Here's some papers you may have missed in February! Did you know SIDP's journal scan is going members only this June? Make sure to check out our bio for the link to the journal scans starting in June!

🔥Just published 🔥 TAPER-V RCT In this RCT of 256, a 4-week vancomycin pulse and taper regimen *had a probability of 74% to be superior to a standard 2-week pulse regimen in patients a first episode or first recurrence of CDI Vanco for 10d is obsolete! #IDSky #EMIMCC jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

🔥Just published 🔥 ESCMID Clinical Guidelines on the Evaluation and Management of a Reported Antibiotic Allergy #IDSjy www.clinicalmicrobiologyandinfection.org/article/S119...

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

This #ThrowBackThursday is pre-pandemic going back to 2019. When testing for flu, beware false-negative flu antigen tests, especially when flu is surging. #PharmacySchool #Clinpharm #PharmRes #Pharmacist

Yeah yeah we all know what to do with Penicillin Allergy BUT: what about cephalosporin allergy? Bet you don’t know what to do about that! Well this week’s episode can help! Listen below, or on your podcast app… #IDsky #Microsky #infection #allergy podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i...

As 2025 comes to a close, it has been another remarkable year for ID research. From groundbreaking vaccine studies to innovative antibiotic strategies and simplified TB regimens,this year has delivered insights that challenge dogma,refine clinical practice & advance global stewardship efforts #idsky

💊 Community pharmacists play a key role in tackling inappropriate antibiotic use! This study explores how they decide when and how to intervene to improve prescriptions: doi.org/10.1093/jaca... #AntibioticStewardship #Pharmacy #AMR #JACAMRNews #IDSky

🎖️📄Top infectious disease journal articles from 2025 is out! May be good for a quick review to see if you missed anything or if you need to pick a journal club article. #pharmacist #infectiousdiseases #pharmacyschool #FYP #IDstewardship @absteward.bsky.social www.idstewardship.com/year-in-revi...

How can the EHR improve Antimicrobial Stewardship? 🏥💊 Our study of 136 prescriptions found only 37% included an indication and 75% a duration. ASPs should consider: ✅ Required indication/duration ✅ Reason for urine cultures ✅ Order sets with pre-filled info Read: doi.org/10.1017/ash....

This project is up! I am too tired from doing the project to explain it right now but I think it is cool and will lead to other cool things and also you should all teach with games www.cureus.com/articles/408...

🎙️ Just published: Communicable E42... Hosted by @angelahuttner.bsky.social & @marcbonten.bsky.social w/ invited guests Ilan Schwartz @germhuntermd.bsky.social, Neil Stone @drneilstone.bsky.social & Tara Smith @aetiology.bsky.social Listen on #Communicable: #IDSky #Clinmicro #IDTwitter

📣📣📣📣 Act now before it is gone! www.LearnAntibiotics.com #pharmacist #pharmd #pharmacystudent #pharmlife

#IDSky #PharmSky @sidpharm.bsky.social Evaluating anti-MRSA surg prophylaxis logistics in cardiac device implants.. looking for thoughts on DAP use instead of vanco (we are struggling with timing pre op). Any experience out there for cardiac sx (or any service line)?

🤓😊 Today was a great day. I got to meet and co-present at #ASCP2025 with Dr. Rodney Rohde, got new papers accepted to JAC and to OFID. One accepted to JAC-AMR a few days ago too! Lots of love for the amazing humans I am blessed to collaborate with ❤️.

Respiratory PCR testing has exploded since the pandemic, but tests are expensive and sometimes used indiscriminately We produced a statement for our regional paediatric network to help guide testing and improve diagnostic stewardship #IDSky #PedsID

👋 Come say hi and learn about AMR + SciComm here at #ASCP2025!!

We are launching 3 new interactive #MedEd games in celebration of #WAAW2025! First up: Microbe-ID 🧫🔍. Can you decipher the emojis to identify the pathogen? microbe-id.firstline.org Educational content created by @idstewardship.bsky.social @tbrar7.bsky.social and Shaqil Peermohamed, MD #IDSky

New ID game _ Microbe-ID share.google/gBAFfkdkBOH3... @idstewardship.bsky.social @pharmageddon.bsky.social

Join us next week on Nov 13th 12-1 PM CST. Dr. Biagi will be discussing the different methods for estimating renal function and how this relates to antimicrobial dosing. We hope you're able to find practical tips for navigating the new literature and recommendations to improve patient care!

🆕🔥State-of-the-Art Review with 🌟s @trubianojason.bsky.social : Antibiotic Allergy—A Multidisciplinary Approach to Delabeling #idsky url: academic.oup.com/cid/article/...

