What disease caused a pandemic in 1968? When was the MMR vaccine first introduced for pediatric use? What was the Ebola virus named after? Keep watching and find out! Dr. Richard Oehler hosts an entertaining review of the history of infectious diseases in a game show format. Each question is followed by a short historical snippet to improve your knowledge of Infectious Disease trivia!
Dr. Lily Jones speaks about zoonoses from exotic pets – specifically select bacterial infections and their routes of transmission. She also discusses patients who are at high risk for zoonotic infections and their prevention. She speaks about infections associated with horses, deer, sheep, cattle, goats, birds, fish, reptiles, and exotic mammalian pets. She presents specific cases studies on Q fever, Brucellosis, Leptospirosis, Typhus, and Mycobacterium marinum infections.
Dr. Richard Oehler provides an update on rapid diagnostic techniques for infectious diseases in a clinical vignette format. He discusses important signs, symptoms, and key rapid laboratory tests that can help a clinician make a rapid diagnosis and start treatment early in the disease. He also lists common pathogens and treatment strategies for each illness. He covers community acquired pneumonia, C. difficile, endocarditis, acute meningitis, necrotizing fasciitis and more!
Dr. Mitsuya Katayama discusses a case of culture negative endocarditis. He speaks about diagnostic criteria, common pathogens, epidemiology, risk factors. Culture negative endocarditis can be associated with previous antibiotic use, fastidious bacteria, nonbacterial infection, autoimmune conditions, valvular surgery, malignancy, and underlying heart or valve disease. Dr. Katayama focuses on infectious causes of culture negative endocarditis, mainly C. burnetii and Bartonella species. He touches on fungal endocarditis and treatment strategies for different categories of patients.
Rod Quilitz, PharmD, speaks about the conscientious use of antimicrobials in cancer patients. Cancer patients have increased risk of infections due to circumstances like neutropenia, indwelling chemotherapy catheters, breakdown of epithelium from chemotherapy, and immunosuppression. They are at risk for infections from multidrug resistant organisms as they spend more and more time in healthcare facilities. As such, Dr. Quilitz covers his experience with antimicrobial stewardship at Moffitt Cancer Center, and some guidelines on the management of infections in cancer patients.
Dr. Morano discusses some important clinical pearls regarding the management of HIV/AIDS in the primary care setting.
Dr. Ana Velez speaks about common skin infections that are clinically relevant to the internist and infectious disease physician. She covers the identification of these infections, complications, and medical and surgical management, based on the depth of skin affected. She covers impetigo, erysipelas, cellulitis, fasciitis, and myonecrosis. Some infections mentioned include staphylococcal infections (including MRSA), clostridium, polymicrobial necrotizing fasciitis, Fournier’s gangrene, Pseudomonas folliculitis, and herpes zoster (shingles).
Dr. Ianiro shares a number of fascinating tropical medicine cases she and her colleagues cared for as a participant in the Gorgas Tropical Medicine course in Peru in 2013. This is the first of a two-part series.
Dr Henry Chambers, Chief of Infectious Diseases at San Francisco General Hospital, presents his candidates for the ten most significant infectious diseases in history. An ID Podcasts archived classic presentation from 2013.
Dr. John Greene presents rapid review case studies of pulmonary complications, including nosocomial infections, in patients with hematopoietic stem cell transplants. He covers the diagnosis and management of infections with influenza and other respiratory viruses, legionella, mycobacterium, chlamydia pneumonia, pertussis, pneumococcal pneumonia and other pulmonary microbes in the setting of immunocompromise. He also covers clinical presentation, imaging, and histopathology for each of these infections.
