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Breakpoints — 134 episodes

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#134 – ESCMID Global Trials: PETER PEN and ASTARTE

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#133 – Trash talk: Earth Day Special on Healthcare Sustainability and Stewardship

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#132 – Complicated UTIs: What’s Crystal Clear & What’s Still Cloudy

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#131 – Drawing the Line: The Writing, Reach, and Limits of Guidelines

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#130 – Dosing Consult: Amoxicillin

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#129 – Game of Spores: Blasto, Histo, Crypto, and Cocci

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#128 – IDWeek 2025 Recap

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#127 – What’s Pneu in Community-Acquired Pneumonia Part 2

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#126 – What’s the Microbiome Gut to Do with It

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#125 – The Scariest and Baddest: Burkholderia, Achromobacter, and Elizabethkingia

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#124 – Dosing Consult: Cefepime

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#123 – Rol del Farmacéutico en los PROA en América Latina

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#122 – The Role of The Pharmacist in Antimicrobial Stewardship in Latin America

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#121 – Finding BALANCE in Antibiotic Durations: The BALANCE Trial

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#120 – What’s Pneu in Community-Acquired Pneumonia

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#119 – Dosing Consult: Fluconazole

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#118 – Hot Topics: What You May Have Missed in Infectious Diseases 2024-2025 (LIVE from MAD-ID)

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#117 – Amnio-Oh-No You Didn’t: Modernizing Antimicrobial Regimens for Intraamniotic Infections

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#116 – SNAP Out of It: Rethinking Antistaphylococcal Penicillins for S. Aureus Bacteremia – The SNAP Trial PSSA/MSSA Results

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#115 – Silver Lining of Shortages: Blood Culture Best Practices

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#114 – Dosing Consult: Amoxicillin/Clavulanate

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#113 – Ask ChatGPT: The Role of AI in Healthcare

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#112 – Say It Ain't Steno: Stenotrophomonas maltophilia Review

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#111 – Dosing Consult: Rifampin Part 2

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#110 – A Bone to Pick: Biofilm Busters for Prosthetic Joint Infections

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#109 – IDWeek 2024 Recap: Practice Changing Papers and ID Potpourri

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#108 – IDWeek 2024 Recap: Late Breaker Abstracts and Stewardship Talks

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#107 – Dosing Consult: Valganciclovir

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#106 – Stewie Struggles: EHR Edition

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#105 – Bringing Positive Vibes Only: Breaking News & Emerging Hypotheses for Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections

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#104 – Dosing Consult: Rifampin Part 1

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#103 – Dosing Consult: Daptomycin

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#102 – Oh, the Places Stewardship Will Go! Best Practices for Outpatient Antibiotic Stewardship and Transitions of Care

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#101 – BLING III: Does Continuous Infusion Make the Whole Place Shimmer

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#100 – Tackling Tetracyclines: Breakpoints 100th Episode!

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#99 – Don’t be CRABby: Acinetobacter baumannii review

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#98 – Uncomplicated UTIs: Getting Uncomfortable with Uncertainty

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#97 – Hot Topics: What Did You Miss in Infectious Diseases in 2023-2024 (LIVE from MAD-ID)

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#96 – The Tortured Stewards & Surgeons Department

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#95 – A to Z on R&D: Challenges and Solutions for Sustained Antimicrobial Drug Development

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#94 – Lock, Stock, & Sterilize: Strategies to Optimize Antimicrobial Lock Therapy & Prevent/Treat Catheter-Related Bloodstream Infections

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#93 – Global, Live Journal Club: Ceftobiprole for Complicated Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia (ERADICATE Study)

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#92 – Antibiotic Alchemy: Metallo-Beta-Lactamases

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#91 – Teamwork Makes the Dream Work: Preparation Pearls for Stewardship and Microbiology Lab Accreditation Updates

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#90 – IDWeek 2023 Recap: Pipeline Agents and Clinical Trials That May Change Your Practice

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#89 – IDWeek 2023 Recap: Late Breaking Clinical Trials

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#88 – Dosing Consult: Can we BID farewell to Q8H Metronidazole?

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#87 – We Love T Cells: Updates in Cytomegalovirus

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#86 – The Robin to Your Batman: Ensuring Adequate Beta-lactamase Inhibitor Exposure to Restore Beta-lactam Activity

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#85 – Who You Gonna Call? Mythbusters! Antibiotic Myths for Infectious Diseases Clinicians

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#84 – Antimicrobial Stewardship and Disaster Medicine: Perspectives from Ukraine

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#83 – Dosing Consult: Sulfamethoxazole/trimethoprim

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#82 – ID Literature Year in Review (LIVE from MAD-ID)

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#81 – Making the Right Choice Easy: Antimicrobial Stewardship in the Emergency Department

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#80 – Weighting on a Miracle: Understanding Unknowns of Dosing Children and Adults with Obesity

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#79 – HAP & VAP: Let’s Clear the Air

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#78 – New Therapies in HIV: The Long Road to Long-acting Antiretrovirals - Are We There Yet?

