Infectious Disease Puscast #112

On episode #112 of the Infectious Disease Puscast, Daniel reviews the infectious disease literature for the weeks of 7/20 – 8/3/26.
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Links for this episode • Viral
• The genomic identity of early smallpox in South America (Science)
• Telltale DNA: First direct evidence found that the Spanish (cidrap.umn.edu/telltale-dna-first-direct-evide…)brought smallpox to the Inca (CIDRAP)
• Phase 3 Trial of Weekly Oral Islatravir–Lenacapavir for HIV-1 Treatment (NEJM)
• Early Transcriptional Signature in Chikungunya PredictsChronic Arthralgia and Reveals Deficient Antiviral Response (JID)
• Bacterial
• IDSA 2026 Guidance on the Treatment of Antimicrobial Resistant Gram-Negative Infections (IDSA)
• Doxycycline in the treatment of outpatient mild community-acquired pneumonia: a propensity-matched retrospective cohort study (CMI: Clinical Microbiology and Infection)
• Detection of pathogens in the gut microbiome priorto bloodstream infection in children with acute myeloid leukemia or mature B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma (Journal of Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society)
• Fungal
• The Last of US Season 2 (YouTube)
• Active Surveillance for Invasive Mold Disease — Four Hospitals, Atlanta, Georgia, 2020–2024 (CDC: MMWR)
• Does the Evidence Support High-Dose Liposomal Amphotericin B in the Treatment of Mucormycosis? (JID)
• Miscellaneous
• Evaluation of the impact of a novel surgical handwashing method on reformation of microbial flora on surgeons' hands (Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology)
• Association Between First MMR Vaccination Before Age 2 Years and Childhood Autism in a U.S. EHR Cohort of 2.5 Million Children (Journal of Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society)
Music is by Ronald Jenkees
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