Infectious Disease Puscast #26

On episode #26 of the Infectious Disease Puscast, Daniel and Sara review the infectious disease literature for the previous two weeks, 3/30 – 4/12/23.

Hosts: Daniel Griffin and Sara Dong

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• Fatal rabies infection with failure of post-exposure prophylaxis following a zoonotic exposure (CID)
• Bivalent perfusion F vaccine in pregnancy to prevent RSV in infants (NEJM)
• Adeno-associated virus type 2 in US children with severe hepatitis (Nature)
• Genomic investigations of unexplained hepatitis in children (Nature)
• Antiretroviral treatment of HIV/AIDS during pregnancy (JAMA)
• Rapid PCR for respiratory viruses reduces time to result and improves clinical care (JOI)
• Postexposure doxycycline to prevent bacterial sexually transmitted infection (NEJM)
• Survey on antimicrobial resistance genes of used probiotic bacteria (EURO)
• Structured immune work-up in healthy children with episode of severe bacterial infection (JID)
• Antibiotic prescribing in U.S. nursing homes (JID)
• Syndromic panel testing among patients with infectious diarrhea (OFID) 
• Early predictors of infected pancreatic necrosis in severe pancreatitis (DD)
• Management of nontuberculous mycobacteria in lung transplant cases (ERJ)
• Impact of extended-infusion piperacillin-tazobactam (Infectious Medicine)
• Camber Pharmaceuticals issues nationwide recall of atovaquone oral suspension due to potential Bacillus cereus contamination (FDA)
• Cluster of Blastomycosis among neighborhood residents (CDC)
• Risk factors for late-onset Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia in liver transplant recipients (IJID)
• Hyponatremia predicts cryptococcal meningitis and mortality in HIV-Positive asymptomatic individuals with cryptococcal antigenemia (OFID)
• Investigation of donor-derived Strongyloides stercoralis infection in multiple solid organ transplant recipients (TID)
• Promising new malaria vaccine for kids approved in Ghana (AP)

Music is by Ronald Jenkees