On episode #94 of the Infectious Disease Puscast, Daniel and Sara review the infectious disease literature for the weeks of 11/11/25 – 11/19/25.

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• Viral
• Epstein-Barr virus reprograms autoreactive B cells as antigen-presenting cells in systemic lupus erythematosus (Science Translational Medicine)
• Hepatitis B reactivation following switch away from tenofovir-containing anti-retroviral therapy in people living with HIV: A case series and lessons for practice (CID)
• Antimicrobial drug-resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae (GC) infections in men using doxycycline postexposure prophylaxis. A substudy of the ANRS 174 DOXYVAC trial (CID)
• HIV Pre-exposure Prophylaxis Does Not Increase Gonorrhea and Chlamydia Incidence in Young Black and Hispanic Men who Have Sex With Men: An Observational Cohort Study (OFID)
• Bacterial
• Global and regional knowledge of antibiotic use and resistance among the general public: a systematic review and meta-analysis (CMI: Clinical Microbiology and Infection)
• Infant Botulism Outbreak Linked to Infant Formula, November 2025 (CDC: Botulism)
• Outbreak Investigation of Infant Botulism: Infant Formula (November 2025) (FDA)
• Vitamin D deficiency at hospital admission with community-acquired pneumonia is associated with increased risk of mortality: A Prospective Cohort Study (OFID)
• Bat-Associated Hemotropic Mycoplasmas in Immunosuppressed Children, Spain, 2024 (Emerging Infectious Diseases)
• A Multicomponent Intervention to Improve Maternal Infection Outcomes (NEJM)
• Fungal
• The Last of US Season 2 (YouTube)
• Increasing Fluconazole Resistance in Candida parapsilosis: A 10-Year Analysis of Blood Culture Isolates at a US Reference Laboratory (2015–2024) (JID)
• British Society for Medical Mycology best practice recommendations for the diagnosis of serious fungal diseases: 2025 update (LANCET: Infectious Diseases)
• In Vivo Evolution of Candida auris Multidrug Resistance in a Patient Receiving Antifungal Treatment (JID)
• Parasitic
• Implications of a fatal anaphylactic reaction occurring 4 hours after eating beef in a young man with IgE antibodies to galactose-α-1,3-galactose (JACI: Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology In practice)
• WHO recommends R21/Matrix-M vaccine for malaria prevention in updated advice on immunization (WHO)
• Effectiveness of the RTS,S/AS01E malaria vaccine in a real-world setting over 1 year of follow-up after the three-dose primary schedule: an interim analysis of a phase 4 study in Ghana, Kenya, and Malawi (LANCET: Global Health)
• A systematic review and an individual patient data meta-analysis of ivermectin use in children weighing less than fifteen kilograms: Is it time to reconsider the current contraindication? (PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases)
• Miscellaneous
• IL12RB1 deficiency appearing in North America: expanding the clinical phenotypes (CID)

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On episode #93 of the Infectious Disease Puscast, Daniel and Sara review the infectious disease literature for the weeks of 10/23/25 – 11/10/25.

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• Viral
• High Prevalence of Varicella Zoster Virus Infection among Persons with Suspect Mpox Cases during an Mpox Outbreak in Kenya, 2024 (ASTMH: AJTMH)
• Earlier initiation of treatment following HIV acquisition reduces non-AIDS-defining malignancy risk (CID)
• TWiV 1267: A cancer vaccine and an mpox treatment (MicrobeTV)
• Cancers Caused by HPV (CDC: Human Papillomavirus (HPV))
• Circulating tumor human papillomavirus DNA whole genome sequencing enables human papillomavirus-associated oropharynx cancer early detection (Journal of the National Cancer Institute)
• Impact of Vaccinating Adult Women Who Are HPV-Positive or with Confirmed Cervical SIL with the 9-Valent Vaccine—A Systematic Review (Viruses)
• ACIP Shared Clinical Decision-Making Recommendations (CDC: Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP))
• HPV Vaccination Recommendations (CDC: Vaccines & Immunizations)
• Bacterial
• Consequences of Delaying Surgical Intervention in Patients with Native Joint Septic Arthritis (OFID)
• Fungal
• The Last of US Season 2 (YouTube)
• Adjunctive corticosteroids in non-AIDS patients with severe Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia (PIC): a multicentre, double-blind, randomised controlled trial (LANCET: Respiratory Medicine)
• Nasal Iodophor to Reduce Candidozyma auris Nasal Carriage in Nursing Home Residents (OFID)
• Epidemiology of Invasive Fungal Disease in Pediatric Heart Transplant Recipients (Journal of Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society)
• Mapping the Geographic Distribution of Dimorphic Mycoses Using a US Commercial Insurance Database (OFID)
• Genomic Dynamics of the Emergent Candida auris: Exploring Climate-dependentTrends (OFID)
• Parasitic
• Evaluation of a One Health public health program based on minimum inputs to control Taenia solium in Madagascar (PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases)
• Transplacental Transfer of Lumefantrine, Mefloquine, and Piperaquine: A Comparison of Concentrations in Mothers, Neonates, and Cord Blood (CID)
• Miscellaneous
• Amplifying Our Voices: Fostering Advocacy in Infectious Diseases Fellowship(OFID)
• Plant-Based Diets and Climate Change, A Perspective for Infectious Disease Provider (OFID)

Music is by Ronald Jenkees

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On episode #84 of the Infectious Disease Puscast, Daniel and Sara review the infectious disease literature for the weeks of 6/17 – 7/2/25.

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• Viral
• Clinical Outcomes and Perspectives of People With Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Twelve Months After Initiation of Long-acting Cabotegravir and Rilpivirine in an Observational Real-world US Study (BEYOND)(CID)
• Healthcare Provider Knowledge of West Nile Virus Diagnostic Testing—United States, 2022 (OFID)
• Bacterial
• Risk and Distribution of Metastatic Infections by Primary Infection Focus in Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia (OFID)
• Clinical management of Clostridioides difficile infection with faecal microbiota transplantation (eClinicalMedicine)
• Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Management of Clostridioides difficile Infection in Adults (IDSA)
• Clinician Management Preferences for Clostridioides difficile Infection in Adults (OFID)
• Donor-Derived Tuberculosis In Three Solid Organ Transplant Recipients From The Same Donor (OFID)
• Septic Arthritis and Osteomyelitis in Finger Caused by Mycoplasma phocimorsus from Brown Bear, Alaska, USA (CDC: Emerging Infectious Diseases)
• Foodborne Botulism Outbreak After Consumption of Home-Canned Cactus (Nopales) (CDC: MMWR)
• One-Stage Revision Total Hip Arthroplasty for Polymicrobial Periprosthetic Joint Infection Leads to High Reinfection Rates (Journal of Arthroplasty)
• 4,000-year-old Mycobacterium lepromatosis genomes from Chile reveal long establishment of Hansen's disease in the Americas (Nature Ecology & Evolution)
• Fungal
• The Last of US Season 2 (YouTube)
• Outcome Predictors of Candida Prosthetic Joint Infection (OFID)
• Parasitic
• Miscellaneous
• Ten Practical Tips for a Successful Presentation at ID clinical case conference (OFID)
• Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030 (LANCET)
• Comparison of Periodic In-Person ID Care to Daily Tele-ID Care at a Community Hospital (OFID)

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On episode #83 of the Infectious Disease Puscast, Daniel and Sara review the infectious disease literature for the weeks of 6/5 – 6/18/25.

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• Viral
• Premature Demise of the Milwaukee Protocol (CID)
• West Nile Virus and Other Nationally Notifiable Arboviral Diseases — United States, 2023 (CDC: MMWR)
• Investigation of associations between the neonatal gut microbiota and severe viral lower respiratory tract infections in the first 2 years of life (LANCET: Microbe)
• Right blend of gut microbiota could avert hospitalization forviral respiratory infection in babies (CIDRAP)
• Clinical management and infection prevention and control for mpox: living guideline, May 2025 (World Health Organization)
• Bacterial
• Corynebacterium diphtheriaeOutbreak in Migrant Populations in Europe (NEJM)
• Weekly Oral Cycling Antibiotic Treatment: A New Antibioprophylaxis Regimen for Recurrent UTIs (CID)
• Fungal
• The Last of US Season 2 (YouTube)
• Estimated Burden of Coccidioidomycosis (JAMA)
• Antifungal therapy in Candida infective endocarditis: a comparison of echinocandins and other treatment regimens in a nation-wide cohort study (CID)
• Parasitic Does schistosome infection affect behavior through the gut-brain axis? (PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases)

Music is by Ronald Jenkees

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On episode #82 of the Infectious Disease Puscast, Daniel and Sara review the infectious disease literature for the weeks of 5/22 – 6/4/25.

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• Viral
• Estimated Current and Future Congenital Rubella Syndrome Incidence with and Without Rubella Vaccine Introduction — 19 Countries, 2019–2055 (CDC: MMWR)
• HIV-Superinfection in Kidney Transplant Recipients with HIV who Received Organs from Donors with HIV (JID)
• Respiratory syncytial virus: an under-recognized healthcare-associated infection (Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology)
• Bacterial
• Francisella tularensis Subspecies holarctica in Stranded Beluga Whales, Cook Inlet, Alaska, USA (CDC: Emerging Infectious Diseases)
• Long-term effects of azithromycin mass administration to reduce childhood mortality on Streptococcus pneumoniae antimicrobial resistance (LANCET: Infectious Diseases)
• Reducing inappropriate antibiotic use in febrile neutropenia in hematology patients through the implementation of an antibiotic de-escalation protocol (Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology)
• Optimizing cefazolin dosing for central nervous system infections: insights from population pharmacokinetics and Monte Carlo simulations (Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy)
• Fungal
• The Last of US Season 2 (YouTube)
• Histoplasma antigenuria prevalence in patients with advanced HIV disease in Côted'Ivoire (CID)
• Interferon-γ therapy in patients with refractory disseminated coccidioidomycosis(CID)
• Practical Guidance for Clinical Microbiology Laboratories: Antibody and antigen detection methods for dimorphic fungal infections (Clinical Microbiology Reviews)
• Parasitic
• Notes from the Field: Primary Amebic Meningoencephalitis Associated with Nasal Irrigation Using Water from a Recreational Vehicle — Texas, 2024 (CDC: MMWR)
• Further Evidence for Plausible Transmission of Fishborne Trematodiases in the United States: Game Fish Carry Human-Infectious Trematodes and Are Eaten Raw (JID)
• Miscellaneous
• A pilot study of coughing into the shirt to disrupt respiratory pathogen transmission (International Journal Of Emergency Medicine)
• Applying new compound to bed nets targets malaria parasites, not mosquitoes (CIDRAP)

Music is by Ronald Jenkees

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On episode #81 of the Infectious Disease Puscast, Daniel reviews the infectious disease literature for the weeks of 5/8/25 – 5/21/25.

