Infectious Disease Puscast

On episode #8 of the Infectious Disease Puscast, Daniel and Sara review the infectious disease literature for the previous two weeks, 7/21/22 – 8/3/22.

Hosts: Daniel Griffin and Sara Dong

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• Pediatric hepatitis linked to infection with two viruses (BMJ)
• Protection duration of Yellow Fever vaccination (CID)
• Impact of CSF panel on duration of treatment (OFID)
• Cluster of Parechovirus infections in infants (MMWR)
• Molecular ecology and risk factors for Escherichia coli (Journal of Antimicrobial Therapy)
• Melioidosis endemic in areas of the Mississippi gulf coast (CDC)
• Early switch from intravenous to oral antibiotics in infections (OFID)
• Duration of therapy and the use of Quinolone/Rifampin-Based regimens for joint infections (OFID)
• Efficacy of Doxycycline for mild-to-moderate community-acquired Pneumonia in adults (CID)
• Effectiveness of a Vancomycin dosing protocol (Cambridge Core)
• Outcomes of Fungemia in patients receiving extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (IDSA)
• Malaria transmission intensity likely modifies RTS, S/AS01 efficacy (IDSA)
• Ultrashort course antibiotics for suspected pneumonia (CID)

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On episode #7 of the Infectious Disease Puscast, Daniel and Sara review the infectious disease literature for the previous two weeks, 7/7/22 – 7/20/22.

Hosts: Daniel Griffin and Sara Dong

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• Frequent detection of monkeypox virus DNA in saliva, semen, and other clinical samples from 12 patients (Eurosurveillance)
• The impact of churn on HIV outcomes in the southern United States (OFID)
• Health Advisory: Recent Reports of PeV in the US (CDC)
• Cytomegalovirus viremia as risk factor for mortality in HIV-associated meningitis (International Journal of Infectious Diseases)
• Ghana declares its first outbreak of Marburg virus disease (BMJ)
• Case series of children with acute hepatitis and human adenovirus (NEJM)
• Pharmacokinetic variability of vancomycin in meningitis patients (Journal of Clinical Pharmacy and Therapeutics)
• Association of vancomycin plus piperacillin in critically ill adults (Intensive Care Medicine)
• Comparison of Sequential Dalbavancin to SOC treatment for bloodstream infections (OFID)
• Outbreak of sexually transmitted drug resistant Shigella sonnei in the UK (Lancet ID)
• Listeria illness and deaths associated with ongoing contamination of ice cream products (CID)
• Antibiotics for preventing recurrent uninary tract infections (OFID)
• Congenital tuberculosis after In-vitro fertilization (CID)
• Enhancing diagnostics in orthopedic infections (Journal of Clinical Microbiology)
• Screening for ocular finding among patients with candidemia (CDC)
• Effects of day-to-day variation of Opisthorchis viverrini antigen in urine (PLOS ONE)
• Disposable versus reusable medical gowns (The American Journal of Infection Control)

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On episode #6 of the Infectious Disease Puscast, Daniel and Sara review the infectious disease literature for the previous two weeks, 6/23/22 – 7/6/22.

Hosts: Daniel Griffin and Sara Dong

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• Analysis of acute Hepatitis of unknown etiology in children aged (CDC)
• A contemporary review of Monkeypox for healthcare workers (IDSA)
• Rapid antigen test for detection of orthopoxviruses (The Lancet)
• Decision making regarding anal cancer screening in HIV-positive people (IDSA)
• Updated guidelines for testing of transplant candidates (CDC)
• Effect of automated telephone infectious disease consultations to nonacademic hospitals (JAMA)
• Prevalence and predictors of Pseudomonas aeruginosa among hospitalized patients (OFID)
• High yield of blood cultures in the diagnosis of cellulitis and more in elderly patients (OFID)
• The impact of glove and gown use on C. difficile (CID)
• Antibiotic therapeutic drug monitoring in critically ill patients CID)
• Utility of induced sputum in assessing bacterial etiology in children (JPIDS)
• Epidemiology of UTI infections due to Enterobacterales (OFID)
• Analysis of linezolid combined with methadone or buprenorphine (OFID)
• Management of histoplasmosis by ID physicians (OFID)
• Increased deaths from fungal infections during pandemic (CID)
• Clinical utility of antifungal susceptibility testing (JAC)
• Spotlight on sporothrix and sporotrichosis (Mycopathologia)
• Guidelines on diagnosing, preventing, and managing cryptococcal disease in HIV-positive adults and children (WHO)
• Dracunculiasis eradication: end stage challenges (ASTMH)
• Range expansion of native and invasive ticks (JID)
• Vaccine-hesitant moment (NEJM)
• FDG-PET-CT compared with CT for persistent fever in high-risk patients (The Lancet)

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On episode #5 of the Infectious Disease Puscast, Daniel and Sara review the infectious disease literature for the previous two weeks, 6/8/22 – 6/22/22.

