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Minh-Vu H. Nguyen, M.D., M.Sc. Infectious Diseases physician, clin-epi researcher specializing in mycobacterial diseases @UC Davis Health. NJH Mycobacterial Research Fellowship graduate. *Opinions are my own. Posts are not medical advice.

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Clinical Infectious Diseases @cidjournal.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Chronic Pulmonary Aspergillosis and Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Pulmonary Disease: Two Peas in a Pod ✅ Just Accepted ✍️ @nguyenmv.bsky.social #IDSky
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Chronic Pulmonary Aspergillosis and Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Pulmonary Disease: Two Peas in a Pod
We thank Denning and Kosmidis for reading our review on nontuberculous pulmonary disease (NTM-PD) and bringing attention to chronic pulmonary aspergillosis (CPA) [cite Denning and Kosmidis. Letter to the Editor]. Indeed, it is not uncommon for patients with NTM-PD to have co-infections with other pathogens, such as Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and/or Aspergillus species. We agree that CPA is an important disease that can co-occur with NTM-PD, increasing management complexity and portending poorer outcomes.
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Tara Vijayan @nottheogdrv.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
This State-of-the-Art review could not be better timed. academic.oup.com/cid/article/.... We were thrilled to have Nick Van Sickels & colleagues (from Kentucky, Hawaii & Louisiana) write this excellent piece, highlighting the importance of inclusive care & informed consent. @cidjournal.bsky.social
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State-of-the-Art Review: Data and Trust to Improve Care for Transgender and Gender-Diverse Patients
As active medical and surgical providers of gender-affirming care, we aim to share lived experiences of our patients and outline best practices in gender-a
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Christina Stallings @stallingslab.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
For the sake of humanity, it's time to get out there and Stand Up For Science!! Spread the word!
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Amanda Hempel @amandahempel.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
@idsky.bsky.social How do we boost the profile of ID amongst the public to understand what we really do? Most people I speak to think we just deal with epidemics. What are places doing to put a united face of ID expertise out to the public?
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Kyle Walding @tbrnaughttb.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
several CDC employees working at the NYC DOH were abruptly terminated over the weekend public health depts in cities all over the country (especially large cities like NYC) rely on CDC resources (including funding & staff) to complete essential public health functions this is so unfair & dangerous
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Thailand Medical News @thailandmedical.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Rising Concerns Over Nontuberculous Mycobacteria Infections and COVID-19 www.thailandmedical.news/news/rising-...
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Rising Concerns Over Nontuberculous Mycobacteria Infections and COVID-19 - Thailand Medical News
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Clinical Infectious Diseases @cidjournal.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Don't miss CID's State-of-the-Art Reviews collection page! These articles address nuances in clinical decision-making, including clinical presentations, diagnostic approaches, and management. See the full collection here ⬇️ buff.ly/4fKun7m
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Clinical Infectious Diseases @cidjournal.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
With 2024 officially in the books, the editors-in-chief of CID, JID, and OFID wish to share a curated selection of 16 outstanding papers from across all three IDSA journals. ⬇️ Browse the collection via the link below ⬇️
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Best of the IDSA Journals 2024
To celebrate the quality of the articles published in the IDSA journals each year, the Editors-in-Chief have each chosen a selection of outstanding papers published in 2024 for you to browse. Each article represents a significant contribution to the field, and we invite you explore this sample of the impressive body of research published each year by the IDSA journals.
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Emily Evans @emilyevs.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
ID folks don't forget to register for the Member's Advocacy Program through IDSA and "Take Action" with letters to representatives and of course... call! (even for us phone shy girlies I promise it's not that bad) idsociety.quorum.us/home_page/
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Olivier Neyrolles @oneyrolles.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
We've hit 150 members in the TB Starter Pack! Time to open a second one, let me know if you want in! #TBResearch #ScienceCommunity #Tuberculosis #TBSky go.bsky.app/65LxsKy
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Dr Roz Eggo @rozeggo.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Senior post at LSHTM closes in 2 days (31st Jan). Do apply if you want to lead/join a department focussed on infectious disease epi and dynamics. Unrelated: the UK doesn’t have executive orders.