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• Viral
• Tecovirimat for Clade I MPXV Infection in the Democratic Republic of Congo (NEJM)
• Remdesivir associated with reduced mortality in hospitalized COVID-19 patients (BMC Infectious Diseases)
• Real-world evidence shows remdesivir tied to less death in hospitalized COVID patients (CIDRAP)
• Impact of most promising Ebola therapies on survival (Virology Journal)
• Bacterial
• Comparative effectiveness of azithromycin versus doxycycline in hospitalized patients with community acquired pneumonia treated with beta-lactams (CID)
• Diet and Risk for Incident Diverticulitis in Women (Annals of Internal Medicine)
• The Dynamics of QuantiFERON-TB Gold In-Tube Conversion and Reversion in a Cohort of South African Adolescents(American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine)
• BCG Revaccination for the Prevention of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection(NEJM)
• The Impact of Diet on Clostridioides difficile Infection (JID)
• Cefazolin versus Antistaphylococcal Penicillins for the Treatment of Methicillin-Susceptible Staphylococcusaureus Bacteremia (CMI: Clinical Microbiology and Infection)
• Fungal
• The Last of US Season 2 (YouTube)
• Candida auris is emerging as a prevalent urinary pathogen (PLoS Pathgoens
• A symbiotic filamentous gut fungus ameliorates MASH via a secondary metabolite–CerS6–ceramide axis (Science)
• Outcome predictors of Candida prosthetic joint infections (OFID)
• Cave-Associated Histoplasmosis Outbreak Among Travelers Returning from Costa Rica — Georgia, Texas, and Washington, December 2024–January 2025 (CDC: MMWR)
• Parasitic
• COPEG 25th Anniversary (US Embassy in Panama)
• USDA suspends southern border livestock imports over New World screwworm threat(CIDRAP)
• Moxidectin combination therapies for lymphatic filariasis (LANCET: Infectious Diseases

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On episode #80 of the Infectious Disease Puscast, Daniel and Sara review the infectious disease literature for the weeks of 4/24/25 – 5/7/25.

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• Viral
• Incidence and Timing of Epstein–Barr Virus Whole Blood DNAemia in Epstein–Barr Virus-Mismatched Adult and Pediatric Solid Organ Transplant Recipients (Transplant Infectious Disease)
• Infant Respiratory Syncytial Virus Immunization Coverage in the Vaccine Safety Datalink: 2023–2024 (American Academy of Pediatrics)
• Impact of Nirsevimab on RSV and Non-RSV Severe Respiratory Infections in Hospitalized Infants (Influenza and other respiratory viruses)
• Hospital admissions of respiratory infections in infants plungewith nirsevimab RSV antibody (CIDRAP)
• Time to antiviral treatment in mild–moderate COVID-19 in the emergency department (Internal and Emergency Medicine)
• Delays in COVID antiviral receipt raised risk of poor outcomes after ED visits by 18%, data suggest (CIDRAP)
• Antiretroviral Postexposure Prophylaxis After Sexual, Injection Drug Use, or Other Nonoccupational Exposure to HIV (MMWR)
• Bacterial
• Validation and clinical implementation of cerebrospinal fluid C-reactive protein for the diagnosis of bacterial meningitis (LANCET: Regional Health)
• Bridging to transplant: TDM-Guided Outpatient Dalbavancin Therapy in Chronic Granulomatous Disease with deep-seeded Inoperable Abscesses over 11 Months (OFID)
• Nitrites for Urinary Tract Infection—Time to Say Goodbye? (JAMA: Internal Medicine)
• Fungal
• The Last of US Season 2 (YouTube)
• High Mortality and Associated Risk Factors in Kidney Transplant Recipients with Cryptococcosis – A Nationwide Cohort Study Over a Decade Using USRDS Data (OFID)
• Use of Dog Serologic Data for Improved Understanding of Coccidioidomycosis (JID)
• Parasitic
• Performance of a novel P. falciparum rapid diagnostic test in areas of widespread hrp2/3 gene deletion (CID)
• Prevalence of Anopheles stephensi in the Horn of Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis (BMC Infectious Diseases)
• Raising awareness of Demodex mites: a neglected cause of skin disease (Infection)
• Miscellaneous
• Scientific Integrity Under Threat: The Role of the IDSA, PIDS, and SHEA Journals in an Evolving Political Landscape (CID)
• Reasoning on Rounds Volume 2: a Framework for Teaching Management Reasoning in the Inpatient Setting (Journal of General Internal Medicine)
• Billing for and documentation of provider-to-provider interprofessional consults in infectious diseases (Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society)

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On episode #79 of the Infectious Disease Puscast, Daniel and Sara review the infectious disease literature for the weeks of 4/10/25 – 4/23/25.

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• Viral
• An ancient Epstein-Barr virus genome recovered from a museum penis gourd from Papua (JID)
• Patterns of Decline in Measles, Mumps, and Rubella Neutralizing Antibodies and Protection Levels Through 10 Years After a Second and Third Dose of MMR Vaccine (OFID)
• Tecovirimat for Clade I MPXV Infection in the Democratic Republic of Congo(NEJM)
• Bacterial
• Rapid tuberculosis diagnosis from respiratory or blood samples by a low cost, portable lab-in-tube assay(Science Translational Medicine)
• New handheld device can diagnose TB without a lab in under an hour, its developers say(CIDRAP)
• Maternal mastitis and streptococcal toxic shock syndrome risk from breastfeeding children with scarlet fever (LANCET: Infectious Diseases)
• Risk Factors for Mortality Among Older Adults with Hospital-Acquired Bloodstream Infections in the Intensive Care Unit(Infectious Diseases and Therapy)
• Bacteremia in Pediatric Solid Organ Transplant Recipients within 1 Year of Transplant(Transplant Infectious Disease)
• Oral gepotidacin for the treatment of uncomplicated urogenital gonorrhoea (EAGLE-1) (LANCET)
• Consequences of Climate Change on the Emergence of Pathogenic, Environmentally Acquired Nontuberculous Mycobacteria (OFID)
• Addition of Macrolide Antibiotics for Hospital Treatment of Community-Acquired Pneumonia (JID)
• Point-of-Care Testingby Multiplex-PCR in Different Compartments in Suspected Lower Respiratory Tract Infection After Lung Transplantation(Transplant Infectious Disease)
• Fungal
• The Last of US Season 2 (YouTube)
• Pathway-instructed therapeutic selection of ruxolitinib reduces neuroinflammation in fungal postinfectious inflammatory syndrome (Science Advances)
• Use of Dog Serologic Data for Improved Understanding of Coccidioidomycosis (JID)
• Parasitic
• Uganda launches largest malaria vaccine introduction to date(WHO: Uganda)
• Long-term follow-up of individuals with Chagas disease treated with posaconazole and benznidazole in a non-endemic region(CMI: Clinical Microbiology and Infection)
• Miscellaneous
• Monoclonal Antibodies From Children With Acute Kawasaki Disease Identify a Common Antigenic Target in Fatal Cases Over 5 Decades (Laboratory Investigation)
• Screwworm Cochliomyia hominivorax (Facebook)

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On episode #78 of the Infectious Disease Puscast, Daniel and Sara review the infectious disease literature for the weeks of 3/27/25 – 4/9/25.

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• Viral
• Demise of the Milwaukee protocol for rabies (CID)
• A natural experiment on the effect of herpes zoster vaccination on dementia (Nature)
• Taking a shot at dementia(microbeTV: TWiV)
• Recommendations from the 10th European Conference on Infections in Leukaemia for the management of cytomegalovirusin patients after allogeneic haematopoietic cell transplantation and other T-cell-engaging therapies (LANCET: Infectious Diseases)
• Epstein-Barr virus exposure precedes Crohn`s disease development (Gastroenterology aga)
• Bacterial
• Blujepa (gepotidacin) approved by US FDA for treatment of uncomplicated urinary tract infections (uUTIs) in female adults and paediatric patients 12 years of age and older (GSK)
• GSK wins FDA nod for first oral UTI antibiotic in almost 30 years(BioSpace)
• Efficacy and safety of individualised versus standard 10-day antibiotic treatment in children with febrile urinary tract infection (INDI-UTI): a pragmatic, open-label, multicentre, randomised, controlled, non-inferiority trial in Denmark (LANCET: Infectious Diseases)
• Frequency and severity of Myasthenia Gravis exacerbations associated with the use of ciprofloxacin, levofloxacin, and azithromycin (Muscle & Nerve)
• The cost of blood cultures: a barrier to diagnosis in low-income and middle-income countries
• (LANCET: Microbe)
• Rethinking blood culture (LANCET: Microbe)
• Trends in Anaplasmosis Over the Past Decade: A Review of Clinical Features, Laboratory Data and Outcomes(CID)
• Fungal
• The Last of US Season 2 (YouTube)
• Cracks in the curriculum: the hidden deficiencies in fungal disease coverage in medical books (OFID)
• Kazachstania slooffiae fungemia: a case report and literature review on an emerging opportunistic pathogen in humans (OFID)
• Plasma microbial cell-free DNS metagenomic sequencing for diagnosis of invasive fungal diseases among high risk outpatient and inpatient immunocompromised hosts (CID)
• Parasitic
• Fatal Case of Splash Pad–Associated Naegleria fowleri Meningoencephalitis — Pulaski County, Arkansas, September 2023 (CDC: MMWR)
• Notes from the Field: Fatal Acanthamoeba Encephalitis in a patient who regularly used tap water in an electronic nasal irrigation device and a continuous positive airway pressure machine at home — new Mexico, 2023 (CDC: MMWR)
• Malaria (NEJM)
• Miscellaneous
• FDA grants marketing authorization of first home test for chlamydia, gonorrhea and trichomoniasis (FDA)

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On episode #77 of the Infectious Disease Puscast, Daniel and Sara review the infectious disease literature for the weeks of 3/13/25 – 3/26/25.