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#77 – Breakpoints Talks Breakpoints: Non-fermenters

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#76 – Breakpoints Talks Breakpoints: Fluoroquinolones

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#75 – Breakpoints Talks Breakpoints: Aminoglycosides

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#74 – Breakpoints Talks Breakpoints: Piperacillin/tazobactam

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#73 – You’re a Breakpoint, Harry: Magical Insights from CLSI and USCAST

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#72 – This Isn't Just a Phage: A Discussion on Bacteriophage Therapy

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#71 – This is a Potential Breakup Song: Controversies in the Management of Infective Endocarditis

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#70 – Stewardship Struggles

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#69 – IDWeek 2022 Recap: Practice Changing Publications – Midnights Edition

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#68 – IDWeek 2022 Recap: Late Breaking Trials and Pipeline Antibacterials

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#67 – Nixing the Nidus: Managing Retained Sources in Prosthetic Joint Infections

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#66 – The Swinging PEN-dulum: Evolving Approaches to Cephalosporin Use in Penicillin Allergic Patients

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#65 – Into the Unknown: Exploring Fever of Unknown Origin with Febrile Podcast

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#64 – Putting the Fun in Fungi: A Fun-guide to New Antifungals

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#63 – I Never Metapneumovirus that Required Antibiotics: Prevention & Treatment of Common Respiratory Viruses in Adults

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#62 – Novel TheraPOOtics: The Microbiome, C. difficile, and LBPs

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#61 – Dosing Consult: Linezolid Therapeutic Drug Monitoring

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#60 – Going MAD for Non-COVID ID Literature: A Year in Review LIVE from MAD-ID

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#59 – Resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa: Pearls and Perils

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#58 – We're Gonorrhea-valuate: Updates and Implementation of STI Treatment Guidelines

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#57 – Dosing Consult: Ceftriaxone

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#56 – Empiric Escalation: Gazing into the Crystal Ball for Multidrug-Resistant Gram-Negatives

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#55 – One World: Global Perspectives in Antimicrobial Stewardship

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#54 – Connecting with our Colleagues: COVID-19 Treatments in Community Pharmacies

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#53 – Abscessus and fortuitum and avium, Oh My!: Updates and Controversies in NTM Management

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#52 – A Conversation with the Authors of IDSA Guidance on Treatment of AmpC, CRAB, and Stenotrophomonas

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#51 – A Conversation with the Authors of IDSA Guidance on Treatment of ESBL, CRE, and DTR Pseudomonas

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#50 – Moving to the Algo-rhythm of IDWeek 2021: Highlights in SoMe and ASP

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#49 – A PGY-What Now? A Primer on ID Pharmacy Fellowships

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#48 – Aligning Goals: Antibiotics in End of Life Care

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#47 – A Nefarious Orchestra: Gram-Negative Resistance Mechanisms Part 2

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#46 – A Nefarious Orchestra: Gram-Negative Resistance Mechanisms Part 1

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#45 – Expectation vs. Reality: An Insider look at the OVERCOME and MERINO-2 trials

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#44 – The VaxScene, a review of the COVID-19 vaccine landscape in the US with a focus on equitable distribution and vaccine hesitancy

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#43 – Level Up: Implementation of Beta-lactam Therapeutic Drug Monitoring

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#42 – The Level is in the Details: Beta-lactam Therapeutic Drug Monitoring

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#41 – The Gray Zone: Antimicrobial Stewardship in Immunocompromised Hosts

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#40 – Breakpoints Talks Breakpoints: Microbiology Labs and Stewardship

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#39 – A Little More on the Littles: What Adults Should Know about ID Pediatrics

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#38 – You're KID-ding! Myths in ID Pediatrics

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#37 – A Gab about Cab: The Short on Long-Acting Antiretrovirals for HIV

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#36 – Monoclonal Antibodies: Gateway Drugs for Future Care Delivery Models

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#35 – Oral Beta-Lactams, Are We Serious?

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#34 – The New Scoop on Poop: Updates in the Management of C. difficile infections

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#33 – A Lung Time Coming: Controversies in Community Acquired Pneumonia

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#32 – Unsolicited Advice: An Honest Discussion of Burnout in Stewardship

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#31 – “Mind the Gap”: Antimicrobial Stewardship at Transitions of Care

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#30 – Is More Better? The Role of Combination Therapy for MRSA

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#29 – What You May Have Missed Due to COVID-19: ID Literature Updates 2020 Part 2

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#28 – What You May Have Missed Due to COVID-19: ID Literature Updates 2020 Part 1

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#27 – Expert Updates in Gram Negative Resistance: Q&A Session

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#26 – OPAT - The Final Frontier, Part 2

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#25 – Remdesivir: Ethical and Practical Considerations for Allocation, Tracking, and More

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#24 – OPAT – The Final Frontier, Part 1

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#23 – Taking a “BITE” Out of Antibiotic Prescribing: Strategies to Improve Antimicrobial Usage in Dentistry

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#22 – Taking a “BITE” Out of Antibiotic Prescribing: The Need for Antimicrobial Stewardship in Dentistry

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#21 – Frontline Allies: Emergency Medicine and Critical Care Insights into COVID19

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#20 – What is Happening Right Now? COVID-19 Challenges and Silver Linings

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#19 – Push and Pull: Combating Antibiotic Resistance from Discovery to Market Reform

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#18 – Waking the Sleeping Giant: Engaging Nurses in Antimicrobial Stewardship

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#17 – See C. diff: A Discussion on Patient Advocacy

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#16 – 5 Ways Hospital Pharmacists Can Be Antibiotics Aware

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#15 – CDC Core Elements of Hospital Antibiotic Stewardship Programs: 2019 Update

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#14 – Pumpkin-Spiced Lessons: Phages, Posters, and Paul Sax

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#13 – Provocative Titles and Pro-Con Debates

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#12 – Late Breaker Trials and #WhyIVaccinate

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#11 – Practice-changing Publications ft. David van Duin

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#10 – So You're an Antimicrobial Steward... Now What?

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#9 – Show Me the Data!

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#8 – Stewardship is a Team Sport

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#7 – Rapid Fire Data from ECCMID 2019

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#6 – Tazobactam and Tulips: Hot Topics from ECCMID 2019

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#5 – Nerding Out at ECCMID 2019

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#4 – How ECCMID 2019 went viral

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#3 – Lessons Learned From the Front Line

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#2 – Implementing Penicillin Skin Testing

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#1 – Mythbusting