Brian Potoski
131 posts
@IDProfBP
Associate Prof. Univ. of Pittsburgh || Infectious Diseases curriculum account || Pharmacist Abx Steward || Lover of coffee || U.S. Navy SELRES Officer
#VectorborneInfections is the April theme for the EID journal. You can read the articles and see this month’s cover image, The typhus louse shaking hands with Death by O. Grin (active 1919), online now. bit.ly/3F4uFGL
Lyme vaccine test completion is pushed back by a year as Pfizer, Valneva say they’ll adjust trial endpts.com/lyme-vaccine-t…
Will this change your practice for severe CAP?! 🫁 New in @NEJM: CAPE COD RCT demonstrates hydrocortisone reduces 28d mortality in patients with severe CAP! 🔹 Reduced rate of intubation 🔹 Reduced rate of vasopressor requirement Read more details here: nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…
Candida auris (C. auris), an emerging fungus considered an urgent antimicrobial resistance (AR) threat, spread at an alarming rate in U.S. healthcare facilities in 2020-2021, according to data from CDC published in @AnnalsofIM. bit.ly/42v3AXy
pitt.edu/pittwire/featu… PITT students - I love this. A reminder we are stronger when we include all voices. A lesson exemplified during WWII. Hail to Pitt. #H2P #PITT_ID23
Current pyuria cut-offs promote inappropriate UTI diagnosis in older women ✅ Just Accepted 🔓 Open Access 🔗 bit.ly/3lXyUNL
A new study reveals that vaccination reduces the likelihood of getting #longCOVID, an added benefit beyond the prevention of severe disease that should encourage those who may have been hesitant about getting vaccinated, says @PaulSaxMD. Full briefing: bit.ly/3I5YXK5
Ertapenem, unlike other carbapenems, is not an anti-pseudomonal antibiotic Why? It has a significantly more bulky moiety at the R3 position of its carbapenem backbone, resulting in a weak affinity to the PBP3 of P. aeruginosa frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…
Very interesting reading on “imprinting” #PITT_ID23
A picture is a thousand words! #PITT_ID23
"the shot did not perform any better than placebo" fiercebiotech.com/biotech/jj-pac…
Excellent poetry…all related back to ID! #PITT_ID23
Twice-Daily Oral Zinc in the Treatment of Patients With Coronavirus Disease 2019: A Randomized Double-Blind Controlled Trial 🆓 Freely Available 🔗 bit.ly/3iJ4hdt
Congratulations to Dr. Potoski (@IDProfBP) for winning the Rho Chi Innovation in Teaching Award! It is because of him that our class is able to share with one another interesting topics about infectious disease on twitter! #PITT_ID22
