Kartik Cherabuddi MD 🆔️🌍

@varungrover Tampa and Orlando next time around pls

A marathon US-Canada tour begins in 2 weeks. 19 shows in 16 cities in 30 days. Hope to meet as many people as possible. Spread the word among your friends and drop by if you are around. All tickets, venues, and cities listed here: theticketworld.com/varun

@theliverdoc Love it, and overall love your advocacy. Thank you! Two suggestions: Maybe use - Sugarless black coffee at least 3 cups can be good for those with fatty liver disease. Multivitamin use daily overall not helpful - possible risk of increased cancer (since research is tenuous)

Yesterday, my account was hacked for a while and strangely, my most viral tweet was deleted. So here it is, updated for 2025 for science and health-illiterates. To summarize: 1. One whole egg with yolk a day does not increase blood cholesterol 2. Green tea does not help you lose weight 3. Jaggery, honey or sugarcane are not healthier than white sugar 4. There is no "healthy alcohol" 5. Ashwagandha does not reduce stress or help you sleep 6. Shilajit is a resinous piece of rock that does not benefit male sexual health 7. Turmeric in milk does not get beneficially absorbed in body and is lost in stool 8. You can consume fruits anytime during day or night 9. Sugarless black coffee at least 3 cups is good for fatty liver disease 10. Apple cider vinegar is good for only trapping fruit flies 11. Eight glasses of water a day is a myth 12. Pure whey protein supplementation to target recommended higher protein intake is safe for liver and kidneys 13. Magnesium supplements don't help you sleep 14. Anti-ageing is a myth 15. Herbalife products are the most common cause of liver injuries globally in the context of herbal and dietary supplements induced liver damage 16. Just because you lost weight by whatever means does not make you a "health coach." 17. Consumption of dairy along with fruits is perfectly fine 18. Yoga does not help you lose weight 19. Multivitamin a day does not improve health or prevent diseases in general. It can however, increase the risk of multiple cancers 20. Biotin does not help in hair growth or increase length of hair 21. Here are some liver supplements that you are wasting time and money on - Milk thistle, TUDCA and S-adenosyl methionine (SAMe) 22. The liver detoxes you, you don't detox the liver 23. Do not insult the kidneys by drinking yours or others urine, thinking urine therapy is going to help you live longer 24. Your favourite celebrity is always wrong about healthcare. Do not take medical advice from a pretty looking heroine or macho looking hero. 25. Virat Kohli and Cristiano Ronaldo do not drink Herbalife shakes. They just pose with it, for money 26. BluePrint is Bryan Johnson's online supplements scam 27. Covid vaccines ended the pandemic 28. Ayurveda is a pseudoscience. So is Homeopathy, Siddha, Unani, Naturopathy, Reiki, and Acupuncture. 29. Homeopathy is mostly alcohol, sometimes sugar. Other times cockroach parts. 30. You personal experience is not scientific evidence.

@morelli_md @BradSpellberg Haven't tried the other place. Meropenem-vaborbactam - would treat both effectively. Source + why both organisms is the 🗝️

@BradSpellberg All I know right now is susceptible to ceftaz-avi and minocycline

Question for whoever is left of #IDTwitter: patient with a KPC producing Kleb and MSSA in blood cultures. I can't just give ceftaz-avi, right? Really trying to figure out how to give just one drug but it was a little too much for my Sunday-of-consults brain

@morelli_md Meropenem-vaborbactam - would treat both effectively

When @IDSAInfo cites your work 🥲 @IDPharmD_Kate @cvu_idpharmd @Veena_PharmD @kartc

@NS_Card Brilliant work. Kudos to the team. Thank you for the explanation. Would love to see this replicated.

Our new study is out today in the New England Journal of Medicine! We demonstrate a speech neuroprosthesis that decodes the attempted speech of a man with ALS into text with 97.5% accuracy, enabling him to communicate with his family, friends, and colleagues in his own home. 1/9

@ABsteward @DrToddLee @TheLancetInfDis @SameerKadri12 @IDSAInfo That is correct 💯

@kartc @DrToddLee @TheLancetInfDis @SameerKadri12 @IDSAInfo Or just non beta-lactams, we use so much meros!

🆕️🔥Large retrospective cohort study @TheLancetInfDis @SameerKadri12 Carbapenem use in extended-spectrum cephalosporin-resistant Enterobacterales infections in US hospitals and influence of @IDSAInfo guidance #idxposts thelancet.com/journals/lanin…

@DrToddLee @ABsteward @TheLancetInfDis @SameerKadri12 @IDSAInfo I can't access the full article at this time. Is the option cefepime or pip-tazo? Cefepime I am ok with using.

