Infectious Disease Puscast #42

On episode #42 of the Infectious Disease Puscast, Daniel and Sara review the infectious disease literature for the weeks of 11/09 – 11/21/23. Host: Daniel Griffin and Sara Dong Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of Puscast! Links for this episode Progress toward measles elimination (CDC) Slaying the troll of transplantation (TID) Association between the neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio and adverse outcomes in children aged Pre-exposure prophylaxis use history in people with antiretroviral resistance at HIV diagnosis (CID) Impact of the 2019 FDA guidance for uncomplicated UTI on treatment response rates (OFID) CDC Guidelines for the prevention and treatment of anthrax (CDC) Contemporary use of cefazolin for MSSA infective endocarditis (IJID) Is carbapenem therapy necessary for treatment of non-CTX-M ESBL-producing Enterobacterales bloodstream infections (CID) Infectious diseases consultation associated with reduced mortality in gram-negative Bacteremia (CID) Contemporary management of Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia (CID) Tuning sterol extraction kinetics yields a renal-sparing polyene antifungal (Nature) Impact of in-house Candida auris PCR screening on admission on the incidence rates of surveillance and blood cultures with C. auris and associated cost savings (OFID) Human lobomycosis caused by Paracoccidioides loboi (EID) Molecular surveillance detects high prevalence of the neglected parasite Mansonella ozzardi (JID) Efficacy and safety of moxidectin compared with ivermectin against Strongyloides stercoralis infection in adults (The Lancet) Efficacy of bortezomib for treating anti-interferon-gamma autoantibody-associated adult-onset immunodeficiency (AOID) syndrome (CID) Investigational non-antibiotic therapeutics for infections in hematopoietic cell transplant recipients and patients with hematologic malignancies receiving cellular therapies (TID) Black box warning: large language models and the future of infectious diseases consultations (CID) Music is by Ronald Jenkees