Emerging Infectious Diseases

Emerging Infectious Diseases

A podcast highlighting key articles in the current issue of Emerging Infectious Diseases, a journal from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Episodes

January 8, 2025 23 mins
Cristina Rafferty, a molecular biologist with the US President's Malaria Initiative at CDC, and former Public Health Entomology for All program interns Gloria Raise and JeNiyah Scaife discuss a new loop-mediated isothermal amplification assay to detect invasive malaria vector Anopheles stephensi mosquitoes.
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Dr. Carol Sobotyk, an assistant professor of clinical parasitology and director of the Clinical Parasitology Laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania, and Candice Hoffmann discuss Thelazia callipaeda eyeworms in an American black bear.
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Dr. Heather Grome, a medical epidemiologist in CDC's National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, and Candice Hoffmann discuss antimicrobial-resistant infections in children.
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Dr. Jay Fishman, a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and director of the Transplantation Infectious Disease Program at Massachusetts General Hospital, and Candice Hoffmann discuss xenotransplantation.
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Doctors Anne Kjemtrup and Kerry Padgett from the California Department of Health and Candice Hoffmann discuss a newly recognized spotted fever group Rickettsia as the cause of severe Rocky Mountain spotted fever-like illness in California.
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Dr. Mihnea "Mike" Mangalea, a microbial ecologist and bioinformatician in CDC's National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, and Candice Hoffmann discuss decolonization and pathogen reduction approaches to prevent antimicrobial resistance and healthcare-associated infections.
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Dr. Gaby Frank, a hospitalist and medical director of Denver Health Hospital Authority's Biocontainment Unit and a professor of medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, and Candice Hoffmann discuss Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus.
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BreAnne Osborn, an epidemiologist at the Utah Department of Health in Salt Lake City, and Sarah Gregory discuss outbreaks of norovirus genotype IX in long-term care facilities in Utah.
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February 1, 2024 27 mins
Dr. Geraldine Moloney, an infectious diseases physician at Cork University Hospital in Ireland, and Sarah Gregory discuss the transmission of C. difficile in pigs and in people across Europe. [Original Post 10/14/2021]
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Dr. Patrick Dawson, an epidemiologist at CDC in Atlanta, and Sarah Gregory discuss a case of melioidosis from a freshwater home aquarium in the United States.
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Dr. Megin Nichols, a veterinary epidemiologist at CDC in Atlanta, and Sarah Gregory discuss Salmonella in songbirds and its effect on people.
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Dr. Guilherme Verocai, a clinical assistant professor at Texas A&M University, and Sarah Gregory discuss rat lungworm infection in brown rats in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Dr. Brian Amman, a disease ecologist at CDC in Atlanta, and Sarah Gregory discuss the risk of Marburg virus spillover from Egyptian rousette bats.
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Dr. Farrell Tobolowsky, a CDC FLIGHT fellow in Atlanta, and Sarah Gregory discuss Salmonella serotypes associated with illness after the Thanksgiving holiday.
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Dr. Jessica Chen, a bioinformatician at CDC in Atlanta, and Sarah Gregory discuss E. coli O157:H7 strain linked to leafy greens-associated outbreaks.
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Dr. J. Glenn Morris, the director of the Emerging Pathogens Institute at the University of Florida, and Sarah Gregory discuss the origin and spread of cholera in Haiti.
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Dr. Betsy Elsmo, an assistant professor of clinical diagnostic veterinary pathology at the Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory and the University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine, and Sarah Gregory discuss infections of H5N1 bird flu in wild mammals in the United States.
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Dr. Shamez Ladhani, a pediatric infectious disease consultant at the UK Health Security Agency in London, and Sarah Gregory discuss an increase of invasive pneumococcal disease in children after the COVID-19 pandemic in England.
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Jennifer Lasley, a senior program manager at the World Organisation for Animal Health in Paris, France, and Sarah Gregory discuss global veterinary diagnostic laboratory equipment and their implications for pandemic preparedness.
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Dr. Sarah Robinson, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Guelph, and Sarah Gregory discuss hepatitis E virus in Norway rats in Ontario, Canada.
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