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Rossana Rosa @drrossanarosa.bsky.social · 20h

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 · 23h

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 · 22h

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

Open Forum Infectious Diseases @ofidjournal.bsky.social · 23h

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 · 1d

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

University of Minnesota Infectious Diseases @umn-idim.bsky.social · 1d

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...

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

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.

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

An emerging dimorphic fungal infection, appropriately named Emergomyces europeaus, with first reported invasive infection in a person with immunocompromise, presenting as possible TB… #IDSky

academic.oup.com/ofid/advance...

Review, E europeaus 👉 www.frontiersin.org/journals/med...

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

ICYMI, great overview of ID care for people who are incarcerated, with UW’s Dr Helen Jack… #IDSky

academic.oup.com/cid/article/...

Executive Summary: State-of-the-Art Review: The Intersection of Infectious Diseases and Carceral Medicine

Over the past 5 decades, the United States has incarcerated a greater portion of its population than any other country in the world, ever. Politics and pol

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

Interested in editing? #IDSky

Journal of Hospital Infection @thejhi.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 We’re hiring! The Journal of Hospital Infection is seeking two new Editors to help shape leading research in infection prevention & control.

Apply now and be part of our next stage of development!

www.his.org.uk/journals/jou...

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

Comorbidities (>=5), invasive devices (>=4) and multiple medical procedures (>=2) are leading risk factors for candida auris infection after colonization… #IDSky @cidrap.bsky.social

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

www.cidrap.umn.edu/candida-auri...

Multiple risk factors linked to Candida auris infection after colonization

A case-control study finds multiple comorbidities, invasive devices, and low functional status are significantly associated with progression from colonization to clinical symptoms.

www.cidrap.umn.edu

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

Our pets’ objections are duly noted :)

Pharmageddon @pharmageddon.bsky.social · 1d

The PETSEPSIS cohort study. 10/10 points on name.

Capnocytophaga represents itself well for being such an uncommon pathogen.

🧛VÆmpiric @empiricgame.bsky.social · 1d

They say dog contact is predominant for capnocytophagea but not all of the pet contact realted sepsis. ccforum.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

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

Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine 2025 for their fundamental discoveries re: peripheral immune tolerance. They identified regulatory T cells, which prevent immune cells from attacking our own body #IDSky #MedSky

www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medic...

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025 was awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi “for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance.”

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

A great look at respiratory virus infxn after HCT from our UW/FHCC team, 1st author Guang-Shing Cheng with senior authors Janet A Englund and Michael Boeckh.

URTI lead to airflow obstruction and bronchitis obliterates, while LRTI associated with mortality… #IDSky

academic.oup.com/jid/advance-...

Respiratory Virus Infections and Pulmonary Impairment after Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation

This study of HCT recipients characterized respiratory viral infections and pulmonary function. Upper respiratory tract infections (URTI), PIV-3 and RSV, w

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

Compelling doctor’s eye view of last year’s Marburg outbreak in Rwanda… #IDSky

www.npr.org/sections/goa...

A bold doctor sent her kids away and helped beat one of the world's deadliest viruses

A year ago, Rwanda faced its first outbreak of Marburg virus. Dr. Tsion Firew remembers how scared she was — and how that didn't stop her from playing a key role in the remarkably effective response.

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

Measles in Minnesota - increased as overall rate improves… #IDSky

www.mprnews.org/episode/2025...

Infectious disease expert breaks down surge in Minnesota measles cases

The Minnesota Department of Health has confirmed 10 new cases of measles since Monday, bringing the total to 18 cases in the state.

www.mprnews.org

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

Updates in Alaska Infectious disease incidence - some improvements in STIs, and a pertussis outbreak brought under control by vaccination… #IDSky

alaskabeacon.com/briefs/annua...

Annual Alaska disease report shows dip in sexually transmitted infections | Alaska Beacon

Alaska had fewer reported cases of chlamydia and gonorrhea last year than in 2023, as statistics show declines nationally.

