Infectious Disease Puscast #5

On episode #5 of the Infectious Disease Puscast, Daniel and Sara review the infectious disease literature for the previous two weeks, 6/8/22 – 6/22/22.

Host: Daniel Griffin

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• Effect of testing for respiratory pathogens on antibiotic use of children (JAMA)
• Outbreak of hepatitis in children (Intensive Care Medicine)
• Leptospirosis in retirees in rural areas (IDSA)
• Comparing Ceftolozane/Tazobactam to standard of care in the management of neutropenia and fever in patients with hematological malignancies (IDSA)
• Development of an electronic algorithm to target outpatient antimicrobial stewardship efforts for acute bronchitis and pharyngitis (IDSA)
• Compassionate-use of phages in twenty patients with drug-resistant mycobacterial disease (CID)
• Microbial Cell-Free DNA Identifies the Causative Pathogen in Infective Endocarditis (CID)
• The source of the Black Death in fourteenth-century central Eurasia (Nature)
• Noninvasive Testing and Surrogate Markers in Invasive Fungal Diseases (OFID)
• WHO guideline for the treatment of visceral leishmaniasis in HIV co-infected patients (WHO)
• Broad antimicrobial resistance in a case of relapsing babesiosis successfully treated with tafenoquine (CID)
• Human Filariasis in Travelers and Migrants (CID) 
• Therapeutic hyperthermia is associated with improved survival in afebrile critically ill patients with sepsis (Critical Care Medicine)
• Does a school-based intervention to engage parents change opportunity for handwashing with soap at home? (PLOS NTD)
• Infectious diseases compensation in the USA (The Lancet)

Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees