🔥Happy 1st week of July! Check out the newest case of FUO...on flea-k in this week's episode!
The team fr UTHealth Houston + Children's Memorial Hermann Hosp includes
#GabySegura
#MistiEllsworth
#MichaelChang
🎙️Subscribe anywhere podcasts are found!
1/ We didn’t cover all of this in Ep.4, but the case is a good reminder to think about the various imaging findings in liver infection
Knowing the defining features & ddx of liver abscess; hydatid cysts; and mult small nodules is very useful!
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1/ Looking broadly at NTM disease
4 clinical syndromes:
🫁pulm
🧣lymphadenitis (cervical lymphadenitis is predominant in peds!)
🦵SSTI, bone/joint dz
🧍disseminated inf in immunocompromised hosts
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Stay tuned in coming days for more graphics and links!
1⃣more graphic!
⭐️What is miliary?
🫁What's on the ddx? TB is highlighted here for a reason, but there are other causes! Don't forget to use the host immune status in your problem representation when filtering which infections might be more or less probable
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🚨🚧COMING SOON!
Febrile is a new podcast that will use case-based learning to explore ID clinical reasoning and management!
Afterwards, you'll be able to check the website for "Consult Notes" with summaries, infographics, and links from the show.
Follow here for updates!
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Tired of being confused by syphilis serologies?!
Want more info on who needs an LP?
To complement our newest episode, here are some infographics & pearls about syphilis covered by Khalil Ghanem and
@ZachLorenzMD
in this 🧵
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#IDMedEd
@ID_fellows
@MedTweetorials
While we await the
#IDWeek2023
episode, how about checking out the prior 2-parter on resistant gram negative infections with
@HawraAllawati
and
@pranita_tamma
?
Ep76 (ampC, EBSL):
Ep77 (CRE):
Why did the fungus send flowers 💐 to his mom?
It was the yeast he could do!
A classic Clin Micro Rev for
#IDFellows
to save on Histopath Dx of fungal infections from Guarner & Brandt:
Here are some charts reproduced below from that review 👇
So thrilled to announce Febrile's partnership with
@IDSAInfo
!! Thank you to IDSA for sponsoring and helping to produce and expand the Febrile platform and mission!
We look forward to continuing to bring you up-to-date and fun learning episodes about our amazing specialty of ID!
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Rash + tache noire or eschar + fever → think vector-borne dz!
Reposting a compare/contrast guide of a few infections below
Keep scrolling to find links to some tweetorials on these infections
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#MedTwitter
IDSA is pleased to announce our partnership w/
@febrilepodcast
! Febrile uses consult questions to dive into ID clinical reasoning, diagnostics and antimicrobial management.
We look forward this partnership and expanding awareness about the field of ID.
#ValueofID
Fungal markers can be tough, but gl-YOU-can do it!
Need a summary chart when thinking about BDG and GM? 👀👇
What other tips does
#IDTwitter
have?
Check out episode 2 to hear more about BDG in a clinical case:
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1/ We covered a MASH of pearls during the most recent episode with
@SAIRABT
! Let's take a look at some of those points with some new (and prior)
@febrilepodcast
graphics!
For example, what
@ID_fellows
hasn't gotten called about rabies?! Check out this refresher
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In the newest Febrile Digest, we chat about SCORTCH as a framework for congenital infections. Check out our guest's overview:
Some nice figs below fr the paper 👇
But where did "TORCH" come fr? I tried to take a look in this 🧵
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You can roughly divide a post-transplant course into 3 time periods of infection risk by🦠:
🕐1st mo
🕓1-6 mo
🕖>6 mo
This helps:
🩺ddx if concern for infection
💊design abx ppx
🌹consider epi risks
Classic ref:
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#TxID
The most recent episode focuses on TB meningitis, but here is a quick overview of the 3 forms of CNS TB!
1⃣Tuberculoma
2⃣Spinal arachnoiditis
3⃣TBM
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#IDMedEd
Happy new year! Thanks for listening and sharing Febrile for another year. As the holidays wrap up and you are getting back into the swing of things, take a listen to one of the top 10 episodes so far!
We're hard at work on episodes for 2024!
🔥
@marcelaaos
is back with another group of lovely infographics!! Keep scrolling to learn about histo!
First, Histo is NOT just in Ohio!
A nice review article to save on re-drawing endemic mycoses maps:
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#IDMedEd
#MedTwitter
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Our newest episode is out -- here is a nice overview to get us started but stay tuned for more graphics from
@Marcelaaos
!
Will post some links to papers as well. If you can't wait 🤓, you can always check out !
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#IDMedEd
#PedsID
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O🐟al guide to scombroid and ciguatera poisoning!
Keep scrolling to find links to some
#IDTwitter
tweetorials on this, but also more on other seafood related toxins!!
#IDMedEd
#MedTwitter
Master endocarditis! Don’t feel thwarted by a positive set of blood cultures. We’re joined by Dr. David Serota (
@serotavirus
) for a discussion of the pathophysiology of infective endocarditis, frameworks for work-up and diagnosis & more
#MedEd
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Did you know the name malaria comes from the medieval Italian term mal' aria, or "bad air"? Hence the name of our recent episode!
🦟Check out this graphic on malaria to pair with our podcast listen!
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#IDMedEd
#TropMed
#IDboardreview
#microrounds
🌡️Welcome to all the new ID fellows getting started this wk! We have some summer episodes focused on fever in a returning traveler!
🔥Join
@shilpa_vasishta
&
@Coyle_CM
in the newest episode "Bad Air"
👂Subscribe anywhere🎙️are found
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#IDMedEd
1/Nuclear med imaging can be a resource in the dx of complicated infections, such as in our episode w/
@tara_vijayan
!
