I was informed today by my surgical colleagues that their boards state that fidaxomicin is better than vancomycin for c diff. Is that a consensus in the ID community?

I think doggy palliative care services are better on average than human palliative care services.

So i had a consult about someone with a positive igg for strongy. Are any of the transplant id physicians out there ok with only single dose of ivermectin pre transplant? pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31558376/

For those not on the IDSA IDea exchange. I am in the process of trying to get a meeting together for those interested in ID Critical Care society/idsa community. Please dm me your email if you would like to be included/involved.

Remembering Dr. Thomas O'Brien -- expert in antimicrobial resistance, and all-around great guy. Plus, there's that interesting thing about his son ... 😄 #IDSky blogs.jwatch.org/hiv-id-obser...

I learned about this page today www.phagerounds.com which is a place to connect to live lectures on phage therapies. Highly recommended for the curious.

Onion never misses: theonion.com/heres-why-i-...