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At our best infectious diseases experts can act as the synapses that connect surgeons, internists, pharmacists, microbiologists, epidemiologists and the patients to make good decisions.
Shmuel Shoham
@ShohamTxID
Working on therapies for prevention and treatment of coronavirus. Transplant Infectious Diseases physician at Johns Hopkins. @ShohamTxID@med-mastodon.com
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We are excited for year two of the Pamela Tucker Course in Transplant and Oncology ID.
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"Crude 30-day mortality following a positive COVID-19 test was 2.2% in 2020, then decreased before stabilizing to 0.8%–1.0% from 2023 onward." Some people forget just how bad COVID was back then. academic.oup.com/ofid/article/1…~
academic.oup.com Trends in Coronavirus Disease 2019 Mortality Within a US Academic Health System, 2020–2025 Abstract. Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was initially associated with higher mortality than other respiratory viruses. We assessed trends in mortalit Triazole-resistant Aspergillus fumigatus in the Netherlands between 1994 and 2022: a genomic and phenotypic study - The Lancet Microbe thelancet.com/journals/lanmi…
www.thelancet.com Triazole-resistant Aspergillus fumigatus in the Netherlands between 1994 and 2022: a genomic and... Our study showed variation in triazole genotypes and phenotypes in clinical A fumigatus isolates with cyp51A-mediated resistance, some of which were cultured from triazole-resistant invasive asperg... Two Pandemics, Compared: Reflections on HIV and COVID-19 blogs.jwatch.org/hiv-id-observa…
blogs.nejm.org Two Pandemics, Compared: Reflections on HIV and COVID-19 “Dr. Sax, what’s it like to have lived through two pandemics as an ID doctor?” The question came from a brand-new intern during afternoon sign-out. I took a breath — because wow, were they different....