Sam Starke

PGY5 | Infectious Disease Fellow at Rush-Cook County | by way of @OslerResidency and @UWSMPH | In Chicago, but always #BucksinSix #GoPackGo

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Excited to share our experience implementing 1HP—a novel 1-month regimen for LTBI—in CCDPH’s TB program!

[Clinical Infectious Diseases @CIDJournal]

Short-Course Tuberculosis Preventive Therapy in a High Migration Setting: Early Experience With 1HP in Cook County, Illinois

✅ Just Accepted
🔗 https://t.co/k7xDqHGfDr

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@DanMatasicMD Nice!

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This was a memorable case from my first year of fellowship. Excited to see it highlighted in @NEJM!

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A 52-year-old man with a history of splenectomy and hypogammaglobulinemia after CAR T-cell therapy for lymphoma 3 years earlier was admitted with septic shock. Encapsulated diplococci were seen in 20% of neutrophils.

Read the full case details in the Images in Clinical Medicine article “Pneumococcal Sepsis in a Patient with Asplenia and Hypogammaglobulinemia,” from @RushUniversity: https://t.co/mrGuBcJHNq

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Weekend Briefing for October 11, 2025:

New Images in Clinical Medicine: Pneumococcal Sepsis in Asplenia and Hypogammaglobulinemia https://t.co/mrGuBcJHNq

Three New Perspectives:

1️⃣ Digital Treatment to Reduce Global Tobacco Use https://t.co/Arq5k2KQsC

2️⃣ Surveillance of Health Care–Associated Infections https://t.co/5ZzT736deE

3️⃣ The AI Frontier in Humanitarian Aid https://t.co/j63eH6XYfU

Subscribe to NEJM for the latest medical research: https://t.co/QFe1he3roV

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@sethdjudson @PLOSGPH Congrats!

[Melanie Thompson @drmt]

🔥Hot off the Press!🔥 Just published in @CIDJournal, our 2024 update to the @HIVMA @IDSAInfo HIV Primary Care Guidance! Please share widely.
https://t.co/3ixEE0V0nS

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* seinfeld theme plays*

9 year old me:

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My first 2 wks in ID clinic:
✅Disseminated leishmaniasis
✅C. acnes pericarditis
✅Tx-refractory giardia
✅Echinococcal liver abscess
✅Pulmonary blasto
✅FUO with granulomatous LAD
➕becoming PCP for several patients with new dx of HIV.

Crazy how much there is to learn! 🤯

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@jtrebach Hyperion Cantos!

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@TijanaTuhy @mwsharp5 👀

[Adi @IDdocAdi]

ID docs taking history like

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@Bremac__ Can’t wait to meet the little buddy!

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Thank you @maunankshah1 and to the study participants for helping us demonstrate how interactive decision support can improve confidence with latent TB care.

If you haven't seen LTBI-Assist (https://t.co/4B5lwfvtrU), check it out!

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Compared to receiving guidelines alone, LTBI-ASSIST,(free online decision-support tool) improved trainees' confidence with aspects of Latent TB care and their ability to make guideline-concordant clinical decisions. By @sam_starke, @maunankshah1 and team! https://t.co/Fmxl5xkEhJ

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@TJHitchings @str8outa_cmpton

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Our findings suggest that Erythema Migrans rashes are routinely missed and/or misdiagnosed in persons with skin of color. This highlights the need for increased skin tone diversity in clinical education materials for frontline health care providers.

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Special thanks to my mentors at the Johns Hopkins Lyme Disease Research Center, @aucott_john, Alison Rebman, and John Miller. @HopkinsMedicine

Here is our work detailing key racial disparities in the early diagnosis and treatment of Lyme Disease.

https://t.co/GmgcLhcBNJ

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In our sample, we found that Black patients with Lyme Disease (compared to white patients) had higher odds of disseminated manifestations at diagnosis, experienced longer time to adequate treatment, and were more likely to have received a course of inappropriate antibiotics.

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Milwaukee, 36 years ago today

The @Bucks defeat the Soviet Union 127-100 in the USSR’s first basketball game against an NBA team.

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Had a great time at my first ID Week with some of my favorite people in the @OslerResidency! @benjohnsonbcj

#IDWeek2023