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Credits
Hosts: Sara Dong, Arthur Jackson
Producing/Editing/Cover Art: Sara Dong
Our Guest
Arthur Jackson
Arthur is a Consultant in Infectious Diseases and General Medicine based in Cork, Ireland. He is part of the general internal medicine service, provides oversight to the Antimicrobial Stewardship committee, and is the clinical lead for the Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy program. He provides consultation service for inpatients with respect to general ID, antimicrobial management, HIV, and other diseases. He graduated with a medical degree from Trinity College in Dublin in 2001. His specialist training included two years in Malawi, running clinical trials in the area of cryptococcal meningitis. He followed that with a year of clinical fellowship at University of North Carolina Chapel Hill.
Consult Notes
Featured papers from this episode are noted below
Sara: Update on acute hepatitis in children
- Increase in acute hepatitis cases of unknown aetiology in children from UK Health Security Agency, published 8 Apr 2022
- Rapid communicatio n: investigation into cases of hepatitis of unknown aetiology among young children, Scotland from Eurosurveillance, Vol 27, Issue 15, 14 Apr 2022
- WHO Acute severe hepatitis of unknown origin in children – UK and Northern Ireland from 23 April 2022
- Baker JM, Buchfellner M, Britt W, et al. Acute Hepatitis and Adenovirus Infection Among Children — Alabama, October 2021–February 2022. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. ePub: 29 April 2022. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.mm7118e1
Arthur: Mon-Fri antivirals for HIV non-inferior compared to daily
Sara: Bacteremia + CRC
Arthur: New oral carbapenem for resistant UTIs
Sara: Top 5 AST challenges in TxID and practical strategies
Arthur: Ocular complications of fungal infections over time
Sara: CMV Ig and valacyclovir on outcomes of CMV in pregnancy
Don’t forget to check out the Febrile Curious Congenital Conundrums series!!
Arthur: Discussion of the Editorial in the Lancet on effects of war on infections with a focus on Ukraine
Disclosures
Our guest (Arthur Jackson) as well as Febrile podcast and hosts report no relevant financial disclosures
Citation
Jackson, A., Dong, S. “#42: Febrile Digest”. Febrile: A Cultured Podcast. https://player.captivate.fm/episode/963200b9-8773-4708-9a97-7cd849e82330