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• Viral
• Food is medicine for human immunodeficiency virus: improved health and hospitalizations in the changing health through food support (chefs-hiv) pragmatic randomized trial (JID)
• The epidemiology and burden of human parainfluenza virus hospitalizations in u.s. children (Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society)
• Bacterial
• Epidemiology and outcomes of bloodstream infections in patients in a burns intensive care unit: an eight-year retrospective study(OFID)
• Prophylactic vancomycin in the primary prevention of clostridium difficile in allogeneic stem cell transplant(Transplant Infectious Disease)
• Incidence of scrub typhus in rural south India (NEJM)
• Antibiotic treatment for 7 versus 14 days in patients with bloodstream infections(NEJM)
• Blood Culture–Negative Endocarditis(Journal of the American Heart Association)
• Brucella suis Infection in Cardiac Implantable Device of Man Exposed to Feral Swine Meat, Florida, USA (CDC Emerging Infectious Diseases)
• Hyperbilirubinemia at hospitalization predicts nosocomial infection in decompensated cirrhosis (Hepatology Communicatons)
• Fungal
• The Last of US Season 2 (YouTube)
• Fungal Infections in People Who Use Drugs (OFID)
• IDSA 2025 guideline update on the treatment of asymptomatic histoplasma pulmonary nodules (histoplasmomas) and mild or moderate acute pulmonary histoplasmosis in adults, children, and pregnant people(IDSA: Infectisous Disease Society of America)
• Changing trends in the sources and volumes of clinical cultures with Candida auris at a large health system, 2019-2023 (American Journal of Infection Control)
• Diagnostic test accuracy of the Fungitell serum (1→3)-β-D-glucan assay for the diagnosis of Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia: a systematic review and meta-analysis (CMI: Clinical Microbiology and Infection)
• Parasitic
• Impact of Strongyloides stercoralis Coinfection on Disease Severity and Treatment Outcomes in Pulmonary Tuberculosis (OFID)
• Hematology thin smears perform equally to parasitology thick and thin blood smears for the diagnosis of Plasmodium and Babesia infections in a low prevalence setting (Journal of Clinical Microbiology)
• Notes from the Field: Rhodesiense Human African Trypanosomiasis (Sleeping Sickness) in a Traveler Returning from Zimbabwe — United States, August 2024 (CDC: MMWR)
• Miscellaneous
• The history of phage therapy LANCET: Infectious Diseases)
• Silence=death redux: infectious diseases, public health, and the imperative to resist (CID)
• Silence = Death, 1990(David Wojnarowicz Foundation)
• SILENCE=DEATH (B200KLYN Museaum)

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On episode #76 of the Infectious Disease Puscast, Daniel and Sara review the infectious disease literature for the weeks of 2/27/25 – 3/12/25.

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• Viral
• Trends in respiratory pathogen testing at us children's hospitals (JAMA Network)
• Changes in respiratory viral testing before and after the covid-19 pandemic(JAMA Network)
• Expanding measles outbreak in the United States and guidance for the upcoming travel season (CDC Emergerncy Preparedness and Response)
• Measles cases and outbreaks (CDC Measles (Rubeola))
• Facts and myths about measles (LANCET: Infectious Diseases)
• Protective effects of recombinant zoster vaccine and antiviral therapy against cardiovascular disease following herpes zoster infection (JID)
• Chikungunya vaccine information for healthcare providers (CDC Chikungunya Virus)
• Factors to assess when considering use of chikungunya vaccine(CDC)
• Bacterial
• Should patients hospitalized forcommunity-acquired pneumonia be treated with additional antimicrobial agents directed against anaerobes? (American Journal of Therapeutics)
• Antibiotic-induced loss of gut microbiome metabolic output correlates with clinical responses to CAR T-cell therapy(Blood)
• Effectiveness of ampicillin/sulbactam versus ceftriaxone for the initial treatment of community-acquired pneumonia in older adults: a target trial emulation study(OFID)
• Male-partner treatment to prevent recurrence of bacterial vaginosis(NEJM)
• Fungal
• The Last of US Season 2 (YouTube)
• Activity of rezafungin against echinocandin non–wild type candida glabrata clinical isolates from a global surveillance program (OFID)
• Are contemporary antifungal doses sufficient for critically ill patients? Outcomes from an international, multicenter pharmacokinetics study for Screening Antifungal Exposure in Intensive Care Units—the SAFE-ICU study  (Intensive Care Medicine)
• Parasitic
• Human alveolar echinococcosis – global, regional and national annual incidence and prevalence rates (CMI: Clinical Microbiology and Infection)
• Dust to Diagnosis – with MSGERC (FEBRILE)
• The clinical picture caused by Fasciola gigantica: Analysis of 3,250 patients along the 1995–2019 countrywide spread in Vietnam (OFID)
• Miscellaneous
• Reprint of: From medical editors: a call to the global infectious diseases and clinical microbiology community (CMI: Clinical Microbiology and Infection)
• A hot topic: A climate-focused track for infectious disease fellowship (OFID)
• Are we being gaslit? A primer for recognizing corporate jargon to overcome gaslighting for the infectious disease workforce (CID)

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On episode #75 of the Infectious Disease Puscast, Daniel and Sara review the infectious disease literature for the weeks of 2/13/25 – 2/26/25.

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• Viral
• VIMKUNYA (FDA)
• Co-infection of SARS‐CoV‐2 and influenza A/B among patients with COVID-19(BMC Infectious Diseases)
• Measles (Texas Health and Human Services)
• 2025 Measles outbreak guidelines (New Mexico Health)
• BTN: Beyond the Noise with Paul Offit (microbeTV)
• Rubeola response (febrile)
• Timing of influenza antiviral therapy and risk of death in adults hospitalized with influenza-associated pneumonia, influenza hospitalization surveillance network (FluSurv-NET), 2012–2019 (CID)
• Mother-child dyads living with HIV in the Western Cape, South Africa: undetectable = undetectable? (Journal of the International AIDS Society)
• Early impacts of the PEPFAR stop-work order: a rapid assessment(Journal of the International AIDS Society)
• Prevalence, clinical management, and outcomes of adults hospitalised with endemic arbovirus illness in southeast Europe (MERMAIDS-ARBO): a prospective observational study (LANCET: Infectious Diseases)
• Bacterial
• Effects of extended anaerobic antibiotic coverage on anaerobic bloodstream infection: A multisite retrospective stud (International Journal of Infectious Diseases)
• The effectiveness of newer Beta-Lactams for the treatment of antimicrobial-resistant gram-negative meningitis (CID)
• Treatment of macrolide-resistant Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia in children: a aeta-analysis of macrolides versus tetracycline (The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal)
• Fungal
• The Last of US Season 2 (YouTube)
• Concordance of noninvasive plasma cell-free DNA With invasive diagnostics for diagnosis of invasive fungal disease (CID)
• Invasive fungal infections in patients with liver disease: immunological and clinical considerations for the intensive care unit(Intensive Care Medicine)
• Parasitic
• Epidemiologic Investigation of Protozoa and soil-transmitted helminths in Starr County, Texas (American J Trop Med and Hyg)
• Post-artesunate delayed hemolysis in African children with severe malaria: incidence, medical impact and prevention (CID)
• Miscellaneous
• Telehealth (Medicare.gov)
• Public comment: IDSA guideline on management and treatment of complicated urinary tract infections (IDSA)

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On episode #92 of the Infectious Disease Puscast, Daniel reviews the infectious disease literature for the weeks of 10/9/25 – 10/22/25.

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• Viral
• Long-term clinical, immunologic, and viral reservoir outcomes in children treated with VRC01LS and 10-1074 monoclonal antibodies in the Tatelo Study (CID)
• Resistance Analyses of Lenacapavir, Emtricitabine/Tenofovir Alafenamide and Emtricitabine/Tenofovir Disoproxil Fumarate in the PURPOSE 1 and 2 Studies (JID)
• Susceptibility of measles virus to WHO hand rubs, oral and surface disinfectants (OFID)
• Measles without rash during acute febrile illness surveillance in Tanzania, 2023-2024 (CID)
• The 2025 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Non-Occupational HIV Post-Exposure Prophylaxis Guidelines (CID)
• Bacterial
• Paratyphoid fever and relapsing fever in 1812 Napoleon's devastated army (Current Biology)
• Mass Administration of Azithromycin to Infants in Mali to Reduce Mortality (NEJM)
• Efficacy and safety of tedizolid in the treatment of acute bacterial skin and skin-structure infections (CMI: Clinical Microbiology and Infection)
• Zoonotic Escherichia coli and urinary tract infections in Southern California (mBio)
• Cefdinir Versus Cephalexin for the Treatment of Uncomplicated Urinary Tract Infections (OFID)
• Fungal
• The Last of US Season 2 (YouTube)
• Antagonistic in vitro interaction between olorofim and voriconazole against Aspergillus fumigatus (Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy)
• Parasitic
• Miscellaneous
• CARB Your Enthusiasm: An Ethics-Informed Analysis for Clinicians of the US National Action Plan for Combating Antibiotic-Resistant BacteriaCID)
• Infection Control in Carceral Facilities (CID)
• Infection Prevention and Control in Carceral Settings (CID)
• The Challenge of Malignancies in HIV-1, Beyond Immune Activation and Back to Decreased Immune Surveillance (Journal of AIDS & Clinical Research)
• SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccines sensitize tumours to immune checkpoint blockade (Nature)
• TWiV 1265: mRNA vaccines make cancer treatment great again (microbeTV)
• Infected With the Academic Bug (CID)

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On episode #74 of the Infectious Disease Puscast, Daniel and Sara review the infectious disease literature for the weeks of 1/30/25 – 2/12/25.

