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🆕💫 @CMIJournal Establishing Core Competencies for Antimicrobial Stewardship Teams: A Consensus Development Using the Modified Delphi Technique; an ESGAP position paper #IDXposts clinicalmicrobiologyandinfection.com/article/S1198-…

mdpi.com/2079-6382/14/1… A Longer Duration of Intravenous Antibiotic Treatment for Patients with Early Periprosthetic Joint Infections Is Not Associated with a Lower Failure Rate @ABsteward

Congratulations to IDM Associate Member, Anna Happel on her well-deserved selection for @womenlifthealth's Inaugural Southern Africa Leadership Journey!

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.

We love these words from @GottliebTom - your @ASIDANZ friends and colleagues are bursting with pride!

Read about the great work of @inspired2leadQH @AngelaD_ZA and @ABpreservation here 👏🏻👏🏻🇿🇦🇿🇦 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27312577/ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38945432/

🔥 📝 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 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39872681/

🆕🔥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 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

#WAAW2024 - importance of hand hygiene in #IPC to ⬇️ spread of bacteria in hospitals where antibioitc resistance #AMR is at its greatest If Alcohol-based handrub had been used properly, it would have looked like its soap & water counterpart. 🙏 to our amazing microbiologists!

👏👏👏 @ABpreservation and all in C18 at GSH

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/antimicrobial-…

Neonatal #antibiotic use slashed in multi-disciplinary SA project medicalbrief.co.za/neonatal-antib… via @MedicalBriefZA 😃 @inspired2leadQH @ABpreservation @AngelaD_ZA Great press release!

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 clinicalmicrobiologyandinfection.com/article/S1198-…

🆕️⚡️⚡️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 journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…

Visual abstract of 1st NICU #antibiotic stewardship study in all of Africa w 437 pharmacist interventions @ISID_org

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 🇮🇳 wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/9-400

Each year, five million deaths are associated with antimicrobial resistance, more than from HIV, TB, and malaria combined. #IDXposts @bmj_latest bmj.com/content/386/bm…

🏥Healthcare as a driver, reservoir and amplifier of antimicrobial resistance published in @NatureRevMicro rdcu.be/dONJM @DerekCocker_ @jesusrodman @RahAhmad @SupraChemina @CAMO_Net1 ⬇️Opportunities for interventions ⬇️

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 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

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: doi.org/10.1093/jacamr… @OUPMedicine @OxfordJournals #JACAMRNews