by Vincent Racaniello
A review of the infectious diseases literature from the previous two weeks.
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April 15, 2025
<p>On episode #78 of the Infectious Disease Puscast, Daniel and Sara review the infectious disease literature for the weeks of 3/27/25 – 4/9/25.</p> <div class="fluid-width-video-wrapper">Hosts: <a title="" href="http://www.parasiteswithoutborders.com/"><strong>Daniel Griffin</strong></a> and <a href= "https://febrilepodcast.com/about-us/"><strong>Sara Dong</strong></a></div> <p>Subscribe (free): <strong><a href= "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/infectious-disease-podcast/id1622649470"> Apple Podcasts</a>, <a href= "https://feeds.libsyn.com/413927/rss">RSS</a></strong>, email</p> <p>Become a <a href= "https://www.microbe.tv/contribute">patron</a> of Puscast!</p> <h3 id="links-for-this-episode" class="wp-block-heading"> <strong>Links for this episode</strong></h3> <ul class="wp-block-list"> <li><strong>Viral</strong></li> <li>Demise of the <a href= "https://academic.oup.com/cid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/cid/ciaf157/8096457?utm_source=advanceaccess&utm_campaign=cid&utm_medium=email"><strong>Milwaukee protocol</strong></a> for rabies (CID)</li> <li>A natural experiment on the effect of <a href= "https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08800-x"><strong>herpes zoster vaccination</strong></a> on dementia (Nature)</li> <li>Taking a <a href= "https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-1207/"><strong>shot at dementia</strong></a>(microbeTV: TWiV)</li> <li>Recommendations from the 10th European Conference on Infections in Leukaemia for the management of <a href= "https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(25)00069-6/abstract"><strong>cytomegalovirus</strong></a>in patients after allogeneic haematopoietic cell transplantation and other T-cell-engaging therapies (LANCET: Infectious Diseases)</li> <li><a href= "https://www.gastrojournal.org/article/S0016-5085(25)00411-1/abstract"> <strong>Epstein-Barr virus</strong></a> exposure precedes Crohn`s disease development (Gastroenterology aga)</li> <li><strong>Bacterial</strong></li> <li><a href= "https://www.gsk.com/en-gb/media/press-releases/blujepa-gepotidacin-approved-by-us-fda-for-treatment-of-uncomplicated-urinary-tract-infections/"> <strong>Blujepa (gepotidacin)</strong></a> approved by US FDA for treatment of uncomplicated urinary tract infections (uUTIs) in female adults and paediatric patients 12 years of age and older (GSK)</li> <li>GSK wins FDA nod for first oral <a href= "https://www.biospace.com/drug-development/gsk-wins-fda-nod-for-first-oral-uti-antibiotic-in-almost-30-years"><strong>UTI antibiotic</strong></a> in almost 30 years(BioSpace)</li> <li>Efficacy and safety of individualised versus standard 10-day antibiotic treatment in children with <a href= "https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(25)00075-1/abstract"><strong>febrile urinary tract infection</strong></a> (INDI-UTI): a pragmatic, open-label, multicentre, randomised, controlled, non-inferiority trial in Denmark (LANCET: Infectious Diseases)</li> <li>Frequency and severity of <a href= "https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/mus.28410"><strong>Myasthenia Gravis</strong></a> exacerbations associated with the use of ciprofloxacin, levofloxacin, and azithromycin (Muscle & Nerve)</li> <li>The cost of blood cultures: a <a href= "https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanmic/article/PIIS2666-5247(25)00053-9/fulltext?dgcid=raven_jbs_aip_email"><strong>barrier to diagnosis</strong></a> in low-income and middle-income countries</li> <li>(LANCET: Microbe)</li> <li><a href= "https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanmic/article/PIIS2666-5247(24)00328-8/fulltext"> <strong>Rethinking</strong></a> blood culture (LANCET: Microbe)</li> <li>Trends in <a href= "https://academic.oup.com/cid/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/cid/ciaf171/8104456?redirectedFrom=fulltext"><strong>Anaplasmosis</strong></a> Over the Past Decade: A Review of Clinical Features, Laboratory