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• Viral
• Global Impact of mass vaccination campaigns on circulating type 2 vaccine-derived poliovirus outbreaks (JID)
• Co-infection of SARS‐CoV‐2 and influenza A/B among patients with COVID-19 (BMC Infectious Diseases)
• Oseltamivir reduces 30-Day mortality in older adults with Influenza (OFID)
• Bacterial
• Predicting benefit from adjuvant therapy with corticosteroids in community-acquired pneumonia (LANCET Respiratory Medicine)
• Rethinking antibiotic prophylaxis for spontaneous bacterial peritonitis in patients with cirrhosis (CID)
• Determining the optimal antibiotic duration for skin and soft tissue infections (Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases)
• The stealth and potentially fatal nature of Kingella kingae outbreaks in daycare facilities (OFID)
• Piperacillin/tazobactam vs. cefepime or carbapenems for the treatment of bloodstream infections due to bacteria producing chromosomal AmpC beta-lactamase (Infection)
• Is systemic dissemination of BCG following neonatal vaccination required for protection against Mycobacterium tuberculosis? (JID)
• Risk of aortic aneurysm or dissection following use of fluoroquinolones: a retrospective multinational network cohort study (eClinical Medicine)
• Fungal
• The Last of US Season 2 (YouTube)
• Developing mRNA lipid nanoparticle vaccine effective for cryptococcosisin a murine model (Vaccines)
• The araneopathogenic genus Gibellula (Cordycipitaceae: Hypocreales) in the British Isles, including a new zombie species on orb-weaving cave spiders (Metainae: Tetragnathidae) (Fungal Systematics and Evolution)
• Sensitivity of Coccidioides serologic tests among culture-proven coccidioidomycosis patients with hematological malignancy compared to a matched immunocompetent cohort (Medical Mycology)
• Parasitic
• New WHO guidelines for treating rhodesiense human African trypanosomiasis: expanded indications for fexinidazole and pentamidine (LANCET: Infectious Diseases)
• Miscellaneous
• Remote practice of infectious diseases through telemedicine (OFID)
• Telemedicine offers solutions for the rural disparities in infectious disease (ID) care delivery (OFID)

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On episode #73 of the Infectious Disease Puscast, Daniel and Sara review the infectious disease literature for the weeks of 1/16/25 – 1/29/25.

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• Viral
• AGA clinical practice guideline on the prevention and treatment of hepatitis B virus reactivation (Gastroenterology)
• Host-microbe multiomic profiling identifies distinct COVID-19 immune dysregulation in solid organ transplant recipients (Nature Communications)
• Insect-specific RNA viruses detection in Field-Caught Aedes aegypti mosquitoes from Argentina using NGS technology (PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases)
• Bacterial
• Oral regimens for rifampin-resistant, fluoroquinolone-susceptible tuberculosis (NEJM)
• Impact of antibiotic treatment and predictors for subsequent infections in multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa catheter-associated asymptomatic bacteriuria (American Journal of Infection Control)
• Identification of the skip phenomenon among patients With Staphylococcus lugdunensis infective endocarditis (OFID)
• Emergence of infective endocarditis due to Serratia spp. (OFID)
• Reduction of vancomycin-associated acute kidney injury with montelukast (JID)
• Fungal
• The Last of US Season 2 (YouTube)
• Pulmonary co-infection of Pneumocystis jirovecii and Aspergillus species (OFID)
• Impact of fluconazoleon outcomes of patients with primary pulmonary coccidioidomycosis (CID)
• Parasitic
• Comparative outcomes of Babesiosis in immunocompromised and non-immunocompromised hosts (CID)
• Miscellaneous
• Hidradenitis suppurativa (LANCET)
• A severe case associated with mixed infections of Pasteurella multocida, Bacteroides pyogenes and Fusobacterium necrophorum due to a snow leopard bite (CMI: Clinical Microbiology and Infection)
• INSIDE-OUT: Introduction of speakers at IDWeek events (OFID)

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On episode #72 of the Infectious Disease Puscast, Daniel and Sara review the infectious disease literature for the weeks of 1/2/25 – 1/15/25.

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• Viral
• Human infection with a novel tickborne Orthonairovirus species in China(NEJM)
• Antiviral medications for treatment ofnonsevere influenza(JAMA Network: JAMA Internal Medicine)
•  Xofluza (GoodRx)
• NoroSTATData Table (CDC Norovirus)
• The discovery of the 27-nm Norwalk virus: an historic perspective (JID)
• Why the "Ferrari of viruses" is surging through the northern hemisphere (Science)
• Bacterial
• Beta-lactams toxicity in the intensive care unit: an underestimatedcollateral damage?
• (Microorganims)
• What is the most effective antibiotic monotherapy for severe Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection? (CMI: Clinical Microbiology and Infection)
• Doxycycline postexposure prophylaxis and bacterial sexually tansmitted infections among individuals using HIV preexposure prophylaxis(JAMA Network: JAMA Internal Medicine)
• Fungal
• The Last of US Season 2 (YouTube)
• Epidemiology and prognostic factors associated with mold-positive blood cultures: 10-year data From a french prospective surveillance program (2012–2022) (CID)
• Parasitic
• Safety and efficacy of immunization with a late-liver-stage attenuated malaria parasite
• (NEJM)
• Dr. Glaucomflecken explains: late-liver-stage attenuated malaria vaccine (YouTube)
• Dr. Glaucomflecken X NEJM (YouTube)
• Albendazole–ivermectin co-formulation for the treatment of Trichuris trichiura and other soil-transmitted helminths: a randomised phase 2/3 trial (LANCET: Infectious Diseases)
• Miscellaneous
• A comparison of peripherally insertedcentral catheter materials(NEJM)
• Considering Islamic frameworks to infectious disease prevention (OFID)

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On episode #71 of the Infectious Disease Puscast, Daniel and Sara review the infectious disease literature for the weeks of 12/19/24 – 1/1/25.

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• Viral
• Routine detection of viruses through metagenomics: where do we stand? (ASTMH)
• Rapid selection of HIV-2 capsid mutations in salvage therapy with Lenacapavir-containing regime (CID)
• Bacterial
• Ancient genomes reveal a deep history of treponemal disease in the Americas (Nature)
• The utility of Interferon-γ release assays in the diagnosis of tuberculosis in patients With cancer(Transplant Infectious Disease)
• A meta-analysis of Levofloxacin for contacts of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (NEJM Evidence)
• Tularemia— United States, 2011–2022 (CDC: MMWR)
• Incorporating incubation period distributions to precisely estimate the association between rainfall and Legionella infection (JID)
• Fungal
• The Last of US Season 2 (YouTube)
• Candida albicans recovered from persistent candidemia exhibit enhanced virulence traits (JID)
• Mapping the geographic distribution of dimorphic mycoses using a U.S. commercial insurance database (OFID)
• Comparative efficacy and safety of treatment regimens for Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia in people living with HIV – A systematic review and network meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials (CMI: Clinical Microbiology and Infection)
• Outbreak of Blastomycosis Among Paper Mill Workers — Michigan, November 2022–May 2023 (CDC: MMWR)
• Parasitic
• Acanthamoeba Infection in a hematopoietic cell transplant recipient: challenges in diagnosis, management, and source identification (Transplant Infectious Disease)
• Congenital toxoplasmosis: Fewer clinical signs at 3 years of age over the last 15 years but stable risk of materno-fetal transmission (CID)
• Miscellaneous
• Detection of prions in wild pigs (Sus scrofa) from areas with reported chronic wasting disease cases, United States (CDC Emerging Infectious Diseases)
• Addition of macrolide antibiotics for hospital treatment of community-acquired pneumonia (JID)

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On episode #70 of the Infectious Disease Puscast, Daniel and Sara review the infectious disease literature for the weeks of 12/5/24 – 12/18/24.

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• Viral
• Epidemiology of Dengue— Puerto Rico, 2010–2024(CDC MMWR)
• Takeda Announces Voluntary Withdrawal of U.S. Biologics License Application (BLA) for Dengue Vaccine Candidate TAK-003(Takeda)
•  Global health and economic burden of chikungunya from 2011 to 2020 (BMJ Global Health)
• Bacterial
• Biomarker-Guided Antibiotic Duration for Hospitalized Patients With Suspected Sepsis (JAMA Network)
• Say it ain't Steno: a microbiology nudge comment leads to less treatment of Stenotrophomonas maltophilia respiratory colonization(Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology)
• Guidelines for the Prevention, Diagnosis, and Management of Urinary Tract Infections in Pediatrics and Adults(JAMA Network)
• Epidemiology and Outcomes of Antibiotic De-escalation in Patients with Suspected Sepsis in US Hospitals (CID)
• Effectiveness of ceftazidime–avibactam versus ceftolozane–tazobactam for multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections in the USA (CACTUS): a multicentre, retrospective, observational study (LANCET Infectious Diseases)
• Bedaquiline Monotherapy for Multibacillary Leprosy (NEJM)
• Fungal
• The Last of US Season 2 (YouTube)
• Histoplasmosis Associated With Bat Guano Exposure in Cannabis Grower (OFID)
• Parasitic
• TWiV 1175: A hitchiker's guide to virology(microbeTV)
• Diverse RNA viruses of parasitic nematodes can elicit antibody responses in vertebrate hosts (Nature Microbiology)
• Neurocysticercosis school outbreak in Belgium (LANCET)
• Miscellaneous
• Maintenance of Certification: Is a Knowledge-Based Assessment Really Necessary? (CID)
• Living happily ever after? The hidden health risks of Disney princesses (BMJ)
• How to transport a polar bear, and other idiosyncrasies in providing emergency medical services in the Arctic (BMJ)

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On episode #69 of the Infectious Disease Puscast, Sara reviews the infectious disease literature for the weeks of 11/21 – 12/4/24.

Host: Sara Dong

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• Viral
• Antiretroviral Drugs for Treatment and Prevention of HIV in Adults(JAMA Network)
• Human Parvovirus B19 Infections Among Pregnant Persons — Minnesota, January–September 2024 (CDC MMWR)
• Maribavir for refractory cytomegalovirus infection (with or without resistance) in solid organ transplant recipients (Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation)
• Bacterial
• Choosing Wisely: Effectiveness and Safety of Antibiotic Prophylaxis in Close Contacts of InvasiveGroup A Streptococci Infection (CID)
• Resurgence of pediatric Mycoplasma pneumoniae infections in Southeast Texas, Nov 2023-June 2024 (Journal of Pediatrics Infectious Diseases Society)
• Fungal
• The Last of US Season 2 (YouTube)
• Alternative Pneumocystis Pneumonia Prophylaxis in Solid Organ Transplants(Transplant Infectious Disease)
• Mortality in chronic pulmonary aspergillosis: a systematic review and individual patient data meta-analysis (LANCET: Infectious Diseases)
• Parasitic
• Waterborne Disease Outbreaks Associated with Splash Pads — United States, 1997–2022
•  (CDC MMWR)
• Miscellaneous
• Skin Color Representation in Infectious Disease Textbooks (OFID)

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On episode #68 of the Infectious Disease Puscast, Daniel reviews the infectious disease literature for the weeks of 11/7 – 11/20/24.

