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Clinical Infectious Diseases @cidjournal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

What is the True Price of a Positive Blood Culture? ✅ Just Accepted 🔗 bit.ly/475W2Oc

UW Infectious Disease Fellowship Program @uwidfellowship.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Congratulations to our very own Catherine Liu (the committee chair) on the publication of the new IDSA Staph aureus bacteremia guidelines. This work reflects years of leadership and is the culmination of a *ton* of thoughtful consideration! 👏 www.idsociety.org/practice-gui...

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Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia

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UW Infectious Disease Fellowship Program @uwidfellowship.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

academic.oup.com/cid/advance-... New in @cidjournal.bsky.social: an account of our Harborview Infection Prevention team's work in containing a C. auris outbreak from 2024-25, highlighting the role of expanded high-throughput PCR testing capacity for rapid patient identification and isolation - 👏👏👏

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Containment of a Candidozyma auris Outbreak in an Acute Care Hospital using a Comprehensive Screening and Surveillance Program

We describe a 6-month hospital Candidozyma auris outbreak that was successfully contained using massive rapid PCR screening and rigorous infection control

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UW Infectious Disease Fellowship Program @uwidfellowship.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

link.springer.com/article/10.1... New from our Harborview stewardship and leadership team (including fellow Preston Kramer!)— clinical experience with the IV ➡️ PO switch in S. aureus osteomyelitis ✨ As it turns out, no one told the bacteria what the administration route was!

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From IV to oral: clinical outcomes in Staphylococcus aureus osteomyelitis - BMC Infectious Diseases

Background Outcomes for patients receiving oral antibiotics for Staphylococcus aureus (SA) osteomyelitis, including methicillin-resistant SA (MRSA), are poorly characterized. We evaluated outcomes in ...

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UW Infectious Disease Fellowship Program @uwidfellowship.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Sharing recent work from third-year fellow Brendan Mullen (co-first author!) on the performance of urine LAM for pediatric pulmonary TB diagnosis. And big congratulations to Brendan on his recent selection for a NIAID Clinical Research Loan Repayment award! 🎉 academic.oup.com/ofid/article...

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P-1677. Nanoparticle Capture of Urinary Lipoarabinomannan for Diagnosing Childhood Tuberculosis

AbstractBackground. Non-respiratory biomarkers for tuberculosis (TB), such as the urinary lipoarabinomannan (LAM) antigen, are crucial for diagnosing TB in

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UW Infectious Disease Fellowship Program @uwidfellowship.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

“Revitalizing the NIH’s role in advancing science will require thoughtful and deliberate disruption, led by scientists and policymakers whose goal is to create the most impactful science” 📣📣📣 We’re proud of our faculty mentors for speaking up in this piece — academic.oup.com/jid/advance-...

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Crisis as Catalyst: The future of the NIH driving scientific discovery

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has an unparalleled record of advancing biomedical science. Today, two critical challenges threaten its future impa

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Antibiotic Steward 🅱️C🆔🅿️🌟 @absteward.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

🔥🔥IDSA AMR Guidance 2026🔥🔥 🔺Notable Updates from the 2024 IDSA AMR Guidance Document 🔺Meropenem dosing update: individualized dosing approach (1–2 g IV q8h) with higher doses considered in selected clinical scenarios. #idsky www.idsociety.org/practice-gui...

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University of Minnesota Infectious Diseases @umn-idim.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

New multi-center research by faculty Dr. Obeid, Dr. Young & colleagues highlights severe challenges in treating refractory HSV in stem cell transplant recipients. With high acyclovir resistance & drug toxicity, their findings stress the urgent need for safer, oral antivirals. #IDSky

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Refractory Mucocutaneous Infections by Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV) in Hematopoietic Cell Transplant Recipients: A Real-world, Multicenter Study

A total of 55.2% HCT recipients with refractory HSV healed completely at a median of 38 days of therapy. Seventy-five percent of patients received foscarne

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UW Infectious Disease Fellowship Program @uwidfellowship.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Meet our first-year fellows! Clara Warden, Devon Zander, Bettie Kareko, Megan Hansen, Matt Tan, Fernando Centeno, Meghan Mahalawat, and Seung An Kang They’re off to a great start, finishing up their first rotations leading our clinical services across four hospitals 🦠 🩺

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UW Infectious Disease Fellowship Program @uwidfellowship.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Congratulations to recent grad (now Acting Instructor) Khai Tram on this exceedingly important and timely publication, using PEPFAR data to quantify the increase in new HIV infections resulting from the disruption of PEPFAR funding: www.ovid.com/jnls/jaids/a...

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Projected Impact of U.S. PEPFAR Withdrawal on... : JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes

Introduction:Changes in U.S. global health policy, under the America First Global Health Strategy, have shifted U.S. engagement away from open-ended...

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UW Infectious Disease Fellowship Program @uwidfellowship.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

New in the UW Daily, our APD Fred Buckner discussing potentially devastating impacts of proposed OMB changes to grant funding: www.dailyuw.com/article/prop...

