Yousuf Al-Abduladheem

Ghana is officially the first country to approve @UniofOxford's #malaria vaccine. The shot, known as the R21/Matrix-M malaria vaccine, achieved 77% efficacy over 12 months of follow-up in a phase 2b trial. fiercepharma.com/pharma/ghana-a…

The COVID-19 public health emergency will end on May 11, 2023. Prepare yourself for billing, telehealth, and Medicaid changes with IDSA's new "Unwinding of the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency" resource: bit.ly/41olREo

🌷 Sometimes it can be hard to tell whether your symptoms are from allergies, a common cold, or a bacterial infection. 🤧 Learn more about what #antibiotics do and do not treat. bit.ly/3FGAQkJ #BeAntibioticsAware

Fifty-six years following its discovery, #marburg virus (MARV)—a cousin to #Ebolavirus in the Filoviridae family—remains a feared pathogen with high fatality and no licensed treatments or vaccines. Recent outbreaks of the disease…lnkd.in/gUCdGYja lnkd.in/gRqM22RE

How obesity ⬆️ susceptibility / severity of infections nature.com/articles/s4136…

If you’ve ever been camping, and you came down with diarrhea, gas, cramps, bloating, and nausea, you’ve likely caught giardia. You get it through food or drinking water, or from contact with the feces of an infected person or animal. wb.md/3mUuk3i

These actions can help you avoid infectious diseases and improve your health in 2023. Choose an action to boost your health this year! Learn more: bit.ly/2BcVbNH

#Massachusetts #USA is now facing #drugresistant strains of #gonorrhoea 😨 #AntibioticResistance knows no boundaries and is an urgent threat to #globalhealth. We must tackle the issue now 👊 gardp.org/sexually-trans…

Study links acid suppressants to colonization with multidrug-resistant bacteria Data show that use of proton-pump inhibitors increased hospital patients' risk of acquiring MDR organisms by nearly 50% ow.ly/7AhB50N1eTw #AMR #AntibioticStewardship

#DYK? Through our #AntimicrobialResistance Investment Map, users can view CDC’s domestic and global AR & infection prevention and control activities. Find out what’s happening in your state or country: arinvestments.cdc.gov

Worst in USA: In 2021, 102 newborns in Mississippi were treated for the sexually transmitted disease, up from 10 in 2016 -- a more than 900% jump over 5 yrs. Increases death risks for babies in the state with the nation’s worst infant mortality rate. nbcnews.com/news/us-news/c…

Did you know that antidepressants are one of the most prescribed drugs? 👀 And that they can induce #AntibioticResistance? 😨 Read the @PNASNews article on the matter. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… #AMR #drugresistance #globalhealth

S. aureus bloodstream infections remain an important cause of morbidity in hemodialysis patients, with rates 100 times higher in hemodialysis patients than among adults not on hemodialysis during 2017–2020 #IDTwitter 51% MSSA 38% MRSA CVCs ⛔️ #IDTwitter cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/7…

How Antimicrobial Resistance Happens?! This is a fantastic fact sheet from CDC explaining the antimicrobial resistance mechanisms in a very simple way ,great for the public #IDTwitter

"For every percentage increase in prevalence of poverty in each state, the antibiotic prescribing rate increased by 17.4 courses per 1,000 population": #AntimicrobialStewardship efforts should consider #SDOH

In addition to being a health threat, #AMR is an economic burden which could result in an annual GDP loss of up to 3.8% by 2050 😨 Read the new assessment of national action plans to curb #AMR in @TheLancetInfDis bit.ly/3IZsZBh #globalhealth

FDA proposes switching to annual coronavirus vaccine, mimicking flu model - my comments with ⁦@washingtonpost⁩ ⁦@lauriemcginley2⁩ washingtonpost.com/health/2023/01…

As wells synthesized in this informative article, '#shorterisbetter mantra begins to change antibiotic prescribing'. Inappropriate #antimicrobial use is a social plague. Time to have a new approach. #IDTwitter @BradSpellberg healio.com/news/infectiou…

Clostridioides Difficile Infection (NICE) nice.org.uk/guidance/ng199… #MedEd #MedTwitter #IDTwitter #USMLE #infection #ICU #internalmedicine #primarycare #CriticalCare #hospitalist #MedStudentTwitter #MedStudents #TwitteRx #PharmaTwitter #Bioinformatics #healthcare #ClinicalPearl