On episode #83 of the Infectious Disease Puscast, Daniel and Sara review the infectious disease literature for the weeks of 6/5 – 6/18/25.

Hosts: Daniel Griffin and Sara Dong

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Links for this episode

• Viral
• Premature Demise of the Milwaukee Protocol (CID)
• West Nile Virus and Other Nationally Notifiable Arboviral Diseases — United States, 2023 (CDC: MMWR)
• Investigation of associations between the neonatal gut microbiota and severe viral lower respiratory tract infections in the first 2 years of life (LANCET: Microbe)
• Right blend of gut microbiota could avert hospitalization forviral respiratory infection in babies (CIDRAP)
• Clinical management and infection prevention and control for mpox: living guideline, May 2025 (World Health Organization)
• Bacterial
• Corynebacterium diphtheriaeOutbreak in Migrant Populations in Europe (NEJM)
• Weekly Oral Cycling Antibiotic Treatment: A New Antibioprophylaxis Regimen for Recurrent UTIs (CID)
• Fungal
• The Last of US Season 2 (YouTube)
• Estimated Burden of Coccidioidomycosis (JAMA)
• Antifungal therapy in Candida infective endocarditis: a comparison of echinocandins and other treatment regimens in a nation-wide cohort study (CID)
• Parasitic Does schistosome infection affect behavior through the gut-brain axis? (PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases)

Music is by Ronald Jenkees

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