Catherine Berry (she/her)

When they say “what’s the harm in one more day of antibiotics?”

Agreed

Xennial here. We're just having a festival of staph over here. Luckily they're all helping the SNAP trial answer a few outstanding questions on how to manage.

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New research article

#Bedaquiline resistance in patients with Xpert MTB/RIF Ultra-tested #rifampicin resistant #tuberculosis in the Western Cape, South Africa: a prospective study

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I'll have a think.

- beware the septic patient with an initial normal wcc.

Also love this list and the approach.
- find out why the micro was taken. You'll spend as much time explaining what isn't important as what is
- a fever with low platelets, normal wcc and mild raised transaminases is doxycycline deficient until proven otherwise

Getting decent micro.

A cute drawing of an iguana and some zoonoses associated with them

Everything is a zoonosis! Drawing/listing challenge.
#29 - Iguana

Requested by @catherineberry.bsky.social and inspired by @iuidfellowship.bsky.social

Found an interesting report of Burkholderia pseudommallei abscess in a pet iguana, could that have zoonotic potential?

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An image of the next TB Ed Talks speaker, Dr. Salmaan Keshavjee, with information about his talk. "Search-Treat-Prevent: A Strategy to Eliminate TB, with Dr. Salmaan Keshavjee. Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, Medical Anthropology at Harvard Medical School; Director of Harvard Medical School's Center for Global Health Delivery; a founder of the Zero TB Initiative. Live presentation on YouTube followed by a Q&A. Wednesday, January 28th. 8pm ET/1am GMT."

Tomorrow is 2026's first TB Ed Talk with Dr. Salmaan Keshavjee! Tune in to learn about Search-Treat-Prevent: a strategy to eliminate #Tuberculosis. Watch with us here: https://www.youtube.com/live/iiw9EqjWFrg?
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Nurse Practitioner / Transitional Nurse Practitioner - Infection Prevention Service in New England / North West | Catherine Berry Come and work with us! We're looking for a trailblazer nurse practitioner/ transitional nurse practitioner passionate about rural health and #Antimicrobialstewardship to join us in beautiful Hunter ...

So we've started the search for a nurse practitioner to join our Antimicrobial stewardship team here in the beautiful Hunter New England region of Australia.

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A rare case of rabies-like Australian bat lyssavirus infection The death on July 3 of an Australian man with untreatable lyssavirus has highlighted the challenge posed by zoonotic viruses endemic to the country. Samaan Lateef reports.

We have our own fun version of rabies in Australia (ABLV). Also post exposure prophylaxis did not work here...

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job posting - infectious diseases clinician teacher position at st. mike's hospital in toronto

top notch hospital, amazing ID colleagues, diverse patient population, world class city

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Global estimates of tuberculosis incidence during pregnancy and postpartum: a rapid review and modelling analysis Despite known maternal, perinatal, and infant health risks of tuberculosis during pregnancy, global estimates of incidence remain scarce. Existing est…

📑 New @lancetgh.bsky.social paper shows a substantial and under-recognized burden of #tuberculosis during pregnancy and postpartum: ~340,000 women affected globally in 2023. Maternal TB needs urgent attention!
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Explore open-access tools that turn AMR data into visual insights and enable ethical data reuse, driving research and policy worldwide. Webinar: AMR tools and resources for health professionals and… ... Explore open-access tools that turn AMR data into visual insights and enable ethical data reuse, driving research and policy worldwide. Webinar: AMR tools and resources for health professionals and r...

This looks excellent for those interested in AMR data analysis. #AMSsky #AMRsky

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Amazing. Thanks so much.

Practical Guidance for Clinical Microbiology Laboratories: A Comprehensive Update on the Problem of Blood Culture Contamination and a Discussion of Methods for Addressing the Problem - PubMed In this review, we present a comprehensive discussion of matters related to the problem of blood culture contamination. Issues addressed include the scope and magnitude of the problem, the bacteria most often recognized as contaminants, the impact of blood culture contamination on clinical microbiol …

Ok since I looked this up. Good overview on BC contamination reduction pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31666280/

The Self study I quoted above looks to be the best of its genre.

Some authors are proposing 1.5 to 2 % benchmarks (Halstead et al.). We work on less than 3% currently.

So this is now the question in the genexpert age, what contamination rate are we aiming for and what is the acceptable stewardship and financial cost? And what interventions give the best bang for buck.

Pharmacokinetics and safety of fosfomycin and flomoxef administered as part of neonatal sepsis treatment (NeoSep1 Part 1) | Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy Infections are prevalent during the first month of life and represent one of the leading causes of neonatal mortality worldwide (1). In 2017, an estimated 1.3 million cases of neonatal sepsis were rep...

So great to see data in this population. I'm not going to lie though, I had to google flomoxef.

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Blood culture collection through peripheral intravenous catheters increases the risk of specimen contamination among adult emergency department patients - PubMed Five hundred five blood cultures collected through a peripheral intravenous catheter (PIV) in an emergency department were matched to cultures obtained by dedicated venipuncture from the same patient within 10 minutes. The relative risk of contamination for cultures collected through PIVs compared w …

This is useful and provided by my micro colleague. Will look for more data. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22476282/

Yes this is my question. What I do know is 3 stabs are unlikely to be acceptable to ED and probably not fair to patients either.

Yeah we're chatting about implementing single-site collection but would be contingent on not sampling from a cannula. So still two stabs for emergency patients.

Just published 🙂 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41483490/

Off-label use & documentation of #antimicrobials in Australian operating theatres - insights from hospital #pharmacists with expertise in antimicrobial stewardship and #medsafety

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Be keen to hear what you come up with.

Sometimes understanding what doesn't work is just as useful.

Global estimates of tuberculosis incidence during pregnancy and postpartum: a rapid review and modelling analysis Despite known maternal, perinatal, and infant health risks of tuberculosis during pregnancy, global estimates of incidence remain scarce. Existing est…

Our new paper highlights a substantial but under-recognized burden of #tuberculosis during pregnancy and postpartum with ~340,000 women affected globally in 2023.
👉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Great list.