On episode #44 of the Infectious Disease Puscast, Sara reviews the infectious disease literature for the weeks of 12/8 – 12/20/23. Hosts: Daniel Griffin and Sara Dong Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of Puscast! Links for this episode Mpox and chickenpox co-infection (J Inf Dis) Corticosteroids for postherpetic neuralgia (Coch Data Syst Rev) Dengue incidence and mortality in Bangladesh (J Inf Dis) ACORN trial vancomycin and piperacillin-tazobactam (Open For Inf Dis) Models for infection risk in children with cancer (J Clin Oncol) Salmonella outbreak from cantaloupes (CDC) Pediatric antimicrobial stewardship programs ( Ped Inf Dis Soc) MRSA nasal swab PCR assay (J Ped Inf Dis Soc) Invasive meningococcal disease (Open For Inf Dis) Probiotics for recurrent UTI (Clin Inf Dis) Preservation fluid contamination and kidney transplant patients (Transpl Inf Dis) Mechanism of zinc prevention of candidiasis (Sci Transl Med) Risk factors for invasive fungal infection (Open For Inf Dis) Genetic variants associated with S. mansoni worm burden (PLoS NTD) Chagas disease GI manifestations (Am J Trop Med Hyg) Wolbachia in Aedes aegypti in Colombia (PLoS NTD) Music is by Ronald Jenkees