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For which pediatric oncology patients do you start bacterial prophylaxis, inpatient or outpatient, and what is your antibiotic of choice?

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What is your approach to secondary prophylaxis for C difficile infection during concomitant antibiotic use in a patient with a history of C difficile infection?

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How long do you recommend that a patient wear a mask when resuming biologic infusions following a recent upper respiratory infection?

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Is there any role for administering another course of recombinant zoster vaccine (Shingrix) in a previously vaccinated patient with RA, who is in clinical remission on JAK inhibitor but has had a breakthrough shingles infection?

The last SHINGRIX was about 4 years ago and both doses were given.

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When do you discontinue contact precautions in patients known to be colonized with ESBL-producing Enterobacterales?

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Would you use the pneumococcal conjugate-21 vaccine (Capvaxive) instead of the conjugate-20 (Prevnar-20) for routine vaccinations in immunosuppressed patients?

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What are your top takeaways from ID Week 2024?

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Are there any concerns with live vaccine innoculation and patients who are on denosumab?

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In drawing blood cultures from a central line to evaluate for CLABSI, do you advise drawing separate blood cultures from each port in case of dual or triple lumen line?

If yes, what is the rationale for doing that?

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Is there any role for additional antiviral therapy during rebound from COVID-19 infection after a course of Paxlovid?

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Are contact precautions effective at preventing MRSA transmission in healthcare settings?

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What isolation policies are Rheumatology offices employing for both staff and patients diagnosed with COVID-19 given the new CDC guidelines?

CDC Healthcare Guidance CDC Isolation and Work Restriction Guidance CDC Immunocompromised Guidance

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Should checking a urinalysis with reflex to culture be part of the standard work up for fever in an ICU patient with a urinary catheter?

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In patients taking biologics who are planning joint replacement and are known MRSA carriers do you perform decolonization prior to surgery?

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What is the risk of serious bacterial infection in a febrile solid tumor patient who has not yet started cancer-directed therapy and has normal cell counts with no central line?

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Papers discussed in this category

Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, 2023 Sep 21

Are contact precautions "essential" for the prevention of healthcare-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus?

Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society, 2024 Jan 03

Discontinuation of Contact Precautions for Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in a Pediatric Healthcare System.

Microbes and infection, 2024 May 06

Secondary prophylaxis for Clostridioides difficile infection for patients on non-C. difficile antibiotics: a retrospective cohort study.

Infection control and hospital epidemiology, 2018-02

Duration of Contact Precautions for Acute-Care Settings.

Antimicrobial stewardship & healthcare epidemiology : ASHE, 2021 Oct 21

Taking off the gown: Impact of discontinuing contact precautions for extended-spectrum β-lactamase (ESBL)-producing organisms.

American journal of infection control, 2023 Feb 01

Increased evidence for no benefit of contact precautions in preventing extended-spectrum -lactamases-producing Enterobacteriaceae: Systematic scoping review.

Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, 2009-07-01

Clinical practice guidelines for the diagnosis and management of intravascular catheter-related infection: 2009 Update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America.

Open forum infectious diseases, 2024 May 02

Should Blood Cultures Be Drawn Through an Indwelling Catheter?

Lupus, 2014 Jul 30

Serious infections in systemic lupus erythematosus with a focus on pneumococcal infections.

MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report, 2024 Sep 12

Use of 21-Valent Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine Among U.S. Adults: Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices - United States, 2024.

Annals of oncology : official journal of the European Society for Medical Oncology, 2017-02-01

JAMA, 2018-09-11

Effect of Levofloxacin Prophylaxis on Bacteremia in Children With Acute Leukemia or Undergoing Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

Pediatric blood & cancer, 2022 Jan 14

Levofloxacin prophylaxis for pediatric leukemia patients: Longitudinal follow-up for impact on health care-associated infections.

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