Infectious disease 'pearls', part 2: Outbreak News This Week
A little over a month ago I did a podcast with today's guest on various infectious disease topics from her book Gompfs ID pearls and because it was so well received and the fact that we really just sc...
30 Sep 201850min
Yersinia enterocolitica: Chitlins, blood transfusions and Reiter's syndrome
Yersiniosis is an infection caused most often by eating raw or undercooked pork contaminated with Yersinia enterocolitica bacteria. CDC estimates Y. enterocolitica causes almost 117,000 illnesses, 640...
29 Sep 20183min
Osteomyelitis: Types, complications and imaging studies
Infection of the bone--short and sweet, that is the definition of osteomyelitis. Associate Professor of Infectious Disease and International Medicine at USF Health, Sandra Gompf, MD joined me to answe...
28 Sep 20184min
Tetanus: Symptoms, treatment, prevention and more
In this short Q&A, I talk to Associate Professor of Infectious Disease and International Medicine at USF Health, Sandra Gompf, MD about one of her infectious disease pearls, tetanus. I ask her about t...
28 Sep 20187min
African sleeping sickness: A short Q&A with an ID physician
Transmitted by the bite of the tsetse flu (Glossina spp.), African trypanosomiasis, of sleeping sickness is a serious infection caused by microscopic parasites of the species Trypanosoma brucei. Altho...
27 Sep 20186min
Sepsis awareness with Dr Amy Sprague
September is Sepsis Awareness Month and according to the CDC, 1 in 3 people who die in a hospital have sepsis. 250,000 Americans die from sepsis each year. Joining me to talk about sepsis diagnostics,...
20 Sep 20186min
Undocumented immigrants and the import of infectious diseases: A real health security risk to the US?
George Mason University economics professor, Dr Walter Williams recently published an op-ed suggesting that illegal or undocumented immigrants are a source of infectious diseases in the country. Senio...
17 Sep 20187min
Outbreak News This Week: Monkeypox, Florida mosquito-borne viruses
With the unusual, in fact, first time the viral disease monkeypox was reported not once but twice in England this past week, I thought it would be good to learn more about the disease. Professor Emeri...
16 Sep 201849min
