On episode #66 of the Infectious Disease Puscast, Daniel and Sara review the infectious disease literature for the weeks of 10/8 – 10/23/24.

Host: Daniel Griffin and Sara Dong

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Viral
Prevalence of Human Papillomavirus (HPV) and HPV Type Distribution in Penile Samples in Young Men in Denmark: Results 10 Years After Implementation of a Girls-Only HPV Vaccination Program (JID)
Primary Care Guidance for Providers of Care for Persons With Human Immunodeficiency Virus: 2024 Update by the HIV Medicine Association of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (CID)
Bacterial
Adjunctive linezolid versus clindamycin for toxin inhibition in β-lactam-treated patients with invasive group A streptococcal infections in 195 US hospitals from 2016 to 2021: a retrospective cohort study with target trial emulation (LANCET: Infectious Diseases)
Time to turn off the toxins: adjuvant suppression of group A streptococcus (LANCET: Infectious Diseases)
Comparing rates of recurrent infection for first occurrence of Clostridioides difficile between tapered oral vancomycin and standard vancomycin: a retrospective, propensity matched cohort study(Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology)
Evaluation of primary oral vancomycin prophylaxis against C. difficile infection during autologous stem cell transplantation (OFID)
Oral Vancomycin to Prevent C. difficile in Stem Cell Transplant Recipients: The last frontier in antimicrobial prophylaxis (OFID)
First Report of a Fatal Septicemia Case Caused by Vibrio metoecus: A Comprehensive Functional and Genomic Study (JID)
Fungal
The Last of US Season 2 (YouTube)
A global chromoblastomycosis strategy and development of the global chromoblastomycosis working group(PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases)
Epidemiological and clinical features of a large blastomycosis outbreak at a paper mill in Michigan (CID)
Do morphogenetic switching and intraspecies variation enhance virulence of Candida auris?
(PLoS Pathogens)
Parasitic
Beyond Human Babesiosis: Prevalence and Association of Babesia Coinfection with Mortality in the United States, 2015–2022: A Retrospective Cohort Study (OFID)
New WHO guidelines for treating rhodesiense human African trypanosomiasis: expanded indications for fexinidazole and pentamidine (LANCET: Infectious Diseases)
Miscellaneous
Social and Environmental Benefitsof Pediatric Infectious Disease Telemedicine (Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society)

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Infectious Disease Puscast #66

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