Infectious Disease Puscast #78

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.
Hosts: Daniel Griffin (parasiteswithoutborders.com) and Sara Dong Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, RSS, email
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Links for this episode • Viral
• Demise of the Milwaukee protocol for rabies (CID)
• A natural experiment on the effect of herpes zoster vaccination on dementia (Nature)
• Taking a shot at dementia(microbeTV: TWiV)
• Recommendations from the 10th European Conference on Infections in Leukaemia for the management of cytomegalovirusin patients after allogeneic haematopoietic cell transplantation and other T-cell-engaging therapies (LANCET: Infectious Diseases)
• Epstein-Barr virus exposure precedes Crohn`s disease development (Gastroenterology aga)
• Bacterial
• Blujepa (gepotidacin) 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)
• GSK wins FDA nod for first oral UTI antibiotic in almost 30 years(BioSpace)
• Efficacy and safety of individualised versus standard 10-day antibiotic treatment in children with febrile urinary tract infection (INDI-UTI): a pragmatic, open-label, multicentre, randomised, controlled, non-inferiority trial in Denmark (LANCET: Infectious Diseases)
• Frequency and severity of Myasthenia Gravis exacerbations associated with the use of ciprofloxacin, levofloxacin, and azithromycin (Muscle & Nerve)
• The cost of blood cultures: a barrier to diagnosis in low-income and middle-income countries
• (LANCET: Microbe)
• Rethinking blood culture (LANCET: Microbe)
• Trends in Anaplasmosis Over the Past Decade: A Review of Clinical Features, Laboratory Data and Outcomes(CID)
• Fungal
• The Last of US Season 2 (YouTube)
• Cracks in the curriculum: the hidden deficiencies in fungal disease coverage in medical books (OFID)
• Kazachstania slooffiae fungemia: a case report and literature review on an emerging opportunistic pathogen in humans (OFID)
• Plasma microbial cell-free DNS metagenomic sequencing for diagnosis of invasive fungal diseases among high risk outpatient and inpatient immunocompromised hosts (CID)
• Parasitic
• Fatal Case of Splash Pad–Associated Naegleria fowleri Meningoencephalitis — Pulaski County, Arkansas, September 2023 (CDC: MMWR)
• Notes from the Field: Fatal Acanthamoeba Encephalitis 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)
• Malaria (NEJM)
• Miscellaneous
• FDA grants marketing authorization of first home test for chlamydia, gonorrhea and trichomoniasis (FDA)
Music is by Ronald Jenkees
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