Host: Daniel Griffin and Sara Dong

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• Viral
• Comparative Emergence of Maribavir and Ganciclovir Resistance in a Randomized Phase 3 Clinical Trial for Treatment of Cytomegalovirus Infection (JID)
• Yellow fever breakthrough infections after yellow fever vaccination: a systematic review and meta-analysis (LANCET Microbe)
• Serological evidence of natural exposure to rabies in rural populations in Gabon (PLoS Neglecgted Tropical Diseases)
• Bacterial
• Azithromycin Exposure in a 10-Day Window of Myocardial Infarction and Short- and Long-Term Outcomes (JACC Advances)
• Antibiotic Treatment for 7 versus 14 Days in Patients with Bloodstream Infections (NEJM)
• The Long and Winding Road: Three-year Mortality Following Prescription of Multi-drug Antibiotic Treatment for Mycobacterium avium complex Pulmonary Disease in United States Medicare Beneficiaries with Bronchiectasis (OFID)
• Oral Versus Intravenous Antibiotic Therapy for Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia or Endocarditis (CID)
• Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriales in solid organ transplant recipients (American Journal of Transplantation)
• Fungal
• The Last of US Season 2 (YouTube)
• Adaptation of Candida albicans to specific host environments by gain-of-function mutations in transcription factors(PLoS Pathogens)
• Diagnostic Test Accuracy of the Fungitell Serum (1→3)-β-D-Glucan Assay for the Diagnosis of Pneumocystis jirovecii Pneumonia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (CMI: Clinical Microbiology and Infection)
• Do patients with candidemia need an ophthalmologic examination? (OFID)
• Parasitic
• Progress Toward Global Dracunculiasis (Guinea Worm Disease) Eradication (CDC MMWR)
• The gut microbiota is essential for Trichinella spiralis—evoked suppression of colitis (PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases)
• Symptomatic Entamoeba dispar Infections Among Men Who Have Sex With Men, New York City, 2018control (OFID)
• Angiostrongylus cantonensis Meningoencephalitis in Three Pediatric Patients in Florida, USA (Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society)
• Miscellaneous 
• Snake phobia among the general population of Tamil Nadu, India(PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases)
• Remote Practice of Infectious Diseases Through Telemedicine: Improving Access for Patients and Appeal for Physicians (OFID)
• Gauging Medical Students' Interests in Infectious Diseases (CID)
• Shaping the Future of Infectious Diseases: The Journey to Promote Value, Opportunity, and Positive Messaging (OFID)

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On episode #67 of the Infectious Disease Puscast, Daniel reviews the infectious disease literature for the weeks of 10/24 – 11/6/24.

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• Viral
• Microbial dynamics and pulmonary immune responses in COVID-19 secondary bacterial pneumonia(Nature)
• Bacterial
• Implementation of a Pharmacist-Driven Vancomycin Area Under the Concentration-Time Curve Monitoring Program Using Bayesian Modeling in Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy (OFID)
• Rifaximin prophylaxis causes resistance to the last-resort antibiotic daptomycin (Nature)
• Oral Versus Intravenous Antibiotic Therapy for Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia or Endocarditis(CID)
• Fungal
• The Last of US Season 2 (YouTube)
• Notes from the Field: Trichophyton mentagrophytes Genotype VII — New York City, April–July 2024 (CDC MMWR)
• Evaluation of Crushed Posaconazole Delayed Release Tablets in Lung Transplant Recipients(Transplant Infectious Disease)
• Parasitic
• Outcomes of kidney transplant recipients exposed to Chagas disease under Benznidazole prophylaxis(Transplant Infectious Disease)
• Fake Aristotle Fakely Rails Against Fighting Inequality (Sententiae Antiquae)
• Need for a paradigm shift in soil-transmitted helminthiasis control (PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases)
• Miscellaneous
• IDSA Advocacy Results in Big Win for ID in 2025 Final Medicare Rule (IDSA)

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On episode #66 of the Infectious Disease Puscast, Daniel and Sara review the infectious disease literature for the weeks of 10/8 – 10/23/24.

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• Viral
• Prevalence of Human Papillomavirus (HPV) and HPV Type Distribution in Penile Samples in Young Men in Denmark: Results 10 Years After Implementation of a Girls-Only HPV Vaccination Program (JID)
• Primary Care Guidance for Providers of Care for Persons With Human Immunodeficiency Virus: 2024 Update by the HIV Medicine Association of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (CID)
• Bacterial
• Adjunctive linezolid versus clindamycin for toxin inhibition in β-lactam-treated patients with invasive group A streptococcal infections in 195 US hospitals from 2016 to 2021: a retrospective cohort study with target trial emulation (LANCET: Infectious Diseases)
• Time to turn off the toxins: adjuvant suppression of group A streptococcus (LANCET: Infectious Diseases)
• Comparing rates of recurrent infection for first occurrence of Clostridioides difficile between tapered oral vancomycin and standard vancomycin: a retrospective, propensity matched cohort study(Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology)
• Evaluation of primary oral vancomycin prophylaxis against C. difficile infection during autologous stem cell transplantation (OFID)
• Oral Vancomycin to Prevent C. difficile in Stem Cell Transplant Recipients: The last frontier in antimicrobial prophylaxis (OFID)
• First Report of a Fatal Septicemia Case Caused by Vibrio metoecus: A Comprehensive Functional and Genomic Study (JID)
• Fungal
• The Last of US Season 2 (YouTube)
• A global chromoblastomycosis strategy and development of the global chromoblastomycosis working group(PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases)
• Epidemiological and clinical features of a large blastomycosis outbreak at a paper mill in Michigan (CID)
• Do morphogenetic switching and intraspecies variation enhance virulence of Candida auris?
• (PLoS Pathogens)
• Parasitic
• Beyond Human Babesiosis: Prevalence and Association of Babesia Coinfection with Mortality in the United States, 2015–2022: A Retrospective Cohort Study (OFID)
• New WHO guidelines for treating rhodesiense human African trypanosomiasis: expanded indications for fexinidazole and pentamidine (LANCET: Infectious Diseases)
• Miscellaneous
• Social and Environmental Benefitsof Pediatric Infectious Disease Telemedicine (Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society)

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On episode #65 of the Infectious Disease Puscast, Daniel and Sara review the infectious disease literature for the weeks of 9/26 – 10/7/24.

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• Viral
• Exploring viral respiratory coinfections: Shedding light on pathogen interactions
• (PLoS Pathogens)
• Bacterial
• ACG Clinical Guideline: Treatment of Helicobacter pylori Infection (American Journal of Gastroenterology)
• A multivalent mRNA-LNP vaccine protects against Clostridioides difficile infection
• (Science)
• The evidence base for the optimal antibiotic treatment duration of upper and lower respiratory tract infections: an umbrella review (LANCET: Infectious Diseases)
• Population Pharmacokinetic Modeling of Cefepime, Meropenem, and Piperacillin-Tazobactam in Patients With Cystic Fibrosis(JID)
• Establishment of Amblyomma maculatum Ticks and Rickettsia parkeri in the Northeastern United States (Emerging Infectious Diseases)
• DETICKT (DETICKT)
• Early Oral Step-Down Versus Continued Intravenous Antibiotic Treatment of Complicated Intra-Abdominal Infection(Surgical Infections)
• Fungal
• The Last of US Season 2 (YouTube)
• Candida auris: A focused review for emergency clinicians (American Journal of Emergency Medicine)
• Parasitic
• Ivermectin-based mass drug administration for scabies in northern India: a single-arm community intervention trial (OFID)
• Miscellaneous
• Out-BREAK! : An IDWeek 2023 escape room to break out of the educational mold (OFID)

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On episode #91 of the Infectious Disease Puscast, Daniel reviews the infectious disease literature for the weeks of 9/25/25 – 10/8/25.

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• Viral
• American Academy of Pediatrics
• Comparison of 2 Doses vs 1 Dose in the First Season Children Are Vaccinated Against Influenza(JAMA: Open Network)
• Flu and Children (CDC: Influenza (flu))
• Bacterial
• Performance of Different Versions of Duke Criteria in Diagnosing Infective Endocarditis in Patients With Intracardiac Prosthetic (OFID)
• 2023 Duke criteria on Infectious Disease (Puscast 28)
• Infective Endocarditis and Antimicrobial Timing: A Case for Delay? (OFID)
• Tularemia: A Storied History, An Ongoing Threat (CID)
• Tularemia Antimicrobial Treatment and Prophylaxis: CDC Recommendations for Naturally Acquired Infections and Bioterrorism Response — United States, 2025 (CDC: MMWR)
• Fungal
• The Last of US Season 2 (YouTube)
• Risk factors associated with progression to clinical Candida auris infection among adults with previous colonization—Florida, 2019–2023 (CID)
• Parasitic
• Public Health Response to the First Locally Acquired Malaria Outbreaks in the US in 20 Years (JAMA: Open Network)
• Miscellaneous
• Fever in sepsis revisited: Is a little heat what we need? (OFID)

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On episode #64 of the Infectious Disease Puscast, Daniel and Sara review the infectious disease literature for the weeks of 9/14 – 9/25/24.

Host: Daniel Griffin and Sara Dong

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• Viral
• Outcomes of Intravenous Immunoglobulin treatment of immunocompromised patients with viral respiratory infections (Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology)
• Comparative Emergence of Maribavir and Ganciclovir Resistance for Treatment of Cytomegalovirus Infection (JID)
• Antibody persistence and safety of a live-attenuated chikungunya virus vaccine up to 2 years after single-dose administration in adults in the USA (LANCET Infectious Disease)
• Bacterial
• Determinant of 30-Day Mortality of Pulmonary Legionellosis (OFID)
• Donor-derived bartonellosis in Solid Organ Transplant recipients (American Journal of Transplantation)
• An Opt-Out Emergency Department Screening Intervention Leads to Major Increases in Diagnosis of Syphilis (OFID)
• Fungal
• The Last of US Season 2 (YouTube)
• Fungal disease week (CDC)
• Bridging Echinocandin with Azole antifungal Therapy On Prevention Of Invasive Candidiasis Post Lung Transplantation (OFID)
• Early Introductions of Candida auris Detected by Wastewater Surveillance, Utah, USA, 2022–2023 (Emerging Infectious Diseases)
• Parasitic
• Toxoplasma gondii Infection of Alzheimer's Disease Mice Reduces Brain Amyloid Density Globally and Regionally (JID)
• Miscellaneous
• Effect of Social Distancing Caused by Heavy Snowfall on Seasonal Influenza Epidemic in a Local Region in Japan (Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal)

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On episode #63 of the Infectious Disease Puscast, Daniel and Sara review the infectious disease literature for the weeks of 8/29/24 – 9/13/24.

