On episode #85 of the Infectious Disease Puscast, Daniel and Sara review the infectious disease literature for the weeks of 7/3 – 7/21/25.

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• Viral
• Elimination of HIV Reservoirs Harboring Intact Proviruses (JID) Bacterial
• Expansion of tetM-Carrying Neisseria gonorrhoeae in the United States, 2018–2024 (NEJM)
• Study hints doxyPEP use coincides with rise in tetracycline-resistant gonorrhea in US (CIDRAP)
• Potential Impact of Doxycycline Post-Exposure Prophylaxis on Tetracycline Resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae and Colonization With Tetracycline-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus and Group A Streptococcus (CID)
• Methenamine hippurate asprophylaxis for recurrent urinary tract infections in older women – a triple-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled, phase IV trial (ImpresU). (CMI: Clinical Microbiology and Infection)
• Diagnosis and Management ofCommunity-acquired Pneumonia(American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine)
• Complicated Urinary Tract Infections (cUTI): Clinical Guidelines for Treatment and Management (IDSA)
• The impact of an intervention to increase follow-up blood cultures for patients with Staphylococcus aureus bacteriuria (Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology) Fungal
• The Last of US Season 2 (YouTube)
• Candida auris Containment Responses in Health Care Facilities that Provide Hemodialysis Services (CDC: MMWR)
• Candidozyma auris: an emerging threat (Reflections on Infectious Prevention and Control)
• Effects of postoperative antifungal therapy on the recurrence of Aspergillus infection after pulmonary aspergilloma resection (BMC Infectious Diseases)
• Triazole-resistant Aspergillus fumigatus in the Netherlands between 1994 and 2022: a genomic and phenotypic study (LANCET: Microbe)
• Large language models and their performance for the diagnosis of histoplasmosis (PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases) Parasitic
• Field evidence of Trypanosoma cruzi infection, diverse host use and invasion of human dwellings by the Chagas disease vector in Florida, USA (PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases)

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On episode #84 of the Infectious Disease Puscast, Daniel and Sara review the infectious disease literature for the weeks of 6/17 – 7/2/25.

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• Viral
• Clinical Outcomes and Perspectives of People With Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Twelve Months After Initiation of Long-acting Cabotegravir and Rilpivirine in an Observational Real-world US Study (BEYOND)(CID)
• Healthcare Provider Knowledge of West Nile Virus Diagnostic Testing—United States, 2022 (OFID)
• Bacterial
• Risk and Distribution of Metastatic Infections by Primary Infection Focus in Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia (OFID)
• Clinical management of Clostridioides difficile infection with faecal microbiota transplantation (eClinicalMedicine)
• Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Management of Clostridioides difficile Infection in Adults (IDSA)
• Clinician Management Preferences for Clostridioides difficile Infection in Adults (OFID)
• Donor-Derived Tuberculosis In Three Solid Organ Transplant Recipients From The Same Donor (OFID)
• Septic Arthritis and Osteomyelitis in Finger Caused by Mycoplasma phocimorsus from Brown Bear, Alaska, USA (CDC: Emerging Infectious Diseases)
• Foodborne Botulism Outbreak After Consumption of Home-Canned Cactus (Nopales) (CDC: MMWR)
• One-Stage Revision Total Hip Arthroplasty for Polymicrobial Periprosthetic Joint Infection Leads to High Reinfection Rates (Journal of Arthroplasty)
• 4,000-year-old Mycobacterium lepromatosis genomes from Chile reveal long establishment of Hansen’s disease in the Americas (Nature Ecology & Evolution)
• Fungal
• The Last of US Season 2 (YouTube)
• Outcome Predictors of Candida Prosthetic Joint Infection (OFID)
• Parasitic
• Miscellaneous
• Ten Practical Tips for a Successful Presentation at ID clinical case conference (OFID)
• Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030 (LANCET)
• Comparison of Periodic In-Person ID Care to Daily Tele-ID Care at a Community Hospital (OFID)

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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.

