On episode #95 of the Infectious Disease Puscast, Daniel and Sara review the infectious disease literature for the weeks of 11/20/25 – 12/3/25. Host: Daniel Griffin and Sara Dong Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of Puscast! Links for this episode Viral Early low-dose dexamethasone is associated with shorter acute symptom duration in Chikungunya virus infection: a retrospective cohort study (BMC Infectious Diseases) Noninferiority of
On episode #95 of the Infectious Disease Puscast, Daniel and Sara review the infectious disease literature for the weeks of 11/20/25 – 12/3/25.
Host: Daniel Griffin and Sara Dong
Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, RSS, email
Become a patron of Puscast!
Links for this episode - Viral
- Early low-dose dexamethasone is associated with shorter acute symptom duration in Chikungunya virus infection: a retrospective cohort study (BMC Infectious Diseases)
- Noninferiority of One HPV Vaccine Dose to Two Doses (NEJM)
- Evidence to Action — Single-Dose HPV Vaccination and Cervical HPV Infection (NEJM)
- Daily Mosnodenvir as Dengue Prophylaxis in a Controlled Human InfectionModel (NEJM)
- Universal Hepatitis B Vaccination at Birth—Risks of Revising the recommendation (JAMA)
- Correlates of HIV-1 control after combination immunotherapy (Nature)
- Human-to-Human Rabies Transmission via Solid Organ Transplantation from a Donor with Undiagnosed Rabies — United States, October 2024–February 2025 (CDC: MMWR)
- Cytomegalovirus-specific cell-mediated immunity for prediction of post-prophylaxis CMV disease in a phase 3 trial of letermovir vs valganciclovir prophylaxis in donor CMV-seropositive recipient CMV-seronegative kidney transplant recipients (CID)
- An Analysis of Cytomegalovirus-Specific Cell-Mediated Immunity in a Phase 3, Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Trial of Letermovir Prophylaxis in Cytomegalovirus-Seropositive Recipients of an Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplant (CID)
- Bacterial
- Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) Position Statement: Why IDSA Did Not Endorse the Community-Acquired Pneumonia Guidelines 2025 Update (CID)
- Lyme DiseaseIncidence in Massachusetts, 2012-2024 (JAMA: Open Network)
- Fungal
- The Last of US Season 2 (YouTube)
- Aspergillosis-Attributable Mortality in the United States: Analysis of Death CertificateData (CID)
- Oral itraconazole versus oral voriconazole for treatment-naive patients with chronic pulmonary aspergillosis in India (VICTOR-CPA trial): a single-centre, open-label, randomised, controlled, superiority trial (LANCET: Infectious Diseases)
- Parasitic
- Loa loa encephalopathy following treatment with benzimidazole derivatives: A systematic review (OFID)
Music is by Ronald Jenkees
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