Infectious Disease Puscast #5

Infectious Disease Puscast - A podcast by Vincent Racaniello - Tuesdays

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On episode #5 of the Infectious Disease Puscast, Daniel and Sara review the infectious disease literature for the previous two weeks, 6/8/22 – 6/22/22. Host: Daniel Griffin Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of Puscast! Links for this episode Effect of testing for respiratory pathogens on antibiotic use of children (JAMA) Outbreak of hepatitis in children (Intensive Care Medicine) Leptospirosis in retirees in rural areas (IDSA) Comparing Ceftolozane/Tazobactam to standard of care in the management of neutropenia and fever in patients with hematological malignancies (IDSA) Development of an electronic algorithm to target outpatient antimicrobial stewardship efforts for acute bronchitis and pharyngitis (IDSA) Compassionate-use of phages in twenty patients with drug-resistant mycobacterial disease (CID) Microbial Cell-Free DNA Identifies the Causative Pathogen in Infective Endocarditis (CID) The source of the Black Death in fourteenth-century central Eurasia (Nature) Noninvasive Testing and Surrogate Markers in Invasive Fungal Diseases (OFID) WHO guideline for the treatment of visceral leishmaniasis in HIV co-infected patients (WHO) Broad antimicrobial resistance in a case of relapsing babesiosis successfully treated with tafenoquine (CID) Human Filariasis in Travelers and Migrants (CID)  Therapeutic hyperthermia is associated with improved survival in afebrile critically ill patients with sepsis (Critical Care Medicine) Does a school-based intervention to engage parents change opportunity for handwashing with soap at home? (PLOS NTD) Infectious diseases compensation in the USA (The Lancet) Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees