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