Infectious Disease Puscast #55

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)

Music is by Ronald Jenkees