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Contagion® @contagionlive.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
The last part of our interview with Dr. George Thompson from UC Davis Medical Center he discussed ongoing research into immune response and new treatments. #IDsky #MEDsky Full interview on current research and future steps for #ValleyFever: www.contagionlive.com/view/immune-...
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Immune Deficits in Some Valley Fever Patients Hinder Response to Antifungal Treatment
Research into new antifungal treatments, including drugs in phase two and three trials, offers hope for patients who do not respond to current therapies.
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Jonathan Ryder, MD @jonathanrydermd.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
New RCT from @cmijournal.bsky.social Multicenter non-inferiority 2015-2023 in South Korea In cholangitis with biliary drainage, Treat based on BCx only (experimental) vs treat based on BCx & biliary Cx (control) Bile Cx +: 83% BCx +: 40% www.clinicalmicrobiologyandinfection.com/article/S119...
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Vu @nguyenmv.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Pubmed is down 👀 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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ID:IOTS Podcast @idiots-pod.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
One PK table to rule them all One table to find them One table to bring them all And in the darkness blind them… …with awesome antibiotic PK facts! Podcast episode here: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i... And link to Notion page here: idiots.notion.site/78-ONE-PK-TA... (Repost from TwitterX)
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78. PK: Pharmacokinetics summary
Podcast Episode · ID:IOTS - Infectious Disease Insight Of Two Specialists · 21/04/2024 · 26m
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Krutika Kuppalli, MD FIDSA @krutikakuppalli.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
23 days into 2025 & here’s what has occurred: 1. California has faced devastating, wildfires🔥 2. Trump withdrew from WHO 🌎 3. Trudeau resigned as Canada’s Prime Minister🇨🇦 4. A 7.1 devastating earthquake hit Tibet ⚠️ 5. Tanzania declared a new Marburg virus outbreak 🦠 It’s going to be a long year
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Alice Han @dralicehan.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Was gifted this book over the holidays. Highly recommend. My favorite part is the teachings of the Buddha “Conquer anger through gentleness, unkindness through kindness, greed through generosity, and falsehood by truth” But not to conquer others but ourselves: Our own anger, ill temper, and lies.
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Pharmageddon @pharmageddon.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Also, here's a link to the Kickstarter's pre-launch page. www.kickstarter.com/projects/pha... Early backers will get a *free* bonus pack of emerging infections cards. 😁
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Coming soon: Epipocalypse: Bug Detectives, A Medical Card Game
Learn infectious disease epidemiology through a simple card game. Geography, vectors, reservoirs, and more!
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Alan Koff @alankoff.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Got a sneak peak at this great med ed game, highly recommend. Lots of educational value for GME and CME.
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Christopher Baladad, PharmD, BCIDP @cbaladadpharmd.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
#IDSky #PharmSky Patient with M. abscessus bacteremia on iHD. 1. How are you dosing amikacin in these patients? 2. Do you have specific peak goals? 3. Do you omit amikacin entirely? If possible, you're willing to share protocols, that'd be extremely helpful!
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Nature Microbiology @natmicrobiol.nature.com · 08/01/2025
OUT NOW - Streptomyces secretes a siderophore that sensitizes competitor bacteria to phage infection www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Streptomyces secretes a siderophore that sensitizes competitor bacteria to phage infection - Nature Microbiology
A secondary metabolite sensitizes competitor Bacillus subtilis to a wide panel of lytic phages by sequestering iron and preventing the activation of Spo0A.
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International Society of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy @isacworld.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Register for this webinar on "Advances in Non Tuberculous #Mycobacteria and Emerging #PublicHealth Risks" 📆21 Jan 🕰10.00 CET This is a must attend event if interested in the latest developments &challenges in this evolving field tinyurl.com/37wy484s @souhakanj.bsky.social @escmid.bsky.social
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Alvaro Schwalb @aschwalbc.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
1/ 📢 In our new PREPRINT - tinyurl.com/2pmudzrk - we evaluate how symptom-agnostic, population-wide screening interventions could significantly reduce the TB burden in Viet Nam. These require a substantial front-loaded investment but yield lasting cost savings. 🧵 #Tuberculosis #TBSky
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Potential impact, costs, and benefits of population-wide screening interventions for tuberculosis in Viet Nam: a mathematical modelling study
Background Population-wide screening may accelerate the decline of tuberculosis (TB) incidence, but the optimal screening algorithm and duration must weigh resource considerations. Methods We calibra...
