Infectious Disease Puscast #3

Infectious Disease Puscast

On the third episode of the Infectious Disease Puscast, Daniel and Sara review the infectious disease literature for the previous two weeks, 5/11/22 – 5/25/22.

Hosts: Daniel Griffin and Sara Dong

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Links for this episode

• Monkeypox Virus Infection in the United States and Other Non-endemic Countries—2022 (CDC)
• Monkeypox course (WHO)
• Monkeypox on TWiV 902 and TWiV Special
• Progress Toward Polio Eradication — Worldwide, January 2020–April 2022 (MMWR)
• Capsid Inhibition with Lenacapavir in Multidrug-Resistant HIV-1 Infection (NEJM)
• Rabies in a Dog Imported from Azerbaijan — Pennsylvania, 2021 (MMWR)
• Burden, clinical characteristics, risk factors, and seasonality of adenovirus 40/41 diarrhea in children in eight low-resource settings (Open For Inf Dis)
• Comparison of 8 vs 15 days of antibiotic therapy for Pseudomonas aeruginosaventilator-associated pneumonia in adults (Intensive Care Med)
• High prevalence of Pseudomonas aeruginosa carriage in residents of French and German long-term care facilities (Clin Micro Inf)
• Antibiotic treatment duration for community acquired pneumonia in outpatient children in high-income countries – a systematic review and meta-analysis (Clin Inf Dis)
• Follow-up Blood Culture Practices for Gram-Negative Bloodstream Infections in Immunocompromised Hosts at a Large Academic Medical Center (Open For Inf Dis)
• Meningococcal disease and immunization activities in Hajj and Umrah Pilgrimage: a review (Inf Dis Therapy)
• Treatment with reduced dose trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole is effective in mild to moderate Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia in patients with hematologic malignancies (Clin Inf Dis)
• Occupational risk of cutaneous larva migrans: A case report and a systematic literature review (PLoS NTD)
• Quinacrine Treatment of Nitroimidazole-Refractory Giardiasis (JID)
• Diagnosis and management of infective endocarditis in people who inject drugs(JACC)
• A mechanistic model of snakebite as a zoonosis: Envenoming incidence is driven by snake ecology, socioeconomics and its impacts on snakes (PLoS NTD)
• Strategies to prevent central-line associated bloodstream infections in acute-care hospitals (Infection Control & Hosp Epi)
• Strategies to prevent ventilator-associated pneumonia, ventilator-associated events, and nonventilator hospital-acquired pneumonia in acute care hospitals (Infection Control & Hosp Epi)
• Use of benznidazole to treat chronic Chagas disease: An updated systematic review with a meta-analysis (PLoS NTD)
• Chagas Disease: The New HIV/AIDS of the Americas (PLoS NTD)
• Digital Strategy and Social Media in Infectious Diseases (Clin Inf Dis)

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