Andre Kalil, MD MPH

Advancing the Prevention of Surgical Site Infections Through Antibiotic Prophylaxis

Check out this new article on preventing SSIs via antibiotic prophylaxis in Anaesthesia Critical Care & Pain Medicine from @kcawcutt.bsky.social, Dr. Teran, Dr. Bergman and @drandrekalil.bsky.social #IDSky

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Looking forward to reading it, congratulations!

#naturecommunications | Roger Paredes Today we publish in #NatureCommunications evidence that dolutegravir, unlike darunavir, helps restore the gut microbiome in people presenting late with HIV In our multicentre, open‑label RCT (96 week...

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With such a small sample size and a very wide crude and adjusted 95%CI, the answer remains unknown.

Sepsis Sepsis is defined as a dysregulated host response to infection that leads to life-threatening organ dysfunction. The infectious insult triggers a dysr…

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Dr. Rupp led Infection Prevention at Nebraska Med for 28 yrs, Infectious Diseases for 14 yrs, now Interim Chair at UNMC (2025). Authored 200+ papers, 48 chapters, 3 textbooks 📚.

Corticosteroids and community-acquired pneumonia: Africa deserves an explanatory trial - Critical Care Critical Care -

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State-of-the-Art Review: Diagnosis and Management of Acute and Chronic Bacterial Prostatitis Abstract. Acute bacterial prostatitis (ABP) and chronic bacterial prostatitis (CBP) are poorly defined clinical entities, and diagnosis can be challenging.

Congrats to @cortes-penfield.bsky.social et al on the most recent State of the Art Review from @cidjournal.bsky.social on bacterial prostatitis! #IDSky

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Dr. Mark Rupp reflects on his career in healthcare epidemiology and infectious diseases in @ashejournal.bsky.social #IDSky

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Weighted-incidence syndromic combination antibiogram (WISCA) to guide antibiotic regimens for empiric treatment of prosthetic joint infections: A retrospective cohort study Prosthetic joint infections (PJIs) are now routinely treated with oral antibiotics, but selecting empiric regimens is challenging, including for treatment of culture-negative PJIs. Although antibiogra...

📣 What is a #WISCA?

It's something you should probably use for culture-negative prosthetic joint infections. Local antibiograms alone can be misleading.

This WISCA showed that doxycycline + a fluoroquinolone offer best coverage for #PJI

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Corticosteroids and community-acquired pneumonia: Africa deserves an explanatory trial - Critical Care Critical Care -

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Epistemic trespassing is never associated with good outcomes.

Appreciate @healioid.bsky.social for interviewing me for this piece on a intriguing subject of outbreaks and infection prevention related to arthropods! #IDSky

Grateful to have the opportunity to share this little piece of my heart. Love is always the answer.

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Congrats on such an inspiring piece!
If you focus on the obstacle (barrier) all you see is the obstacle, but if you focus on the path (strength), all you see is the path.

Can’t wait to hear this new episode😀

Communicable | Communicable Episode 45: Top infectious diseases papers in 2025 In this episode of Communicable, Josh Davis (Newcastle, Australia) and Emily McDonald (Montreal, Canada), plus invited guest, Steven Tong (Melbourne, Australia)—all practicing physicians and clinical trialists— assemble to discuss some of their ‘top infectious diseases papers published in 2025’....

🎙️ Just published Communicable E45: Top infectious diseases papers in 2025

Hosted by Josh Davis & Emily McDonald w/ invited guest Steven Tong

Listen on #Communicable: https://share.transistor.fm/s/9e626f2a

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Scientific publishers are producing more papers than ever Concerns about some of their business models are building

Thank you for reading it. ☺️ Got to fix this mess...which is finally starting to be recognized outside our fields. Sent to me by @drandrekalil.bsky.social : www.economist.com/science-and-...

February 2026 Issue is now online: www.clinicalmicrobiologyandinfection.org/issue/S1198-... #IDSky #MicroSky

Invasive Fungal Disease in Transplantation: Prevention in a Shifting Landscape | Contagion Live Invasive fungal diseases remain a major cause of morbidity and mortality in patients undergoing transplant, with shifting epidemiology, emerging resistance, and geographic variation underscoring the u...

Quick read on #fungal infections in #transplant patients. @jessicalittlemd.bsky.social rocks! #IDSky #MedSky www.contagionlive.com/view/invasiv...

In adults hospitalized with acute HF, predischarge influenza vaccination reduced a composite of mortality or readmission at 1 y | Annals of Internal Medicine Clinical Impact Ratings GIM/FP/GP: 5 out of 7 Cardiology: 6 out of 7 Infectious Disease: 6 out of 7

Drs. Juan Teran and @drandrekalil.bsky.social wrote an ACP Journal Club article in @annalsofim.bsky.social:

"In adults hospitalized with acute HF, predischarge influenza vaccination reduced a composite of mortality or readmission at 1 y"

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Understanding the pathogenesis of uveitis in Ebola virus disease survivors: an observational cohort and cross-sectional study protocol for clinical, molecular virologic and immunologic characterisation - PubMed This study has received Institutional Review Board approval from University of Nebraska Medical Centre, Emory University and Sierra Leone Ministry of Health. Findings will be disseminated through peer-reviewed publications.

Very cool collaboration with our own Drs. Angela Hewlett and David Brett-Major with colleagues in ophthalmology: A protocol to study the pathogenesis of uveitis in Ebola virus disease survivors

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📣 New #Communicable drops Mon 12 Jan! We kick off the new year with Annie Joseph & Josh Nosanchuk hosting Robin Patel (Mayo Clinic) & Fidelma Fitzpatrick (RCSI) to discuss their top #clinmicro papers of 2025 ⭐ Tune in Monday🎙️

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🌟We are happy to introduce the new Editor-in-Chief for the CMI Journal, former ESCMID President, Jesús Rodríguez Baño. We look forward to seeing how he will shape and evolve CMI as a leading journal in the field of infection.

Read his editorial: https://ow.ly/tQHW50XKYmN

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Perfect story for the first day of the year, thanks Paul!

Unlikely because it does not apply to meningitis or encephalitis, and high dose steroid was harmful in sepsis trials.

…plus the gallbladder ultra-sound😂

Charting a Path in ID Critical Care Podcast Episode · Let's Talk ID · 12/13/2025 · 16m

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So I stumbled across this podcast… It seems to be about #IDcrit #IDSky #MedSky @paulsaxmd.bsky.social mentioning my mentor as a tasking sunuvaB witches, Ryan Maves yo a T.
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Statins and sepsis Déjà vu…immortal time bias will be back.