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• 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)

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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.

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• 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)

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On episode #81 of the Infectious Disease Puscast, Daniel reviews the infectious disease literature for the weeks of 5/8/25 – 5/21/25.

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• Viral
• Tecovirimat for Clade I MPXV Infection in the Democratic Republic of Congo (NEJM)
• Remdesivir associated with reduced mortality in hospitalized COVID-19 patients (BMC Infectious Diseases)
• Real-world evidence shows remdesivir tied to less death in hospitalized COVID patients (CIDRAP)
• Impact of most promising Ebola therapies on survival (Virology Journal)
• Bacterial
• Comparative effectiveness of azithromycin versus doxycycline in hospitalized patients with community acquired pneumonia treated with beta-lactams (CID)
• Diet and Risk for Incident Diverticulitis in Women (Annals of Internal Medicine)
• The Dynamics of QuantiFERON-TB Gold In-Tube Conversion and Reversion in a Cohort of South African Adolescents(American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine)
• BCG Revaccination for the Prevention of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection(NEJM)
• The Impact of Diet on Clostridioides difficile Infection (JID)
• Cefazolin versus Antistaphylococcal Penicillins for the Treatment of Methicillin-Susceptible Staphylococcusaureus Bacteremia (CMI: Clinical Microbiology and Infection)
• Fungal
• The Last of US Season 2 (YouTube)
• Candida auris is emerging as a prevalent urinary pathogen (PLoS Pathgoens
• A symbiotic filamentous gut fungus ameliorates MASH via a secondary metabolite–CerS6–ceramide axis (Science)
• Outcome predictors of Candida prosthetic joint infections (OFID)
• Cave-Associated Histoplasmosis Outbreak Among Travelers Returning from Costa Rica — Georgia, Texas, and Washington, December 2024–January 2025 (CDC: MMWR)
• Parasitic
• COPEG 25th Anniversary (US Embassy in Panama)
• USDA suspends southern border livestock imports over New World screwworm threat(CIDRAP)
• Moxidectin combination therapies for lymphatic filariasis (LANCET: Infectious Diseases

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On episode #80 of the Infectious Disease Puscast, Daniel and Sara review the infectious disease literature for the weeks of 4/24/25 – 5/7/25.

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• Viral
• Incidence and Timing of Epstein–Barr Virus Whole Blood DNAemia in Epstein–Barr Virus-Mismatched Adult and Pediatric Solid Organ Transplant Recipients (Transplant Infectious Disease)
• Infant Respiratory Syncytial Virus Immunization Coverage in the Vaccine Safety Datalink: 2023–2024 (American Academy of Pediatrics)
• Impact of Nirsevimab on RSV and Non-RSV Severe Respiratory Infections in Hospitalized Infants (Influenza and other respiratory viruses)
• Hospital admissions of respiratory infections in infants plungewith nirsevimab RSV antibody (CIDRAP)
• Time to antiviral treatment in mild–moderate COVID-19 in the emergency department (Internal and Emergency Medicine)
• Delays in COVID antiviral receipt raised risk of poor outcomes after ED visits by 18%, data suggest (CIDRAP)
• Antiretroviral Postexposure Prophylaxis After Sexual, Injection Drug Use, or Other Nonoccupational Exposure to HIV (MMWR)
• Bacterial
• Validation and clinical implementation of cerebrospinal fluid C-reactive protein for the diagnosis of bacterial meningitis (LANCET: Regional Health)
• Bridging to transplant: TDM-Guided Outpatient Dalbavancin Therapy in Chronic Granulomatous Disease with deep-seeded Inoperable Abscesses over 11 Months (OFID)
• Nitrites for Urinary Tract Infection—Time to Say Goodbye? (JAMA: Internal Medicine)
• Fungal
• The Last of US Season 2 (YouTube)
• High Mortality and Associated Risk Factors in Kidney Transplant Recipients with Cryptococcosis – A Nationwide Cohort Study Over a Decade Using USRDS Data (OFID)
• Use of Dog Serologic Data for Improved Understanding of Coccidioidomycosis (JID)
• Parasitic
• Performance of a novel P. falciparum rapid diagnostic test in areas of widespread hrp2/3 gene deletion (CID)
• Prevalence of Anopheles stephensi in the Horn of Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis (BMC Infectious Diseases)
• Raising awareness of Demodex mites: a neglected cause of skin disease (Infection)
• Miscellaneous
• Scientific Integrity Under Threat: The Role of the IDSA, PIDS, and SHEA Journals in an Evolving Political Landscape (CID)
• Reasoning on Rounds Volume 2: a Framework for Teaching Management Reasoning in the Inpatient Setting (Journal of General Internal Medicine)
• Billing for and documentation of provider-to-provider interprofessional consults in infectious diseases (Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society)

