Infectious Disease Puscast #113

On episode #113 of the Infectious Disease Puscast, Daniel and Sara review the infectious disease literature for the weeks of 8/4 – 8/17/26. Hosts: Daniel Griffin and Sara Dong Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of Puscast! Links for this episode Viral Two-year durability of MVA-BN vaccine-induced antibodies and the risk of Mpox breakthrough infections among high-risk populations: a prospective, longitudinal study (CMI: Clinial Microbiology and Infection) Notes from the Field: Potential Infant HIV Exposure from Donated Breast Milk Received Through Social Media — Santa Clara County, California, May 2025–January 2026 (CDC: MMWR) Bacterial Associations Between QuantiFERON-TB Gold Plus IFNγ Concentrations and Progression to Symptomatic Tuberculosis in Global High-Burden TB Settings (OFID) Cefadroxil as Oral Transitional Therapy for Gram-Positive Bacteremia With or Without Non-Vertebral Osteomyelitis: A Multicenter Retrospective Cohort Study (OFID) Efficacy of beta-lactam monotherapy versus clindamycin or addition of metronidazole in peritonsillar abscess – an observational cohort study with a focus on Fusobacterium necrophorum (CMI: Clinial Microbiology and Infection) A novel RNA nucleic acid amplification test more accurately distinguishes active Clostridioides difficile infection from colonization (CID) The Clean Margin in Diabetic Foot Osteomyelitis: Conceptual Appeal, Practical Uncertainty (CID) Rising Incidence of New Delhi Metallo-β-Lactamase–Producing Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacterales, 10 US Sites, 2018–2023 (OFID) Association of anti-anaerobic antibiotics with mortality and the gut microbiome: a sub-study of the BALANCE randomized clinical trial (CID) Fungal The Last of US Season 2 (YouTube) Coccidioidomycosis Testing Among Patients Hospitalized With Community-Acquired Pneumonia (OFID) Parasitic Human Myiasis Resulting from Reemergence of Cochliomyia hominivorax Screwworm, Mexico, 2025–2026 (Emerging Infectious Diseases) The origin, history, and resistance architecture of an invasive urban malaria mosquito in Africa (Science) Clinical, molecular, and in vitro evidence of artemisinin partial resistance in Ethiopian Plasmodium falciparum: a prospective, multisite, surveillance (LANCET: Infectious Diseases) Miscellaneous What's in a Name? Etymology and History of Antibacterials and Antifungal (IOFID) Music is by Ronald Jenkees Information on this podcast should not be considered as medical advice.