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• Viral
• Postacute Sequelae of COVID (PASC or Long COVID): An Evidenced-Based Approach (OFID)
• A New Orthonairovirus Associated with Human Febrile Illness (NEJM)
• Farmed fur animals harbour viruses with zoonotic spillover potential(Nature)
• A Cross-Sectional Evaluation of the Virtual Outpatient Management of People With Mpox (OFID)
• A randomized, placebo-controlled, dose-escalation phase I/II multicenter trial of low-dose cidofovir for BK polyomavirus nephropathy (Transplant Infectious Disease)
• A Decade of Chronic Norovirus Infection Surveillance at the NIH Clinical Research Center: Clinical Characteristics, Molecular Epidemiology, and Replication (JID)
• Bacterial
• FDA clears newLyme disease test (CIDRAP)
• Lyme ImmunoBlot Receives FDA Clearance(Accesswire)
• The Utilization Of Echocardiography In Children With Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia (Journal of Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society)
• Duration of antibiotic therapy for multidrug resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa pneumonia: is shorter truly better?(BMC Infectious Diseases)
• Short Versus Long Antibiotic Duration in Streptococcus pneumoniae Bacteremia (OFID)
• FDA Marketing Authorization Enables Increased Access to First Step of Syphilis Diagnosis
• FDA)
• Clinical impact of pleural fluid Streptococcus pneumoniae PCR testing in children with complicated pneumonia (CID)
• Duration of antibiotic therapy for multidrug resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa pneumonia: is shorter truly better? (BMC Infectious Diseases)
• Short Versus Long Antibiotic Duration in Streptococcus pneumoniae Bacteremia (OFID)
• Fungal
• The Last of US Season 2 (YouTube)
• Incidence and risk factors for invasive fungal infections in patients initiating TNF-alpha inhibitors for inflammatory bowel disease and rheumatoid arthritis (CID)
• Parasitic
• Intestinal helminth infection impairs vaccine-induced T cell responses and protection against SARS-CoV-2 in mice(Science Translational Medicine)
• Miscellaneous
• Successful Treatment of Refractory Cutaneous Protothecosis With MAT2203, an Oral Lipid Nanocrystal Formulation of Amphotericin B (OFID)
• The Impact of Infectious Diseases Scholarly Mentorship on Subsequent Infectious Disease Fellowship Application (CID)

Music is by Ronald Jenkees

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On episode #62 of the Infectious Disease Puscast, Daniel and Sara review the infectious disease literature for the weeks of 8/15/24 – 8/28/24.

Host: Daniel Griffin and Sara Dong

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• Viral
• Clinician Specialty and HIV PrEP Prescription Reversals and abandonments (JAMA Network: JAMA Internal Medicine)
• The association between adherence to antiretroviral therapy and viral suppression under dolutegravir-based regimens (JIAS Journal of the International AIDS Society)
• Dexamethasone in adults with viral meningitis (CMI Clinical Microbiology and Infection)
• Oropouche Virus Disease Among U.S. Travelers — United States, 2024 (MMWR)
• Oropouche fever, the mysterious threat (LANCET: Infectious Diseases)
• Bacterial
• High rates of Non-susceptibility to common oral antibiotics in Streptococcus pneumoniae clinical isolates (OFID)
• New York State Department of Health Directs Providers to Discontinue Use of Ciprofloxacin to Prevent Meningococcal Disease Due to Increasing Antimicrobial Resistance (NY State: Department of Health)
• Tularemia Associated with Harbor Seal Necropsy — Kitsap County, Washington, October 2023 (MMWR)
• FDA Marketing Authorization Enables Increased Access to First Step of Syphilis Diagnosis (FDA)
• Clinical impact of pleural fluid Streptococcus pneumoniae PCR testing in children with complicated pneumonia (CID)
• The Role of the Gut, Urine and Vaginal Microbiome on the Pathogenesis of Urinary Tract Infection (OFID)
• Fungal
• The Last of US Season 2 (YouTube)
• Two dose levels of once-weekly fosravuconazole versus daily itraconazole in combination with surgery in patients with eumycetoma in Sudan (LANCET Infectious disease)
• Parasitic
• Usefulness of real-time PCR for urogenital schistosomiasis in preschool children in Angola (PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases)
• Helminth infection driven gastrointestinal hypermotility alterations in smooth muscle instead of enteric neurons (PLoS Pathogens)
• Die-off reaction of Demodex mites after treating demodicosis with oral ivermectin (JAAD case reports)
• Miscellaneous
• Prevalence of carbapenem-resistant gram negative bacteria among neonates suspected for sepsis in Africa (BMC Infectious Diseases)
• New era of targeted clinical guidelines: IDSA (CID)
• Defining the landscape of educational experiences in transplant infectious diseases (OFID)

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On episode #61 of the Infectious Disease Puscast, Daniel and Sara review the infectious disease literature for the weeks of 8/1/20 - 8/14/24. 

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• Viral
• nPEP quick guide (AIDS Education & Training Center Program)
• Coformulated Bictegravir/Emtricitabine/Tenofovir Alafenamide PREP after sexual assault (OFID)
• Adopting Early Testing for Perinatal Hepatitis C (Journal of Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society)
• Bacterial
• Lower Rates of Staphylococcus aureus Bloodstream Infection in Patients on Hemodialysis Receiving Trimethoprim-Sulfamethoxazole Melioidosis Prophylaxis (OFID)
• Trimethoprim-Sulfamethoxazole for Staphylococcus Aureus Bacteremia Prophylaxis in Patients on Hemodialysis (OFID)
• Human monocytotropic ehrlichiosis(PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases)
• Human granulocytotropic anaplasmosis (PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases)
• Bifidobacterium and Lactobacillus Probiotics for Preterm Infants (JAMA Network: JAMA Pediatrics)
• Rapid Implementation of Blood Culture Stewardship (CID)
• BD BACTEC Blood Culture Bottle Shortage - (IDSA)
• Fungal
• The Last of US Season 2 (YouTube)
• Clinical characteristics and mortality risks among critically ill patients with culture-proven coccidioidomycosis(OFID)
• Poor Clinical and Microbiologic Outcomes in C. auris Bloodstream Infection (CID)
• Parasitic
• Soap is lethal for Schistosoma mansoni cercariae (PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases)
• Treatment of uncomplicated hepatic cystic echinococcosis (Cochrane Library)
• Blood exposure to Babesia microti(Cambridge Core)
• Miscellaneous
• Absence of Cerebrospinal Fluid Pleocytosis in Encephalitis (CID)
• Encephalitis due to Infection with Normocellular Cerebrospinal Fluid (CID)
• Podoconiosis and mental health (PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases)

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On episode #60 of the Infectious Disease Puscast, Daniel and Sara review the infectious disease literature for the weeks of 7/18/20 – 7/31/24.

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• Olympics
• Swimming in the Seine (NYTimes)
• Viral
• Twice-Yearlylenacapavir or Daily F/TAF for HIV Prevention in Cisgender Women (NEJM)
• Consensus definitions of Cytomegalovirus Infection and Disease in Transplant Patients (CID)
• The recombinant shingles vaccine is associated with lower risk of dementia (Nature Medicine)
• Association of the incidence of postherpetic neuralgia with early treatment intervention of herpes zoster (International Journal of Infectious Diseases)
• Bacterial
• Updated guidelines for antimicrobial resistant gram-negative infections (IDSA)
• Put the Vanc Down, Flip it and Reverse it: Comparison of vancomycin and daptomycin (OFID)
• Durations of antibiotic treatment for acute otitis media and variability in prescribed durations (Journal of Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society)
• Fungal
• Adjunctive single-dose liposomal amphotericin to prevent cryptococcal meningitis in people with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)–associated cryptococcal antigenemia and low plasma cryptococcal antigen (CrAg) titers(CID)
• Stagonospora cutaneous infection in a kidney transplant recipient: First human case (Transplant Infectious Disease)
• European Study of cerebral aspergillosis treated with Isavuconazole: an EFISG study (CID)
• Parasitic
• Rollout of world's second malaria vaccine begins in Ivory Coast (Healio)
• Executive summary: Evaluation and management of delusional infestation(CID)
• Parasitic contamination of soil in the Southern United States (ASTMH)
• Miscellaneous
• The potential benefits of delaying seasonal influenza vaccine selections for the northern hemisphere: A retrospective modeling study in the United States (JID)

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On episode #59 of the Infectious Disease Puscast, Daniel and Sara review the infectious disease literature for the weeks of 7/3/20 – 7/17/24.

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• Viral
• The potential interrelationship of coronary artery disease -herpes zoster (OFID)
• Bacterial
• Pharmacokinetics of intravenous antibiotics into the infected pleural space (Thorax)
• Are gas emissions from microbiology cultures significant contributes to global warming?(OFID)
• Is combination treatment of ampicillin and gentamicin right for Listeria monocytogenes infection (Infection)
• Screening organ donors and monitoring recipients for Bartonella quintana (OFID)
• Neglected Tropical Disease: Rocky Mountain spotted fever (PLoS Pathogen)
• Updated guidelines for antimicrobial resistant gram-negative infections (IDSA)
• Fungal
• Are fungal pathogenssmarter than we are? (microbeTV)
• What influences the waning of antibodies during cryptococcal meningitis? (JID)
• Parasitic
• Artificial Intelligence for filariasis diagnosis and monitoring (PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases)
• Is artificial intelligence the end of filariasis? (PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
• Miscellaneous
• APACHE II severity of disease classification system (GlobalRxPh)
• Clinical practice guideline for complicated intra-abdominal infections (CID)
• Procalcitonin or C-reactive protein guided antimicrobial discontinuation to treat sepsis (Critical Care Medicine)
• The "plague" of plague for the Neolithic population (Nature)

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On episode #58 of the Infectious Disease Puscast, Daniel and Sara review the infectious disease literature for the weeks of 6/20 – 7/3/24.

