On episode #60 of the Infectious Disease Puscast, Daniel and Sara review the infectious disease literature for the weeks of 7/18/20 – 7/31/24.

Host: Daniel Griffin and Sara Dong

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• Olympics
• Swimming in the Seine (NYTimes)
• Viral
• Twice-Yearlylenacapavir or Daily F/TAF for HIV Prevention in Cisgender Women (NEJM)
• Consensus definitions of Cytomegalovirus Infection and Disease in Transplant Patients (CID)
• The recombinant shingles vaccine is associated with lower risk of dementia (Nature Medicine)
• Association of the incidence of postherpetic neuralgia with early treatment intervention of herpes zoster (International Journal of Infectious Diseases)
• Bacterial
• Updated guidelines for antimicrobial resistant gram-negative infections (IDSA)
• Put the Vanc Down, Flip it and Reverse it: Comparison of vancomycin and daptomycin (OFID)
• Durations of antibiotic treatment for acute otitis media and variability in prescribed durations (Journal of Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society)
• Fungal
• Adjunctive single-dose liposomal amphotericin to prevent cryptococcal meningitis in people with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)–associated cryptococcal antigenemia and low plasma cryptococcal antigen (CrAg) titers(CID)
• Stagonospora cutaneous infection in a kidney transplant recipient: First human case (Transplant Infectious Disease)
• European Study of cerebral aspergillosis treated with Isavuconazole: an EFISG study (CID)
• Parasitic
• Rollout of world’s second malaria vaccine begins in Ivory Coast (Healio)
• Executive summary: Evaluation and management of delusional infestation(CID)
• Parasitic contamination of soil in the Southern United States (ASTMH)
• Miscellaneous
• The potential benefits of delaying seasonal influenza vaccine selections for the northern hemisphere: A retrospective modeling study in the United States (JID)

Music is by Ronald Jenkees