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Methylene blue is the new ivermectin.* * - A drug which cures everything despite having no evidence to support its use outside of a few well-defined clinical scenarios.

📢 Thread: The Mechanism of Action of Glucocorticoids (GCs) – A Deep Dive 🧵 We all use steroids regularly to control inflammation. One day, I asked my intern: “What is the mechanism of steroids?” 🤔 He confidently replied, “They are anti-inflammatory.” Curious, I asked more

Effects of cancer therapy on AMR Cisplatin➡️cross-resistance to FQ (target bacterial DNA) Methotrexate➡️dihydrofolate reductase mutations➡️co-select for β-lactams/AG/fosfo resistance Anthracyclines➡️efflux pump expression Etoposide➡️oxidative stress➡️gyrA mutations

New article published : Vaccination strategies for solid organ transplant candidates and recipients: insights and recommendations tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… #vaccines #organtransplant Camille Nelson Kotton

The Fourth International Consensus Guidelines on the Management of CMV in SOT🧬📄 A key resource with updated strategies for prevention, diagnosis & treatment. 🔗journals.lww.com/transplantjour… #Transplantation #CMV #IDTwitter

Comparative effect of different corticosteroids in severe community-acquired pneumonia: a network meta-analysis ⭐11 RCT, 2042 participants ⭐Only hydrocortisone was significantly more effective at ⬇️mortality than placebo. It also ⬇️the need for MV. doi.org/10.1186/s12890…

🔥🔥 New publication from Emine Alp Meşe🇹🇷 European Committee on Infection Control ESCMID "Prioritizing isolation precautions: a patient-centered approach to infection prevention and control" Gonzalo Bearman SHEA ASHE Journal @ESCMID Read more: cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Check out this new scheme for Class D b-lactamases. SAND: a comprehensive annotation of class D β-lactamases using structural alignment-based numbering | Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/aa…

Excellent 🆕💫Minireview #JCM The Staphylococcus aureus complex(SAC): implications for the clinical microbiology laboratory #IDXposts journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/jc…

🟢 An old but useful! 📜Tissue Penetration of Antifungal Agents ▶️journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/cm…

CIDS AMS and IPC subcommittee webinar on Diagnostic Stewardship, today, June 24th, 7.30 pm. Join us to discuss the "Universal problem of Urine culture and how to change the culture of Urine culture". Priya Sampathkumar

What determines who a phage can infect? We tackled this question for temperate phages of Klebsiella — a bacterial pathogen — using a genome-wide association study (GWAS) and a massive protein testing effort. 👇 A thread!

#imageoftheweek Rhizopus delemar (blue) and Klebsiella pneumoniae (yellow colour, but pink if inside the fungus.) This image shows how bacteria interact with fungi - through direct contact and interdependent relationship (endosymbiosis). Credit: Dr Corzo Leon.

WHO guidelines for clinical management of arboviral diseases: dengue, chikungunya, Zika and yellow fever (2025) who.int/publications/i…

Super interesting! 🆕💫Drug–drug interactions between tirzepatide and antiretrovirals: time to reassess and reassure? #IDXposts academic.oup.com/jac/article-ab…

The World Health Organization warned that a major chikungunya virus epidemic risks sweeping around the globe, calling for urgent action to prevent it. trib.al/AL8sb8h