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

Happy Sunday! Catching up after vacation hiatus - got a first look at the northern lights from Alaska! #IDSky

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UW Infectious Disease Fellowship Program @uwidfellowship.bsky.social · 12d

Preventing infection, whether by vaccine or medication, is both humane and cost effective… #IDSky

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Rolling Back PrEP Coverage Affects Both New Infections, Economic Cost: Patrick Sullivan, DVM, PhD | AJMC

Any potential reduction in access to pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) would increase both cost and the number of diagnoses of HIV.

www.ajmc.com

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UW Infectious Disease Fellowship Program @uwidfellowship.bsky.social · 12d

As much as we ❤️ wildlife, admire it from afar… #IDSky

Rabid bat found in Seattle near Washington Park Arboretum

www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Did you give water to a bat near the Arboretum? It had rabies

A rabid bat was found in Seattle near the Washington Park Arboretum. Here's what to know, and what to do if you think you might have been exposed.

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UW Infectious Disease Fellowship Program @uwidfellowship.bsky.social · 14d

Funding to make lencapavir available for $40/year for twice yearly dosing in underresourced countries… #IDSky

🎁 article 👉

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/h...

Philanthropies Strike a Promising Deal to Turn Back H.I.V.

www.nytimes.com

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UW Infectious Disease Fellowship Program @uwidfellowship.bsky.social · 15d

Interesting article about pertussis in South Korea (293 cases to *48,048* in 1 yr) that also explores S Korea’s healthcare infrastructure challenges and investments in improvement.

A challenge of the DTaP schedule is the short immunity conferred by aP… #IDSky

borgenproject.org/whooping-cou...

Whooping Cough Outbreak In South Korea: Vaccination Efforts - The Borgen Project

The 2023 whooping cough outbreak in South Korea began in Gyeongsang Province, in kindergartens, elementary schools and high schools.

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UW Infectious Disease Fellowship Program @uwidfellowship.bsky.social · 15d

The Gates Foundation has outlaid $912m to prevent global deaths from AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria, as drug and vaccine innovation features in a roadmap the foundation says is key to curbing childhood illness… #IDSky

www.pharmaceutical-technology.com/news/bill-ga...

Bill Gates pledges $912m to combat infectious diseases amid US funding cuts - Pharmaceutical Technology

The Gates Foundation has outlaid $912m to prevent global deaths from infectious diseases such as AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria.

www.pharmaceutical-technology.com

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Infectious Diseases Fellowship at Indiana University @iuidfellowship.bsky.social · 15d

#idboardreview 50 M RA on etanercept: Fever & purple nodules on arms x2wks. wbc30k 95%lymph, multiple sex partners, +fishing/camping, cleaned alley & scratched by rats, cats. Biopsy lobular endothelial cells w/vascular proliferation. dx? #medEd #idmedEd #idsky #idfellows

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UW Infectious Disease Fellowship Program @uwidfellowship.bsky.social · 16d

Interesting bug of the day, yersinia pseudotuberculosis, closely related to yersinia enterocolitica, causing fulminant septic shock… #IDSky

www.dovepress.com/a-rare-case-...

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UW Infectious Disease Fellowship Program @uwidfellowship.bsky.social · 16d

Continues chikungunya outbreak in Guangdong Province, China, although nearing the end of season… #IDSky

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UW Infectious Disease Fellowship Program @uwidfellowship.bsky.social · 16d

In Texas, the kindergarten MMR vax rates fell from 98.5% in 2013 to 2014 to 94.3% in 2024 to 2025, and in Gaines County, it declined even more, dropping from 92.6% to 82.0% over the same periods.

Authors modeled the impact of +/- 5% change in vax rates… #IDSky

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Modeling the Impact of MMR Vaccination Strategies on Measles Outbreaks in Texas

This study uses a mathematical model to simulate a hypothetical measles case importation and estimate potential outbreak sizes across various Texas counties.

jamanetwork.com

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