Congratulations to Steve Tong, Josh Davis and the huge SNAP team (including Monash Health). Clear outcome that cefazolin is less nephrotoxic than flucloxacillin for MSSA, and pencillin is better for PSSA. @steventong.bsky.social @gurujosh.bsky.social

Cool paper from Florian Kramer & colleagues about a novel feature of circulating H5N1 clade 2.3.4.4. These viruses have a longer stalk in their neuraminidase (NA) enzyme, a key viral protein. This was not seen in past H5N1 strains (2002-2019) Why does it matter?🧪 journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Looks like PubMed is down - not sure if this is a temporary outage or something more sinister. Europe PMC is an alternative search engine for medical literature that is publicly accessible. europepmc.org

Great list @absteward.bsky.social! Mine is coming soon (limited to 10)

Paul Sax's "oh wow" moments in HIV: AZT during pregnancy reduces vertical transmission; triple ARVs improve survival; integrase inhibitors as effective salvage therapy; PrEP is very effective; undetectable = untransmissible and now 6 monthly lenacapravir PReP is 100% effective

Five years ago (1 Dec 2019), the first person became unwell in a case cluster of a new infection that we now know as COVID-19. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Congratulations to the BALANCE group on the trial published in NEJM today. This trial tested 7 vs 14 days of antibiotics for bloodstream infection. #IDSky www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Lessons from practice for immunocompromised hosts by Dr Ai Li Yeo and A/Prof Claire Dendle #ForbesWeek #IDSky 1. There can be more than two pathologies in immunocompromised patients

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