Infectious Disease Puscast

On episode #58 of the Infectious Disease Puscast, Daniel and Sara review the infectious disease literature for the weeks of 6/20 – 7/3/24.

Host: Daniel Griffin and Sara Dong

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• Viral
• Drink more coffee, reduces risk for SARS-C0V-2 infection (Cell & Bioscience)
• Cannabis, tobacco…smoking in general NOT good for preventing COVID-19 (JAMA Network OPEN)
• EBV and KSHV caused HIV associated cancers and lymphoproliferative disorders (Clinical Microbiology Reviews)
• Where in the CNS can dolutegravir, tenofovir, lamivudine and efavirenz be found? (JID)
• Therapeutic management of Varicella-Zoster virus meningitis (OFID)
• Bacterial
• Carbapenem use in extended-spectrum cephalosporin-resistant Enterobacterales infections (LANCET Infectious Diseases)
• IDSA guidelines (Columbia University)
• Guideline-Concordant Therapy for community-acquired pneumonia in the Hospitalized Population (OFID)
• Interpretive Criteria piperacillin/tazobactam susceptibility test for Enterobacterales (CID)
• FDA approval forCAPVAXIVE (FDA)
• 21 valent pneumococcal vaccine approved (Nature Reviews drug discovery)
• Antimicrobial resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates (JAMA Network Open)
• Broad-spectrum antibiotic use for suspected community-onset sepsis (JAMA Network Open)
• Fungal
• The Last of Us ( Wikipedia)
• Challenges to vaccinating against coccidioidomycosis (OFID)
• Cryptococcosis: the story (OFID)
• Pneumocystis pneumonia: clinical spectrum, prophylaxis and delayed treatment (Intensive Care Medicine)
• Improve utilization of 1,3 β-D-glucan Testing(OFID)

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On episode #57 of the Infectious Disease Puscast, Daniel and Sara review the infectious disease literature for the weeks of 6/6 – 6/19/24.

Host: Daniel Griffin

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• Viral
• Is letermovir or valganciclovir better to prevent CMV in kidney transplant recipients (JID)
• CMV antiviral therapy (GoodRx)
• Prevalence of and risk for CMV reactivation during COVID-19 pneumonia (PLoS One)
• Sofosbuvir off-label yellow fever treatment (OFID) Bacterial
• Preventing resistant gram negative bacteria through beta-lactam de-escalation in sepsis patients (CID)
• Competing risk analysis, survival analysis that aims to correctly estimate marginal probability of an event (Columbia University)
• Continuous or intermittent b-lactam infusion for critical sepsis (JAMA Network)
• Prolonged vs Intermittent Infusions of β-Lactam Antibiotics in Adults With Sepsis or Septic Shock (JAMA Network)
• Phoenix sepsis score and risk in children with cancer (JAMA Network)
• New recognized spotted fever group Rickettsia in Northern California (Emerging Infectious Diseases)
• Screening for mycobacterium tuberculosis (Transplant Infectious Disease) Fungal
• Potential sexual transmission of Tinea pubogenitalis from TMWII (JAMA Dermatology)
• Household transmission of tinea infection (OFID)
• Drug-resistant oral candidiasis in HIV infected patients (BMC Infectious Disease) Parasitic
• Handheld digital microscope for rapid and comprehensive screening for urogenital and gastrointestinal schistosomiasis (American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene)
• Scorecard approach to eliminate onchocerciasis (Am J Trop Med Hyg) Miscellaneous
• Association between antibiotic receipt and provider rating (OFID)
• Infectious diseases and infection control prevention strategies when on ECMO (Perfusion)

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On episode #56 of the Infectious Disease Puscast, Daniel and Sara review the infectious disease literature for the weeks of 5/28 – 6/5/24.

Hosts: Daniel Griffin and Sara Dong

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• Viral
• Rapid detection of chikungunya virus in patient and mosquito samples assays (CMI)
• Adenovirus and cytomegalovirus specific adoptive T cell therapy for blood transplant and HIV infection (Transplant Infectious Disease)
• Bacterial
• Burkholderia pseudomallei: switch from melioidosis to latency (American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene)
• Meningococcal Disease circulation during Umrah Pilmgrimage (MMWR Early Release)
• Dosing and treatment of suppressive antimicrobial therapy against orthopedic implant infections (Jone of Bone and Joint Infection)
• CDC guidelines for post STD exposure doxycycline admininstration (MMWR)
• Fungal
• The last of Us (Wikipeida)
• Lower (1,3)-beta-d-glucan sensitivity and in vitro levels in Candida auris and parapsilosis strains (CMI)
• Auto-brewery syndrome in absence of alcohol consumption (Canadian Medical Association Journal)
• Television debut of auto-brewery syndrome (Vulture)
• Parasitic
• Asymptomatic Plasmodium falciparum parasitemia associates with subclinical inflammation (PIDS)
• Clinical characteristics and outcomes of strongyloidiasis (American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene)
• Tafenoquine treatment: relapsing babesiosis (CID)
• Miscellaneous
• Medical librarians for infectious diseases rounding teams (OFID)

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On episode #55 of the Infectious Disease Puscast, Daniel and Sara review the infectious disease literature for the weeks of 5/9 – 5/27/24.