Data and Outcomes(CID)</li> <li><strong>Fungal</strong></li> <li><a href= "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48WJNnNefvI"><strong>The Last of US Season 2</strong></a> (YouTube)</li> <li>Cracks in the curriculum: the <a href= "https://academic.oup.com/ofid/article/12/4/ofaf145/8101540"><strong>hidden deficiencies</strong></a> in fungal disease coverage in medical books (OFID)</li> <li><a href= "https://academic.oup.com/ofid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ofid/ofaf209/8105799"> <strong>Kazachstania slooffiae fungemia</strong></a>: a case report and literature review on an emerging opportunistic pathogen in humans (OFID)</li> <li>Plasma microbial cell-free DNS metagenomic sequencing for diagnosis of <a href= "https://academic.oup.com/cid/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/cid/ciaf170/8104460?redirectedFrom=fulltext"><strong>invasive fungal diseases</strong></a> among high risk outpatient and inpatient immunocompromised hosts (CID)</li> <li><strong>Parasitic</strong></li> <li>Fatal Case of <a href= "https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/74/wr/mm7410a2.htm?s_cid=mm7410a2_e&ACSTrackingID=USCDC_921-DM146104&ACSTrackingLabel=This%20Week%20in%20MMWR%3A%20Vol.%2074%2C%20March%2027%2C%202025&deliveryName=USCDC_921-DM146104"><strong>Splash Pad</strong></a>–Associated Naegleria fowleri Meningoencephalitis — Pulaski County, Arkansas, September 2023 (CDC: MMWR)</li> <li>Notes from the Field: <a href= "https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/74/wr/mm7410a4.htm?s_cid=mm7410a4_e&ACSTrackingID=USCDC_921-DM146104&ACSTrackingLabel=This%20Week%20in%20MMWR%3A%20Vol.%2074%2C%20March%2027%2C%202025&deliveryName=USCDC_921-DM146104"><strong>Fatal Acanthamoeba Encephalitis</strong></a> in a patient who regularly used tap water in an electronic nasal irrigation device and a continuous positive airway pressure machine at home — new Mexico, 2023 (CDC: MMWR)</li> <li><a href= "https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMra2405313?query=TOC&cid=DM2393734_Non_Subscriber&bid=-1413621066"> <strong>Malaria</strong></a> (NEJM)</li> <li><strong>Miscellaneous</strong></li> <li>FDA grants marketing authorization of <a href= "https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-grants-marketing-authorization-first-home-test-chlamydia-gonorrhea-and-trichomoniasis"><strong>first home test</strong></a> for chlamydia, gonorrhea and trichomoniasis (FDA)</li> </ul> <p>Music is by <a href= "http://www.ronaldjenkees.com/"><strong>Ronald Jenkees</strong></a></p> <p>Information on this podcast should not be considered as medical advice.</p>
April 1, 2025
<p>On episode #77 of the Infectious Disease Puscast, Daniel and Sara review the infectious disease literature for the weeks of 3/13/25 – 3/26/25.</p> <div class="fluid-width-video-wrapper">Hosts: <a title="" href="http://www.parasiteswithoutborders.com/"><strong>Daniel Griffin</strong></a> and <a href= "https://febrilepodcast.com/about-us/"><strong>Sara Dong</strong></a></div> <p>Subscribe (free): <strong><a href= "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/infectious-disease-podcast/id1622649470"> Apple Podcasts</a>, <a href= "https://feeds.libsyn.com/413927/rss">RSS</a></strong>, email</p> <p>Become a <a href= "https://www.microbe.tv/contribute">patron</a> of Puscast!</p> <h3 id="links-for-this-episode" class="wp-block-heading"> <strong>Links for this episode</strong></h3> <ul class="wp-block-list"> <li><strong>Viral</strong></li> <li>Food is medicine for human immunodeficiency virus: improved health and hospitalizations in the changing health through food support (<a href= "https://academic.oup.com/jid/article-abstract/231/3/573/7663450?redirectedFrom=fulltext&utm_source=etoc&utm_campaign=jid&utm_medium=email"><strong>chefs-hiv</strong></a>) pragmatic randomized trial (JID)</li> <li>The epidemiology and burden of <a href= "https://academic.oup.com/jpids/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/jpids/piaf026/8090469?redirectedFrom=fulltext&utm_source=advanceaccess&utm_campaign=jpids&utm_medium=email"><strong>human parainfluenza</strong></a> virus