On episode #104 of the Infectious Disease Puscast, Daniel and Sara review the infectious disease literature for the weeks of 3/26 – 4/8/26.

Host: Daniel Griffin and Sarah Dong

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• Viral
• Risk of Multiple Sclerosis Among Persons With Epstein-Barr Virus–Positive Mononucleosis (Neurology)
• Bacterial
• Direct Oral Challenge for Penicillin Allergy: The International Network of Antibiotic Allergy Nations (iNAAN) Study (CID)
• Inhaled Antibiotics to Treat Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (Critical Care Medicine)
• ATS/IDSA 2016 Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Management of Adults With Hospital-Acquired and Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia (ISDA)
• Risk of Invasive Meningococcal Disease in Children Aged
• American Society of Breast Surgeons, Society of Breast Imaging, and College of American Pathology 2025 Guidelines for the Management of Infectious and Inflammatory Lesions of the Breast (JAMA Surgery)
• Tularemia Antimicrobial Treatment and Prophylaxis: CDC Recommendations for Naturally Acquired Infections and Bioterrorism Response — United States, 2025 (CDC: MMWR)
• Effectiveness of Doxycycline in Combination With Other Antibiotics for Gram-Positive Periprosthetic Joint Infections: A Causal Inference Study (OFID)
• Reply to Dissent: Guidelines for Management of Community-Acquired Pneumonia (CID)
• VancObituary: A summary of a life well lived and a death well timed (Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society)
• Reports of My Demise Have Been Greatly Exaggerated (Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society)
• Fungal
• The Last of US Season 2 (YouTube)
• Parasitic
• Red Blood Cell Exchange Transfusion for Severe Babesiosis (JAMA Internal Medicine)
• Mapping Hospitals That Treat Severe Malaria Cases in the United States: Evidence to Inform Health Systems Strategies for Intravenous Artesunate Supply (CID)
• Artesunate Treatment of Severe Malaria in Nonendemic Countries: When, Where, How, and What Now? (CID)
• Attention for Compliance: Visual Media in Second World War Anti-Malaria Efforts (AJTMH: American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene)
• Screening and Reactivation of Chagas Disease Among Solid Organ Transplant Candidates and Recipients: A 10-Year Single Center Experience in Florida (Transplant Infectious Disease)
• Miscellaneous
• Phage Therapy in people with Cystic Fibrosis: a systematic review (Internation Journal of Infectious Diseases)
• Inverse Probability of Treatment Weighting (Google)
• Outcomes associated with empiric azithromycin use among patients hospitalized with non-severe community-acquired pneumonia: emulation of a target trial (CID)
• eConsult in infectious diseases: A narrative review (International Journal of Infectious Diseases)

Music is by Ronald Jenkees

Information on this podcast should not be considered as medical advice.