On episode #35 of the Infectious Disease Puscast, Daniel reviews the infectious disease literature for the weeks of 8/3 – 8/16/23.

Host: Daniel Griffin

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• Powassan virus encephalitis: a tertiary center experience (CID)
• Diagnostic accuracy of hospital antibiograms in predicting the risk of antimicrobial resistance in Enterobacteriaceae isolates (CID)
• Timely diagnosis of incubating syphilis infections using Treponema pallidum (CID)
• Impact of rapid identification and stewardship intervention on coagulase-negative Staphylococcus bloodstream infection (OFID)
• Natural antibodies mediate protection against Acinetobacter baumannii respiratory infections (JID)
• Risk of misleading conclusions in observational studies of time-to-antibiotics and mortality in suspected sepsis (CID)
• Cryptococcal meningitis in young, immunocompetent patients (OFID)
• Experimental acquisition, maintenance, and transmission of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) (JID)
• Clinical characteristics and prognosis of pediatric Phthirus pubis coinfestation of the eyelashes and scalp hairs (AMJTMH)
• Prognostic significance of Lymphocyte Subpopulations for ICU-acquired Infections in sepsis patients (JHI)

Music is by Ronald Jenkees