Check out this review of the utility of nucmed for 5 common ID syndromes: DFO, V-OM, PJI, graft inf, FUO➡️
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#IDMedEd
Table 1 👇
😍WOW! I spy a super⭐️
@Marcelaaos
shout-out from
@DrNeilStone
at
#ECCMID22
for her leptospirosis teaching 🧵 and graphics!!
Check it out some of her graphics below or find the whole collection at the website page for episode 12:
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Tried to put the notes on TB meningitis diagnostics into one graphic. The real key though is having a clinical suspicion in the right setting given our limitations in available testing!
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Episode 2 covered some of the questions to ask when patients are not improving on antimicrobials
Here is a handy summary you can save to help teach about this while on consults!👇
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1/ Dx of pulm NTM disease is based on a combo of clin criteria + micro assessment
🚨Isolation of NTM in 1 sputum cx w/o clinical & rad features does NOT establish a diagnosis of pulm dz !
🚨Just bc pt meets dx criteria does not necessarily = need for abxs
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A few notes on Fusobacterium necrophorum and the micro of Lemierre's syndrome!
Check out next tweet for links to a few papers
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#PedsID
In our most recent ep,
@MariAleMendozaD
& John Wilson cover another case of miliary infiltrates! Bringing back this graphic from ep27 for the ddx of this pattern on imaging!
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#IDMedEd
Find the episodes in your podcast player of choice:
In our newest episode,
@MedEdMomma
talked about her ddx with hepatosplenic lesions.
Here is a table summarizing some of the different morphologies of granulomas and what they might indicate!
🔗
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#IDMedEd
#PathTwitter
🫵We want your help! If you are an ID fellow or trainee interested in creating
#IDMedEd
related to 🫀 infections, please join the team!
🧫🦠Whether you are new to digital education or a seasoned pro, all are welcome to contribute making the pod and/or graphics!
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🌡️Welcome to all the new ID fellows getting started this wk! We have some summer episodes focused on fever in a returning traveler!
🔥Join
@shilpa_vasishta
&
@Coyle_CM
in the newest episode "Bad Air"
👂Subscribe anywhere🎙️are found
#IDTwitter
#IDMedEd
🔥Thrilled to announce the launch of the ⭐️StAR series!
🌟eps will feature authors of
@CIDJournal
State-of-the-Art reviews, tackling important ID topics! Check out the intro w/CID editors
@PaulSaxMD
@tara_vijayan
#AllanTunkel
Coming up➡️stay tuned for 4 straight wks of StARs!!
Woohoo that
#FungalFriday
looks yummy!🍩
Love hearing about how you can use Febrile out in the wild! This infographic definitely seems to be favorite 🙂🍄🍄
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Have you checked out the most recent episode? A reminder about some of the clinical features that help suspect a hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae infection!
Listen to hear more:
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Hi Febrile friends!!
Want some Febrile merch? A microbe mug🦠☕️? A tote for your Sanford Guide? 🤓Check it out!!!
*I only have a limited supply for the lanyards for now until the next order comes in, so get them while they last!!
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#IDMedEd
Did you check out the newest episode on culture neg endocarditis?
I tried to put
@VarunPhadke2
's great framework into a graphic below!
1⃣should've been cx+
2⃣could be +
3⃣will never be+
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Or listen to a clip in the next tweet !!
Febrile lanyards will be on sale for the next 2 wks (just $5!), while they last. After this sale, you'll only be able to get them at special occasions/conferences where I can attend!
Great gift for new ID fellows! Or a place to show off your
@IDFellowsCup
pin :)
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🚨🎙️New episode-Sailor's Salutation!
🧪Become a syphilologist w/
@ZachLorenzMD
& Khalil Ghanem - master those serologies! confirm who needs an LP!
👂Subscribe anywhere podcasts are found
💜Share with friends!
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#IDMedEd
#IDfellows
Check out a summary page on adenovirus in SOT recipients 👇
Adeno in this setting can have wide spectrum of disease but often involves the allograft, like in episode 3
Check out more here from
@AST_IDCOP
:
@dfflorescu
@jschaenman
@nikkitheomd
🚨🎙️New episode!
🧪Join
@SAIRABT
as we cover some
#IDMedEd
resources/preparing for boards and a few pearls!
👂Subscribe anywhere podcasts are found
💜Share with friends!
#IDTwitter
#IDfellows
3/
We talked about the big 3 orgs to remember with eosinophilic meningitis = ABG! Some notes on those infections + a list of other possible causes of eos meningitis
Check out links to some tweetorials on these infections:
🎙️Episode 3 now available!
🤓Join our guest
@nikkitheomd
as she takes us through our first
#TxID
episode!
👂Subscribe anywhere podcasts are found:
💛Share with friends and let us know what you think!
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To metro or not to metro?
@AnuHazraMD
mentioned the ACE trial on ep.5 and here is a quick visual summary of this key study supporting anaerobic coverage with metro in acute PID
Link to paper:
A graphic from
@EAMerchant
on the classic genital ulcer ddx!
As
@AnuHazraMD
reminded you in ep.5, disease doesn't always read the textbook though (such as syphilitic chancres that become superinfected and painful or non-painful HSV ulcers)
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Did you catch my hidden message in the episode title? c...g...d?!
Here is a summary chart of the top 5 CGD organisms (in North America)...with a few extras at the bottom
Read more here:
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#IDMedEd
#MedTwitter
#PedsID
#MedPeds
🔥Check out our newest episode featuring return guests
@CesarGBerto
&
@Coyle_CM
discussing management of cysts in the 🧠 (you can guess the organism by the description and cover art!)
👂Subscribe anywhere🎙️are found
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#IDMedEd
#MedTwitter