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

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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

Information on this podcast should not be considered as medical advice.