Infectious Disease Puscast #36

On episode #36 of the Infectious Disease Puscast, Daniel reviews the infectious disease literature for the weeks of 8/17 – 8/30/23.

Host: Daniel Griffin

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• Detection of rotavirus in respiratory specimens from children aged under 2 years hospitalized for acute gastroenteritis (JID)
• Risk of Bell’s palsy following SARS-CoV-2 infection (CMI)
• Evaluation and management of diabetes-related foot infections (CID)
• Impact of mandatory infectious disease specialist approval on Clostridioides difficile infection rates and testing appropriateness (CID)
• Role of cerebral imaging on diagnosis and management in patients with suspected infective endocarditis (CID)
• Identifying effective durations of antibiotic therapy for the treatment of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales bloodstream infections (CID)
• Impact on clinical outcome of follow-up blood cultures and risk factors for persistent bacteraemia (CMI)
• State-of-the-art review: Neurosyphilis (CID)
• Oritavancin compared to the standard of care for treatment of non-endovascular gram-positive bloodstream Infections (OFID)
• How to approach suppressive antibiotic therapy following debridement, antibiotics, and implant retention for prosthetic joint infection (CID)
• 2023 Duke-International Society for cardiovascular infectious diseases criteria for infective endocarditis (CID)
• Adjunctive diagnostic studies completed following detection of candidemia in children (JPIDS)
• Oral lipid nanocrystal amphotericin b for cryptococcal meningitis (CID)
• Efficacy of 23 commonly used liquid disinfectants against Candida auris (IC&HE)
• Burrow ink test for scabies (NEJM)
• Evolution of partial resistance to artemisinins in malaria parasites in Uganda (NEJM)
• Human neural larva migrans caused by Ophidascaris robertsi ascarid (EID)

Music is by Ronald Jenkees