On episode #48 of the Infectious Disease Puscast, Daniel and Sara review the infectious disease literature for the weeks of 1/31 – 2/13/24.

Hosts: Daniel Griffin and Sara Dong

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Links for this episode

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

Music is by Ronald Jenkees