On episode #113 of the Infectious Disease Puscast, Daniel and Sara review the infectious disease literature for the weeks of 8/4 – 8/17/26. Hosts: Daniel Griffin and Sara Dong Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of Puscast! Links for this episode Viral Two-year durability of MVA-BN vaccine-induced antibodies and the risk of Mpox breakthrough infections among high-risk populations: a prospective, longitudinal study (CMI: Clinial Microbiology and Infection)...
On episode #113 of the Infectious Disease Puscast, Daniel and Sara review the infectious disease literature for the weeks of 8/4 – 8/17/26.
Hosts: Daniel Griffin and Sara Dong
Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, RSS, email
Become a patron of Puscast!
Links for this episode - Viral
- Two-year durability of MVA-BN vaccine-induced antibodies and the risk of Mpox breakthrough infections among high-risk populations: a prospective, longitudinal study (CMI: Clinial Microbiology and Infection)
- Notes from the Field: Potential Infant HIV Exposure from Donated Breast Milk Received Through Social Media — Santa Clara County, California, May 2025–January 2026 (CDC: MMWR)
- Bacterial
- Associations Between QuantiFERON-TB Gold Plus IFNγ Concentrations and Progression to Symptomatic Tuberculosis in Global High-Burden TB Settings (OFID)
- Cefadroxil as Oral Transitional Therapy for Gram-Positive Bacteremia With or Without Non-Vertebral Osteomyelitis: A Multicenter Retrospective Cohort Study (OFID)
- Efficacy of beta-lactam monotherapy versus clindamycin or addition of metronidazole in peritonsillar abscess – an observational cohort study with a focus on Fusobacterium necrophorum (CMI: Clinial Microbiology and Infection)
- A novel RNA nucleic acid amplification test more accurately distinguishes active Clostridioides difficile infection from colonization (CID)
- The Clean Margin in Diabetic Foot Osteomyelitis: Conceptual Appeal, Practical Uncertainty (CID)
- Rising Incidence of New Delhi Metallo-β-Lactamase–Producing Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacterales, 10 US Sites, 2018–2023 (OFID)
- Association of anti-anaerobic antibiotics with mortality and the gut microbiome: a sub-study of the BALANCE randomized clinical trial (CID)
- Fungal
- The Last of US Season 2 (YouTube)
- Coccidioidomycosis Testing Among Patients Hospitalized With Community-Acquired Pneumonia (OFID)
- Parasitic
- Human Myiasis Resulting from Reemergence of Cochliomyia hominivorax Screwworm, Mexico, 2025–2026 (Emerging Infectious Diseases)
- The origin, history, and resistance architecture of an invasive urban malaria mosquito in Africa (Science)
- Clinical, molecular, and in vitro evidence of artemisinin partial resistance in Ethiopian Plasmodium falciparum: a prospective, multisite, surveillance (LANCET: Infectious Diseases)
- Miscellaneous
- What's in a Name? Etymology and History of Antibacterials and Antifungal (IOFID)
Music is by Ronald Jenkees
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