@radhikaarya.bsky.social: The withdrawal of bezlotoxumab leaves a gap in preventing recurrent C diff infection. This commentary reviews current strategies, including PO vancomycin ppx and fecal microbiota-based therapies, and examines their challenges in clinical application. doi.org/10.1017/ash....

Aaron Siri Says No One Has Identified Errors in His ACIP Presentation. Here Are Several. Mr. Siri is not looking at the total data and misunderstands or misrepresents much of what he does address. open.substack.com/pub/jakescot... via @jakescottmd.bsky.social

Here’s a short skeetorial to raise awareness about the surprisingly high sodium content in some IV antibiotics...clinically important for patients with CHF. Judicious use matters!💧🧂 #emimcc #medsky #EMsky #IDsky #pharmsky #AMSky #FOAMed

Heck of a good week. Matched three incredible future infectologists!! Was awarded the division teaching award by our current lovely fellows 🥲 Had my New Zealand travel pass issued one minute after applying for it (meant to be!) Was told I should host a “Breakpoints” episode 🤯

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

We're hiring! Clinical Assistant Professor in Infectious Diseases. Great group of physicians and great community!

@soumya-goblue.medsky.social in CDMX right now, té is slightly more expensive than in café!!

James Ryan sets the record straight after Youngkin and Rachel Sheridan (board of visitors) lied about the circumstances of his resignation. Pretty amazing document. drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...

Will never forgive myself for assuming “Nance” was a distractor and going for “Joseph” instead…. That’s what I get for being on vacation during that didactic session 🤷‍♂️

Will never forgive myself for assuming “Nance” was a distractor and going for “Joseph” instead…. That’s what I get for being on vacation during that didactic session 🤷‍♂️

academic.oup.com/cid/advance-... The doxy side of things is obvious. But the cefixime piece is very concerning. Wish they would have looked at staph also to get an idea of how that is changing as we see more and more TET resistance in staph aureus.

"Dictators and people in office and people who want to control and deceive know exactly the people who will disturb their plans. That's right. And those people are artists. They're the ones that tell the truth and it's something that the society has got to protect." - Toni Morrison

Thank God. religionnews.com/2025/10/21/a...

Absolutely wild that it was in 2024 that the New York Times's Confessore decided DEI wasn't working at @umich.edu and that our regents decided to shut it down on the word of that hack.

‼️Just shared at #IDWeek2025 & now published in @ofidjournal.bsky.social cephalexin vs. cefdinir for tx of uUTI in females. Spoiler: Cefdinir was independently associated with/failure & cefdinir pts were twice as likely to fail. Let’s stop Rx’ing cefdinir for UTI! 🛑💊 academic.oup.com/ofid/article...

For ID professionals from underrepresented backgrounds, or niche specialties, finding community can be difficult. Watch as Radhika Sheth & Shreya Doshi join IDWeek TV to share their experiences founding coalitions for their peers. @idweek.bsky.social #IDWeek2025 youtu.be/L9n8O_uY3UE

🎤 What is Hamilton star Javier Muñoz’s go-to karaoke song? (Spoiler: it’s a classic.) Hear why he’s excited to be part of #IDWeek2025 and why he has faith in ID professionals everywhere. Watch Javier host and perform at the IDWeek Opening Plenary TODAY at 3:45pm ET: https://bit.ly/4nZZhOj

Well the kids are alright! Loved being at “Verdi’s Requiem” by the DSO and the UMS choir at an essentially sold-out Hill tonight. With >800 students!!!! And one @umichmedicalschool.bsky.social ID fellow 🤷‍♂️ #GoodForTheSoul #MichiganIsAnEverythingSchool

A LEGEND!!!

👏👏👏 @ritikaprasad.bsky.social you’re amazing 😍

You can tell I’m on service because I just responded to 3 days worth of texts late on Sunday evening 🤷‍♂️ sorry I’m bad at multi tasking, friends 😔

“There are >3x as many people in the U.S. with sickle cell disease as cystic fibrosis- yet CF receives 10x more research funding, a disparity long fueled by race and visibility. This inequity doesn’t persist by accident; it reflects a collective comfort with certain kinds of suffering and dying.”

All I want for, well, whatever holiday is between now and next Saturday, is an offensive line 😔

Jeanne Marrazzo and Kathy Neuzil are known for their integrity, their selflessness and their scientific rigor. Their voices carry enormous weight in the scientific community. #NIH

🆕 New in ICHE: A mixed-methods study explores bias and discrimination experienced by antimicrobial stewards Findings highlight structural inequities and the need for improved support, recognition, and inclusion in stewardship roles. #IDsky 📄: doi.org/10.1017/ice....

