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Wonderful to see another fellowship project in pre-print!! Soooo grateful to Daisuke for shepherding this through the publication process and for teaching me soooo much along the way 😍 (h/t Abdulaziz Almulhim for finding!) . Confirms what we know but still. academic.oup.com/ofid/advance-a…

The readability of scientific articles is going steadily down. Should we thank "sounding important for the journal" for this trend? 📄Source: buff.ly/4hj40HI

Thanks Alexandre R. Marra for the opportunity to speak at the Einstein Connection's Talk! Sharing my journey as a Latin American physician and researcher in the US with students in Brazil was truly rewarding. I hope to inspire others in LATAM! FacultadMedicinaUNAM youtu.be/DKIT7yJyDNQ?si…

Hoy fueron entregados los premios Baz Prada al Servicio Social. Contenta y honrada de que mi alumna Nydia Galicia fuera una de las premiadas por un trabajo de PROA en abtcos profilácticos en cirugía. Coincide con la semana de concientizacion de la RAM #OrgullosamenteUNAM #INCAN

Match Day always reminds me how millennial (and old) I am. I got my high school entrance results from a newspaper I bought at 6 AM. Now, social media is buzzing with people holding their phones showing match results—just like I saw mine on my phone 3 years ago lol

I'm thrilled to welcome our new Stanford Infectious Diseases Fellowship fellows! We are so excited have such a talented group of physicians coming to join us next year. Stanford Medicine Infectious Diseases Stanford Department of Medicine

✨️Recent Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis #OFIDJournal Investigating Non-Penicillin Therapeutic Strategies in Syphilis Treatment Penicillin monotherapy did not outperform ceftriaxone, azithromycin, or doxycycline #idxposts academic.oup.com/ofid/article/1…

“Enhancing healthcare professionals’ adherence to hand hygiene remains a significant challenge.” We've known the importance of handwashing in healthcare for 177 years. Seriously, why is this still a challenge?

🔥New in ASHE Journal 👉 cambridge.org/core/journals/… #IDtwitter #IDxposts Cesar Arias

LLMs won’t take our jobs, but learning to work with them is the future. And no, not all LLMs are made equal! In this collab with University of Iowa Infectious Diseases Division we tested LLMs for helping infection preventionists—GPT-4 outshined GPT-3.5, Microsoft Copilot, and OpenEvidence doi.org/10.1017/ice.20…

I know this is confusing, but PCT hasnt been studied in RCTs as a DIAGNOSTIC test. It was studied as a PROGNOSTIC BIOMARKER. Several implications. 1) We don't use PCT to diagnose anything. It's not to Dx bacterial vs. viral PNA. Sensitivity/specificity are not really relevant.

As a kid, I learned from a friend in Michoacan, Mexico, how to make bricks. It was fun. Since completing my medical training, I realized that it is a high-risk activity for infections, but there is almost no data on it. So I wrote this paper: academic.oup.com/annweh/advance…

Bayesian reasoning is fun.

Up to 79% of providers order blood cultures without evaluating the patient first—lots of room to improve! Honored to collaborate on this national study, led by Johns Hopkins, exploring blood culture practices across 8 US academic institutions. doi.org/10.1017/ice.20…

Blood culture positivity may help determine appropriate blood culture use for individual hospital unit types. ja.ma/40zH0y1

Check out our latest publication in JAMA Network Open, led by Valeria Fabre, with contributions from many great collaborators! Using data from 48 hospitals across 19 states and DC, we analyzed 362,327 BCs. Setting a minimum threshold can help address concerns in BCx stewardship!

Facing the blood culture shortage, we implemented an order alert and restricted repeat cultures within 72 hours to high-yield indications. Spearheaded by our incredible micro lab and supported by our 2-year stewardship initiative, details here: doi.org/10.1128/jcm.01…