Host: Daniel Griffin

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• Effect of testing for respiratory pathogens on antibiotic use of children (JAMA)
• Outbreak of hepatitis in children (Intensive Care Medicine)
• Leptospirosis in retirees in rural areas (IDSA)
• Comparing Ceftolozane/Tazobactam to standard of care in the management of neutropenia and fever in patients with hematological malignancies (IDSA)
• Development of an electronic algorithm to target outpatient antimicrobial stewardship efforts for acute bronchitis and pharyngitis (IDSA)
• Compassionate-use of phages in twenty patients with drug-resistant mycobacterial disease (CID)
• Microbial Cell-Free DNA Identifies the Causative Pathogen in Infective Endocarditis (CID)
• The source of the Black Death in fourteenth-century central Eurasia (Nature)
• Noninvasive Testing and Surrogate Markers in Invasive Fungal Diseases (OFID)
• WHO guideline for the treatment of visceral leishmaniasis in HIV co-infected patients (WHO)
• Broad antimicrobial resistance in a case of relapsing babesiosis successfully treated with tafenoquine (CID)
• Human Filariasis in Travelers and Migrants (CID)
• Therapeutic hyperthermia is associated with improved survival in afebrile critically ill patients with sepsis (Critical Care Medicine)
• Does a school-based intervention to engage parents change opportunity for handwashing with soap at home? (PLOS NTD)
• Infectious diseases compensation in the USA (The Lancet)

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On episode #4 of the Infectious Disease Puscast, Daniel and Sara review the infectious disease literature for the previous two weeks, 5/25/22 – 6/8/22. Hosts: Daniel Griffin and Sara Dong

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• Clinical features and managements of human Monkeypox (The Lancet)
• Clinical course and outcome of human Monkeypox in Nigeria (CID)
• Monkeypox outbreak report in United States – May 2022 (CDC)
• Travel notice for Monkeypox (CDC)
• Immunoglobulin-free strategy to prevent HBV mother to children transmission in Cambodia (The Lancet)
• CD4 T-cell depletion prevents Lassa fever associated hearing loss in mouse model
• Economic and clinical burden associated with infections after cell transplant (Transplant infectious disease)
• Multistate outbreak of Listeria monocytogenes infections linked to soft Hispanic-Style cheese – United States, 2021 (CDC)
• Evaluation of Mycobacterium avium complex pulmonary disease treatment completion and adherence to ATS/IDSA guidelines (NIH)
• Case Report: Pulmonary leptospirosis misdiagnosed as COVID-19 (ASTMH)
• Association of inappropriate outpatient pediatric antibiotic prescriptions with adverse drugs events (JAMA)
• Exploration of Primary care clinician attitudes associated with prescribing antibiotics for asymptomatic bacteriuria (JAMA)
• Case Report: Bartonella Quintana endocarditis in a child from Northern Manitoba, Canada
• Chlorhexidine and Mupirocin for Clearance of Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Colonization After Hospital Discharge (CID)
• Daptomycin-Resistant Enterococcus Bacteremia Is Associated With Prior Daptomycin Use and Increased Mortality After Liver Transplantation (CID)
• Updated consolidated guidelines for Malaria (WHO)
• Podoconiosis: Clinical spectrum and microscopic presentations (PLOS)
• Pharmacist gender and physician acceptance of antibiotic stewardship recommendations (ICHE)
• Prevention of Neisseria gonorrhoeae with meningococcal B vaccine: a matched cohort study in Southern California (IDSA)

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On the third episode of the Infectious Disease Puscast, Daniel and Sara review the infectious disease literature for the previous two weeks, 5/11/22 – 5/25/22.

Hosts: Daniel Griffin and Sara Dong

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• Monkeypox Virus Infection in the United States and Other Non-endemic Countries—2022 (CDC)
• Monkeypox course (WHO)
• Monkeypox on TWiV 902 and TWiV Special
• Progress Toward Polio Eradication — Worldwide, January 2020–April 2022 (MMWR)
• Capsid Inhibition with Lenacapavir in Multidrug-Resistant HIV-1 Infection (NEJM)
• Rabies in a Dog Imported from Azerbaijan — Pennsylvania, 2021 (MMWR)
• Burden, clinical characteristics, risk factors, and seasonality of adenovirus 40/41 diarrhea in children in eight low-resource settings (Open For Inf Dis)
• Comparison of 8 vs 15 days of antibiotic therapy for Pseudomonas aeruginosaventilator-associated pneumonia in adults (Intensive Care Med)
• High prevalence of Pseudomonas aeruginosa carriage in residents of French and German long-term care facilities (Clin Micro Inf)
• Antibiotic treatment duration for community acquired pneumonia in outpatient children in high-income countries – a systematic review and meta-analysis (Clin Inf Dis)
• Follow-up Blood Culture Practices for Gram-Negative Bloodstream Infections in Immunocompromised Hosts at a Large Academic Medical Center (Open For Inf Dis)
• Meningococcal disease and immunization activities in Hajj and Umrah Pilgrimage: a review (Inf Dis Therapy)
• Treatment with reduced dose trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole is effective in mild to moderate Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia in patients with hematologic malignancies (Clin Inf Dis)
• Occupational risk of cutaneous larva migrans: A case report and a systematic literature review (PLoS NTD)
• Quinacrine Treatment of Nitroimidazole-Refractory Giardiasis (JID)
• Diagnosis and management of infective endocarditis in people who inject drugs(JACC)
• A mechanistic model of snakebite as a zoonosis: Envenoming incidence is driven by snake ecology, socioeconomics and its impacts on snakes (PLoS NTD)
• Strategies to prevent central-line associated bloodstream infections in acute-care hospitals (Infection Control & Hosp Epi)
• Strategies to prevent ventilator-associated pneumonia, ventilator-associated events, and nonventilator hospital-acquired pneumonia in acute care hospitals (Infection Control & Hosp Epi)
• Use of benznidazole to treat chronic Chagas disease: An updated systematic review with a meta-analysis (PLoS NTD)
• Chagas Disease: The New HIV/AIDS of the Americas (PLoS NTD)
• Digital Strategy and Social Media in Infectious Diseases (Clin Inf Dis)

