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.

Hosts: Daniel Griffin and Sara Dong

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Links for this episode

• 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)

Music is by Ronald Jenkees