Adrian Brink
@ABpreservation
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Co-Chair South African Antibiotic Stewardship Program. Division Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town.
University of Cape town
Joined April 2015
🆕💫 @CMIJournal Establishing Core Competencies for Antimicrobial Stewardship Teams: A Consensus Development Using the Modified Delphi Technique; an ESGAP position paper #IDXposts
https://t.co/UKVAYxOxjA
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https://t.co/migUSUjSdm A Longer Duration of Intravenous Antibiotic Treatment for Patients with Early Periprosthetic Joint Infections Is Not Associated with a Lower Failure Rate @ABsteward
mdpi.com
Background: In recent years, many studies have demonstrated the efficacy of an early switch to oral antibiotics after surgical treatment in orthopedic-related infections. However, large analyses on...
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Congratulations to IDM Associate Member, Anna Happel on her well-deserved selection for @womenlifthealth's Inaugural Southern Africa Leadership Journey!
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The African Bioinformatics Institute Stakeholder meeting was held over the last 2 days in Cape Town. There was excellent engagement and and lots of ideas for the establishment of this important organization.
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We love these words from @GottliebTom - your @ASIDANZ friends and colleagues are bursting with pride!
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Read about the great work of @inspired2leadQH @AngelaD_ZA and @ABpreservation here 👏🏻👏🏻🇿🇦🇿🇦 https://t.co/YNe4cQiNKz
https://t.co/m8x18t0ke0
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🔥 📝 Multisite study public/private 🏥 in #Neonatal 💊 #stewardship 🇿🇦 on how to contextualise multidisciplinary interventions at scale @jac_amr @BSACandJAC With @inspired2leadQH @AngelaD_ZA @idpharmd @ABpreservation et al. @wellcometrust @CAMO_Net1
https://t.co/1kJN5aWt7S
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🆕🔥ROAD Study🔥🆕 Resistance Optimised Antibiotic Dosing A pilot study by @jasonroberts_pk @CMIComms Is dosing of meropenem and piperacillin-tazobactam optimised to prevent the emergence of antibiotic resistance safe and feasible in the ICU? #idxposts
https://t.co/0GbQUgDZJ1
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High rate of carbapenem resistance in bacteria that cause newborn #sepsis in Africa. More Neonatal stewardship needed! @AngelaD_ZA @ABpreservation @inspired2leadQH @gardp_amr @wellcometrust @gatesfoundation @JasonGNewland
cidrap.umn.edu
A review and meta-analysis found that the pooled prevalence of carbapenem resistance in bacteria from newborns with suspected sepsis in Africa was 30.4%.
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Neonatal #antibiotic use slashed in multi-disciplinary SA project https://t.co/eIuj1svwW6 via @MedicalBriefZA 😃 @inspired2leadQH @ABpreservation @AngelaD_ZA Great press release!
medicalbrief.co.za
After a 20-week intervention involving nearly 600 neonates, researchers found that the implementation of a prospective, multi-disciplinary antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) programme had significantly...
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Wow. It's published! Our new article that will spark some good active discussion among ID people! 🆕️🔥 @CMIJournal by ID master @BradSpellberg & 🌟s @DrToddLee @DrEmilyMcD Revisiting Diagnostics: ESR and CRP:It's Time to Stop the Zombie Tests https://t.co/W8Flt78I9L
clinicalmicrobiologyandinfection.org
The erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) and the C-reactive protein (CRP) are ubiquitously ordered, often together and serially, by clinicians seeking laboratory reassurance for managing infectious...
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🆕️⚡️⚡️Multicenter cohort study in ICUs of 15 hospitals in Australia and NZ Antibiotic De-Escalation Practices in the Intensive Care Unit Timely ADE may not occur in 40% of patients in the ICU and is less likely to occur in patients with negative cultures https://t.co/S7Q53kFphU
journals.sagepub.com
Background: There is little known about antibiotic de-escalation (ADE) practices in the intensive care unit (ICU). Objective: The objective was to determine th...
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Visual abstract of 1st NICU #antibiotic stewardship study in all of Africa w 437 pharmacist interventions @ISID_org
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Read about the #PROTEA study funded by @wellcometrust at @UCT_Research @UCTIDM and working with @OneHealthTrust @ehwoza @HispIndia #AIMS & #PGIMER Focused on intersectional research in #AMR across 🇿🇦 and 🇮🇳 https://t.co/QeOiJoGbRn
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Each year, five million deaths are associated with antimicrobial resistance, more than from HIV, TB, and malaria combined. #IDXposts @bmj_latest
https://t.co/bQmOVowdz4
bmj.com
Better water and sanitation are preventive and come with important co-benefits Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a global health problem undermining our ability to treat bacterial infections. Each...
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🏥Healthcare as a driver, reservoir and amplifier of antimicrobial resistance published in @NatureRevMicro
https://t.co/GtIsjjPhGb
@DerekCocker_ @jesusrodman @RahAhmad @SupraChemina @CAMO_Net1 ⬇️Opportunities for interventions ⬇️
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Most medical decisions are informed by diagnostic testing Excellent 🆕️⚡️commentary by @JonBaghdadi @dr_dmorgan
@CMIComms Diagnostic Tests Should be Assessed for Clinical Impact I like how they talk about procalcitonin! @BradSpellberg
#idxposts
https://t.co/TiyjN0BwIb
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Mudenda et al. provide evidence on the sale of antibiotics used in broiler chickens without a prescription in Zambia and call for improved stewardship and better regulatory enforcement: https://t.co/I6xFlBdAnr
@OUPMedicine @OxfordJournals #JACAMRNews
academic.oup.com
AbstractBackground. The irrational use of antibiotics in humans and livestock has contributed to the emergence of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). This stud
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