@ABsteward @TheLancetInfDis @SameerKadri12 @IDSAInfo "Efforts to increase awareness and implementation of recommendations among clinicians to use carbapenem-sparing alternatives in ECR Enterobacterales infections might decrease global carbapenem selective pressure." Options like piperacillin-tazobactam? I'll show myself out.

@LCottler @WUSTLmed @WUSTL @UF @UFCTSI @UFHealthStreet @aaas That is such a fitting honor! Congratulations @LCottler 💐

So appreciative of my @WUSTLmed, @WUSTL, @UF, @UFCTSI and @UFHealthStreet colleagues. Congratulations to all of the @aaas fellows.

@UFexplore @UF @kartc @UFVetMed @UFHealth @UFMedicine @UF_EPI We diving into Hansen’s #leprosy research here in Florida and working as a team with some great collaborators @EmoryUniversity @Fairley_NTD @ColoradoStateU @UniLeidenNews

Learn more on how this UF team is putting science over stigma to stop the spread of Hansen’s disease in Florida and beyond. explore.research.ufl.edu/leprosy-is-her…

At the symposium, UF Medicine Professor @kartc shed light on the complexities of Hansen's disease, emphasizing the importance of early diagnosis and understanding its prevalence in Florida.

Hansen's disease, also known as leprosy, may seem like a disease of the past, but recent cases in Florida are making a team of @UF researchers take notice by studying how it spreads and working towards eradication.

@UFexplore @kartc @UFHealth @UF_IDGM @UFMedicine @UF_EPI Our team @UF_EPI @UFVetMed @UFWildlife will be tacking a deep dive into Hansen’s disease #leprosy in Florida. There is so much we do not understand about this disease in our state! #WorldLeprosyDay #BeatLeprosy

In the next Explore magazine, we'll meet a UF team working to stop the spread of Hansen's disease — also known as leprosy — in Florida and beyond. What do you want to know about the disease and its prevention? #WorldLeprosyDay

@BBL Jonty 2.0?

The best fielder the Big Bash has ever seen? 🤯 Jordan Silk's highlight reel is nuts. #BBL13

@PrathitKulkarni Rickettsiales: Rickettsia, Orientia, Anaplasma, Ehrlichia, Neoehrlichia, Neorickettsia Viruses: CMV, EBV, HepB& C Many endoparasites Mosquito-borne illness Visceral abscesses Toxin mediated Severe immunocompromise Hardware infections

For all the ID all-stars: Clinical scenario: Older pt comes to ED with very clear VS and lab parameters of sepsis. No clear localizing symptoms — only fever, chills, malaise. CXR normal, U/A without pyuria, thorough skin exam negative Where could a serious infection still be?

@sargsyanz @Cortes_Penfield @theABofPharmaC Both are possibilities 1. Real due Clavulanate vs sulbactam 2. One dilution difference

🤔 @Cortes_Penfield @theABofPharmaC

@DrDCNguyen @IdVilchez @Cortes_Penfield @JamesWilsonDO1 @jonbachna_PAST @dralicehan @BJegorovic @DrToddLee @DrEmilyMcD @TMcCarty2010 @sebpoule @ABsteward @ABStewardess @BradSpellberg @JonathanRyderMD @AntibioticDoc @Darcy_ID_doc @transplantID @Boghuma @GERMANESPARZA_ @OncIDPharmd @gushamilton Agree with this

@IdVilchez @Cortes_Penfield @JamesWilsonDO1 @jonbachna_PAST @dralicehan @BJegorovic @DrToddLee @DrEmilyMcD @TMcCarty2010 @sebpoule @ABsteward @ABStewardess @BradSpellberg @JonathanRyderMD @AntibioticDoc @Darcy_ID_doc @transplantID @Boghuma @kartc @GERMANESPARZA_ @OncIDPharmd @gushamilton Its a tough call. Some Aeromonas spp have broad spectrum beta lactamases. Coverage with two agents probably good until confirmation if patient this sick.

#IDTwitter summer Camp Infections. Patient fell at the seashore South Carolina beach landed with his knee on the sand suffering a penetrating injury with an unknown object. Developed fever, abdominal pain cramps, diarrhea and leg redness and swelling not better on Vancopime

@SIDPharm Antibiotics are the adjunct to surgical removal of hardware 🙃

When treating hardware-associated or prosthetic infections caused by Staphylococcus aureus or epidermidis, in a patient with retained hardware taking apixaban 🩸, which adjunctive therapy would you recommend? 🦿🪛💊 #TwitteRx