Infectious Disease Puscast #3

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 Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of Puscast! 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) Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees Send your questions for Puscast to [email protected]