Infectious Disease Puscast #17

On episode #17 of the Infectious Disease Puscast, Daniel and Sara review the infectious disease literature for the previous two weeks, 11/24/22 – 12/8/22.

Hosts: Daniel Griffin and Sara Dong

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Links for this episode

• Antiretroviral drugs for treatment and prevention of HIV infection in adults (JAMA)
• Outcomes of short versus long duration of antibiotic therapy for residual osteomyelitis in diabetic foot infection (Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy)
• Rectal culture-based versus empirical antibiotic prophylaxis to prevent infectious complications in men undergoing transrectal prostate biopsy (CID)
• Outbreak of Burkholderia stabilis infections associated with contaminated nonsterile multiuse ultrasound gel (CDC)
• Factors associated with receiving longer than recommended therapy among culture-negative pulmonary tuberculosis patients (OFID)
• Seasonality of healthcare-associated Stenotrophomonas maltophilia (ASHE)
• Rezafungin versus caspofungin for treatment of candidaemia and invasive candidiasis (The Lancet)
• Characteristics of antifungal utilization for hospitalized children in the United States (ASHE)
• Cutaneous blastomycosis presenting as a nonhealing wound (NIH)
• Evaluation of the diagnostic accuracy and clinical utility of fungla profile (OFID)
• Parasitic infection increases risk-taking in a social, intermediate host carnivore (Nature)
• Efficacy and safety of acoziborole in patients with human African trypanosomiasis caused by Trypanosoma brucei gambiense (The Lancet)
• Simple nodular cutaneous Leishmaniasis caused by Autochthonous Leishmania orientalis (AJTMH)
• Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases (NEJM)

Music is by Ronald Jenkees