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• Viral
• Drink more coffee, reduces risk for SARS-C0V-2 infection (Cell & Bioscience)
• Cannabis, tobacco…smoking in general NOT good for preventing COVID-19 (JAMA Network OPEN)
• EBV and KSHV caused HIV associated cancers and lymphoproliferative disorders (Clinical Microbiology Reviews)
• Where in the CNS can dolutegravir, tenofovir, lamivudine and efavirenz be found? (JID)
• Therapeutic management of Varicella-Zoster virus meningitis (OFID)
• Bacterial
• Carbapenem use in extended-spectrum cephalosporin-resistant Enterobacterales infections (LANCET Infectious Diseases)
• IDSA guidelines (Columbia University)
• Guideline-Concordant Therapy for community-acquired pneumonia in the Hospitalized Population (OFID)
• Interpretive Criteria piperacillin/tazobactam susceptibility test for Enterobacterales (CID)
• FDA approval forCAPVAXIVE (FDA)
• 21 valent pneumococcal vaccine approved (Nature Reviews drug discovery)
• Antimicrobial resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates (JAMA Network Open)
• Broad-spectrum antibiotic use for suspected community-onset sepsis (JAMA Network Open)
• Fungal
• The Last of Us ( Wikipedia)
• Challenges to vaccinating against coccidioidomycosis (OFID)
• Cryptococcosis: the story (OFID)
• Pneumocystis pneumonia: clinical spectrum, prophylaxis and delayed treatment (Intensive Care Medicine)
• Improve utilization of 1,3 β-D-glucan Testing(OFID)

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On episode #57 of the Infectious Disease Puscast, Daniel and Sara review the infectious disease literature for the weeks of 6/6 – 6/19/24.

Host: Daniel Griffin

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• Viral
• Is letermovir or valganciclovir better to prevent CMV in kidney transplant recipients (JID)
• CMV antiviral therapy (GoodRx)
• Prevalence of and risk for CMV reactivation during COVID-19 pneumonia (PLoS One)
• Sofosbuvir off-label yellow fever treatment (OFID)
  Bacterial
• Preventing resistant gram negative bacteria through beta-lactam de-escalation in sepsis patients (CID)
• Competing risk analysis, survival analysis that aims to correctly estimate marginal probability of an event (Columbia University)
• Continuous or intermittent b-lactam infusion for critical sepsis (JAMA Network)
• Prolonged vs Intermittent Infusions of β-Lactam Antibiotics in Adults With Sepsis or Septic Shock (JAMA Network)
• Phoenix sepsis score and risk in children with cancer (JAMA Network)
• New recognized spotted fever group Rickettsia in Northern California (Emerging Infectious Diseases)
• Screening for mycobacterium tuberculosis (Transplant Infectious Disease)
  Fungal
• Potential sexual transmission of Tinea pubogenitalis from TMWII (JAMA Dermatology)
• Household transmission of tinea infection (OFID)
• Drug-resistant oral candidiasis in HIV infected patients (BMC Infectious Disease)
  Parasitic
• Handheld digital microscope for rapid and comprehensive screening for urogenital and gastrointestinal schistosomiasis (American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene)
• Scorecard approach to eliminate onchocerciasis (Am J Trop Med Hyg)
  Miscellaneous
• Association between antibiotic receipt and provider rating (OFID)
• Infectious diseases and infection control prevention strategies when on ECMO (Perfusion)

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On episode #56 of the Infectious Disease Puscast, Daniel and Sara review the infectious disease literature for the weeks of 5/28 – 6/5/24.

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• Viral
• Rapid detection of chikungunya virus in patient and mosquito samples assays (CMI)
• Adenovirus and cytomegalovirus specific adoptive T cell therapy for blood transplant and HIV infection (Transplant Infectious Disease)
• Bacterial
• Burkholderia pseudomallei: switch from melioidosis to latency (American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene)
• Meningococcal Disease circulation during Umrah Pilmgrimage (MMWR Early Release)
• Dosing and treatment of suppressive antimicrobial therapy against orthopedic implant infections (Jone of Bone and Joint Infection)
• CDC guidelines for post STD exposure doxycycline admininstration (MMWR)
• Fungal
• The last of Us (Wikipeida)
• Lower (1,3)-beta-d-glucan sensitivity and in vitro levels in Candida auris and parapsilosis strains (CMI)
• Auto-brewery syndrome in absence of alcohol consumption (Canadian Medical Association Journal)
• Television debut of auto-brewery syndrome (Vulture)
• Parasitic
• Asymptomatic Plasmodium falciparum parasitemia associates with subclinical inflammation (PIDS)
• Clinical characteristics and outcomes of strongyloidiasis (American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene)
• Tafenoquine treatment: relapsing babesiosis (CID)
• Miscellaneous
• Medical librarians for infectious diseases rounding teams (OFID)

On episode #55 of the Infectious Disease Puscast, Daniel and Sara review the infectious disease literature for the weeks of 5/9 – 5/27/24.

Hosts: Daniel Griffin and Sara Dong

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• Viral
• Highly pathogenic H5N1 in US dairy cattle and 2 human cases (MMWR)
• Developing novel treatments for acute COVID-19 should address long COVID (JID)
• Reactivation of inherited HHV 6B in transplant recipient (JID)
• Bacterial
• Suppressive antibiotic therapy after DAIRfor acute periprosthetic joint infections (OFID)
• Piperacillin-tazobactam vs cefepime for sepsis treatment (JAMA Internal Medicine)
• Are the new diagnostic algorithms for pulmonary tuberculosis more sensitive? (OFID)
• Social factors associated with congenital syphilis (CID)
• Oral vancomyin treatment influences Clostridioides difficile recurrence in patients on concurrent systemic antibiotics
• Association between infectious diseases consultation and morality in Gram negative infected patients (CID)
• Fungal
• Not washing your hands: fluconazole-resistant Candida parapsilosis epidemiology (OFID)
• Retrospective case series: how Candida auris blood infections effect left ventricular assist devices (OFID)
• Trichophyton indotineae: clinical course, suspectibility and genome sequence (JAMA Dermatology)
• Screening serum for cryptococcal antigen in liver transplant recipients (OFID)
• Parasitic
• US outbreak of human trichinellosis (MMWR)
• Plague-ing the Pawlowsky glands of human body lice and transmission by bite(PLoS Biology)
• Miscellaneous
• Global change drivers and risk of infectious disease (Nature)
• ID specialists should care about ventilation (CMI)

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On episode #90 of the Infectious Disease Puscast, Daniel and Sara review the infectious disease literature for the weeks of 9/12/25 – 9/24/25.

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• Viral
• Crushed Bictegravir/Emtricitabine/Tenofovir Alafenamide (OFID)
• Tracking County-Level Measles Cases in the US (JAMA Nework)
• Tracking measles in US (Hopkins)
•  Pediatric influenza-associated encephalopathy and acute necrotizing encephalopathy (MMWR)
• Clinical recommendations for Lenacapivir (MMWR)
  Bacterial
• Primary oral vancomycin prophylaxis to stem an outbreak of Clostridioides difficile infection in intensive care patients (Antimicrob Steward Healthc Epidemiol)
• Clinical features and treatment strategies of Q fever spinal infection (OFID)
  Fungal
• Last of Us Season 2
• The Pain is in the Brain (J Inf Dis)
  Parasitic
• Chagas Disease, an Endemic Disease in the United States (MMWR)
• Fixed-dose ivermectin for Mass Drug Administration (PLoS NTD)
• Outbreak of eosinophilic meningitis caused by the rat lungworm (Angiostrongylus cantonensis) in South Brazil (Am J Trop Med Hyg)
• Human monoclonal antibody MAM01 for protection against malaria in adults in the USA (Lancet Inf Dis)
• Permethrin-Treated Baby Wraps for the Prevention of Malaria (NEJM)
  Miscellaneous
• Ambient Documentation Technology in Clinician Experience of Documentation Burden and Burnout (JAMA Network Open)

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On episode #54 of the Infectious Disease Puscast, Daniel and Sara review the infectious disease literature for the weeks of 4/25 – 5/8/24.

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• Viral
• Dengue: mother and child (American Economic Journal)
• Dairy farm worker and high path avian influenza A (H5N1) (NEJM)
• Respiratory virus pre and post transplant outcomes in children (CID)
• Bictegravir for HIV suppression during pregnancy (CID)
• Bacterial
• Group A Streptococcus pharyngitis: rapid diagnostic & antimicrobial stewardship (Pediatric ID Consult)
• Scrub typhus : Masquerade of disaster (OFID)
• One size fits all for UTI predictions? (CID)
• Infections of durable and acute mechanical circulatory support devices (Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation)
• Fungal
• Crypto hosts for cryptococcal disease (NEJM)
• Parasitic
• Sampling for cutaneous Leishmaniasis (OFID)
• Skin monoclonal anti-Malaria antibody therapy (NEJM)
• Miscellaneous
• Origin of antimicrobial therapy (CID)
• Microneedle patches for MR (measles and rubella) vaccination (LANCET)

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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.

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• 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 #52of the Infectious Disease Puscast, Daniel and Sara review the infectious disease literature for the weeks of 3/28 – 4/10/24.

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• 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)

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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.

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• 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)

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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.

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• 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)

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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.

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• 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)

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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.

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• 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)

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On episode #46 of the Infectious Disease Puscast, Daniel and Sara review the infectious disease literature for the weeks of 1/18 – 1/31/24.

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• Viral
• Reinfection by Zika via genome diversity and antibody response (EID-Emerging Infectious Disease)
• People with HIV should breast/chest feed (CID)
• Norovirus GII in the water (PLoS Water)
• Herpes zoster and duloxetine premedication for neuralgia (CID)
• Bacterial
• SABATO: early oral switch trial (Lancet)
• Guideline for concordant antibiotic therapy to treat community-acquired pneumonia (Chest)
• Ceftriaxon with or without Nafcillin/Oxacillin for MSSA treatment (OFID)
• Ceftriaxone to prevent ventilator-associated pneumonia trial (Lancet)
• Azithromycin part of routine well-infant visits (NEJM)
• Burkholderia pseudomallei in Mississippi(NEJM)
• Cefiderocol red wine urine syndrome in children (Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal)
• Fungal
• InsuranceClaims equals blastomycosis Incidence (EID)
• Antimicrobial stewardship for coccidioidomycosis in endemic region (OFID)
• Endemic mycosesafter solid organ transplantation (OFID)
• Parasitic
• Headbobbing trematoda (CMI)
• Miscellaneous
• Suspected hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (JPIDS)
• BioFire FilmArray for real-life assessment of hospitalized respiratory illness (JID)
• Clinical microbiology conferences gender and geography (Lancet)
• Is the toilet really the greatest sanitation invention? (AJICJ)

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On episode #46 of the Infectious Disease Puscast, Daniel and Sara review the infectious disease literature for the weeks of 1/4 – 1/17/24.

