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🧫 Register now for the upcoming live CE webinar for pharmacists and lab professionals to discuss @CLSI_LabNews M100 2026 Updates 🔬🥼 When: Thursday, April 30, 12-1:30 PM CT 💰FREE for ACCP ID PRN, SIDP, and CLSI members! Register here: sidp.org/event-6588480

Who has made moves to remove routine atypical coverage for your non-severe CAP patients? #IDXPosts

6/ Take home: Oral β-lactams = viable option for cUTIs—including bacteremia ✔️ If patients are appropriately selected AND dosing is optimized It’s time to rethink the idea that oral β-lactams = “inferior.” ➡️ With the right approach, they can be an effective & safer alternative.

5/ 🦠 Stewardship implications: ✅ FQ-sparing strategy
✅ Expands oral step-down options
✅ Supports more targeted, safer therapy ⚖️ Limitations: 🔸 Mostly observational data
🔸 PK variability across agents
🔸 Optimal dosing strategies still evolving ➡️ More RCTs needed

New review & point-counterpoint @JACCPJournal: Can oral β-lactams compete with fluoroquinolones or TMP/SMX for complicated UTIs? 
Safety concerns & rising resistance limit the use of FQs & TMP/SMX ➡️ Clinicians need effective, safer oral alternatives accpjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ph…

🆕⚡⚡@TheTxIDjournal by 🌟s @HannahImlay @BradSpellberg Shorter is better: The case for short antibiotic courses for common infections in solid organ transplant recipients @MichaelGIsonMD @AST_IDCOP @AST_info #TxID #IDTwitter #MedEd #IDWeek2022 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ti…

Infectious disease management is evolving. New guidelines & evidence are changing how we treat CAP and uUTIs, including duration of therapy and IV vs oral decisions. This session breaks down key updates and real-world clinical conundrums for pharmacists across care settings. Purchase now: ow.ly/XKhG50Y9WVe

More strides in the penicillin allergy world 🌎 check it out!

Register now and join the learning and fun at the MAD-ID & SIDP 2026 Annual Meeting, May 14–17! buff.ly/0v2rJnt @SHEA_Epi @CIDRAP @PIDSociety @accpinfdprn @aahivmcomm @ALInfectDis

As we wrap up the Women's👩‍🦰History Month 🗓️, let's take a moment to recognize the women👩‍🦰 worked tireless to bring our profession💊 to where it is today, and to the women👩‍🦰who made an impact on our own journeys🙏. #AIgenerated

Pertussis, or #WhoopingCough, is a common cause of severe and prolonged cough in adults in the US. 💡 Learn more about the epidemiology, transmission, and risk factors for pertussis in this JAMA Insights: ja.ma/4lVnR2z

A recent systematic review and meta-analysis concluded that inhaled antibiotics enhance clinical and microbiological cure in ventilator-associated pneumonia 🫁 journals.lww.com/ccmjournal/abs… Do you use this treatment modality in practice?🤔

🔥Check out this new, great update on C. auris management! #Cauris #IDXposts

Don’t miss the opportunity to join leading voices in ID practice at the inaugural MAD-ID & SIDP Annual Meeting! 💥 May 14-17 in Orlando, FL 💥 Interactive classroom sessions 💥 Hands-on workshops 💥 Early bird registration ends April 14 Register here: madid-sidp26.eventscribe.net/index.asp

Happy #ADEAwarenessDay! DYK that fluoroquinolones (FQ) have a 6-fold increase in panic attacks per a recent FAERS analysis (academic.oup.com/jac/article/81…)? Due to the many black box warnings of FQs, they should be avoided when other oral antibiotics can be used to treat an infection.

🎊 @ESCMID Social Save the Date! Traveling to ESCMID Global 2026 and wanting to meet up with other pharmacists and friends of pharmacy? Join us! When: Monday, April 20th, from 18:30-21:30 Where: Löwenbräukeller in Munich Please contact Erin McCreary 👩‍🔬 with questions!

🔥Just published🔥 Surviving Sepsis Campaign: International Guidelines for Management of Sepsis and Septic Shock 2026 : Critical Care Medicine #IDXposts share.google/VN4AfbchzDiRr7…