Infectious Disease Puscast #98

On episode #98 of the Infectious Disease Puscast, Daniel reviews the infectious disease literature for the weeks of 1/1/26 – 1/14/26.

Host: Daniel Griffin

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Links for this episode

• Viral
• Rhinovirus-Associated Lower Respiratory Tract Infection in Hospitalized Adult Patients: A Retrospective Cohort Study (JID)
• Demise of the Milwaukee Protocol for Rabies (CID)
• Reply to Willoughby on Demise of the Milwaukee Protocol for Rabies (CID)
• Bacterial
• Clinical Practice Guideline by Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA): 2025 Guideline on Management and Treatment of Complicated Urinary Tract Infections: Introduction and Methods (CID)
• Reassessing the 2023 International Society for Cardiovascular Infectious Diseases Duke clinical criteria for infective endocarditis: Impact of excluding fever and updating diagnostic definition (CID)
• The diagnostic accuracy of procalcitonin for community-acquired bacteremia: an updated systematic review and meta-analysis (CMI: Clincal Microbiology and Infection)
• Noninferiority of One HPV Vaccine Dose to TwoDoses (NEJM)
• About the wastewater program (Colorado: Department of Public & Environment)
• Notes from the Field: Wastewater Surveillance for Measles Virus During a Measles Outbreak — Colorado, August 2025 (CDC: MMWR)
• Notes from the Field: Retrospective Analysis of Wild-Type Measles Virus in Wastewater During a Measles Outbreak — Oregon, March 24–September 22, 2024 (CDC:MMWR)
• Fungal
• The Last of US Season 2 (YouTube)
• Candidozyma auris (formerly Candida auris): Resistant, long-lasting, and everywhere (CMI: Clincal Microbiology and Infection)
• Long-range air dispersal as an important source of environmental contamination in Candida auris clustering: possible infection control implication (Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology)
• Parasitic
• Dermlite Dermatoscopes (dermatoscopes.com)
• Oral ivermectin versus 5% permethrin cream to treat children and adults with classic scabies: multicentre, assessor blinded, cluster randomised clinical trials (BMJ)

Music is by Ronald Jenkees

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