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• Comparing the performance of three models incorporating weather data to forecast dengue epidemics (JID)
• Elucidating the impacts of climate on dengue transmission through mathematical models (JID)
• Infants receiving a single dose of nirsevimab to prevent RSV do not have evidence of enhanced disease in their second RSV season (JPIDS)
• Patient perspectives on solid organ transplantation from donors with hepatitis C viremia to recipients without hepatitis C viremia (OFID)
• Oral Beta-Lactams, Fluoroquinolones, or Trimethoprim-Sulfamethoxazole for definitive treatment of uncomplicated Escherichia coli or Klebsiella species bacteremia from a urinary source (OFID)
• Discontinuation of contact precautions for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in a pediatric healthcare system (JPIDS)
• Oral linezolid compared with benzathine PCN G for treatment of early syphilis in adults (The Lancet)
• Model-informed precision dosing improves outcomes in patients receiving vancomycin for gram-positive infections (OFID)
• The Xpert MTB/RIF cycle threshold value predicts M.tuberculosis transmission to close contacts (CID)
• Efficacy and safety of a structured de-escalation from antipseudomonal β-lactams in bloodstream infections due to Enterobacterales (The Lancet)
• Oral antibiotics for treatment of Gram negative bacteremia in solid organ transplant recipients (CID)
• Dematiaceous fungal keratitis with tentacles mimicking Pythium Keratitis (Jama)
• Verification, analytical sensitivity, cost-effectiveness, and comparison of four Candida auris screening methods (OFID)
• Tafenoquine-Atovaquone combination achieves radical cure and confers sterile immunity in experimental models of human babesiosis (JID)
• Relapsing babesiosis with molecular evidence of resistance to certain antimicrobials commonly used to treat Babesia microti infections (OFID)
• Understanding parental leave policies in ID fellowship (OFID)
• What's hot this year in ID clinical science (CID)

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On episode #45 of the Infectious Disease Puscast, Daniel and Sara review the infectious disease literature for the weeks of 12/20/23 – 1/3/24.

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• Bacterial
• Change in oral PrEP affect kidney function (OFID)
• Preventing STIs in women (NEJM)
• Revising antibiotic and STI trials (NEJM)
• Treatment for pediatric febrile UTIs (Pediatrics)
• Burkholderia pseudomallei in Mississippi (NEJM)
• Acute kidney injury and gentamicin treatment for endocarditis (JACAMR)
• Pacemakers for Lyme disease patients (OFID)
• Pseudomonas aeruginosa update  and must have references (CMI)
• Fungal
• Definining optimal dose liposomal amphotericin B for Candida auris (JID)
• Cryptococcus neoformans and HIV serology (OFID)
• Global emergence of Candida auris (OFID)
• Novel anti-cancer therapeutics and fungal biology (PLoS Pathogens)
• Parasitic
• Second malaria vaccine prequalified (WHO)
• Seasonal vaccination against malaria in children (Lancet ID)
• Toxoplasma gondii treatement guidelines for patients with haematological malignancies (Lancet ID)
• Miscellaneous
• Eye infection review (NEJM)
• Diagnosing children with gastroenteritis using molecular testing (CID)
• Are hospital coffee machines pathogenic (BMJ)
• Putting down the fluoroquinolone (CID)

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On episode #89 of the Infectious Disease Puscast, Daniel and Sara review the infectious disease literature for the weeks of 8/18/25 – 9/11/25.

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• Viral
• Antibody Responses are Sustained 2 Years Post-Mpox Infection but not Following Modified Vaccinia Ankara–Bavarian Nordic Vaccination (OFID)
• Intestinal mucosal immune responses to novel oral poliovirus vaccine type 2 in healthy newborns (CID)
• Efficacy of Baloxavir Treatment in Preventing Transmission of Influenza (NEJM)
• Fulminant Viral Myocarditis Associated with Thogotovirus (NEJM)
• Bacterial
• Risk factors for 30-Day mortality and the role of empirical therapy in Pseudomonas aeruginosa bloodstream infections(Infection)
• The Impact of a Nationwide Blood Culture Bottle Shortage in 2024 on Healthcare Facilities in the United States (CID)
• The effect of commonly used non-antibiotic medications on antimicrobial resistance development in Escherichia coli(NPJ: antimicrobials and resistance)
• Preoperative Enterosignatures Predict Surgical Site Infections After Abdominal Surgery (OFID)
• Fungal
• The Last of US Season 2 (YouTube)
• Association between Duration of Candidemia and Clinical and Healthcare Resource Utilization Outcomes among Hospitalized Adult Patients with Candidemia Who Received Empiric Treatment with an Echinocandin Across United States Hospitals (CID)
• Updating the epidemiology of blastomycosis and histoplasmosis in the United States, using national electronic health record data, 2013–2023 (JID)
• Parasitic
• Stocking African catfish in Lake Victoria provides effective biocontrol of snail vectors of Schistosoma mansoni (PLoS Neglected Tropical Disease)
• Miscellaneous

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On episode #44 of the Infectious Disease Puscast, Sara reviews the infectious disease literature for the weeks of 12/8 – 12/20/23.

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• Mpox and chickenpox co-infection (J Inf Dis)
• Corticosteroids for postherpetic neuralgia (Coch Data Syst Rev)
• Dengue incidence and mortality in Bangladesh (J Inf Dis)
• ACORN trial vancomycin and piperacillin-tazobactam (Open For Inf Dis)
• Models for infection risk in children with cancer (J Clin Oncol)
• Salmonella outbreak from cantaloupes (CDC)
• Pediatric antimicrobial stewardship programs ( Ped Inf Dis Soc)
• MRSA nasal swab PCR assay (J Ped Inf Dis Soc)
• Invasive meningococcal disease (Open For Inf Dis)
• Probiotics for recurrent UTI (Clin Inf Dis)
• Preservation fluid contamination and kidney transplant patients (Transpl Inf Dis)
• Mechanism of zinc prevention of candidiasis (Sci Transl Med)
• Risk factors for invasive fungal infection (Open For Inf Dis)
• Genetic variants associated with S. mansoni worm burden (PLoS NTD)
• Chagas disease GI manifestations (Am J Trop Med Hyg)
• Wolbachia in Aedes aegypti in Colombia (PLoS NTD)

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On episode #43 of the Infectious Disease Puscast, Sara reviews the infectious disease literature for the weeks of 11/22 – 12/06/23.

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• Treatment for first cytomegalovirus infection post-hematopoietic cell transplant (CID)
• Mortality among children aged <5 years living with HIV who are receiving antiretroviral treatment (CDC)
• Boostability after single-visit pre-exposure prophylaxis with rabies vaccine (The Lancet)
• Alarming trends in dengue incidence and mortality in Bangladesh (JID)
• Update on cardiovascular implantable electronic device infections and their prevention, diagnosis, and management (Circulation)
• SCCM/IDSA guidelines for evaluating new fever in adult patients in the ICU (IDSA)
• Risk factors for serogroup B meningococcal disease among college students (OFID)
• Comparison of Adjuvant Clindamycin vs Linezolid for severe invasive Group A Streptococcal skin and soft tissue infections (OFID)
• State of the art reviews: Persistent enterococcal bacteremia (CID)
• Billirud Mill Blastomycosis outbreak (MM)
• Primaquine radical cure in patients with P.falciparum malaria in areas co-endemic for P falciparum and P vivax (The Lancet)
• Microbiology, public health, and the murals of Diego Rivera (CID)

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On episode #42 of the Infectious Disease Puscast, Daniel and Sara review the infectious disease literature for the weeks of 11/09 – 11/21/23.

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• Progress toward measles elimination (CDC)
• Slaying the troll of transplantation (TID)
• Association between the neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio and adverse outcomes in children aged <2 years with RSV (JPIDS)
• Pre-exposure prophylaxis use history in people with antiretroviral resistance at HIV diagnosis (CID)
• Impact of the 2019 FDA guidance for uncomplicated UTI on treatment response rates (OFID)
• CDC Guidelines for the prevention and treatment of anthrax (CDC)
• Contemporary use of cefazolin for MSSA infective endocarditis (IJID)
• Is carbapenem therapy necessary for treatment of non-CTX-M ESBL-producing Enterobacterales bloodstream infections (CID)
• Infectious diseases consultation associated with reduced mortality in gram-negative Bacteremia (CID)
• Contemporary management of Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia (CID)
• Tuning sterol extraction kinetics yields a renal-sparing polyene antifungal (Nature)
• Impact of in-house Candida auris PCR screening on admission on the incidence rates of surveillance and blood cultures with C. auris and associated cost savings (OFID)
• Human lobomycosis caused by Paracoccidioides loboi (EID)
• Molecular surveillance detects high prevalence of the neglected parasite Mansonella ozzardi (JID)
• Efficacy and safety of moxidectin compared with ivermectin against Strongyloides stercoralis infection in adults (The Lancet)
• Efficacy of bortezomib for treating anti-interferon-gamma autoantibody-associated adult-onset immunodeficiency (AOID) syndrome (CID)
• Investigational non-antibiotic therapeutics for infections in hematopoietic cell transplant recipients and patients with hematologic malignancies receiving cellular therapies (TID)
• Black box warning: large language models and the future of infectious diseases consultations (CID)

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On episode #41 of the Infectious Disease Puscast, Daniel and Sara review the infectious disease literature for the weeks of 10/26 - 11/08/23.

Host: Daniel Griffin and Sara Dong

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• Intrinsic and effective severity of COVID-19 cases infected with the ancestral strain and Omicron BA.2 variant in Hong Kong (JID)
• Efficacy and safety of corticosteroid therapy for community-acquired pneumonia (CID)
• Hydrocortisone in severe community-acquired pneumonia (NEJM)
• Early oral antibiotic switch in Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia (CID)
• Outbreak of invasive Group A Streptococcus in children (PIDS)
• Inhaled amikacin to prevent ventilator-associated pneumonia (NEJM)
• Assessing risk for complications in acute hematogenous osteomyelitis in children (JPIDS)
• Empirical antibiotic therapy in diabetic foot ulcer infection increases hospitalization(OFID)
• 2023 guideline on diagnosis and management of acute bacterial arthritis in pediatrics (JPIDS)
• Natural history of antibiotic-treated lower limb cellulitis (OFID)
• Missed opportunities for preventing congenital syphilis (CDC)
• Diverse clinical manifestations and challenges of mucormycosis (OFID)
• Malaria (The Lancet)
• Clinical characteristics and outcomes of Chagas disease (AJTMH) 
• Direct gloving vs hand hygiene before donning gloves in adherence to hospital infection control practices (JAMA)
• How I approach diarrhea in hematological transplant patients (TID)
• Innovating pediatric infectious diseases recruitment and training (JPIDS)

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