The Bundle 2.0 is here. In this episode of The Host Response, Dr. Paul Bunce and returning guest Dr. Brooke Fraser take another rapid-fire tour through what’s catching their attention across infectious diseases and adjacent domains: teaching tools worth knowing, papers that may shift practice, ideas from outside ID that still matter, and the small-but-important clinical pearls that surface in everyday work.
We cover:
ID teaching tools worth your time, including Open Evidence and the Breakpoints podcast.
www.openevidence.com
https://breakpoints-sidp.org/episodes/
Literature we’re thinking about, from cardiac complications of Mycoplasma pneumoniae to whether immunosuppression really needs to be held during infection.
https://academic.oup.com/cid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/cid/ciaf453/8244960
https://academic.oup.com/cid/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/cid/ciaf442/8232734?redirectedFrom=fulltext&login=false#google_vignette
Reflections from beyond medicine, including writing on polarization in healthcare and why “giving” may actually be a strategic advantage.
https://macleans.ca/society/health/a-doctors-plea-for-civil-discourse/
Safe-space learning, featuring fluoroquinolone-associated tendinopathy and a practical look at divalent-cation interactions with dolutegravir and common antibiotics.
https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8247/18/2/184
https://accp1.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jcph.439
If you’re an ID clinician, general internist, resident, or simply ID-adjacent and curious, this one is packed with things you can actually use.