Hosts: Daniel Griffin and Sara Dong

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• Viral
• Highly pathogenic H5N1 in US dairy cattle and 2 human cases (MMWR)
• Developing novel treatments for acute COVID-19 should address long COVID (JID)
• Reactivation of inherited HHV 6B in transplant recipient (JID)
• Bacterial
• Suppressive antibiotic therapy after DAIRfor acute periprosthetic joint infections (OFID)
• Piperacillin-tazobactam vs cefepime for sepsis treatment (JAMA Internal Medicine)
• Are the new diagnostic algorithms for pulmonary tuberculosis more sensitive? (OFID)
• Social factors associated with congenital syphilis (CID)
• Oral vancomyin treatment influences Clostridioides difficile recurrence in patients on concurrent systemic antibiotics
• Association between infectious diseases consultation and morality in Gram negative infected patients (CID)
• Fungal
• Not washing your hands: fluconazole-resistant Candida parapsilosis epidemiology (OFID)
• Retrospective case series: how Candida auris blood infections effect left ventricular assist devices (OFID)
• Trichophyton indotineae: clinical course, suspectibility and genome sequence (JAMA Dermatology)
• Screening serum for cryptococcal antigen in liver transplant recipients (OFID)
• Parasitic
• US outbreak of human trichinellosis (MMWR)
• Plague-ing the Pawlowsky glands of human body lice and transmission by bite(PLoS Biology)
• Miscellaneous
• Global change drivers and risk of infectious disease (Nature)
• ID specialists should care about ventilation (CMI)

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On episode #54 of the Infectious Disease Puscast, Daniel and Sara review the infectious disease literature for the weeks of 4/25 – 5/8/24.

Hosts: Daniel Griffin and Sara Dong

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• Viral
• Dengue: mother and child (American Economic Journal)
• Dairy farm worker and high path avian influenza A (H5N1) (NEJM)
• Respiratory virus pre and post transplant outcomes in children (CID)
• Bictegravir for HIV suppression during pregnancy (CID)
• Bacterial
• Group A Streptococcus pharyngitis: rapid diagnostic & antimicrobial stewardship (Pediatric ID Consult)
• Scrub typhus : Masquerade of disaster (OFID)
• One size fits all for UTI predictions? (CID)
• Infections of durable and acute mechanical circulatory support devices (Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation)
• Fungal
• Crypto hosts for cryptococcal disease (NEJM)
• Parasitic
• Sampling for cutaneous Leishmaniasis (OFID)
• Skin monoclonal anti-Malaria antibody therapy (NEJM)
• Miscellaneous
• Origin of antimicrobial therapy (CID)
• Microneedle patches for MR (measles and rubella) vaccination (LANCET)

Music is by Ronald Jenkees

On episode #53 of the Infectious Disease Puscast, Daniel and Sara review the infectious disease literature for the weeks of 4/11 – 4/24/24.

Hosts: Daniel Griffin and Sara Dong

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• Viral
• Reasons for what we do for routine respiratory pathogens (Journal of Hospital Medicine)
• Acute cardiac events due to RSV infection (JAMA Internal Medicine)
• Antiretroviral drugs and weight change (CID)
• What do antibiotics do for acute lower respiratory tract infection (Journal of General Internal Medicine)
• Guidelines for managing BK polyomavirus in kidney transplantation (Transplant)
• Bacterial
• Understanding Yersinia enterocolitica epidemiology(OFID)
• Medtronic duet external ventricular drain infections(MMWR)
• Who is more expensive daptomycin or vancomycin (OFID)
• Fungal
• Coccidioidomycosis related hospital visits (Emerging Infectious Diseases)
• Parasitic
• Leech in oropharynx of a 2-year old leads to anemia (AJTMH)
• The real use of ivermectin: treatment of strongyloidiasis (AJTHM)
• Miscellaneous
• Sporadic CJD in hunters? (Neurology)
• Where are all the infectious disease doctors? (OFID)
• Not interested in infectious diseases? Seriously! (CID)

Music is by Ronald Jenkees

On episode #52of the Infectious Disease Puscast, Daniel and Sara review the infectious disease literature for the weeks of 3/28 – 4/10/24.