hospitalizations in u.s. children (Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society)</li> <li><strong>Bacterial</strong></li> <li>Epidemiology and outcomes of <a href= "https://academic.oup.com/ofid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ofid/ofaf151/8071844"><strong>bloodstream infections</strong></a> in patients in a burns intensive care unit: an eight-year retrospective study(OFID)</li> <li>Prophylactic vancomycin in the primary prevention of <a href= "https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/tid.70025?campaign=wolearlyview"><strong>clostridium difficile</strong></a> in allogeneic stem cell transplant(Transplant Infectious Disease)</li> <li>Incidence of <a href= "https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2408645"><strong>scrub typhus</strong></a> in rural south India (NEJM)</li> <li>Antibiotic treatment for <a href= "https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2404991?query=TOC&cid=DM2391520_Non_Subscriber&bid=-1435261390"><strong>7 versus 14 days</strong></a> in patients with bloodstream infections(NEJM)</li> <li>Blood <a href= "https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/JAHA.124.040218?utm_campaign=sciencenews24-25&utm_source=science-news&utm_medium=phd-link&utm_content=phd-03-17-25&s=09"><strong>Culture–Negative</strong></a> Endocarditis(Journal of the American Heart Association)</li> <li><a href= "https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/31/4/24-1721_article"><strong> Brucella suis</strong></a> Infection in Cardiac Implantable Device of Man Exposed to Feral Swine Meat, Florida, USA (CDC Emerging Infectious Diseases)</li> <li>Hyperbilirubinemia at hospitalization <a href= "https://journals.lww.com/hepcomm/fulltext/2025/04010/hyperbilirubinemia_at_hospitalization_predicts.3.aspx?context=latestarticles"><strong>predicts</strong></a> nosocomial infection in decompensated cirrhosis (Hepatology Communicatons)</li> <li><strong>Fungal</strong></li> <li><a href= "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48WJNnNefvI"><strong>The Last of US Season 2</strong></a> (YouTube)</li> <li>Fungal Infections in People Who <a href= "https://academic.oup.com/ofid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ofid/ofaf107/8037793#google_vignette%22"><strong>Use Drugs</strong></a> (OFID)</li> <li>IDSA 2025 guideline update on the treatment of asymptomatic <a href= "https://www.idsociety.org/practice-guideline/histoplasmosis-2025/?utm_source=MarketingCloud&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=03192025+IDSA+News&utm_content=IDSA+guideline+on+histoplasmosis+management"><strong>histoplasma</strong></a> pulmonary nodules (histoplasmomas) and mild or moderate acute pulmonary histoplasmosis in adults, children, and pregnant people(IDSA: Infectisous Disease Society of America)</li> <li>Changing trends in the sources and volumes of clinical cultures with <a href= "https://www.ajicjournal.org/article/S0196-6553(25)00114-2/abstract"><strong>Candida auris</strong></a> at a large health system, 2019-2023 (American Journal of Infection Control)</li> <li>Diagnostic test accuracy of the Fungitell serum (1→3)-β-D-glucan assay for the diagnosis of <a href= "https://www.clinicalmicrobiologyandinfection.com/article/S1198-743X(24)00530-5/fulltext"><strong>Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia</strong></a>: a systematic review and meta-analysis (CMI: Clinical Microbiology and Infection)</li> <li><strong>Parasitic</strong></li> <li>Impact of <a href= "https://academic.oup.com/ofid/article/12/3/ofaf009/8069334?utm_source=advanceaccess&utm_campaign=ofid&utm_medium=email#google_vignette"><strong>Strongyloides stercoralis</strong></a> Coinfection on Disease Severity and Treatment Outcomes in Pulmonary Tuberculosis (OFID)</li> <li>Hematology thin smears perform equally to parasitology thick and thin blood smears for the diagnosis of <a href= "https://journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.1128/jcm.01601-24"><strong>Plasmodium and Babesia</strong></a> infections in a low prevalence setting (Journal of Clinical Microbiology)</li> <li>Notes from the Field: Rhodesiense Human African Trypanosomiasis (<a href= "https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/74/wr/mm7409a3.htm?s_cid=mm7409a3_e&ACSTrackingID=USCDC_921-DM145966&ACSTrackingLabel=This%20Week%20in%20MMWR%3A%20Vol.