@ritikaprasad.bsky.social, @stanfordasp.bsky.social, @marisa-holubar.bsky.social et al: Identifying ASP targets in immunocompromised patients is challenging. We implemented a restriction program that ⬆️ appropriate use of CMV-IGIV, highlighting a unique ASP opportunity. doi.org/10.1017/ash....

A terrorist targeted federal workers last week. There wasn’t much reporting on it. But I’m not finished thinking about it! 🧵 An anti-vaxxer fired more than 500 gunshots into CDC Atlanta, shattering 150 “blast-proof” windows on 6 buildings. Employees were pinned down in terror.

Worth noting that both the faculty senate and the student council have overwhelmingly passed votes of no confidence in the Board of Rectors, of which some are participating in with questionable legality 🤷‍♂️

How many roadblocks do you think will come up in this thread? You're probably lowballing.

@linameng.bsky.social my perpetual quest continues!!! Miss you! 🥰

#IDsky The Infectious Disease Brad Boy himself, @bradspellberg.bsky.social , has an updated Oral vs IV table, now including the Plague (Y really) and Lyme! Link here: www.bradspellberg.com/oral-antibio...

This is a sickening moment in US history.

Feeling like I might not be upset at my life in 6 months… 😃 #NewZealandHereWeCome #MamaAndSonTrip #AndThisWasTheUgliestPicOnTheWebsite 🤷‍♂️

Sharpen your ID clinical teaching skills with Emily Abdoler, MD, MAEd, and @darcy-id-doc.bsky.social during the premeeting workshop, “A Bug Worth Catching: Enhancing Clinical Teaching in Infectious Diseases.” Sign up when you register for #IDWeek2025: idweek.org/registration

Happy fellow application release day to all who celebrate 🥳🎉 Really looking forward to reading thru applications and meeting some amazing folks 😍

The Faculty Senate has now adopted a resolution of No Confidence in the Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia with a vote of 46-14.

😍😍😍

Super proud of our fellows. Three talks at IDweek this year. Marc Trubin on education work with Emily Abdoler, Matt Steinberger on stewardship work with with Tejal Gandhi and Lindsay Petty. Recent fellow and current faculty Louis Saravolatz on his recent paper in CID!

To remain a beacon of progress, the U.S. must support scientists, not silence them. Today, at “The Things We’ll Never Know: A Science Fair of Canceled Grants,” we are learning from scientists about their canceled projects & the impact on American science. #StandUpForScience

He’s had a lot of legendary ones, but this is perhaps the best post by Dr. Sax I’ve read. Heartbreaking though it is at times.

🚨BREAKING: IDSA, along with AAP, APHA, ACP and others, has filed a lawsuit against HHS/Secretary Kennedy to stop unlawful changes to vaccine policy and defend public health. We refuse to stand by while America’s public health safeguards are torn apart. bit.ly/4lm7UkW

This is literally my dream date 😍. And there’s even opportunities for improvement (can’t help that I still live for trying to fix him 😔)- but why say “de-escalation”, when it’s more accurately “optimizing” or “targeting” coverage. 🥰

Great article about supporting and standing up for evidence-based, standard of care healthcare by my friends/heroes 😍

Fewer vaccines for kids in LMICs means more diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus and other entirely preventable diseases. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/h...

The #ACIP meeting can only be described as the battle between science and anti-science. Greatest respect to the CDC scientists who are presenting the data in the face of a torrent of outright disinformation from several new members of ACIP who clearly have an antivaxx anti science agenda.

When I was young, my first career aspiration was to be a SCOTUS Justice/“Justice”. Little did I know that I’m essentially Sonia Sotomayor now- battling the frequent and causal “IV antibiotics” half sentence with pages of evidence as to why the process is non-infectious, just to get overruled :-(

One Hundred Days, Incalculable Losses Emily Erbelding (NIAID/NIH) "Every day brought more chaos." Termination of training grants reflected "an intentional choice to lose a generation of scientists. Recovering from [this]... will take years and probably decades." academic.oup.com/jid/advance-...

Here again are alternative and credible sources for vaccine information and guidance until sanity returns in US Public Health : WHO - www.who.int/teams/immuni... Canada - www.canada.ca/en/public-he... ECDC - www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/immunisat... U.K - www.gov.uk/government/p...

Emphasis on ID clinicians to: ✅ Think about the future pipeline ✅ Recruit by how we practice, not what we say to trainees ✅ Talk with trainees about interesting parts of your job that they may not see ✅ We need to write national narrative of ID #IDSky