FINALLY!!! I am part of the minority who successfully managed to publish their pharmacy residency project in a peer-reviewed journal. For you fellow John Greene fans, enjoy the reference!

@jgpharmd.bsky.social congrats on your latest CID article! Love the title. academic.oup.com/cid/advance-...

Happy Halloween.

Well, this is a brilliant #IDSky article that cuts close to the bone! 😬 Reframes #academia as an infection for which the causative organism may be less easy to define, but that can be just as insidious on affected individuals (clinical academics)! #AcademicSky #MedSky 🧪 @cidjournal.bsky.social

‼️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...

There is more than one way to slice a cake - or build an OPAT program. Join the stellar Dr. Monica Mahoney at her #IDWeek2025 session where she will discuss justifying need and growth of OPAT! Highlighting the value of dedicated personnel, compelling patient cases, and data to help secure time. 💉

@nkusnikmd.bsky.social presenting our blood culture shortage experience during an oral abstract session appropriately titled “A Bloody Mess!” @idweek.bsky.social #IDWeek2025 @unmc-id.bsky.social

I’ve gained over 14k followers on IG in less than 2 weeks. All I post about is abx fundamentals. How cool is it to teach people bugs and drugs on this platform!?! One post has reached nearly 250k people 🤯

A pleasure to walk through such a beautiful park on the way to the poster sessions at #IDweek2025

👋 I have a few copies of the drug name emoji game deck of cards for only $20. Find me at #IDweek2025

Live episode coming to #IDWeek2025 tomorrow @ 1:15!! Come learn from the wonderful @kottonnelson.bsky.social & Roy Chemaly on refractory HSV infection, and get a Febrile sticker!!

🆕🔥Seminar Community-acquired pneumonia @thelancet.com #IDSky #EMIMCC www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

🤩 Great talks in the APP bootcamp session at #IDweek2025 Back to basics sure, but contextualized by high quality presenters = 🙌

I’ve been at #IDweek2025 for 5 mins and have heard the words it depends 3 times already ❤️ my people!

50k followers on IG!

“Public health doesn’t happen in systems - it happens in relationships” Love this. #IDweek2025 #SIDP2025

😁 Get to spend time with some of my favorite people at #IDweek2025 during the SIDP annual meeting

W.H.O. Warns of Sharp Increase in Drug-Resistant Infections. Gift link: nyti.ms/4mZ2c8B

👁️ 🪒🫵🥫👃🦉 Name the antimicrobial #DrugNameEmojiGame

antibiotic stewardship pearl: Pneumonia patient on ampicillin-sulbactam Blood grows Strep pneumo, sensitivity pending Patient is improving Sulbactam adds *nothing* to ampicillin for S. pneumo (resistance not mediated by beta-lactamase) So you can immediately narrow to ampicillin #IDsky #EMIMCC

🔔New publication! The goal with this article was to show how ID/ASP pharmacists should be positioned to leverage their unique skills so that patients can get the best possible care academic.oup.com/ofid/article... @ofidjournal.bsky.social @sidpharm.bsky.social @accpinfdprn.bsky.social

A great and informative discussion of peer review. I have too many opinions to go into depth here. My general solution is to better value, in all senses, both peer and editorial review. If peer review was formally counted as work by an academic that might encourage more engagement.

🎙️ Just published: Communicable E37: 'Peer review is broken' Hosted by @angelahuttner.bsky.social & @anniejoseph.bsky.social w/ invited guests: Melinda Baldwin @mbaldwin.bsky.social & Serge Horbach Listen on Communicable: #IDSky #Clinmicro #MedSky #peerreview #AI

Our friends at Lab Beagle Games are launching a new game on Kickstarter tomorrow! Epipocalypse is an ID-epi game with intuitive mechanics and an encyclopedic amount of content. I had a chance to play an early prototype and it runs super smooth. www.kickstarter.com/projects/pha...

🐎🦓 👀 🚨New post! www.idstewardship.com/horses-zebra... ❤️ This looks like a really cool kickstarter to join if you are into medicine and games. Learning is hard, gaming can make it fun! From the creator of @pharmageddon.bsky.social 🙌 cc @empiricgame.bsky.social #IDsky

Submitted a peer review within 2 hours of accepting it, can I get a sticker please? (Was pretty brief and topic I’m super familiar with)

Seems like an appropriate time to share my favorite palindrome LONELYTYLENOL

Breaking: CDC advisers weaken COVID vaccine recommendations but stop short of requiring prescriptions ACIP narrowly rejected its working group’s proposal to require a doctor’s prescription for the #COVID19 vaccine www.cidrap.umn.edu/c...

TikTok vs IG Here is an example of how hard it is to reach your followers on TikTok. So sad TikTok people missed out on the dad pun if “acute” vs “a cute”