%2074%2C%20March%2020%2C%202025&deliveryName=USCDC_921-DM145966"><strong>Sleeping Sickness</strong></a>) in a Traveler Returning from Zimbabwe — United States, August 2024 (CDC: MMWR)</li> <li><strong>Miscellaneous</strong></li> <li>The history of <a href= "https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(25)00210-5/abstract?dgcid=raven_jbs_aip_email"><strong>phage therapy</strong></a> LANCET: Infectious Diseases)</li> <li><a href= "https://academic.oup.com/cid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/cid/ciaf155/8092436"> <strong>Silence</strong></a>=death redux: infectious diseases, public health, and the imperative to resist (CID)</li> <li><a href= "https://wojfound.org/biblio/silence-death-1990/"><strong>Silence = Death, 1990</strong></a>(David Wojnarowicz Foundation)</li> <li><a href= "https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/objects/159258"><strong>SILENCE=DEATH</strong></a> (B200KLYN Museaum)</li> </ul> <p>Music is by <a href= "http://www.ronaldjenkees.com/"><strong>Ronald Jenkees</strong></a></p> <p>Information on this podcast should not be considered as medical advice.</p>
March 19, 2025
<p>On episode #76 of the Infectious Disease Puscast, Daniel and Sara review the infectious disease literature for the weeks of 2/27/25 – 3/12/25.</p> <div class="fluid-width-video-wrapper">Hosts: <a title="" href="http://www.parasiteswithoutborders.com/"><strong>Daniel Griffin</strong></a> and <a href= "https://febrilepodcast.com/about-us/"><strong>Sara Dong</strong></a></div> <p>Subscribe (free): <strong><a href= "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/infectious-disease-podcast/id1622649470"> Apple Podcasts</a>, <a href= "https://feeds.libsyn.com/413927/rss">RSS</a></strong>, email</p> <p>Become a <a href= "https://www.microbe.tv/contribute">patron</a> of Puscast!</p> <h3 id="links-for-this-episode" class="wp-block-heading"> <strong>Links for this episode</strong></h3> <ul class="wp-block-list"> <li><strong>Viral</strong></li> <li>Trends in respiratory <a href= "https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2831081"><strong>pathogen testing</strong></a> at us children’s hospitals (JAMA Network)</li> <li>Changes in <a href= "https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2831086"><strong>respiratory viral testing</strong></a> before and after the covid-19 pandemic(JAMA Network)</li> <li>Expanding measles outbreak in the United States and <a href= "https://www.cdc.gov/han/2025/han00522.html"><strong>guidance</strong></a> for the upcoming travel season (CDC Emergerncy Preparedness and Response)</li> <li>Measles <a href= "https://www.cdc.gov/measles/data-research/index.html"><strong>cases and outbreaks</strong></a> (CDC Measles (Rubeola))</li> <li><a href= "https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(25)00164-1/fulltext?dgcid=raven_jbs_aip_email"> <strong>Facts and myths</strong></a> about measles (LANCET: Infectious Diseases)</li> <li>Protective effects of <a href= "https://academic.oup.com/jid/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/infdis/jiaf105/8046239?redirectedFrom=fulltext&utm_source=advanceaccess&utm_campaign=jid&utm_medium=email"><strong>recombinant zoster vaccine</strong></a> and antiviral therapy against cardiovascular disease following herpes zoster infection (JID)</li> <li><a href= "https://www.cdc.gov/chikungunya/hcp/vaccine/index.html?mtm_source=25#cdc_generic_section_3-vaccine-immunogenicity-and-side-effects"> <strong>Chikungunya vaccine</strong></a> information for healthcare providers (CDC Chikungunya Virus)</li> <li><a href= "https://www.cdc.gov/chikungunya/media/pdfs/2024/05/Chikungunya-vaccine-risk-factors-508.pdf"> <strong>Factors to assess</strong></a> when considering use of chikungunya vaccine(CDC)</li> <li><strong>Bacterial</strong></li> <li>Should patients hospitalized for<a href= "https://journals.lww.com/americantherapeutics/abstract/2025/04000/should_patients_hospitalized_for.3.aspx"><strong>community-acquired