Infectious Disease

Dermatology

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Does your institution have formal policies or work flows to reduce unnecessary IGRAs ordered for patients on biologics?

How does trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole's efficacy against S. pyogenes influence your empirical treatment of skin infections in regions with high resistance rates?

McCreary et al., PMID 37310038

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What is your preferred oral regime with duration for treatment of onychomycosis?

How frequently can you repeat the oral course?

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What approaches can we take to initiate therapy and improve survival rates in patients with HLH?

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What oral treatment options would you offer a patient with severe onychomycosis who is also on methotrexate for another condition?

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How would you manage a patient with progressive/refractory molluscum contagiosum who is well controlled on methotrexate for seropositive rheumatoid arthritis?

Are you aware of any data regarding relative risk of molluscum contagiosum infection in reference to DMARDs/biologics?

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What is your approach to deciding when to stop therapy for cutaneous Mycobacterium chelonae infections?

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Is there a role for empiric scabies treatment in itchy patients without clear clinical signs of scabies?

Do you empirically treat itchy patients -with a non specific rash- for scabies without obvious clinical findings for scabies?

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For how long would you treat Klebsiella aerogenes folliculitis of the face manifesting as a cystic lesion?

Would you combine antibiotics with isotretinoin?

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Do you recommend testing for HPV in patients with oral lichen planus?

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Do you have a preference between Quantiferon Gold and T-spot TB for screening in patients starting immunosuppressive agents?

1 Answer available

What topical or oral treatments do you recommend for patients with recurrent MRSA infections?

Do you recommend any changes to their personal hygiene practices? or changes to their environment?

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How do you approach patients with onychomycosis that does not respond to terbinafine and prolonged courses of fluconazole?

Would you switch to itraconazole or perform fungal cultures? When would you consider repeating the course of treatment?

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How do you think about biologic use in patients with underlying HIV infection?

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Are there particular concerns related to the use of B-cell depletion therapies such as rituximab for rheumatic disease during the COVID-19 pandemic?

1 Answer available

Are you recommending the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines to your patients with immune mediated inflammatory diseases?

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Which immunosuppressed patients with SLE would benefit from antibiotic prophylaxis to prevent pneumocystis pneumonia?

1 Answer available

Papers discussed in this category

Journal of clinical rheumatology : practical reports on rheumatic & musculoskeletal diseases, 2008-10

Prophylactic antibiotic usage for Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus on cyclophosphamide: a survey of US rheumatologists and the review of literature.

Clin Rheumatol, 2006 Dec 21

Rheumatol Int, 2020 Sep 18

High rates of severe disease and death due to SARS-CoV-2 infection in rheumatic disease patients treated with rituximab: a descriptive study.

Arthritis & rheumatology (Hoboken, N.J.), 2023 Jul 24

The 2022 EULAR/ACR Points to Consider at the Early Stages of Diagnosis and Management of Suspected Haemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis/Macrophage Activation Syndrome (HLH/MAS).

Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland), 2019 Sep 04

A Week of Oral Terbinafine Pulse Regimen Every Three Months to Treat all Dermatophyte Onychomycosis.

Open forum infectious diseases, 2017

Sulfamethoxazole-Trimethoprim (Cotrimoxazole) for Skin and Soft Tissue Infections Including Impetigo, Cellulitis, and Abscess.

Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, 2014 Jul 15

Practice guidelines for the diagnosis and management of skin and soft tissue infections: 2014 update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America.

Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, 2023 Oct 13

Antibiotic Myths for the Infectious Diseases Clinician.

Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy, 2014 Feb 03

Factors that cause trimethoprim resistance in Streptococcus pyogenes.

Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, 2013-06

Clinical trial: comparative effectiveness of cephalexin plus trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole versus cephalexin alone for treatment of uncomplicated cellulitis: a randomized controlled trial.

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