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On episode #53 of the Infectious Disease Puscast, Daniel and Sara review the infectious disease literature for the weeks of 4/11 – 4/24/24.
Hosts: Daniel Griffin and Sara Dong
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Links for this episode Viral Reasons for what we do for routine respiratory pathogens (Journal of Hospital Medicine) Acute cardiac events due to RSV infection (JAMA Internal Medicine) Antiretroviral drugs and weight change (CID) What do antibiotics do for acute lower respiratory tract infection (Journal of General Internal Medicine) Guidelines for managing BK polyomavirus in kidney transplantation (Transplant) Bacterial Understanding Yersinia enterocolitica epidemiology(OFID) Medtronic duet external ventricular drain infections(MMWR) Who is more expensive daptomycin or vancomycin (OFID) Fungal Coccidioidomycosis related hospital visits (Emerging Infectious Diseases) Parasitic Leech in oropharynx of a 2-year old leads to anemia (AJTMH) The real use of ivermectin: treatment of strongyloidiasis (AJTHM) Miscellaneous Sporadic CJD in hunters? (Neurology) Where are all the infectious disease doctors? (OFID) Not interested in infectious diseases? Seriously! (CID) Music is by Ronald Jenkees

On episode #51 of the Infectious Disease Puscast, Daniel and Sara review the infectious disease literature for the weeks of 3/28 – 4/10/24.
Hosts: Daniel Griffin and Sara Dong
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Links for this episode Winter vomiting disease (Open Forum Inf Dis) Ceftriaxone-Resistant Gonorrhea — China, 2022 (MMWR) Give me five days of antibiotics (JPIDS) Where did this come from (JPIDS) Differentiating cellulitis from pseudocellulitis (JAMA Derm) FLIR One Pro Neonatal Elizabethkingia anophelis meningitis from the water reservoir of automated infant milk dispenser (Eurosurveill) d-Mannose for Prevention of Recurrent UTI Among Women (JAMA Int Med) Oral vaccine for UTI potential alternative to antibiotics (Eurek!Alert) Oral vaccine for UTI trials BJUI one and BJUI two and NEJM NLRP3 inflammasome activation and type I interferon signaling predispose to necrotizing fasciitis (Cell Rep Med) Candida deep sternal wound infections: a consequence of antibiotic use? (OFID) Candida auris in US Correctional Facilities (Emerg Inf Dis) Scedosporiosis and lomentosporiosis: difficult-to-treat rare mold infections (Clin Micr Rev) Meeting the consultation surge (OFID) Music is by Ronald Jenkees

On episode #51 of the Infectious Disease Puscast, Daniel and Sara review the infectious disease literature for the weeks of 3/13 – 3/27/24.
Hosts: Daniel Griffin and Sara Dong
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Links for this episode Viral The oral antiviral obeldesivir protects NHPs against Sudan ebolavirus (Science) Monoclonal antibody therapy to treat Ebola virus disease (Curr Opinion Vir) Opinion of anti-Sudan ebolavirus antiviral therapy (Science) Management of norovirus in solid organ and hematopoietic stem cell transplants (Transplant ID) Bacterial Bacteremia from urinary source in hospitalized adults with asymptomatic bacteriuria?(JAMA) UTI research reference standards (Lancet Infectious Diseases) Aspiration pneumonia (CHEST) Household transmission of Strep A (JID) Antimicrobial dosing recommendations for obese patients (Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy) Syphilis testing (MMWR) Predictors of morality from streptococcal bacteremia (CID) Fungal Invasive candidiasis (Nat Rev Disease Primer) Climate change and natural disasters impact on fungal infections (Lancet Microbe) Parasitic Nasal flushing and Acanthamoeba infection (Emerging Infectious Diseases) Miscellaneous Vaccination guidelines for adults with cancer (Journal of Clinical Oncology) Do multiplexed molecular diagnostic tools impact treatment for children with acute gastroenteritis? (CID) Music is by Ronald Jenkees

