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David Serota

@serotavirus.bsky.social
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Infectious disease (🤒🤮) + addiction medicine (🍺💉) doctor in Miami. Infections due to substance use, HIV, S. aureus, pizza, antibiotic sommelier. Research: scholar.google.com/citations?user=6…

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David Serota @serotavirus.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Protocol paper for our multicenter RCT testing an intervention for people hospitalized with injection drug use-related bacterial/fungal infections @docdelrio.bsky.social @drelleneaton.bsky.social @jessmeisner.bsky.social @iddoc.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Integrated infectious disease and substance use disorder treatment for severe injection-related infections: protocol for the randomized controlled HI-SIRI trial - Addiction Science & Clinical Practice
Addiction Science & Clinical Practice - Hospitalizations for acute bacterial and fungal infections related to injection drug use are increasing in the background of the United States drug...
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David Serota @serotavirus.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Just had a paper returned by a journal after 3 days for not including the country in the affiliations, not including on the title page "number of tables: 0; number of figures: 0". What a waste of time...
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David Serota @serotavirus.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Happy DOTS Day, to those who celebrate. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Dalbavancin for Treatment of Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia
This clinical trial compares the efficacy and safety of dalbavancin vs standard therapy for completion of treatment of complicated Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia in hospitalized patients.
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David Serota @serotavirus.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Awesome study. First RCT I know of specifically focused on hospitalized people with OUD and infectious diseases. XR-bupe no better than standard MOUD for OUD and ID outcomes. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Initiating Injectable Buprenorphine in People Hospitalized With Infections
This randomized clinical trial of patients with opioid use disorder (OUD) hospitalized for infection examines whether initiating long-acting buprenorphine plus infectious disease management vs treatme...
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Erin McCreary, PharmD @erinmccreary.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
@steventong.bsky.social presents the results of the PSSA domain of the SNAP 🫰 trial - the worlds largest trial of staph aureus bacteremia - at #ESCMID2025 fluclox resulted in higher mortality and more AKI compared to penicillin for PSSA
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David Serota @serotavirus.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
HIV treatment @ harm reduction organizations is the future! Avoids interacting with the traditional healthcare system as much as possible and bring treatment to the people. 79% viral suppression at 12 months in this pilot study. Multi-center RCT is ongoing @hivma.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/0785...
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Rapid initiation of antiretrovirals at a syringe services program for people with HIV who inject drugs
People who inject drugs (PWID) living with HIV are less likely to receive care at early disease stages and have low rates of viral suppression. This study examined the feasibility and acceptability...
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David Serota @serotavirus.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Is there any reason to check HLA-B5701 or any reason to start someone on abacavir in 2025? We will need a new random ART factoid to quiz people on if this practice goes away.
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David Serota @serotavirus.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... A spoonful of psilocybin helps the pandemic go down
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Psilocybin Therapy for Clinicians With Symptoms of Depression After the Pandemic
This randomized clinical trial examines the effect of psylocibin on the level of depression, burnout, and posttraumatic stress disorder among US physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, ...
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David Serota @serotavirus.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
MRI for diagnosis of diabetic foot osteomyelitis: Pretty good positive LR (5.1), very good negative LR (0.12) jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... #IDsky
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David Serota @serotavirus.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Injectable HIV treatment is feasible via syringe services programs academic.oup.com/ofid/article... #IDsky @jessmeisner.bsky.social
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Implementation of Injectable Cabotegravir/Rilpivirine for Treatment of Human Immunodeficiency Virus in Patients With Substance Use Disorders at a Syringe Exchange Clinic
This case series looks at the two-year implementation of Injectable Cabotegravir+ Rilpivirine (CAB+RPV-LA) in a syringe exchange clinic with patients who h
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David Serota @serotavirus.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Rampant housing discrimination for people with OUD in S. Florida: 16% allowed residents to be on buprenorphine unconditionally, 31% allowed bupe with dose limitations, and 53% completely prohibit being on bupe. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Limited acceptance of buprenorphine in recovery residences in South Florida: A secret shopper survey
Buprenorphine is a first-line treatment for opioid use disorder (OUD), essential for reducing opioid overdose mortality and improving treatment retent…
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David Serota @serotavirus.bsky.social · 23/04/2024
Make statins OTC.
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David Serota @serotavirus.bsky.social · 26/10/2023
New nanoformulation technique was able to turn TDF-3TC-DTG into a monthly injectable reaching therapeutic levels within 24 hrs after injection. Very exciting #idsky journals.lww.com/aidsonline/a...
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A novel formulation enabled transformation of 3-HIV drugs... : AIDS
P) technology to stabilize multiple HIV drugs, the 3-HIV drugs TLD, with disparate physical-chemical properties, are stabilized and assembled with lipid-excipients to form TLD-in-DcNP. TLD-in-DcNP is ...
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David Serota @serotavirus.bsky.social · 17/10/2023
For my first bsky post, an EXCLUSIVE free idea for an ID clinical trial design: Take people reporting penicillin allergy and randomize to just ignoring it and giving whatever antibiotic you think is best vs. going through whatever the standard rigamarole is at your hospital (treatment-as-usual) 💊
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