Infectious Disease Puscast #36

On episode #36 of the Infectious Disease Puscast, Daniel reviews the infectious disease literature for the weeks of 8/17 – 8/30/23. Host: Daniel Griffin Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of Puscast! Links for this episode Detection of rotavirus in respiratory specimens from children aged under 2 years hospitalized for acute gastroenteritis (JID) Risk of Bell’s palsy following SARS-CoV-2 infection (CMI) Evaluation and management of diabetes-related foot infections (CID) Impact of mandatory infectious disease specialist approval on Clostridioides difficile infection rates and testing appropriateness (CID) Role of cerebral imaging on diagnosis and management in patients with suspected infective endocarditis (CID) Identifying effective durations of antibiotic therapy for the treatment of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales bloodstream infections (CID) Impact on clinical outcome of follow-up blood cultures and risk factors for persistent bacteraemia (CMI) State-of-the-art review: Neurosyphilis (CID) Oritavancin compared to the standard of care for treatment of non-endovascular gram-positive bloodstream Infections (OFID) How to approach suppressive antibiotic therapy following debridement, antibiotics, and implant retention for prosthetic joint infection (CID) 2023 Duke-International Society for cardiovascular infectious diseases criteria for infective endocarditis (CID) Adjunctive diagnostic studies completed following detection of candidemia in children (JPIDS) Oral lipid nanocrystal amphotericin b for cryptococcal meningitis (CID) Efficacy of 23 commonly used liquid disinfectants against Candida auris (IC&HE) Burrow ink test for scabies (NEJM) Evolution of partial resistance to artemisinins in malaria parasites in Uganda (NEJM) Human neural larva migrans caused by Ophidascaris robertsi ascarid (EID) Music is by Ronald Jenkees