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On episode #79 of the Infectious Disease Puscast, Daniel and Sara review the infectious disease literature for the weeks of 4/10/25 – 4/23/25.

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• Viral
• An ancient Epstein-Barr virus genome recovered from a museum penis gourd from Papua (JID)
• Patterns of Decline in Measles, Mumps, and Rubella Neutralizing Antibodies and Protection Levels Through 10 Years After a Second and Third Dose of MMR Vaccine (OFID)
• Tecovirimat for Clade I MPXV Infection in the Democratic Republic of Congo(NEJM)
• Bacterial
• Rapid tuberculosis diagnosis from respiratory or blood samples by a low cost, portable lab-in-tube assay(Science Translational Medicine)
• New handheld device can diagnose TB without a lab in under an hour, its developers say(CIDRAP)
• Maternal mastitis and streptococcal toxic shock syndrome risk from breastfeeding children with scarlet fever (LANCET: Infectious Diseases)
• Risk Factors for Mortality Among Older Adults with Hospital-Acquired Bloodstream Infections in the Intensive Care Unit(Infectious Diseases and Therapy)
• Bacteremia in Pediatric Solid Organ Transplant Recipients within 1 Year of Transplant(Transplant Infectious Disease)
• Oral gepotidacin for the treatment of uncomplicated urogenital gonorrhoea (EAGLE-1) (LANCET)
• Consequences of Climate Change on the Emergence of Pathogenic, Environmentally Acquired Nontuberculous Mycobacteria (OFID)
• Addition of Macrolide Antibiotics for Hospital Treatment of Community-Acquired Pneumonia (JID)
• Point-of-Care Testingby Multiplex-PCR in Different Compartments in Suspected Lower Respiratory Tract Infection After Lung Transplantation(Transplant Infectious Disease)
• Fungal
• The Last of US Season 2 (YouTube)
• Pathway-instructed therapeutic selection of ruxolitinib reduces neuroinflammation in fungal postinfectious inflammatory syndrome (Science Advances)
• Use of Dog Serologic Data for Improved Understanding of Coccidioidomycosis (JID)
• Parasitic
• Uganda launches largest malaria vaccine introduction to date(WHO: Uganda)
• Long-term follow-up of individuals with Chagas disease treated with posaconazole and benznidazole in a non-endemic region(CMI: Clinical Microbiology and Infection)
• Miscellaneous
• Monoclonal Antibodies From Children With Acute Kawasaki Disease Identify a Common Antigenic Target in Fatal Cases Over 5 Decades (Laboratory Investigation)
• Screwworm Cochliomyia hominivorax (Facebook)

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On episode #78 of the Infectious Disease Puscast, Daniel and Sara review the infectious disease literature for the weeks of 3/27/25 – 4/9/25.

