ID:IOTS - Infectious Disease Insight Of Two Specialists

Mar 23 2025 104 ep. 36 mins 182
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Join Callum and Jame, two infectious diseases doctors, as they discuss everything you need to know to diagnose and treat infections. Aimed at doctors and clinical staff working in the UK. 

Episode notes here: https://t.ly/8DyqW 

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104. IDSA Difficult To Treat Gram negatives Guidance 2024 with Breakpoints podcast

Mar 23 2025 78 mins  
IT'S A BREAKPOINTS BREAKOUT! Jame and Callum are joined by the drugnamic duo of Julie-Ann Justo & Erin McCreary from the Breakpoints podcast to delve into the IDSA DTR Gram negative Guidance. Show notes for this episode are here. Breakpoints podcast can be found here: https://breakpoints-sidp.org/ Lyrics: Tryin’ to use some drugs to kill these bugs Erin and Julie are PK PD th

103. Fungal infections overview and series intro

Mar 16 2025 31 mins  
My my! Mycology? Join Callum and special co-host Alyssa for this, the first in the all new ID:IOTS Mycology Mega-series. Here we cover: What the British Society of Medical Mycology is and what they do Why we're doing this series on fungi The Global and UK Burden of fungal disease. The spectrum of fungal disease clinically, The taxonomy of these pathogens, and the WHO Fungal Pathoge

102. AST: When there are NO breakpoints- how to use the EUCAST guidance document

Mar 02 2025 14 mins  
So now, Loyal Listener, you know all about Susceptible, Sensitive at higher doses, Resistant, MICs, ECOFFs/ECVs and how to use the EUCAST breakpoints table.... But what about the wild-west of bug-drug combos where there are no breakpoints? Well in this episode, Jame and Callum talk through the EUCAST approach to this situation. Show notes for this episode here Send us a text Suppor

101. AST: When there ARE breakpoints - how to use the EUCAST clinical breakpoints table

Feb 23 2025 15 mins  
BREAKPOINTS. We all love them. S breakpoints... R breakpoints... dash, IE, NA... Wait, dash, IA, NA, Brackets?! LISTEN ON (and read the accompanying prep notes), and soon you'll know! In this episode Jame and Callum talk through the EUCAST breakpoints table and how to interpret it Show notes for this episode here Send us a text Support the show Questions, comments, suggestions to i

100. AST: Rapid Identification and Molecular AST. The BCID2 & Vitek Reveal with BioMérieux

Feb 09 2025 34 mins  
Jame is joined by Kate from BioMérieux as they take a deep dive into the BCID2 and the Vitek Reveal, 2 new devices used for rapid identification and antimicrobial susceptibility testing of blood culture isolates. Note: This episode was produced in collaboration with BioMérieux. An honorarium received from them will be donated directly to charitable causes. Message from BioMérieu

99. AST: Automated Identification & Sensitivities - the Vitek2 with BioMérieux

Jan 26 2025 26 mins  
This week Jame is joined by Nick and Dal from BioMérieux as they take a deep dive into the Vitek2, one of the machines available for performing Automated Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing. Note: This episode was produced in collaboration with BioMérieux. An honorarium received from them will be donated directly to charitable causes. Message from BioMérieux: Every effort has b

98. Meningitis Masterclass

Jan 06 2025 67 mins  
Jame and Callum are joined by Dr Fiona McGill, lead author of the 2016 Joint Specialist Societies Meningitis Guidelines. Listen to hear an overview of the epidemiology, presentation, diagnosis and management of both bacterial and viral meningitis in the UK. Show notes for this episode here Send us a text Support the show Questions, comments, suggestions to [email protected]

97. FIS 2024 part 3: Fungi, NTM, quinolones and others

Dec 22 2024 20 mins  
HO HO HO, MERRY FISMAS!!! On the Third & Final Pod of FISmas these ID:IOTS have for you… 6 golden topics! Listen to hear about: 1. Personalised approach to invasive fungal infection 2. Agricultural anti-fungals and One Health 3. Candida auris 4. NTM standards of care 5. Narrative reporting 6. Fluoroquinolones and the MHRA warnings Jame and Callum attended the Federation of In

96. FIS 2024 part 2: Viruses

Dec 15 2024 23 mins  
HO HO HO, MERRY FISMAS!!! On the Second Pod of FISmas these ID:IOTS have for you… an all-enveloping, capsidating update on the High Consequence Infectious Diseases, measles, RSV and other viruses that you ‘R naught’ going to want to skip! Jame and Callum attended the Federation of Infection Societies 2024 annual meeting in Liverpool; here they share their reflections on the s

95. FIS 2024 part 1: AMR & Bacteria

Dec 08 2024 28 mins  
HO HO HO, MERRY FISMAS!!! On the First Pod of FISmas these ID:IOTS have to you… a terrifying update on the Antibiotic Apocalypse! Jame and Callum attended the Federation of Infection Societies 2024 annual meeting in Liverpool; here they share their reflections on the sessions they attended on: Bacteria and Antimicrobial resistance. Episodes on viruses, fungi etc. coming soon! Not