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Jack Stanley @jack-stan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Published yesterday: 🩺 Data from 12 studies on ~16,000 people diagnosed w/ TB in Zimbabwe 📈 Age at TB diagnosis in Zimbabwe increased by half a year with each passing calendar year 2000-2024 🥼 We need to think of older adults more when considering surveillance, diagnosis and management of TB

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Temporal changes in age at diagnosis with tuberculosis in high-HIV prevalence settings: a pooled multi-cohort analysis from Zimbabwe

Age at TB diagnosis in Zimbabwe increased between 2000 and 2024. TB programmes must adapt case-finding, clinical services and management for older adults considering multimorbidity, polypharmacy and f...

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Gavin Deas @drdeadmd.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

The 'small five' streptoccoci: S.mutans, S.cristatus, S. gordonii, S. gallolyticus and S. sanguinis account for only 8% of streptoccocal bacteraemis, but ~ 40 % on streptococcal endocarditis Our meta-analysis here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Mayan Gilboa MD @mayangilboa.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Our new study published. We were surprised to see that carriers have a high baseline risk that antibiotics don't add on it. Among non carriers BLBLI posed the highest risk. Overall the conclusion as always is- be judicious: use the shortest regimen and try to avoid unnecessary treatment

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💉Josh Rubin, MD @drsandman11.medsky.social · 02/08/2025

Patient’s potassium result was too low Fired the lab manager

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Gavin Deas @drdeadmd.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

If you're interested in blood cultures: Our study of time to laboratory on yield (adjusted for ward structure and baseline positivity) did not show a global adverse effect except for S pneumoniae, S pyogenes, and S dysgalactiae (2500 beds, England) www.journalofinfection.com/article/S016...

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Less Haste, More Speed: Does delayed blood culture loading lead to adverse incubation time or yield?

Blood culture remains a vital diagnostic tool in the acutely unwell patient. The UK Standards for Microbiology Investigations (SMI) stipulate pre-analytical requirements that are aimed at increasing y...

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Antibiotic Steward 🅱️C🆔🅿️🌟 @absteward.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

🆕🔥Systematic review and consensus guidelines for dose adjustments with many 🌟 Prof. Jason Roberts & Prof Manjunath P Pai The pharmacokinetics of antibiotics in patients with obesity. #IDsky #EMIMCC www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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Europe PMC @europepmc.org · 28/01/2025

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Andreia Wendt @albuquerqueafrr.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Pubmed and NIH websites are down. Probably consequences of the trash sitting in the white house. Here is an attempt at an alternative. europepmc.org Also, consider submitting your manuscript to preprint servers like connect.biorxiv.org/now/. #sciencewontstop #sciencedoesnotcareaboutyouropinion

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