Ep 68 Coccidioidomycosis: It’s never a spider...

Imagine yourself as a 17th century English peasant or merchant or noble. Let’s say you’re dealing with some intense stomach pain or a cut on your leg that won’t heal. Where do you turn to for help? Today’s book club episode reveals that the answer depends on your medical needs, y ...  Show more

This week, we’re picking up where we left off last episode in our exploration of ECT by examining how this therapy is administered, which conditions it’s used for, and what we know about why it works. To start off, we take you through the procedure step-by-step, including prep an ...  Show more

In this episode we cover the rare but important driver of your patients respiratory failure: Pneumocystis Jiroveci Pneumonia. Come listen to why you should always delineate HIV status, how to approach patient workup and treatment via an invasive and non invasive manner, and why h ...  Show more

My my! Mycology?Join Callum and special co-host Alyssa for this, the first in the all new ID:IOTS Mycology Mega-series.Here we cover:What the British Society of Medical Mycology is and what they do Why we're doing this series on fungi The Global and UK Burden of fungal disease. T ...  Show more

Why we need to stop calling them “endemic” mycoses & more fungi fun!Feeling muddled about endemic mycoses? We tackle the clinical presentation of diseases like histoplasmosis, blastomycosis, and coccidioidomycosis, the importance of testing, and how to diagnose fungal infections ...  Show more

In this episode there will be puns where you yeast expect them...

But more seriously, what does Candida albicans actually mean? What are yeasts anyway? How does this all relate to the Romans?

These questions, and more, will be answered as Alyssa and Callum conti ...