Infectious Disease

1/@HoustonAETC lunch & learns are 🔥! ​

@MelanieGoebelMD gave a fantastic talk on primary manifestations of skin diseases in PWH (people with HIV)​

Let's review rapid-fire style...​

#IDFellows #IDTwitter #DermTwitter #MedTwitter ​@IDfellows @MedTweetorials https://twitter.com/HoustonAETC/status/1303742056511279118

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First of 2 tweets! #GalactoMagic

44M from Maine w/ myelodysplastic syndrome s/p BMT 6 weeks ago has fevers. He is on voriconazole, moxifloxacin, atovaquone, & valacyclovir. He is taking topical steroids for the past 25 days due to mild skin graft versus host disease.

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First of 2 tweets! #GalactoMagic

55F w/ COPD has 3 days of fevers, SOB & cough. T 38.2C, HR 112, BP 100/75, RR 22, O2 93% on 100% non-rebreather. Exam- crackles b/l

CT chest- ground-glass opacities b/l

Rapid flu swab + for influenza A, sputum & blood cultures negative

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A short #medthread  🧵about the discovery of the only virus (in my opinion) named after two people:
Anthony Epstein and
and Yvonne Barr.

#MedTwitter #tweetorial
#histmed

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We are starting the MCQs today! Here we go!

This is the first of 2 tweets! #GalactoMagic

35F with PMHx DM2 (A1c 14%) and HTN presents to ED with fevers, HA, and sinus pressure. ENT noted an ulceronecrotic lesion on R medial nasal turbinate

52/M HIV (CD4 780 VL<20) on TDF/FTC/efavirenz w/ +b/l prox leg weakness, severe pain/tenderness ribs, back, hips, legs x 6 mos, requiring assistance. N/l Crea, ⬇️Ca ⬆️ALP. Hip XR: b/l pseudofractures fem neck. Spine XR: poor quality. W/c of the ff is needed to dx this condition?

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A short #medthread  🧵about the discovery of the only virus (in my opinion) named after two people:
Anthony Epstein and
and Yvonne Barr.

#MedTwitter #tweetorial
#histmed

57/M completed Pfizer COVID vaccine 4 weeks ago. He now goes to a commercial lab to get serologic COVID testing (test detects nucleocapsid IgG). His test comes back positive. He does not have symptoms. Assuming that this is not false positive, what might this test indicate?

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Introducing 𝐖𝐮𝐢𝐝𝐐 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐮𝐦 for #boardprep #teachingaid & #idreview, 𝙑𝙖𝙪𝙡𝙩𝙨 1 𝙩𝙤 4. Refer to links 👇. Feel free to share! @ID_fellows @NNolanMD @LeMiguelChavez @TxID_Edu @JonathanRyderMD @swinndong @DrH_flu

▪️ 𝙑𝙖𝙪𝙡𝙩 1 https://twitter.com/i/events/1349107159905218564?s=20

A physician died of severe thrombocytopenia (low platelets) a few weeks after #COVID19 vaccine

His death is currently being investigated and is not currently thought to be 2/2 the vaccine.

A 🧵1/x
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/12/health/covid-vaccine-death.html?smid=tw-share

My first tweet of 2021 is going to be about 1 dose vs. 2 dose vaccine. I have tweeted in the past of the immunological advantages of a 2 dose vaccine. However, given the enhanced transmission variants on the rise, we need a modified strategy. (1/n)

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/12/virus-mutation-catastrophe/617531/

THREAD

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As a @harvardmed doctor, I will be one of the first people to get a vaccine. My family in Zimbabwe, however, will be some of the last, if they get vaccines at all.

In global health, vaccination coverage has been an issue since vaccines were a thing…

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🚨TWEETORIAL ALERT🚨
Let’s dive into my first #tweetorial with @MedicsAcademy

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@MedTweetorials @MedTweetsHQ
#MedTweetorial #MedEd #MedTwitter #TB #infectiousdisease

1/ Why so floppy? Today we learn about neonatal botulism from our fantastic teaching senior, Dr. Caitlin Billingham! What % of botulism cases are attributed to honey?

Another @CuriousClinPod dropped with @HannahRAbrams @AvrahamCooperMD @tony_breu

Episode 14: Why do septic pulmonary emboli occur in the periphery and bases of the lungs?
http://curiousclinicians.com/2020/11/25/episode-14-septic-pulmonary-embolism/

Listen and check out the show notes below 👇

21/M student p/w 5 d +fever, headache, myalgia. Exam: +tender palpable spleen, b/l cervical LNs, largest 2x2 cm. WBC 14 w/ atypical lymphs. 4th gen HIV/RNA neg. No PMH. 5 other students developed same Sx around 10 d after a picnic & hiking trip in Missouri. Most likely cause?

Let's talk about microbiology in infertility and pelvic inflammatory disease!

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Antifungals have come a LOOOONGGG way but we still lose many battles against these stubborn bugs😢

Let's focus on 𝐕𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐳𝐨𝐥𝐞 today !!

A short thread.

#antifungals #IDTwitter #oncology #MedTwitter #MedStudentTwitter #hematology

If you have not listened to the @CuriousClinPod most recent podcast (Episode 10: Why does metronidazole treat both bacterial and parasitic infections?) then I suggest you tune in.

http://curiousclinicians.com/2020/09/30/why-does-metronidazole-treat-both-bacterial-and-parasitic-infections/

I'll summarize their show notes here in short #medtweetorial