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Matthew Brigmon
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I took an hour to make my banner in chat gpt and it still sucks. ID/Critical Care physician at University of Texas in San Antonio. Please stop the antibiotics.
I was informed today by my surgical colleagues that their boards state that fidaxomicin is better than vancomycin for c diff. Is that a consensus in the ID community?
January 17, 2025 at 6:38 PM
I think doggy palliative care services are better on average than human palliative care services.
January 5, 2025 at 3:51 PM
So i had a consult about someone with a positive igg for strongy. Are any of the transplant id physicians out there ok with only single dose of ivermectin pre transplant? pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31558376/
Multiple-dose versus single-dose ivermectin for Strongyloides stercoralis infection (Strong Treat 1 to 4): a multicentre, open-label, phase 3, randomised controlled superiority trial - PubMed
There was no funding source for this study.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
December 26, 2024 at 9:36 PM
For those not on the IDSA IDea exchange. I am in the process of trying to get a meeting together for those interested in ID Critical Care society/idsa community. Please dm me your email if you would like to be included/involved.
December 17, 2024 at 3:21 PM
Reposted by Matthew Brigmon
Remembering Dr. Thomas O'Brien -- expert in antimicrobial resistance, and all-around great guy.

Plus, there's that interesting thing about his son ... 😄 #IDSky
blogs.jwatch.org/hiv-id-obser...
Dr. Thomas O'Brien -- Expert in Antimicrobial Resistance and Giant in His Field (Literally)
Dr. Thomas (Tom) O’Brien was born in January 1929, in between the discovery of penicillin (September 1928) and the publication of the findings in a medical journal (May 1929). As noted by his longtime...
blogs.jwatch.org
December 12, 2024 at 9:50 PM
I learned about this page today www.phagerounds.com which is a place to connect to live lectures on phage therapies. Highly recommended for the curious.
PhageRounds.com
www.phagerounds.com
November 21, 2024 at 10:31 PM