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Bug Pharmacist // Tim Gauthier @idstewardship.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
M. abscessus 👀 durlobactam journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... #IDsky
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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 03/01/2025
You can use this form letter to send a letter to your senators asking them to not confirm RFK Jr. actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
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Tell your Senators: Oppose Kennedy for Health and Human Services Secretary
Please contact Congress now!
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josh farkas 💊 @pulmcrit.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
TB gurus: is there a role for using interferon gamma release assays to diagnose active TB? guidelines & textbooks *don’t* generally recommend this (eg www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.108…) but in practice I see this done a *lot* 🧐 #IDsky #pulmsky
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
I wish my first blog of 2025 was not about the tidal wave of disinformation and anti-science that we will witness this year Books by Fauci, Hotez, @adamratnermd.bsky.social, @joho.bsky.social & @pauloffit.bsky.social can help us understand & cope communities.springernature.com/posts/want-t...
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Want to better understand the growing anti-science and anti-public health movement? These books can help!
2025 promises to be a tough year for the fight against disinformation, anti-science, anti-vaccine and anti-public health. Thankfully, American physicians and scientists have published books that can h...
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Allison Neitzel @alineitzelmd.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Anti-vax cardiologist Peter McCullough, who currently serves as the chief scientific officer of The Wellness Company, has had his ABIM certifications revoked. www.abim.org/verify-physi... www.documentcloud.org/documents/23...
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NEJM.org @nejm.org · 31/12/2024
Original Article: Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A(H5N1) Virus Infections in Humans nej.md/3VU4R8I Editorial: The Emerging Threat of H5N1 to Human Health nej.md/4fKc42s Correspondence: Critical Illness in an Adolescent with Influenza A(H5N1) Virus Infection nej.md/4gR18Rt #IDsky #MedSky
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Vu @nguyenmv.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
In celebration of @altmetric.com 's counting of bsky posts, here are 3 key #NTM -PD papers to pocket: 1. 2024 CID StaR Review: doi.org/10.1093/cid/... 2. 2020 Official Guideline: doi.org/10.1093/cid/... 3. 2022 Consensus on Less Common NTM: doi.org/10.1016/S147... #Medsky #IDsky #Pulmsky #TBsky
#MAC #Bronchiectasis #CF Graphical abstract of the pathogenesis, diagnosis, and treatment of nontuberculous mycobacterial pulmonary diseaseTitle of the official 2020 NTM-PD guidelineTitle of the 2022 consensus recommendations for less common NTM causing NTM-PD
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
"A Triple Threat to Humanity: Climate Change, Pandemics, and Anti-Science" | My new article with Peter Hotez in #SkepticalInquirer: skepticalinquirer.org/2024/12/a-tr...
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A Triple Threat to Humanity: Climate Change, Pandemics, and Anti-Science | Skeptical Inquirer
Over the past decade, many of us in the scientific community have come to appreciate the existential threat we face today—a threat unlike any we’ve witnesse ...
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Allison Bond @allisonrbond.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Infectious disease MD & professionally trained journalist here! 🚨 The contents of this article & the fact that it was given space in The Atlantic is a dangerous display of both-sides-ism. 🚨 The “fear” of RFK flippantly mentioned? Actually a well-founded concern re: a resurgence of deadly diseases
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Alice Evans @draliceevans.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
What prevents & what drives gendered ideological polarisation? **UPDATED** www.ggd.world/p/what-preve... featuring 101 graphs by @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social
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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
It is not the dissertation, tenure or retirement, but finding a good collaborator which is truly the important event in your career.
