On episode #82 of the Infectious Disease Puscast, Daniel and Sara review the infectious disease literature for the weeks of 5/22 – 6/4/25.

Hosts: Daniel Griffin and Sara Dong

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Links for this episode

• Viral
• Estimated Current and Future Congenital Rubella Syndrome Incidence with and Without Rubella Vaccine Introduction — 19 Countries, 2019–2055 (CDC: MMWR)
• HIV-Superinfection in Kidney Transplant Recipients with HIV who Received Organs from Donors with HIV (JID)
• Respiratory syncytial virus: an under-recognized healthcare-associated infection (Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology)
• Bacterial
• Francisella tularensis Subspecies holarctica in Stranded Beluga Whales, Cook Inlet, Alaska, USA (CDC: Emerging Infectious Diseases)
• Long-term effects of azithromycin mass administration to reduce childhood mortality on Streptococcus pneumoniae antimicrobial resistance (LANCET: Infectious Diseases)
• Reducing inappropriate antibiotic use in febrile neutropenia in hematology patients through the implementation of an antibiotic de-escalation protocol (Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology)
• Optimizing cefazolin dosing for central nervous system infections: insights from population pharmacokinetics and Monte Carlo simulations (Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy)
• Fungal
• The Last of US Season 2 (YouTube)
• Histoplasma antigenuria prevalence in patients with advanced HIV disease in Côted’Ivoire (CID)
• Interferon-γ therapy in patients with refractory disseminated coccidioidomycosis(CID)
• Practical Guidance for Clinical Microbiology Laboratories: Antibody and antigen detection methods for dimorphic fungal infections (Clinical Microbiology Reviews)
• Parasitic
• Notes from the Field: Primary Amebic Meningoencephalitis Associated with Nasal Irrigation Using Water from a Recreational Vehicle — Texas, 2024 (CDC: MMWR)
• Further Evidence for Plausible Transmission of Fishborne Trematodiases in the United States: Game Fish Carry Human-Infectious Trematodes and Are Eaten Raw (JID)
• Miscellaneous
• A pilot study of coughing into the shirt to disrupt respiratory pathogen transmission (International Journal Of Emergency Medicine)
• Applying new compound to bed nets targets malaria parasites, not mosquitoes (CIDRAP)

Music is by Ronald Jenkees

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