Infectious Disease Puscast #16

On episode #16 of the Infectious Disease Puscast, Daniel and Sara review the infectious disease literature for the previous two weeks, 11/9/22 – 11/23/22.

Hosts: Daniel Griffin and Sara Dong

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• Recommendations of the advisory committee on immunization practices for measles, mumps, rubella (CDC)
• Bacteremia with anaerobic bacteria and association with colorectal cancer (CID)
• Factors impacting the yield of image-guided biopsy in native vertebral osteomyelitis (OFID)
• Development of a clinical prediction score to inform tuberculosis treatment among children with HIV (OFID) 
• First detection and molecular identification of Rickettsia massiliae, a human pathogen (PLOS)
• Short-course vs long-course antibiotic therapy for children with nonsevere community-acquired pneumonia (JAMA)
• The timing of preoperative urinary tract infection influences the risk of prosthetic joint infection following primary total hip and knee arthroplasty (JOA)
• Recurrent candidemia: trends and risk factors among persons residing in 4 US States (OFID)
• Spread of Sporothrix spp through respiratory droplets from infected cats (Medical Mycology)
• Comparison of mold active triazoles as primary antifungal prophylaxis in patients with newly diagnosed acute myeloid leukemia (CID)
• Geographic distribution of dimorphic mycoses in the United States (CID)
• Knowledge, experiences, and practices of women affected by female genital schistosomiasis in rural Madagascar (PLOS NTDs)
• Dynamic immune profile in French Toxoplasmosis patients 
• White-Tailed deer are susceptible to the agent of classical sheep scrapie after experimental oronasal exposure (JID)
• The Lanzhou Brucella Leak: The largest laboratory accident in the history of Infectious Diseases (CID)

Music is by Ronald Jenkees