Infectious Disease Puscast #77

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.
Hosts: Daniel Griffin (parasiteswithoutborders.com) and Sara Dong Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, RSS, email
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Links for this episode • Viral
• Food is medicine for human immunodeficiency virus: improved health and hospitalizations in the changing health through food support (chefs-hiv) pragmatic randomized trial (JID)
• The epidemiology and burden of human parainfluenza virus hospitalizations in u.s. children (Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society)
• Bacterial
• Epidemiology and outcomes of bloodstream infections in patients in a burns intensive care unit: an eight-year retrospective study(OFID)
• Prophylactic vancomycin in the primary prevention of clostridium difficile in allogeneic stem cell transplant(Transplant Infectious Disease)
• Incidence of scrub typhus in rural south India (NEJM)
• Antibiotic treatment for 7 versus 14 days in patients with bloodstream infections(NEJM)
• Blood Culture–Negative Endocarditis(Journal of the American Heart Association)
• Brucella suis Infection in Cardiac Implantable Device of Man Exposed to Feral Swine Meat, Florida, USA (CDC Emerging Infectious Diseases)
• Hyperbilirubinemia at hospitalization predicts nosocomial infection in decompensated cirrhosis (Hepatology Communicatons)
• Fungal
• The Last of US Season 2 (YouTube)
• Fungal Infections in People Who Use Drugs (OFID)
• IDSA 2025 guideline update on the treatment of asymptomatic histoplasma pulmonary nodules (histoplasmomas) and mild or moderate acute pulmonary histoplasmosis in adults, children, and pregnant people(IDSA: Infectisous Disease Society of America)
• Changing trends in the sources and volumes of clinical cultures with Candida auris at a large health system, 2019-2023 (American Journal of Infection Control)
• Diagnostic test accuracy of the Fungitell serum (1→3)-β-D-glucan assay for the diagnosis of Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia: a systematic review and meta-analysis (CMI: Clinical Microbiology and Infection)
• Parasitic
• Impact of Strongyloides stercoralis Coinfection on Disease Severity and Treatment Outcomes in Pulmonary Tuberculosis (OFID)
• Hematology thin smears perform equally to parasitology thick and thin blood smears for the diagnosis of Plasmodium and Babesia infections in a low prevalence setting (Journal of Clinical Microbiology)
• Notes from the Field: Rhodesiense Human African Trypanosomiasis (Sleeping Sickness) in a Traveler Returning from Zimbabwe — United States, August 2024 (CDC: MMWR)
• Miscellaneous
• The history of phage therapy LANCET: Infectious Diseases)
• Silence=death redux: infectious diseases, public health, and the imperative to resist (CID)
• Silence = Death, 1990(David Wojnarowicz Foundation)
• SILENCE=DEATH (B200KLYN Museaum)
Music is by Ronald Jenkees
Information on this podcast should not be considered as medical advice.