On episode #53 of the Infectious Disease Puscast, Daniel and Sara review the infectious disease literature for the weeks of 4/11 – 4/24/24.

Hosts: Daniel Griffin and Sara Dong

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Links for this episode

• Viral
• Reasons for what we do for routine respiratory pathogens (Journal of Hospital Medicine)
• Acute cardiac events due to RSV infection (JAMA Internal Medicine)
• Antiretroviral drugs and weight change (CID)
• What do antibiotics do for acute lower respiratory tract infection (Journal of General Internal Medicine)
• Guidelines for managing BK polyomavirus in kidney transplantation (Transplant)
• Bacterial
• Understanding Yersinia enterocolitica epidemiology(OFID)
• Medtronic duet external ventricular drain infections(MMWR)
• Who is more expensive daptomycin or vancomycin (OFID)
• Fungal
• Coccidioidomycosis related hospital visits (Emerging Infectious Diseases)
• Parasitic
• Leech in oropharynx of a 2-year old leads to anemia (AJTMH)
• The real use of ivermectin: treatment of strongyloidiasis (AJTHM)
• Miscellaneous
• Sporadic CJD in hunters? (Neurology)
• Where are all the infectious disease doctors? (OFID)
• Not interested in infectious diseases? Seriously! (CID)

Music is by Ronald Jenkees