Hosts: Daniel Griffin and Sara Dong

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• Winter vomiting disease (Open Forum Inf Dis)
• Ceftriaxone-Resistant Gonorrhea — China, 2022 (MMWR)
• Give me five days of antibiotics (JPIDS)
• Where did this come from (JPIDS)
• Differentiating cellulitis from pseudocellulitis (JAMA Derm)
• FLIR One Pro
• Neonatal Elizabethkingia anophelis meningitis from the water reservoir of automated infant milk dispenser (Eurosurveill)
• d-Mannose for Prevention of Recurrent UTI Among Women (JAMA Int Med)
• Oral vaccine for UTI potential alternative to antibiotics (Eurek!Alert)
• Oral vaccine for UTI trials BJUI one and BJUI two and NEJM
• NLRP3 inflammasome activation and type I interferon signaling predispose to necrotizing fasciitis (Cell Rep Med)
• Candida deep sternal wound infections: a consequence of antibiotic use? (OFID)
• Candida auris in US Correctional Facilities (Emerg Inf Dis)
• Scedosporiosis and lomentosporiosis: difficult-to-treat rare mold infections (Clin Micr Rev)
• Meeting the consultation surge (OFID)

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On episode #51 of the Infectious Disease Puscast, Daniel and Sara review the infectious disease literature for the weeks of 3/13 – 3/27/24.

Hosts: Daniel Griffin and Sara Dong

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• Viral
• The oral antiviral obeldesivir protects NHPs against Sudan ebolavirus (Science)
• Monoclonal antibody therapy to treat Ebola virus disease (Curr Opinion Vir)
• Opinion of anti-Sudan ebolavirus antiviral therapy (Science)
• Management of norovirus in solid organ and hematopoietic stem cell transplants (Transplant ID)
• Bacterial
• Bacteremia from urinary source in hospitalized adults with asymptomatic bacteriuria?(JAMA)
• UTI research reference standards (Lancet Infectious Diseases)
• Aspiration pneumonia (CHEST)
• Household transmission of Strep A (JID)
• Antimicrobial dosing recommendations for obese patients (Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy)
• Syphilis testing (MMWR)
• Predictors of morality from streptococcal bacteremia (CID)
• Fungal
• Invasive candidiasis (Nat Rev Disease Primer)
• Climate change and natural disasters impact on fungal infections (Lancet Microbe)
• Parasitic
• Nasal flushing and Acanthamoeba infection (Emerging Infectious Diseases)
• Miscellaneous
• Vaccination guidelines for adults with cancer (Journal of Clinical Oncology)
• Do multiplexed molecular diagnostic tools impact treatment for children with acute gastroenteritis? (CID)

Music is by Ronald Jenkees

On episode #50 of the Infectious Disease Puscast, Daniel and Sara review the infectious disease literature for the weeks of 2/28 – 3/12/24.

Hosts: Daniel Griffin and Sara Dong

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• Viral
• Measles….and more measles (JPIDS)
• Need for new mumps vaccine (PIDJ)
• Cabotegravir and rilpivirine for those infected with HIV (JAMA)
• Genetic susceptibility to astrovirus diarrhea (OFID)
• 10 years after hepatitis E vaccination (Lancet)
• Tecovirimat for improvement of mpox symptoms (OFID)
• Bacterial
• Clinical care for tick-borne disease affected by paging clinicians serological results (AJTHM)
• Metabolomics of nontuberculous mycobacterial pulmonary disease (JID)
• Predicting risk of infectious endocarditis in those with Staphylococus aureus bacteraemis (JID)
• Fungal
• Response to invasive pulmonary aspergillosis (OFID)
• Parasitic
• Postsurgical outcomes due to hippocampal sclerosis (AJTHM)
• Miscellaneous
• What does the neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio mean in elderly with severe sepsis and diabetes mellitus (BMC Geriatrics)
• Impact of learning from Febrile podcast for infectious diseases (OFID)

Music is by Ronald Jenkees

On episode #49 of the Infectious Disease Puscast, Daniel and Sara review the infectious disease literature for the weeks of 2/14 – 2/27/24.

Hosts: Daniel Griffin and Sara Dong

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• Viral
• HIV Cure? (NEJM)
• The effects of HIV-1 antigen-expanded specific T-Cell therapy and vorinostat on persistent infection (JID)
• The burden of HMPV and influenza associated hospitalizations in adults (JID)
• Bacterial
• Length of antibiotic therapy among the hospitalized with uncomplicated pneumonia (Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology)
• Guideline on fecal microbiota–vased therapies for some gastrointestinal diseases (Gastroenterology)
• Guideline on fecal microbiota–based therapies for recurrent C diff (CIDRAP)
• Reduced vancomycin susceptibility in Clostridioides difficile (CID)
• Fungal
• Histoplasmosisin non-HIV population (OFID)
• Parasitic
• Plasmodium falciparum under the host's Immune radar(JID)
• Did you hear Artemether-lumefantrine is recommended for uncomplicate malaria CID)
• Miscellaneous
• Uncompensated work in academic infectious diseases, seriously? (CID)
• Invasive mosquito Anopheles stephensi, Ghana (Emerging Infectious Diseases)

Music is by Ronald Jenkees