The Lancet Infectious Diseases in conversation with

The editorial team of The Lancet Infectious Diseases, in conversation with the journal’s authors, explores their latest research and its impact on people’s health, healthcare, and health policy. An audio companion to the journal, this podcast covers a broad range of topics, from mpox diagnostics in Africa, long COVID, adaptive trials in infectious diseases, tuberculosis drug development, and more.

  1. 6d ago

    Brecht Ingelbeen and Daniel Valia on a community-based antimicrobial stewardship intervention in Burkina Faso and DRC

    Dr Brecht Ingelbeen and Dr Daniel Valia join Senior Editor Phoebe Hall to discuss a new trial in the journal (the CABU-EICO trial) testing a co-created behavioural intervention bundle to improve antibiotic use, patient management, and water, sanitation and hygiene in rural communities in Burkina Faso and DR Congo. They explain why the study focused on community prescribing (not hospitals), the primary endpoint was a reduction in WHO AWaRE Watch antibiotics (not overall antibiotics), and the intervention targeted all providers of antibiotics in the community, including informal vendors. Finally, they discuss the importance of designing an intervention bundle that was truly tailored to local context yet practical, sustainable, and scalable beyond the study sites. A parallel study reporting the effect of the intervention bundle on ESBL-producing Escherichia coli colonisation (a co-primary outcome of the trial) is in press at The Lancet Microbe.   To read the full article: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(26)00169-6/fulltext The Lancet Infectious Diseases in conversation with...  is part of the Lancet Group podcast offering.  Editorial team: editor-in-chief Ursula Hofer, deputy editor Marco De Ambrogi, and senior editors Syeda Saleha Hassan and Phoebe Hall Podcast editing: Matteo Simonetti Visit https://www.thelancet.com/multimedia to learn more about our multimedia offering.  Find the best science for better lives at lancet.com Follow us today at... https://thelancet.bsky.social/ https://instagram.com/thelancetgroup https://facebook.com/thelancetmedicaljournal https://linkedIn.com/company/the-lancet https://youtube.com/thelancettv

    27 min
  2. 08/11/2025

    Catherine Liu and Joshua Hill on prevention and management of infections in people who are immunocompromised

    Drs Catherine Liu and Joshua Hill of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center discuss their new Series of papers on the prevention and management of infections in people who are immunocompromised, with a focus on prevention of infections and diagnostic and antimicrobial stewardship. Read the Series papers: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(25)00345-7/fulltext?dgcid=buzzsprout_icw_podcast_August_25_laninf https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(25)00311-1/fulltext?dgcid=buzzsprout_icw_podcast_August_25_laninf Read the linked Comment: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(25)00355-X/fulltext?dgcid=buzzsprout_icw_podcast_August_25_laninf Continue this conversation on social! Follow us today at... https://thelancet.bsky.social/ https://instagram.com/thelancetgroup https://facebook.com/thelancetmedicaljournal https://linkedIn.com/company/the-lancet https://youtube.com/thelancettv The Lancet Infectious Diseases in conversation with...  is part of the Lancet Group podcast offering.  Editorial team: editor-in-chief Ursula Hofer, deputy editor Marco De Ambrogi, and senior editors Syeda Saleha Hassan and Phoebe Hall Podcast editing: Matteo Simonetti Visit https://www.thelancet.com/multimedia to learn more about our multimedia offering.  Find the best science for better lives at lancet.com Follow us today at... https://thelancet.bsky.social/ https://instagram.com/thelancetgroup https://facebook.com/thelancetmedicaljournal https://linkedIn.com/company/the-lancet https://youtube.com/thelancettv

    18 min
  3. 07/09/2025

    Lilian Tina Minja and Norbert Heinrich on TB drug development

    Lilian Tina Minja and Norbert Heinrich discuss the SUDUCO and DECODE trials in The Lancet Infectious Diseases on two new promising TB drugs, sutezolid and delpazolid, respectively. They also discuss the wider implications of the findings of these trials for TB drug development and treatment. Read the trials: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(25)00213-0/fulltext?dgcid=buzzsprout_icw_podcast_July_25_laninf https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(25)00289-0/fulltext?dgcid=buzzsprout_icw_podcast_July_25_laninf Continue this conversation on social! Follow us today at... https://thelancet.bsky.social/ https://instagram.com/thelancetgroup https://facebook.com/thelancetmedicaljournal https://linkedIn.com/company/the-lancet https://youtube.com/thelancettv The Lancet Infectious Diseases in conversation with...  is part of the Lancet Group podcast offering.  Editorial team: editor-in-chief Ursula Hofer, deputy editor Marco De Ambrogi, and senior editors Syeda Saleha Hassan and Phoebe Hall Podcast editing: Matteo Simonetti Visit https://www.thelancet.com/multimedia to learn more about our multimedia offering.  Find the best science for better lives at lancet.com Follow us today at... https://thelancet.bsky.social/ https://instagram.com/thelancetgroup https://facebook.com/thelancetmedicaljournal https://linkedIn.com/company/the-lancet https://youtube.com/thelancettv

    30 min

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The editorial team of The Lancet Infectious Diseases, in conversation with the journal’s authors, explores their latest research and its impact on people’s health, healthcare, and health policy. An audio companion to the journal, this podcast covers a broad range of topics, from mpox diagnostics in Africa, long COVID, adaptive trials in infectious diseases, tuberculosis drug development, and more.

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