pneumonia</strong></a> be treated with additional antimicrobial agents directed against anaerobes? (American Journal of Therapeutics)</li> <li>Antibiotic-induced loss of <a href= "https://ashpublications.org/blood/article-abstract/145/8/823/518296/Antibiotic-induced-loss-of-gut-microbiome?redirectedFrom=fulltext"><strong>gut microbiome</strong></a> metabolic output correlates with clinical responses to CAR T-cell therapy(Blood)</li> <li>Effectiveness of <a href= "https://academic.oup.com/ofid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ofid/ofaf133/8052889?utm_source=advanceaccess&utm_campaign=ofid&utm_medium=email"><strong>ampicillin/sulbactam versus ceftriaxone</strong></a> for the initial treatment of community-acquired pneumonia in older adults: a target trial emulation study(OFID)</li> <li><a href= "https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2405404"><strong>Male-partner treatment</strong></a> to prevent recurrence of bacterial vaginosis(NEJM)</li> <li><strong>Fungal</strong></li> <li><a href= "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48WJNnNefvI"><strong>The Last of US Season 2</strong></a> (YouTube)</li> <li>Activity of <a href= "https://academic.oup.com/ofid/article/12/3/ofae702/8047337?utm_source=advanceaccess&utm_campaign=ofid&utm_medium=email"><strong>rezafungin against echinocandin</strong></a> non–wild type candida glabrata clinical isolates from a global surveillance program (OFID)</li> <li>Are <a href= "https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00134-025-07793-5"><strong>contemporary antifungal</strong></a> doses sufficient for critically ill patients? Outcomes from an international, multicenter pharmacokinetics study for Screening Antifungal Exposure in Intensive Care Units—the SAFE-ICU study<strong> </strong>(Intensive Care Medicine)</li> <li><strong>Parasitic</strong></li> <li><a href= "https://www.clinicalmicrobiologyandinfection.com/article/S1198-743X(25)00099-0/fulltext?dgcid=raven_jbs_aip_email"> <strong>Human alveolar echinococcosis</strong></a> – global, regional and national annual incidence and prevalence rates (CMI: Clinical Microbiology and Infection)</li> <li>Dust to Diagnosis – with <a href= "https://febrilepodcast.com/episodes/"><strong>MSGERC</strong></a> (FEBRILE)</li> <li>The clinical picture caused by <a href= "https://academic.oup.com/ofid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ofid/ofaf116/8051877?utm_source=advanceaccess&utm_campaign=ofid&utm_medium=email"><strong>Fasciola gigantica:</strong></a> Analysis of 3,250 patients along the 1995–2019 countrywide spread in Vietnam (OFID)</li> <li><strong>Miscellaneous</strong></li> <li>Reprint of: From medical editors: a call to the <a href= "https://www.clinicalmicrobiologyandinfection.com/article/S1198-743X(25)00081-3/fulltext"><strong>global infectious diseases</strong></a> and clinical microbiology community (CMI: Clinical Microbiology and Infection)</li> <li>A hot topic: A <a href= "https://academic.oup.com/ofid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ofid/ofaf080/8058630?utm_source=advanceaccess&utm_campaign=ofid&utm_medium=email&login=true"><strong>climate-focused</strong></a> track for infectious disease fellowship (OFID)</li> <li>Are we being gaslit? A primer for recognizing corporate jargon to overcome <a href= "https://academic.oup.com/cid/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/cid/ciaf097/8056053?redirectedFrom=fulltext"><strong>gaslighting</strong></a> for the infectious disease workforce (CID)</li> </ul> <p>Music is by <a href= "http://www.ronaldjenkees.com/"><strong>Ronald Jenkees</strong></a></p> <p>Information on this podcast should not be considered as medical advice.</p>
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Society of Infectious Diseases Pharmacists
Vincent Racaniello
Vincent Racaniello
Vincent Racaniello
Vincent Racaniello
Vincent Racaniello
American College of Physicians
Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA)
JAMA Network
NEJM Group
Infectious Disease: Insights of Two Specialists
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