Sam Starke
@sam_starke
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PGY5 | Infectious Disease Fellow at Rush-Cook County | by way of @OslerResidency and @UWSMPH | In Chicago, but always #BucksinSix #GoPackGo
Joined August 2012
This was a memorable case from my first year of fellowship. Excited to see it highlighted in @NEJM!
A 52-year-old man with a history of splenectomy and hypogammaglobulinemia after CAR T-cell therapy for lymphoma 3 years earlier was admitted with septic shock. Encapsulated diplococci were seen in 20% of neutrophils. Read the full case details in the Images in Clinical
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Weekend Briefing for October 11, 2025: New Images in Clinical Medicine: Pneumococcal Sepsis in Asplenia and Hypogammaglobulinemia https://t.co/fr1aKuFxj8 Three New Perspectives: 1️⃣ Digital Treatment to Reduce Global Tobacco Use https://t.co/lTU1jNPMGh 2️⃣ Surveillance of
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Digital tobacco-cessation treatments hold great promise. But dedicated efforts will be required to promote access to and adoption of effective cessation tools globally.
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🔥Hot off the Press!🔥 Just published in @CIDJournal, our 2024 update to the @HIVMA @IDSAInfo HIV Primary Care Guidance! Please share widely. https://t.co/3ixEE0V0nS
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Abstract. Advances in antiretroviral therapy (ART) have made it possible for persons with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) to have a lifespan that approa
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My first 2 wks in ID clinic: ✅Disseminated leishmaniasis ✅C. acnes pericarditis ✅Tx-refractory giardia ✅Echinococcal liver abscess ✅Pulmonary blasto ✅FUO with granulomatous LAD ➕becoming PCP for several patients with new dx of HIV. Crazy how much there is to learn! 🤯
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Thank you @maunankshah1 and to the study participants for helping us demonstrate how interactive decision support can improve confidence with latent TB care. If you haven't seen LTBI-Assist ( https://t.co/4B5lwfvtrU), check it out!
Compared to receiving guidelines alone, LTBI-ASSIST,(free online decision-support tool) improved trainees' confidence with aspects of Latent TB care and their ability to make guideline-concordant clinical decisions. By @sam_starke, @maunankshah1 and team! https://t.co/Fmxl5xkEhJ
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Our findings suggest that Erythema Migrans rashes are routinely missed and/or misdiagnosed in persons with skin of color. This highlights the need for increased skin tone diversity in clinical education materials for frontline health care providers.
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In our sample, we found that Black patients with Lyme Disease (compared to white patients) had higher odds of disseminated manifestations at diagnosis, experienced longer time to adequate treatment, and were more likely to have received a course of inappropriate antibiotics.
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Special thanks to my mentors at the Johns Hopkins Lyme Disease Research Center, @aucott_john, Alison Rebman, and John Miller. @HopkinsMedicine Here is our work detailing key racial disparities in the early diagnosis and treatment of Lyme Disease. https://t.co/GmgcLhcBNJ
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This cross-sectional study compares stages at which Lyme disease was diagnosed by race in a specialty clinic in the US.
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Milwaukee, 36 years ago today The @Bucks defeat the Soviet Union 127-100 in the USSR’s first basketball game against an NBA team.
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Had a great time at my first ID Week with some of my favorite people in the @OslerResidency! @benjohnsonbcj
#IDWeek2023
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Why not? Because they didn’t ask why? Why would a 35F have HFrEF? Why was she not improving? Getting to the why is at the core of being a good diagnostician, internist, generalist, and patient advocate
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Excited to spend the next month working with the Perinatal HIV Research Unit (PHRU) at Tsephong Hospital in Klerksdorp, SA.
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Two years running!
This is my annual reminder... If you listen closely. Tonight at 2AM you will hear a reverberating F#*K emanating from all teaching hospitals as residents have to endure an extra hour on call.
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I could not have asked for a better team to help me write up a puzzling case from my intern year on Janeway! Many thanks to @TijanaTuhy , Dannielle Brown, Ardian Latifi, and @mstreif1
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#POCUS infographic of the day: Algorithmic approach to RUSH Exam (Rapid #Ultrasound for Shock and Hypotension) #MedTwitter #FOAMed Courtesy: 🔗 https://t.co/h3sTwhrkH1
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I bet we can make it rain lava here, too, if you give us another 30 or 40 years of just ruining everything
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