McPhillips MD
@MCPhillipsMD
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Fellow emeritus. ID Doc LARP'ing as a scientist. My favorite antibiotic is Bactrim (doxy-curious though). Sucker for a good data visualization.
Boston, MA
Joined October 2010
COVID-19 really broke America. The Failure of Life Expectancy to Fully Rebound to Prepandemic Levels
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RT @1996ID4: Full video of President Whitmore’s speech from Area 51 little more than a half hour ago:
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RT @Astro_Ayers: Just. Wow. As we went over Mexico and the U.S. this morning, I caught this sprite. Sprites are TLEs or Transient Luminous….
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RT @Atul_Gawande: STAGGERING: This new study of 133 countries is the first to estimate the impact of all USAID’s work. In 2 decades, it sav….
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RT @ABsteward: How much evidence is needed to revise established clinical practices? and, can data alone truly catalyze such shifts?.Our 🆕🔥….
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We already modify media for antibiotic susceptibility testing for certain antibiotics (ex dapto, cefiderocol) to get more actuate results. It stands to reason that certain antibiotic resistance mechanisms (like MBLs) may also require modifications in the media to be accurate.
The study confirm that traditional testing mischaracterizes strains as resistant when they are actually susceptible to CAZ in nutritionally depleted media in vitro & effective in treating infection in vivo. These results suggest that CAZ may remain an effective therapeutic option.
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RT @ABsteward: The results of this study call into question the accuracy of susceptibility testing for organisms containing MBLs when condu….
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RT @ABsteward: 🆕🌟Super interesting!.IDSA guidance recommend against the use of CAZ for the treatment of S. maltophilia.Ceftazidime retains….
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LOL! Ok…. good luck with that….
Waymo, a company that offers self-driving car rides in Austin, Los Angeles, Phoenix, and San Francisco, has announced that they are coming to Boston this month to begin mapping streets in the hopes of offering driverless rides in the near future.
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RT @BradSpellberg: Wow! If anyone ever doubts the power of crowd sourcing, look at the vaccine RCT table that has been built already, in un….
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RT @BioMickWatson: Two journals tried paying peer reviewers and found increased acceptance, earlier reports, and no change in quality. WH….
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This watches like a horror movie where the protagonist is waking into a trap. I just kept yelling “stop… stop!…STOP!”.
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RT @OKWildlifeDept: wtf (where is the fish?).rbf (resting bass face).lol (lot of ladybugs).lmao (letting my armadillos out).omg (oh my gar).
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lol this simulation is a bit too absurd.
I can’t believe this needs to be said. TransGENIC mice . are not . TransGENDER mice.
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Based on this figure it looks like I should be prescribing Toyota Corollas to my patients.
Lifestyle is a stronger predictor of aging and mortality than genetics. A new Nature study of ~500,000 people found:.🎯 17% of mortality variation was linked to lifestyle (exposome). 🧬 <2% of was explained by genetics. Here’s what you need to know 👇🧵 1/10
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RT @Contagion_Live: From our winter issue: Matthew Phillips, MD, PhD, discusses the rise of these infections, the need to understand what w….
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Hands down my favorite treatment of extensively drug-resistant organisms is nitrofurantoin.
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