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Mashup Score: 0Fluconazole Failure in the Treatment of Coccidioidal Meningitis - 2 year(s) ago
Introduction: Coccidioidal meningitis (CM) is the most lethal form of disseminated coccidioidomycosis. Current guidelines recommend fluconazole as initial therapy but there has been a paucity of data regarding failure of fluconazole and optimal fluconazole dosage in the treatment of CM. We conducted this study to understand risk factors for fluconazole failure. Methods: We conducted a…
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Mashup Score: 4Case 21-2022: A 17-Year-Old Girl with Fever and Cough | NEJM - 2 year(s) ago
Case Records of the Massachusetts General Hospital from The New England Journal of Medicine — Case 21-2022: A 17-Year-Old Girl with Fever and Cough
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⚾️Steroids decrease lvls of ANCA-producing B cells, plasma cells, & plasma blasts, & blocks the priming of PMNs 🥎Cyclophosphamide targets ANCA-producing plasma cells 🎾Rituximab targets ANCA-producing B cells I did not make this connection until now! https://t.co/u4mQrXJ2qZ
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Mashup Score: 1mRNA vaccination decreases COVID-19-associated morbidity and mortality among organ transplant recipients: a contemporary cohort study - 2 year(s) ago
AbstractBackground. Organ transplant recipients (OTR) are less protected from vaccination than immunocompetent hosts. Additional vaccine doses have shown increa
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Great study showing reduced mortality and hospitalization among patients with SOT who receive mRNA #COVID19 vaccinations (>3 doses are better) @OFIDJournal https://t.co/Pthxa7TV0g
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Mashup Score: 0
Abstract. Social media is an increasingly popular forum for medical education. Many educators, including those in infectious diseases, are now creating and shar
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Very nice follow up to this OFID paper by @swinndong @LeMiguelChavez @NNolanMD @MDdreamchaser @WendyStead5 https://t.co/zNB3SQntKU https://t.co/aELJMxiNDh
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Mashup Score: 6Medical Education in the Digital Era—A New Paradigm for Acquiring Knowledge and Building Communities - 2 year(s) ago
article Medical Education in the Digital Era—A New Paradigm for Acquiring Knowledge and Building Communities
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RT @AmitGoyalMD: 🤔The future of #MedEd? ➡️A harmony between traditional foundations & digital modalities. 🔗https://t.co/N3dMGu88CN Prou…
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Mashup Score: 4
AbstractBackground. Online resources and social media have become increasingly ubiquitous in medical education. Little is known about the need for educational r
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I learned a lot being a part of this research and writing group. We hope the results are helpful to those thinking about incorporating digital education into their curriculum https://t.co/zy5oZh5lH5 https://t.co/60yqm7Tb5E
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Mashup Score: 0Fellows National Call: Mentoring - 2 year(s) ago
IDSA Fellows Subcommittee National Call – Mentoring. Listen to a panel discussion on mentoring featuring Talia Swartz, MD, PhD from Mount Sinai; Matifadza Hlatshwayo Davis, MD, MPH, Director of Health for the City of St. Louis; and Jennifer Spicer, MD, MPH from Emory University. Fellows National Call: Mentoring from IDSA on Vimeo. …
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For those that missed the IDSA Fellows call regarding mentorship, here is the recording! Jam packed with wisdom and pearls for everyone @MatiH_ID @JenniferSpicer4 @taliaswartz @IDSAInfo @ID_fellows https://t.co/NVasrFozve
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Mashup Score: 1Belgian case of Monkeypox virus linked to outbreak in Portugal - 2 year(s) ago
Philippe Selhorst1 & Antonio Mauro Rezende1, Tessa de Block1, Sandra Coppens1, Hilde Smet1, Joachim Mariën2, Anne Hauner1, Isabel Brosius1, Laurens Liesenborghs1, Emmanuel Bottieau1, Eric Florence1, Eugene Bangwen1, Kevin K Ariën1,2, Marjan Van Esbroeck1, Chris Kenyon1, Koen Vercauteren1 1 Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium 2 University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium …
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1/3 Some very encouraging preliminary data from 2 countries, Portugal and Belgium https://t.co/wPjsbnf0AW https://t.co/6Qpk52FIXy
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The cases point to possible sexual transmission of this cousin of smallpox — a previously unknown method of spread for monkeypox.
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1/14 I did not think I would need to know much about #Monkeypox until now. So I did some reading and thought I would share some information with folks (Tweet 8 has a helpful chart!) https://t.co/Z8ggoVCYHy
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Mashup Score: 1Transmission | Monkeypox | Poxvirus | CDC - 2 year(s) ago
Veterinarian Transmission. Monkeypox is a viral disease that occurs mostly in central and western Africa. It is called monkeypox because it was first identified in laboratory monkeys. However, it is much more common among animals such as rats, mice, rabbits, and the African Squirrel.
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3/ Although it was first detected in monkeys (hence, the name monkeypox), the natural reservoir is actually from RODENTS (squirrels, rats, mice) https://t.co/UkEMrynBbE https://t.co/kcD9zfXPyN
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Fluconazole Failure in the Treatment of Coccidioidal Meningitis @JoF_MDPI There was high failure rates with both fluc 400 and fluc 800mg dosing! https://t.co/zk6OkKt0TK