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On the the second episode of the Infectious Disease Puscast, Daniel and Sara review the infectious disease literature for the previous two weeks, 4/27/22 – 5/11/22.

Hosts: Daniel Griffin and Sara Dong

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•Acute Hepatitis and Adenovirus Infection Among Children — Alabama, October 2021–February 2022(MMWR) •Case Series of False-Positive HIV Test Results in Pediatric Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Patients Following Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-Cell Therapy: Guidance on How to Avoid and Resolve Diagnostic Dilemmas (J IDSA) •Immunological correlates of prevention of the onset of seasonal H3N2 influenza (JID) •Use of a Modified Preexposure Prophylaxis Vaccination Schedule to Prevent Human Rabies: Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices — United States, 2022 (MMWR) •Long-term Safety and Immunogenicity of a Tetravalent Dengue Vaccine Candidate in Children and Adults(MMWR) •The Role of C-Reactive Protein as a Triage Tool for Pulmonary Tuberculosis in Children (J PIDS) •Factors Potentially Contributing to the Contamination of Packaged Leafy Greens Implicated in the Outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium During the Summer of 2021 (FDA) •Short-course intravenous antibiotics for young infants with urinary tract infection (Arch Dis Children) •Real-World Comparison of Bezlotoxumab to Standard of Care Therapy for Prevention of Recurrent Clostridioides difficile Infection in Patients at High Risk for Recurrence (Clin Inf Dis) •2021 Focused Update Guidelines on Management of Clostridioides difficile Infection in Adults (Clin Inf Dis) •Treatment outcomes 24 months after initiating short, all-oral bedaquiline-containing or injectable-containing rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis treatment regimens in South Africa (Lancet) •Use of Novel Strategies to Develop Guidelines for Management of Pyogenic Osteomyelitis in Adults (JAMA) •Persistent MRSA Bacteremia: Resetting the Clock for Optimal Management (Clin Inf Dis) •Frequency and Duration of, and Risk Factors for, Diagnostic Delays Associated with Histoplasmosis (J Fungi) •Intestinal parasitic infections and associated factors among people living with HIV attending Dessie Referral Hospital, Dessie town, North-east Ethiopia (AIDS Res Ther) •Association of zoonotic protozoan parasites with microplastics in seawater and implications for human and wildlife health (Nat Sci Rep) •Climate change increases cross-species viral transmission risk (Nature and TWiV 898)

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On the first episode of the Infectious Disease Puscast, Daniel and Sara bring Marc Crislip's well known Puscast back to life, and present a review of the infectious disease literature for the previous two weeks, 4/13 – 4/27/22. Hosts: Daniel Griffin and Sara Dong Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS, email

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• Rabies from an anteater (MMWR)
• Oral Tebipenem Pivoxil Hydrobromide in Complicated UTI (NEJM)
• Therapeutic monitoring of vancomycin for serious MRSA infections (IDSA)
• Time to retire Vancomycin for MRAS Endovascular Infections? (Op Forum Inf Dis)
• Impact of ID consultation on outcome of patients with enterococcal bacteremia (Op Forum Inf Dis)
• Effect of Gram Stain–Guided Initial Antibiotic Therapy on Clinical Response in Patients With Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia (JAMA)
• Effect of Antimicrobial Prophylaxis Duration on Health Care-Associated Infections After Clean Orthopedic Surgery (JAMA)
• Randomized Clinical Trial Comparing Seven Versus Fourteen Days of Antibiotics for Uncomplicated Gram-Negative Bloodstream Infection (Op Forum Inf Dis)
• Vehicle Windshield Wiper Fluid as Potential Source of Sporadic Legionnaires' Disease in Commercial Truck Drivers (MMWR)
• Single-Dose Liposomal Amphotericin B Treatment for Cryptococcal Meningitis (NEJM)
• High Prevalence of Plasmodium falciparum K13 Mutations in Rwanda Is Associated With Slow Parasite Clearance After Treatment With Artemether-Lumefantrine (JID)
• Association of Reduced Long-Lasting Insecticidal Net Efficacy and Pyrethroid Insecticide Resistance With Overexpression of CYP6P4, CYP6P3, and CYP6Z1 in Populations of Anopheles coluzzii From Southeast Côte d'Ivoire (J Inf Dis)

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