Johns Hopkins Division of Infectious Diseases
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We're committed to combating infectious diseases through research, patient care, prevention, and education.
Joined September 2019
Counting down to the Pamela Tucker Course on Transplant & Oncology Infectious Diseases convening in Washington, DC, Sept 8-9. Learn more from course director @ShohamTxID . Register here by September 2!.
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Morning Read: Multicenter Evaluation of Antibiotic Use and Antibiotic Stewardship Programs in Latin American Hospitals.
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Higher-level ASP implementation in Latin American HCFs correlated with better compliance with AU guidelines and decreased the use of vancomycin in the intensive care unit, supporting the need to...
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Morning Read: Loss of the PPE71-esxX-esxY-PPE38 locus drives adaptive transcriptional responses and hypervirulence of Mycobacterium TB lineage 2.
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Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M.tb) is remarkable for its immense global disease burden and low mutation rate. Despite strong selective pressure, M.tb shows frequent deletions at the PPE71-38 locus,...
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Morning Read: Prolonged antiretroviral therapy use and hypertension.
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PLHIV on long-term ART have a higher burden of hypertension, highlighting the need for enhanced screening and integrated management in HIV programs.
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Johns Hopkins ID Transplant and Oncology Infectious Diseases Team represent at World Transplant Congress 2025! @ShohamTxID @jobadd @CMDurandMD @KatesOlivia @HIV_TID @AndrewKaraba .#WTC2025
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ID in the News: @PaulPauwaert discusses diagnosing #lymedisease .A new test for Lyme disease that helps lead to a more accurate result early in the infection? One company is working on it.
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A new test for Lyme disease that helps lead to a more accurate result early in the infection? One company is working on it.
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Morning Read: Patient experiences of TB treatment deferral after trace Xpert Ultra result.
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Most PWTS in our study reported a low self-perceived likelihood of having or developing tuberculosis and low anxiety during follow up. Deferring treatment for PWTS is acceptable to most patients when...
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Morning Read: A BALB/c mouse model of Mycobacterium abscessus lung infection based on once-weekly cyclophosphamide administration.
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Mycobacterium abscessus is a fast-growing non-tuberculous mycobacterium that can cause chronic lung disease leading to rapid decline in lung function. There are no FDA-approved therapies for this...
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Morning Read: Post-treatment time to symptom resolution and associated factors in a cohort of Ugandan men with urethral discharge syndrome.
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Delayed TTR was associated with prior UDS episodes. Negative tests for common curable STIs were associated with delayed TTR suggesting the possible role of other infectious or non-infectious etiolo...
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Morning Read: "It makes all the sense in the world": A qualitative evaluation of patient perspectives on implementation outcomes of a peer-facilitated integrated infectious disease and substance use care model.
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A peer-facilitated integrated infectious disease/SUD care model was regarded as acceptable, appropriate, and effective in improving outcomes for patients with SUD accessing infectious disease care....
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RT @HopkinsMedNews: Congratulations to Kelly Gebo (@kgebo), @HopkinsMedicine @JHMed_ID prof of med & epidemiology & dep dir of @ictrjhu, wh….
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RT @HopkinsMedNews: On Nat'l Zero HIV Stigma Day (7/22), @JHMed_ID remembers Ryan White, the US teen whose fight to attend school with tran….
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Morning Read: Parallel use of low-complexity automated nucleic acid amplification tests on respiratory and stool samples with or without lateral flow lipoarabinomannan assays to detect pulmonary tuberculosis disease in children.
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Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) WHO, TB Prevention, Diagnosis, Treatment, Care & Innovation (PCI), Global TB Programme REGISTRATION:...
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Morning Read: Parallel use of low-complexity automated nucleic acid amplification tests and lateral flow urine lipoarabinomannan assays to detect tuberculosis disease in adults and adolescents living with HIV.
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Internal sources: Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK External sources: Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), UK. Project number 300342-104; WHO, TB Prevention, Diagnosis,...
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Morning Read: Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society and the Journal of Infectious Diseases Collaboration: The First Fruits From a New Tree.
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Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society and the Journal of Infectious Diseases Collaboration: The First Fruits From a New Tree
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Morning Read: The KasA inhibitor JSF-3285 improves the sterilizing activity of bedaquiline-pretomanid-containing regimens in a mouse model of tuberculosis.
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JSF-3285 is a promising preclinical candidate for tuberculosis that potently targets the Mycobacterium tuberculosis β-ketoacyl-ACP synthase KasA. In mouse models of acute, sub-acute, chronic, and...
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Morning Read: Noninterruptive tool to support provider malnutrition documentation and minimize documentation queries.
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We have demonstrated that introducing and promoting this electronic documentation tool can reduce querying for malnutrition while preserving diagnostic coding.
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