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Infectious Disease
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General Infectious Disease
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Internal Medicine
Would you consider use of doxycycline for deep-seated pasteurella multicoda infection in a patient with contraindications to first-line antimicrobial agents?
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Do routinely recommend antifungal prophylaxis for non-transplant patients who have been diagnosed and completed treatment for possible/probable pulmonary aspergillosis and who will need varying degrees of ongoing immunosuppression?
In a patient with CIED lead infection and bacteremia who had blood cultures cleared before CIED extraction, do we still need 72 hrs of documented negative blood cultures obtained post extraction to consider reimplantation and can we do same-time extraction and reimplantation?
Do you routinely use oral vancomycin prophylaxis in patients with a history of CDI who are receiving antibiotics?
Do you routinely recommend transition to dual PO antibiotic coverage for strep species and MRSA, for patients with purulent cellulitis and in the absence of culture data?
How do you manage recurrent C diff which occurs shortly after FMT when alternate etiologies of diarrhea have been excluded and patient is responding to C diff-directed therapies?
Do you use metronidazole twice daily dosing for routine anaerobic coverage such as non-CNS, H. pylori, C. diff, or parasitic infections?
Would you recommend using a rectal swab for C difficile testing in an inpatient with diarrhea if nurses have been unable to collect a stool sample for 24 hours due to the patient not cooperating with collection?
How do you manage a patient with suspected tick-borne encephalitis who has normal initial serological tests but continues to exhibit neurological symptoms in an endemic area?
Do you provide empiric doxycycline for Lyme Disease to asymptomatic patients after a tick bite who haven't developed Erythema migrans or are not sure it was an Ixodes tick?
How does trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole's efficacy against S. pyogenes influence your empirical treatment of skin infections in regions with high resistance rates?