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Proposed federal rule threatens to politicize research funding

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UW Infectious Disease Fellowship Program @uwidfellowship.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

A slightly belated #Photodump from our graduation this June! We are so proud of this graduating class and excited for the bright futures ahead of this fantastic group of ID docs ✨

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UW Infectious Disease Fellowship Program @uwidfellowship.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Kicking off the new academic year, a huge thank-you to Cyndi @patientdoc.bsky.social & Carlos Corpuz for their dedication as chiefs last year! This year, this account will be co-run by Michael Dagher & Alison Smith @alisongrace.bsky.social Pictured, the official handoff- more soon! 🦠🧫☀️🏔️

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UW Infectious Disease Fellowship Program @uwidfellowship.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Time to say hi to our new Chief Fellows, Alison Smith & Michael Dagher, now taking over the UW ID Fellowship BlueSky! Welcome! You can find me over at @patientdoc.bsky.social, at the Mariners and Storm, or at my new gig attending on the immunocompromise ID services here at UW/Fred Hutch. #IDSky

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Jon Douglas @atranscendedman.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

NPR reports that a long COVID science advisory committee was dismissed, cutting off hard-won expertise just as doctors need clearer answers on mechanisms, diagnosis, and care. www.npr.org/2026/06/22/n...

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A look at the science that's been lost on long COVID

Since President Trump took office, hundreds of experts advising on science and research issues have been dismissed. One committee was on long COVID, an issue that doctors are desperate for help with.

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Infectious Diseases Fellowship at Indiana University @iuidfellowship.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

#idboardreview 28 F recent rodent control in her NYC apartment building presents w/4-day high fever, chills, generalized rash. +non-tender eschar on back that appeared 1wk prior to systemic symptoms. +tender posterior cervical lymphadenopathy. normal wbc, mild inc LFTs, normal plt. Vector? #idsky

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UW Infectious Disease Fellowship Program @uwidfellowship.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Another great Faculty/Fellow dinner last night, hosted by Paul Pottinger, with a great discussion of ID advocacy. Thanks to Paul & family for a lovely evening of food and fellowship on a beautiful late Spring Seattle night. #IDSky @paulpottingermd.bsky.social

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

The acting director of the Center of Scientific Review (CSR) at NIH , Raymond Jacobson, PhD, has been appointed as the permanent director of CSR (staring Sunday). Good news as he is thoroughly familiar with NIH peer review.

An email from NIH Director Bhattacharya appointing Raymond Jacobson, PhD as Director of the Center of Scientific Review.

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Steven Pergam, MD, MPH @pergamic.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Got to celebrate @paulinavegamd.bsky.social's graduation from @uwidfellowship.bsky.social Proud to have been played a part in her growth as a fellow, researcher & now MPH graduate 🎉 Can't wait to see her thrive as an Asst. Professor at UC Davis - and to watch her trajectory as a fungal researcher

Dr. Steven Pergam and Dr. Paulina Vega standing together holding her graduation diploma from the UW Infectious Diseases Fellowship Program.

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Jocalyn Clark @jocalynclark.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

The proposed new rules on federal funding are another blow to 🇺🇸 science But they will also harm international collaborations, the lifeblood of science and health 🌐 Where is the US medical leadership and outrage? My new piece @bmj_latest www.bmj.com/content/393/...

BMJ Opinion article on proposed US OMB rules

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UW Infectious Disease Fellowship Program @uwidfellowship.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

F1 (and soon to be Chief Fellow) Alison Smith is first author with a bunch of UW peeps on this great look at universal screening for c auris. Do current public health criteria for screening hit the mark? Maybe not… academic.oup.com/cid/advance-...

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Enhanced detection of Candidozyma auris colonization with universal screening on admission

Abstract. Universal admission screening for Candidozyma auris (C. auris) identified C. auris colonization in 25/22742 (0.1%) of patients. Most patients (20

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UW Infectious Disease Fellowship Program @uwidfellowship.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

“Investigating how nearly 60 people got sick after drinking raw milk…” 🤷‍♀️

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Ferric Fang, MD @fangferric.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Vaccination is the best hope for curtailing the spread of extensively drug-resistant and azithromycin-resistant Salmonella Typhi.

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John Ross @johnrossmd.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

18.5% of confirmed measles cases in West Texas required hospitalization. These were mostly kids with measles pneumonia; almost all the adults who needed hospitalization were pregnant. Kudos to MMWR for slipping this past the MAHA commissars.

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Characteristics of Patients Hospitalized with Measles ...

This report describes characteristics of patients who were hospitalized during a large measles outbreak in west Texas.

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UW Infectious Disease Fellowship Program @uwidfellowship.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Among 54 hospitalized patients with available medical records, all were unvaccinated or had unknown vaccination status, 91% were aged <18 years, approximately 70% had pneumonia and hypoxia, and one patient died. www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes... #IDSky

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Characteristics of Patients Hospitalized with Measles ...

This report describes characteristics of patients who were hospitalized during a large measles outbreak in west Texas.

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

"Kenyan Court suspends US Ebola quarantine facility plan" The saga continues www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/5/...

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Kenyan court suspends US Ebola quarantine facility plan

The plan to send Ebola-exposed US nationals to Kenya, which has no known cases of the virus, has provoked a backlash.

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European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control @ecdc.europa.eu · 27/05/2026

#ECDC is increasing its support as the Ebola disease outbreak in the DRC & Uganda continues to develop rapidly. While the risk to the general population in Europe remains 𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗬 𝗟𝗢𝗪, the current outbreak is of serious concern and not comparable with previous outbreaks. #IDsky #EpiSky #EbolaOutbreak

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Ebola disease outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda

On 17 May 2026, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the Ebola virus disease outbreak caused by Bundibugyo virus in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Uganda a Public Health Emerge...

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

This was Paul Farmer's last book before his untimely death. It paints the picture of how neglect, violence, and greed set the stage for the most devastating #Ebola outbreak in history. It deeply moved me and made more committed to making justice central to my work. Now is a great time to read it.

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