Recently, the New England Journal of Medicine published a paper by Wilcox and colleagues outlining the efficacy of a novel monoclonal antibody against toxin B of C.difficile, the bacterial organism most infamously known to cause relentless diarrhea in the setting… Read more

Stat News has published a list of 13 Clinicians to Follow on Twitter, and Dr. Amesh Adalja (@AmeshAA) was included as the “Infection Expert”. Dr. Adalja works in bio security research, along with rounding on the ID service.  He also works… Read more

The Pitt ID Division’s Website now has a page with reviews of the top studies and developments in 2016- as presented by Neel Shah at Grand Rounds last year.The 2015 version is also available- as presented by Alex Viehman. You… Read more

Note: If you have not read the initial case, please go back and check out: Diagnostic Dilemma #2 See below for the solution:   Read more

Happy new year-  more posts coming soon- In the meantime a new diagnostic dilemma:  Answer next week! This was the blood agar plate obtained from a 47 year old female from Brazil who was later found to have E. coli… Read more

If you haven’t taken a look at the question- please refer to the previous blog post: Diagnostic Dilemma If you have read and want to see the answer, please continue reading below…   Read more

NOTE: Enjoy this interesting case based question of the the holidays!   The answer will be posted next week! A 47-year-old male farmer from China with a history of chronic Hepatitis B (not on treatment) and biliary stricture in the past… Read more

First year ID fellow Alina Iovleva presented an interesting case of pulmonary infection with Blastomyces dermatitidis (blastomycosis) at Pitt ID Grand round on 12/8/16.  The case was illustrative in that the sputum cytology was misleading and initial sputum cultures grew… Read more