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• Viral
• Demise of the Milwaukee protocol for rabies (CID)
• A natural experiment on the effect of herpes zoster vaccination on dementia (Nature)
• Taking a shot at dementia(microbeTV: TWiV)
• Recommendations from the 10th European Conference on Infections in Leukaemia for the management of cytomegalovirusin patients after allogeneic haematopoietic cell transplantation and other T-cell-engaging therapies (LANCET: Infectious Diseases)
• Epstein-Barr virus exposure precedes Crohn`s disease development (Gastroenterology aga)
• Bacterial
• Blujepa (gepotidacin) approved by US FDA for treatment of uncomplicated urinary tract infections (uUTIs) in female adults and paediatric patients 12 years of age and older (GSK)
• GSK wins FDA nod for first oral UTI antibiotic in almost 30 years(BioSpace)
• Efficacy and safety of individualised versus standard 10-day antibiotic treatment in children with febrile urinary tract infection (INDI-UTI): a pragmatic, open-label, multicentre, randomised, controlled, non-inferiority trial in Denmark (LANCET: Infectious Diseases)
• Frequency and severity of Myasthenia Gravis exacerbations associated with the use of ciprofloxacin, levofloxacin, and azithromycin (Muscle & Nerve)
• The cost of blood cultures: a barrier to diagnosis in low-income and middle-income countries
• (LANCET: Microbe)
• Rethinking blood culture (LANCET: Microbe)
• Trends in Anaplasmosis Over the Past Decade: A Review of Clinical Features, Laboratory Data and Outcomes(CID)
• Fungal
• The Last of US Season 2 (YouTube)
• Cracks in the curriculum: the hidden deficiencies in fungal disease coverage in medical books (OFID)
• Kazachstania slooffiae fungemia: a case report and literature review on an emerging opportunistic pathogen in humans (OFID)
• Plasma microbial cell-free DNS metagenomic sequencing for diagnosis of invasive fungal diseases among high risk outpatient and inpatient immunocompromised hosts (CID)
• Parasitic
• Fatal Case of Splash Pad–Associated Naegleria fowleri Meningoencephalitis — Pulaski County, Arkansas, September 2023 (CDC: MMWR)
• Notes from the Field: Fatal Acanthamoeba Encephalitis in a patient who regularly used tap water in an electronic nasal irrigation device and a continuous positive airway pressure machine at home — new Mexico, 2023 (CDC: MMWR)
• Malaria (NEJM)
• Miscellaneous
• FDA grants marketing authorization of first home test for chlamydia, gonorrhea and trichomoniasis (FDA)

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On episode #77 of the Infectious Disease Puscast, Daniel and Sara review the infectious disease literature for the weeks of 3/13/25 – 3/26/25.

