Infectious Disease Puscast #115

On episode #115 of the Infectious Disease Puscast, Daniel and Sara review the infectious disease literature for the weeks of 9/1 – 9/14/26.

Hosts: Daniel Griffin and Sara Dong

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Links for this episode

• Viral
• Immunogenicity of fractional one-fifth and one-half doses of 17DD yellow fever vaccine compared with full dose in children aged 9–23 months in Uganda: a phase 4, single-blind, randomised clinical trial (The LANCET)
• Early Antiviral Therapy in Pediatric Outpatients and Risk of Influenza-Related Hospitalization (Pediatrics)
• Beyond Koplik spots: aphthous-like ulcers as a novel enanthem in adolescent and adult measles (CMI: Clinical Microbiology and Infection)
• Bacterial
• A Ten-Year Trend of Antimicrobial Resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa From United States Medical Centers: Results From the INFORM Surveillance Program (2015–2024)(OFID)
• A Scenario-Based Survey of Clinician Recommendations for Follow-up Blood Cultures in Patients with Varying Risk of Persistent Gram-Negative Bacteremia (OFID)
• Should valve leaflet thickening be considered a characteristic lesion of infective endocarditis? (CID)
• Infective Endocarditis: Diagnosis, Antibiotic Therapy, and Management: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association (AHA|ASA: Circulation)
• IDSA/ESCMID 2026 Consensus Statements on Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia: Risk Stratification, Diagnostic Evaluation, and Management of Adults and Children (IDSA)
• Relationship between Antibiotic Prescription and Survival in Hospice (CID)
• Performance and Projected Impact of Synovial Fluid Polymerase Chain Reaction Testing for Patients Evaluated for Septic Arthritis (CID)
• Cefepime versus piperacillin-tazobactam for the treatment of Pseudomonas aeruginosa pneumonia (CID)
• Cefepime and Mortality A Systematic Review and Bayesian Meta-Analysis (JAMA: OPEN Network)
• Global and regional burden of colorectal cancer potentially related to Helicobacter pylori exposure: a risk attribution modelling study (BMJ Journals: eGastroenterology)
• A randomized controlled trial of cefiderocol versus standard therapy for Gram-negative bacterial bloodstream infections: Benefit and risk assessment using DOOR and generalized pairwise comparisons (CID)
• Fungal
• The Last of US Season 2 (YouTube)
• No survival benefit associated with antifungal therapy for respiratory Candida spp.: a single-center retrospective cohort study (OFID)
• The Role of 1-3-Beta-D-Glucan in Predicting Pneumocystis jirovecii Pneumonia in Immunocompromised Children (Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society)
• Parasitic
• Miscellaneous
• Vaccination Coverage Among Adolescents Aged 13–17 Years — National Immunization Survey-Teen, United States, 2025 (CDC:MMWR)

Music is by Ronald Jenkees

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