BCM Pediatric Infectious Diseases Fellowship

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🚨Publication Alert🚨 This study describes the operationalization of video-DOT in a low-resourced setting in Eswatini facing a high burden of HIV and TB amid the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38831356/ Congrats to all contributors!👏

Exploring novel strategies to combat #TB in patients with advanced #HIV disease is crucial. Integrating #ARTtherapy with TB treatments, promoting early diagnosis, and strengthening healthcare systems are key to reducing the co-infection burden. #GlobalHealth #InfectiousDiseases

ID Team B getting excited for the holidays! #Christmas2023 #JingleBugs

Heading down to the micro lab to review a peripheral smear of malaria! Everyone excited to learn. 🩸🦟

Our leading Sypholologist Dr Ryan Rochat gives grand rounds today on “No Time to Lues: A Call to Arms Amidst a Congenital Syphilis Epidemic” @BCMIDFellowship @BCM_Pediatrics #RevengeoftheSyph @DrRochat #LetsTalkAboutSyph

@BCMPedIDFellows @CongenitalCMV @PIDSociety Dr Ana Del Valle BCMPedsIDfellow presents her CCMV research this morning! #cmvawareness #newbornscreening

Dr Ana Del Valle presenting her fantastic research on confirming congenital CMV with dried blood spots @anapdelvalle @DrAmiraSaid @AtlasInfectious @adri21s #MedEd #infectiousdiseases

Wouldn’t be here without our amazing program leadership. Thanks so much to Dr. Palazzi and Dr. Foster for guiding us on this adventure. @PIDSociety @IDSAInfo #TeacherAppreciationWeek #TeacherAppreciation

My people 😊🤩

Amazing group of people to train with at a great institution 🌈 (Missing our wonderful co fellow Nahid!) #BugBuddies #FellowshipOfTheRingLesions ❤️

Throwback to #PAS2023, @GailHarCMV is #goals 😎

🚨Fellow publication 🚨 Invasive Streptococcus Gallolyticus Infections in Infants... : The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal journals.lww.com/pidj/Fulltext/…

Had an amazing lunch with visiting lecturer Dr. Kathy Edwards. Thank you for sharing your life experiences and wisdom with us! #IDTwitter #pedsid #MedEd

Plate rounds today with @JuliaDHankins ! Gram positive that forms palisades and “V” shapes on gram stain…. Any guesses? @BCMIDFellowship @AtlasInfectious @anapdelvalle @DrAmiraSaid

Plate rounds with Dr Hankins! @JuliaDHankins We loved seeing the speckled lavender of Burkhderia. @AtlasInfectious

This BAL specimen has two different and beautiful colony morphologies! Green and white on chocolate agar 🍀, and light pink and purple on MacConkey 💖! Turns out to all be the same thing - Burkholderia contaminans 🦠.

Fungal Friday! Lunch lecture on non-tuberculous mycobacteria by Dr Starke. Bagels, popcorn, candy and great learning! @GailHarCMV @anapdelvalle @Nahoodlum @AtlasInfectious @BCMIDFellowship #Mycobacteria

Micro Rounds!!! Patient with immune compromise with Fusarium ankle lesion. Check out those banana shaped conidiophores 🍌 @AtlasInfectious @JuliaDHankins

Fungal Friday!!!! Eating fresh pastries and discussing new updates to CLSI breakpoints as well as two interesting patient cases. Differential for enhancing ring lesion in the brain??? @AtlasInfectious @TheKingLab @JuliaDHankins @DrAmiraSaid @BCMIDFellowship @JillWeather