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• Viral
• Food is medicine for human immunodeficiency virus: improved health and hospitalizations in the changing health through food support (chefs-hiv) pragmatic randomized trial (JID)
• The epidemiology and burden of human parainfluenza virus hospitalizations in u.s. children (Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society)
• Bacterial
• Epidemiology and outcomes of bloodstream infections in patients in a burns intensive care unit: an eight-year retrospective study(OFID)
• Prophylactic vancomycin in the primary prevention of clostridium difficile in allogeneic stem cell transplant(Transplant Infectious Disease)
• Incidence of scrub typhus in rural south India (NEJM)
• Antibiotic treatment for 7 versus 14 days in patients with bloodstream infections(NEJM)
• Blood Culture–Negative Endocarditis(Journal of the American Heart Association)
• Brucella suis Infection in Cardiac Implantable Device of Man Exposed to Feral Swine Meat, Florida, USA (CDC Emerging Infectious Diseases)
• Hyperbilirubinemia at hospitalization predicts nosocomial infection in decompensated cirrhosis (Hepatology Communicatons)
• Fungal
• The Last of US Season 2 (YouTube)
• Fungal Infections in People Who Use Drugs (OFID)
• IDSA 2025 guideline update on the treatment of asymptomatic histoplasma pulmonary nodules (histoplasmomas) and mild or moderate acute pulmonary histoplasmosis in adults, children, and pregnant people(IDSA: Infectisous Disease Society of America)
• Changing trends in the sources and volumes of clinical cultures with Candida auris at a large health system, 2019-2023 (American Journal of Infection Control)
• Diagnostic test accuracy of the Fungitell serum (1→3)-β-D-glucan assay for the diagnosis of Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia: a systematic review and meta-analysis (CMI: Clinical Microbiology and Infection)
• Parasitic
• Impact of Strongyloides stercoralis Coinfection on Disease Severity and Treatment Outcomes in Pulmonary Tuberculosis (OFID)
• Hematology thin smears perform equally to parasitology thick and thin blood smears for the diagnosis of Plasmodium and Babesia infections in a low prevalence setting (Journal of Clinical Microbiology)
• Notes from the Field: Rhodesiense Human African Trypanosomiasis (Sleeping Sickness) in a Traveler Returning from Zimbabwe — United States, August 2024 (CDC: MMWR)
• Miscellaneous
• The history of phage therapy LANCET: Infectious Diseases)
• Silence=death redux: infectious diseases, public health, and the imperative to resist (CID)
• Silence = Death, 1990(David Wojnarowicz Foundation)
• SILENCE=DEATH (B200KLYN Museaum)

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On episode #76 of the Infectious Disease Puscast, Daniel and Sara review the infectious disease literature for the weeks of 2/27/25 – 3/12/25.

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• Viral
• Trends in respiratory pathogen testing at us children’s hospitals (JAMA Network)
• Changes in respiratory viral testing before and after the covid-19 pandemic(JAMA Network)
• Expanding measles outbreak in the United States and guidance for the upcoming travel season (CDC Emergerncy Preparedness and Response)
• Measles cases and outbreaks (CDC Measles (Rubeola))
• Facts and myths about measles (LANCET: Infectious Diseases)
• Protective effects of recombinant zoster vaccine and antiviral therapy against cardiovascular disease following herpes zoster infection (JID)
• Chikungunya vaccine information for healthcare providers (CDC Chikungunya Virus)
• Factors to assess when considering use of chikungunya vaccine(CDC)
• Bacterial
• Should patients hospitalized forcommunity-acquired pneumonia be treated with additional antimicrobial agents directed against anaerobes? (American Journal of Therapeutics)
• Antibiotic-induced loss of gut microbiome metabolic output correlates with clinical responses to CAR T-cell therapy(Blood)
• Effectiveness of ampicillin/sulbactam versus ceftriaxone for the initial treatment of community-acquired pneumonia in older adults: a target trial emulation study(OFID)
• Male-partner treatment to prevent recurrence of bacterial vaginosis(NEJM)
• Fungal
• The Last of US Season 2 (YouTube)
• Activity of rezafungin against echinocandin non–wild type candida glabrata clinical isolates from a global surveillance program (OFID)
• Are contemporary antifungal doses sufficient for critically ill patients? Outcomes from an international, multicenter pharmacokinetics study for Screening Antifungal Exposure in Intensive Care Units—the SAFE-ICU study  (Intensive Care Medicine)
• Parasitic
• Human alveolar echinococcosis – global, regional and national annual incidence and prevalence rates (CMI: Clinical Microbiology and Infection)
• Dust to Diagnosis – with MSGERC (FEBRILE)
• The clinical picture caused by Fasciola gigantica: Analysis of 3,250 patients along the 1995–2019 countrywide spread in Vietnam (OFID)
• Miscellaneous
• Reprint of: From medical editors: a call to the global infectious diseases and clinical microbiology community (CMI: Clinical Microbiology and Infection)
• A hot topic: A climate-focused track for infectious disease fellowship (OFID)
• Are we being gaslit? A primer for recognizing corporate jargon to overcome gaslighting for the infectious disease workforce (CID)

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