Peter Simos
@peter_simos
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Infectious Diseases Physician @GC_Health. Panathinaikos supporter and football lover. Tweets are my own.
Brisbane, Queensland
Joined June 2011
Interested in hearing about any cases that anyone has encountered with the pathogen Photorhabdus asymbiotica in the last decade. Please comment if you have! #IDTwitter
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“Due to increasing fluoroquinolone resistance, trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole will be recommended as the preferred oral empiric therapy for non-severe Salmonella disease.” @SazaliBasri @HanzHc This is interesting TMP-SMX https://t.co/fc92AXRPtR
contagionlive.com
Empiric therapy for severe Salmonella disease remains effective, but fluoroquinolone resistance calls for a shift towards trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole as the preferred oral treatment for non-severe...
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People with baseline high plama HIV-1 RNA and low CD4 counts have an increased risk of RV, LLV and virol failure with every ART, also when starting INSTI and specifically DTG. These are lifelong determinants of non virol suppression #RESPOND. https://t.co/6iHvsAKDq3
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🆕️🔥🔥ICYMI 🔴 @CIDJournal
@VanceFowler5 The 2023 Duke-ISCVID Criteria for Infective Endocarditis: Updating the Modified Duke Criteria Follow me+Like it +Retweet it +DM me & I'll send you a link for full text✔️ #IDTwitter #IEwikiguidelines
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More isolates with ⬆️ voriconzaole MIC values in 2020-21. No difference in azole resistance between North QLD vs Southeast QLD acquisition 🇦🇺@burcucella @peter_simos
Aspergillus species causing invasive fungal disease in Queensland, Australia @SpringerMicBio #Mycopathologia #OpenAccess
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⛔️US FDA⛔️ Atovaquone oral suspension USP, 750 mg/5 mL by Camber Pharmaceuticals: Recall - Due to potential Bacillus cereus contamination in the product #IDTwitter
fda.gov
Camber Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is voluntarily recalling lot # E220182 of Atovaquone Oral Suspension, USP 750mg/5mL to the Consumer/User level, due to the potential Bacillus cereus contamination in the...
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🔥🔥 Now launched! Online summaries of the Australasian consensus guidelines for the use of antifungal agents in haem/onc. New: Antifungal stewardship, AND a chapter dedicated to supporting HCWs managing patients at risk for invasive fungal infections! https://t.co/R3IlezloDb
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For MSSA prosthetic valve endocarditis what is your standard antimicrobial regimen?
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Do you use Cefazolin for the treatment of Cutibacterium acnes bone and joint infection (ie when penicillin is not an option for treatment)
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💥Just Out ACTT-4 Trial👉First Double Placebo-Controlled Double-Blind Randomized-Stratified Head-to-Head #DEXAMETHASONE vs #BARICITINIB for hospitalized pts w/#COVID19 Low/High-Flow/NIV Relevant👉Patient Care/Public Health/Guidelines Our results 👇 https://t.co/4Tmue7HK7V 🧵1/4
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Excited for the return of the puscast. Such a fantastic initiative.
On the first episode of the Infectious Disease Puscast, Daniel and Sara bring Marc Crislip’s well known Puscast back to life, and present a review of the infectious disease literature for the previous two weeks, 4/13 – 4/27/22 https://t.co/r8BRWSM4NZ
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Check out our study on clinical prediction scores for IE in Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia. Time to positive culture (TTP) significantly improved all scores. Findings support the omission of echocardiography in patients with a negative VIRTSA+ score
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AbstractBackground. Infective endocarditis (IE) complicates up to a quarter of Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia (SAB) cases. Risk scores predict IE compli
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How close are we to the approval of the first oral #Carbapenem? Dear antibiotic stewards, Excited or terrified? PDUFA JUN 27, stay tuned! #IDTwitter #MedEd #TwitteRx #MedTwitter
🔥ADAPT-PO RCT🔥 @NEJM Oral Tebipenem Pivoxil(oral carbapenem) Hydrobromide Vs Ertapenem in Complicated Urinary Tract Infection #IDTwitter #MedEd #TwitteRx
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Unfortunately Sotrovimab at current dosing is not effective for ba2 as per the fda. Will be looking at this for now - however our supplies of paxlovid are good, and there is still a need for these drugs. If you are at risk please get tested https://t.co/jlhFx2UEQ2
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FDA updates Sotrovimab emergency use authorization
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Best counter-protester heckler sign ever
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Love the work from the Danish group with Chamat-Hedemand and colleagues on the risk of IE by streptococcal species. #IDtwitter #medtwitter
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