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Pausal Zivference @pausalz.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
The n's justify the means
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Pharmageddon @pharmageddon.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
New C diff Infection (CDI) vaccine RCT! ⛔Vaccine insufficiently effective for any CDI* ✅Vaccine 100% effective against CDI requiring antibiotics *most cases were self-limited, clinically irrelevant 😯 #IDSky #MedSky
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
I never saw whooping cough during my medical training in India in the 1990s because of childhood vaccination To see this unfolding today in the US is truly heartbreaking and stunning Whooping cough cases in the US are the highest they’ve been in a decade edition.cnn.com/2024/12/25/h...
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Whooping cough cases in the US are the highest they’ve been in a decade | CNN
Whooping cough has been surging in the United States for months and the latest data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggests there are no signs of slowing.
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Neil Renic @ncrenic.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
You’ve downloaded hundreds of PDFs for research and now it’s finally time to ignore them forever
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KNCV TB Plus | KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation @kncvtbplus.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Any book recommendations (not merely scientific) related to #TB and/or #InfectiousDiseases? Please, leave them here 👇👇👇👇
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 25/12/2024
Latin America’s rise in tuberculosis linked to imprisonment rates
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Latin America’s rise in tuberculosis linked to imprisonment rates
Study warns region’s exponential rise in incarceration is fuelling the disease, with cases increasing by 19% between 2015 and 2022 High incarceration rates in Latin America – the region with the world’s fastest-growing prison population – are…
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Bella Chu @isabellachu.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Regular, moderate exercise like walking and biking are the closest thing we have to a health panacea. US city and road design has made walking and biking impractical, unpleasant and dangerous in much of the country. Changing this would save *$billions* in healthcare *and transportation* costs.
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Don Vinh @donvinh.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Levofloxacin for the treatment of LTBI in close contacts of MDR-TB, from studies in 🇻🇳 and 🇿🇦 evidence.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
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A Meta-Analysis of Levofloxacin for Contacts of Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis
Data from randomized trials evaluating the effectiveness of tuberculosis (TB) preventive treatment for contacts of multidrug-resistant (MDR)-TB are lacking. Two recently published randomized trials...
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Dr. Céline Gounder @celinegounder.com · 23/12/2024
The first severe human case of H5N1 bird flu in the US The patient: 🔹is over 65 & has chronic medical conditions 🔹is in critical condition 🔹was exposed to sick & dead backyard flock & wild birds with @nateburleson @GayleKing @tonydokoupil on @cbsmornings.bsky.social usda.gov/article/usda...
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Peter MacPherson @petermacp.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
We urgently need a better, easier-to-use test for #TB infection. We evaluated the QIAreach test among 1049 children and adults in 🇲🇼 Unfortunately, performance was poor & can’t be recommended for use #TBsky #IDSky @hannahrickman.bsky.social doi.org/10.1128/jcm....
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Michael Glickman @michaelglickman.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Nice study from the Sinha lab about modulation of mycobacterial RecA by cyclic nucleotides urldefense.com/v3/__https:/... 🦠#microsky
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Cyclic di-AMP regulates genome stability and drug resistance in Mycobacterium through RecA-dependent and RecA-independent recombination - PubMed
In <i>Escherichia coli</i>, RecA plays a central role in the rescue of stalled replication forks, double-strand break (DSB) repair, homologous recombination (HR), and induction of the SOS response. Wh...
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Pete Dodd @petedodd24.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
This is the levofloxacin TPT Xmas double issue #TBsky
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Alexander V. Veselov 😷🎮 @alexxxmd.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Levofloxacin Preventive Treatment in Children Exposed to MDR Tuberculosis Hesseling AC, et al. N Engl J Med 2024;391:2315-2326 DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa2314318 --> LEVO reduced the risk of MDR TB disease in children by 56%. The trial also showed that LEVO given over 6 months was safe and well tolerated.
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AliciaDWright @aliciadwright.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
“… rats have detected #Tuberculosis but follow up clinical tests have been negative; in some of these cases, patients later developed TB... Apopo is monitoring these patients to better understand rats’ sensitivity to low levels of bacteria”. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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Cheap, smart and efficient: how giant rats are transforming the fight against TB
After success in Tanzania, other African countries may introduce the rodents to help sniff out the disease
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