Drs. Alok Nimgaonkar and Rebecca Kumar provide an update on definitions for VAD infections!

Also mentioned in this episode is a call for the new Febrile Editorial Board!! You can find more information at https://febrilepodcast.com/editorialboard/

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Drs. Veronica Santos, Sebastian Shrager, and Misti Ellsworth share a not so typical case of Brodie abscess!

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Drs. Priya Nori and Gonzalo Bearman teach us how to do the H.U.S.T.L.E. - to improve our consult fitness!

Journal article link: https://academic.oup.com/cid/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/cid/ciaf672/8369005

From Clinical Infectious Diseases

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Join Drs. Caitlyn Vlasschaert, Hariharasudan Natarajan, Sam Kant, Jeannina Smith, and Samira Farouk as they chat about the Trolls of Transplantation region of NephMadness featuring BK virus and CMV!

Read more about the regions and cast your brackets at https://ajkdblog.org/tag/nephmadness2026/

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Let’s dive into Chagas disease with this team from the University of Florida! Featuring Jacob Ricci (MD-PhD student) and Drs. Akankcha Alok and Norman Beatty

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This StAR episode features the CID State-of-the-Art Review on Complexities in Cardiac Implantable Electronic Device Infections: A Contemporary Practical Approach.

Our guest stars this episode are from the Division of Public Health, Infectious Diseases and Occupational Medicine at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota:

Supavit Chesdachai

Hussam Tabaja

Daniel DeSimone

Journal article link: Chesdachai S, Baddour LM, Tabaja H, Madhavan M, Anavekar N, Zwischenberger BA, Erba PA, DeSimone DC. State-of-the-Art Review: Complexities in Cardiac Implantable Electronic Device Infections: A Contemporary Practical Approach. Clin Infect Dis. 2025 Feb 5;80(1):e1-e15. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciae453. PMID: 39908172.

Journal companion article - Executive summary link: Chesdachai S, Baddour LM, Tabaja H, Madhavan M, Anavekar N, Zwischenberger BA, Erba PA, DeSimone DC. Executive Summary: State-of-the-Art Review: Complexities in Cardiac Implantable Electronic Device Infections: A Contemporary Practical Approach. Clin Infect Dis. 2025 Feb 5;80(1):1-3. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciae454. PMID: 39908173.

From Clinical Infectious Diseases

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In our Season 5 Finale, Sara wraps up 2025 with Marisu Rueda-Altez (University of Alabama Birmingham) and the Pediatric ID Fellows Cup champions from Children’s National Hospital team “District of Contagion”! After an update on the US ID Fellowship Match, everyone breaks down some of the most commonly missed questions from the competition!

For Pediatric ID Fellows Cup (PIDFC) info, please click on links below!

Call for next round of question writers and mentors

Website: pidfc.notion.site

Follow on Instagram: @pid_fellows_cup

Guests from Children’s National team “District of Contagion”!

Katarina Manzi (first year ID fellow)

Hannah Chase (first year ID fellow)

Lillian Flannigan (second year ID fellow, team captain)

Einar Helgason (second year ID fellow)

Ugur Berkay Balkanci (second year ID fellow)

Sarah Benke (third year ID fellow)

Roya Gordji (third year ID fellow)

Alexandra Yonts (attending)

Nada Harik (attending and fellowship program director)

Other team members not on the recording: Craig Shapiro, Rana Hamdy, Andrea Hahn, Shreya Doshi

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Walk through a series of mini-cases discussing IV vs PO with a team from LA General Medical Center! Featuring Hannah Chute (MS4), Dr. Paloma Reta-Impey, and Dr. Brad Spellberg.

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A team from Sultan Qaboos University Hospital in Muscat, Oman joins Febrile to share a case of a critically ill child who arrives in the emergency department with fever. Listen in as Drs. Raghad Al-abdwani, Badriya Al Adawi, and Zaid Al Hinai walk through the case from the pediatric critical care, infectious diseases, and microbiology perspectives!

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We are back and live from IDWeek 2025! Drs. Camille Kotton and Roy Chemaly join Febrile to discuss refractory HSV infection in immunocompromised patients!

This episode was recorded at an IDWeek 2025 affiliated event in Atlanta, GA on October 20, 2025. Drs. Camille Kotton, Roy Chemaly, and Sara Dong were sponsored speakers by Aicuris Anti-infective Cures AG for this event, however this Febrile content was planned, produced, and reviewed solely by Febrile.

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Drs. Anshel Kenkare and Mike Reid share a conversation about the incredible science and current context of lenacapavir for HIV prevention, which was recently approved by the FDA.

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