laboratorians, and public health experts to tackle today’s emerging infectious threats. #IDSky

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Tom Scriba @tomscriba.bsky.social · 2d

We are inviting applications for postdoctoral fellows in immunology of TB at the South African Tuberculosis Vaccine Initiative, University of Cape Town. For more information see the attached ad:

idm.uct.ac.za/media/739223

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 3d

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Infectious Diseases Fellowship at Indiana University @iuidfellowship.bsky.social · 2d

#idboardreview 40 F had trauma to foot while gardening and initially had a small nodule but slowly progressed to multiple lesions over-few months, not improved with abx. Diagnosis? #medEd #idmedEd #IDtwitter

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Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH, SM @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social · 2d

If this reduces barriers for pregnant women to get vaccinated, it would be a very welcome development. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

CDC, its advisers quietly expand access to Covid-19 shot for pregnant women

The panel voted to undo an action by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. which removed the vaccine from the immunization schedule for pregnant women.

www.politico.com

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UW Infectious Disease Fellowship Program @uwidfellowship.bsky.social · 3d

Our mission, should we choose to accept it… (we should) #IDSky

www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Restoring Confidence in Public Health | NEJM

A confluence of interrelated factors has put past progress in public health at serious risk in the United States. How did we get here, and what can public health professionals do about it?

www.nejm.org

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Rossana Rosa @drrossanarosa.bsky.social · 4d

Everything is a zoonosis!drawing/listing challenge
#18- Deer
This got me thinking *what* is a zoonosis?
Per WHO they r ifx “naturally transmissible from vertebrate animals to humans”
I’ve seen Lyme referred to as “vector-borne zoonotic disease”
And what is a reservoir?
Thoughts #IDSky #VetSky?

A cute picture of a deer and zoonoses associated with them. If this deer looks orange to you is because somehow I thought mixing orange and yellow alcohol markers would make a tan color, and to my surprise it didn’t so then I tried coloring over it.

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NEJM.org @nejm.org · 4d

Plague is a high-consequence infectious disease with epidemic potential.

The latest video in our partnership with @glaucomflecken.bsky.social summarizes new research evaluating ciprofloxacin versus aminoglycoside–ciprofloxacin for bubonic plague in Madagascar. 👉 nej.md/DrG27

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UW Infectious Disease Fellowship Program @uwidfellowship.bsky.social · 4d

Impact of CMV viremia on HCT outcomes - some progress but still associated with poorer outcomes… #IDSky

Open Forum Infectious Diseases @ofidjournal.bsky.social · 4d

Cytomegalovirus Viral Load Continues to Predict Poor Outcomes in Adults and Children Despite Improved Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation Success

✅ Just Accepted
#IDSky
🔗 https://bit.ly/42UziyX

UW Infectious Disease Fellowship Program @uwidfellowship.bsky.social · 4d

For those who already ❤️ fungi, and the fungi-curious…. #IDSky

University of Minnesota Infectious Diseases @umn-idim.bsky.social · 4d

There’s now an app for all things fungi 🦠🍄
Dr. Matthew Pullen, Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota, helped launch Dr Fungus—a free app that brings the trusted resource to your phone.

Explore fungal infections, antifungal treatments, and case-based learning—all in one place.

Home - Doctor Fungus

Welcome to Doctor Fungus! An Educational Website of theMycoses Study Group Education and Research Consortium (MSGERC) [View Legal Information] Where to Start Mycology Case of the Month An Introducti...

DrFungus.org

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UW Infectious Disease Fellowship Program @uwidfellowship.bsky.social · 4d

Great work from our friends at the other Washington ID program :) Rotavirus can be deadly in the young, especially in under-resourced areas… @darcy-id-doc.bsky.social #IDSky

medicine.washu.edu/news/researc...

original article 👉 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Researchers find key to stopping deadly infection | WashU Medicine

By disabling a critical cellular pathway, WashU Medicine researchers uncover a potential treatment for rotavirus and some other infections.

medicine.washu.edu

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