Infectious Diseases

Being right, for the wrong reasons

Fellowship cases: Rhombencephalitis from Lyme & Candida. Covers neuroinfectious diagnostics, including strengths & limitations of CSF mNGS

(s)TICK Season

Fellowship cases: Adenovirus (not ticks) triggering HLH. Review of infection-associated HLH, with a focus on the tick-borne infection phenotype and how anaplasmosis-like syndromes overlap with HLH

MARS is calling

Fellowship cases: Review of infection risk in spaceflight & a terrestrial case of eosinophilia after endocarditis treatment

Measles..?

Fellowship cases: Suspected measles after MMR. Review focusing on VARI and public implications in the setting of PEP

Slow burn

Fellowship cases: Review of LTNP & elite controllers in HIV, including immune control, inflammatory aging, and whether ART should still be recommended

The heart of the matter

Fellowship cases: Review of PVE after TAVR, emphasizing when echocardiography is insufficient and how PET/CT can help evaluate endovascular infection

Hot Blooded

Fellowship cases: NSAID induced aseptic meningitis, atypical drug fever FUO, and ECMO decannulation; how did LLMs handle these diagnostic reasoning cases?

It’s all greek to me

Fellowship cases: Keratits, endophalmitis, retinitis/optic neuritis; toxoplasmosis, MSSA, and M abscessus

Gut Reactions

Fellowship cases: Infectious diarrhea in transplant patients, with emphasis on multiplex stool PCR pitfalls, Campylobacter and norovirus in kidney transplant, and fever after IV iron

Travel History

Fellowship cases: West Nile Virus and Babesiosis (and my trip to Alaska)