ID Guide

Pharmacology

• Bacteriostatic vs bacteriocidal
• Pharmacology of vancomycin
• Dosing aminoglycosides
• New Vancomycin Dosing Guidelines

Basics of antibiotics

• Amphotericin B
• Fluroquinolone adverse events
• Beta lactamases and beta lactamase inhibitors
• The World of Beta-Lactam Antibiotics
• Cephamycins
• Fluroquinolones – Friends or enemies?
• Therapies for MRSA – New Toys in the Pipeline
• The Easy way to learn antibiotics – do it by disease!
• Risk of vancomycin and piperacillin-tazobactam combination
• Antibiotic Breakpoints
• Daptomycin for Pulmonary Emboli

Diagnostic modalities

• Physical exam in pulmonary infections
• Sputum culture
• Utility of Procalcitonin
• Urinalysis for UTI
• Pulmonary Tuberculosis – Diagnosis
• C. diff colitis – testing menu
• Syphilis diagnosis
• Lyme disease/Borrelia Burdgoferi diagnostics
• HIV diagnosis
• Follow up blood cultures
• Echocardiogram for Staph Aureus Bacteremia
• Role of Rigors in Bacteremia
• MALDI-TOF
• Karius Test/Next Generation Sequencing
• Utility of Eosenopenia for Bacteremia
• Bacteremia Scores
• PET for Endocarditis
• MRSA Nasal PCR

Staphylococcus aureus

• Staphylococcus bacteremia – therapies
• Dual therapy for MRSA bacteremia
• MRSA Pneumonia – Shorr Score
• Sensitivity of echocardiogram for infective endocarditis
• Necrotizing Staphylococcus Aureus
• Rifampin in Staph aureus bacteremia and Endocarditis
• Line associated infections

Gram Positive Infections

• Enterococcal bacteremia – when to get echocardiogram?
• Enterococcal endocarditis and dual therapy
• Staphylococcus Lugdunensis – the Virulent Coagulase Negative Staphylococcus
• Actinomyces infections
• CNS Imaging in Nocardiosis
• Surgical therapy in endocarditis
• VRE Therapy
• C. diff therapy – Basics
• C. diff severity scores
• Fecal Microbiota Transplant – What You Need to Know
• Clostridium Septicum
• Toxic Shock Syndrome
• Necrotizing Staphylococcus Aureus – Panton Valentine Leukocidin

Gram Negative Infections

• Step down therapy for gram negative bacteremia
• Tackling Acenitobacter infections
• What to do with Stenotrophomonas
• Legionella urine antigen
• History of Plague – Therapeutics
• Oroya Fever – The Andes Bartonella
• Bacillary Angiomatosis
• Zoonotic bacteria – Tuleremia and Brucella
• Defining MDR and DTR Organisms
• ESBL Bacteremia Therapy – Carbapenems vs BL/BLI combinations
• Hyperviscious Klebsiella
• Bartonella Quintana

Bone and Joint Infections

• Vertebral Osteomyelitis
• Prosthetic joint infections? What is the data?
• Suppressive antibiotics for prosthetic joint infections
• Culture-negative joint infections
• Septic arthritis and obstetrics/gynecology
• Microbiology of Diabetic Foot Infections

Skin and Soft Tissue/Structure Infection

• Fournier’s gangrene and necrotizing fasciitis
• Vibrio vulnificus
• Suppressive therapy for recurrent cellulitis
• Hyperbarics for necrotizing fasciitis
• Tropical pyomyositis
• Cellulitis after water exposure

Mycobacterial Infections

• Pulmonary tuberculosis – diagnostics
• Pulmonary tuberculosis – history of therapy
• IGRAs – How do they work?
• Tuberculous meningitis
• Pericardial tuberculosis
• New drugs for MDR and XDR TB
• Risk factors for M. abscessus
• M. abscessus antibiotic therapy
• Hansen’s disease
• To treat or not to treat – MAC

HIV/AIDS

• HIV diagnostics
• HIV Drugs – Cheat sheet
• Primer for HIV therapeutics
• HIV-associated IRIS – TB and cryptococcus
• Kaposi’s Sarcoma
• M184V mutation
• HIV for Primary Care – Guidelines for screening
• Integrase Inhibitors
• Two vs Three-drug therapy for HIV

Fungal Infections:

• Utility of Galactomannan
• Beta D glucan
• PJP Diagnosis
• Imaging in pulmonary aspergillosis
• Mucorales spp treatment
• Aspergillus spp treatment
• Influenza and invasive pulmonary aspergillosis
• Histoplasma Antigen During Therapy
• Candida Endocarditis
• The Candida Score
• When to use PJP Prophylaxis – Steroids
• Candida auris
• Cryptococcal Meningitis – Therapy

Tropical Medicine

• Strongylodiasis and hyperinfection syndrome
• Malaria and Babesiosis
• Hemorrhagic fever – Basics
• Dengue – risk factors for hemorrhagic fever
• Chagas’ induced cardiomyopathy
• Dracunculiasis
• Visceral leishmaniasis – epidemiology and presentation
• Therapies for leishmaniasis
• Chikungunya, Dengue, and Zika – How to tell them apart?
• Yellow Fever
• Leptospirosis
• Chronic Chikungunya

Viral Infections

• Data for oseltamavir – Is it really worth it?
• CNS viral infections – Still a Puzzle to diagnose
• Efficacy of Influenza Vaccine – Mortality
• Hantaviruses
• The Original Antigenic Sin
• Fulminant hepatitis – mimics and what you should know
• EBV serologies

Transplant Infectious Disease

• Antifungal Prophylaxis in Hematology Patients
• Neutropenic Fever
• Cryptococcosis
• PJP in Transplant Patients
• CMV Disease
• Drive line infections
• Hyperammonemia syndrome