On episode #108 of the Infectious Disease Puscast, Daniel and Sara review the infectious disease literature for the weeks of 5/21 – 6/3/26.

Host: Daniel Griffin and Sarah Dong

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Links for this episode

• Viral
• Performance of five mpox antigen-based rapid diagnostic tests tested on lesion swabs from patients with suspected mpox from the Kinshasa province of DR Congo: a diagnostic accuracy study (LANCET: Infectious Diseases)
• A Phase 3, Randomized Trial ofBulevirtide in Chronic Hepatitis D (NEJM)
• First reported case of Andes hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome treated with a combination of favipiravir, ribavirin, icatibant and baricitinib (CMI: Clinical Microbiology and Infection)
• Chikungunya Vaccines for Travelers: Unanswered Pragmatic Questions Persist (JID)
• Bacterial
• Early Discontinuation of Empiric Antibiotics in Pediatric Haploidentical Hematopoietic Cell Transplant Recipients with Febrile Neutropenia (CID)
• Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Nasal Swab Utilization as a Predictor for Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Skin and Soft Tissue Infections: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis (OFID)
• Swab Testing to Optimize Pneumonia Treatment With Empiric Vancomycin: A Randomized Controlled Trial (CID)
• Fungal
• The Last of US Season 2 (YouTube)
• Donor-derived and nosocomial-acquired Candida auris transmission involving solid organ transplant recipients (Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology)
• Parasitic
• Development of a Phase 1 Cryptosporidiosis Controlled Human Challenge Model in Healthy Volunteers Using Current Good Manufacturing Practice Cryptosporidium Parvum Oocysts and Conducted Under an Investigational New Drug Application (JID)
• Miscellaneous
• Childhood VaccineHesitancy(NEJM)

Music is by Ronald Jenkees

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