On episode #50 of the Infectious Disease Puscast, Daniel and Sara review the infectious disease literature for the weeks of 2/28 – 3/12/24.
Hosts: Daniel Griffin and Sara Dong
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Links for this episode Viral Measles….and more measles (JPIDS) Need for new mumps vaccine (PIDJ) Cabotegravir and rilpivirine for those infected with HIV (JAMA) Genetic susceptibility to astrovirus diarrhea (OFID) 10 years after hepatitis E vaccination (Lancet) Tecovirimat for improvement of mpox symptoms (OFID) Bacterial Clinical care for tick-borne disease affected by paging clinicians serological results (AJTHM) Metabolomics of nontuberculous mycobacterial pulmonary disease (JID) Predicting risk of infectious endocarditis in those with Staphylococus aureus bacteraemis (JID) Fungal Response to invasive pulmonary aspergillosis (OFID) Parasitic Postsurgical outcomes due to hippocampal sclerosis (AJTHM) Miscellaneous What does the neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio mean in elderly with severe sepsis and diabetes mellitus (BMC Geriatrics) Impact of learning from Febrile podcast for infectious diseases (OFID) Music is by Ronald Jenkees

On episode #49 of the Infectious Disease Puscast, Daniel and Sara review the infectious disease literature for the weeks of 2/14 – 2/27/24.
Hosts: Daniel Griffin and Sara Dong
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Links for this episode Viral HIV Cure?  (NEJM) The effects of HIV-1 antigen-expanded specific T-Cell therapy and vorinostat on persistent infection (JID) The burden of HMPV and influenza associated hospitalizations in adults (JID) Bacterial Length of antibiotic therapy among the hospitalized with uncomplicated pneumonia (Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology) Guideline on fecal microbiota–vased therapies for some gastrointestinal diseases (Gastroenterology) Guideline on fecal microbiota–based therapies for recurrent C diff (CIDRAP) Reduced vancomycin susceptibility in Clostridioides difficile (CID) Fungal Histoplasmosisin non-HIV population (OFID) Parasitic Plasmodium falciparum under the host’s Immune radar(JID) Did you hear Artemether-lumefantrine is recommended for uncomplicate malaria CID) Miscellaneous Uncompensated work in academic infectious diseases, seriously? (CID) Invasive mosquito Anopheles stephensi, Ghana (Emerging Infectious Diseases) Music is by Ronald Jenkees

On episode #48 of the Infectious Disease Puscast, Daniel and Sara review the infectious disease literature for the weeks of 1/31 – 2/13/24.
Hosts: Daniel Griffin and Sara Dong
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Links for this episode Viral Infectious attenuated tetravalent Butanatan-Dengue vaccine (NEJM) Kids with severe disease following first and second dengue virus infection (Nature) Oropouche fever outbreak in Latin America (Lancet Infectious Diseases) CMV mRNA vaccine knocks out gB/MF59 vaccine (JID) Acyuclovir-resistant mucocutaneous HSV in immunocompromised patients (OFID) Bacterial Dalbavancin for vertebral osteomyelitis (OFID) Severe vibrio vulnificus infections (MMWR) Demystifying UTIs in the era of antibiotic resistance (PLoS Pathogens) Syphilis testing recommendations (MMWR) Doxycycline vs azithromycin for scrub typhus (BMC Infectious Diseases) REALLY drug resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa outbreak(CID) Fungal SUBA or conventional itraconazole for treatment of endemic mycoses (OFID) Fluconazole resistant Candida (CDC) Are you in the hospital too long after being treated with echinocandin for your Candidemia or invasive Candidiasis (OFID) Nasopharyngeal swab or lower respiratory tract specimen for Pneumocystis jirovecii diagnosis (OFID) Global guideline for cryptococcosis diagnosis and management (Lancet Infectious Disease) Parasitic Toxoplasma IgG positivity associates with increase mortality (AJTMH) Miscellaneous How well did infectious diseases fellows match (JID) Back to the future of the physician-scientist in infectious diseases (JID) Full or not infectious disease training (JID) Music is by Ronald Jenkees