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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This StAR episode features the CID State-of-the-Art Review on Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Pulmonary Disease: Patients, Principles, and Prospects.

Our guest stars this episode are:

Minh-Vu Nguyen (UC Davis Health)

Charles Daley (National Jewish Health, University of Colorado, Icahn School of Medicine at Mt Sinai)

Reeti Khare (National Jewish Health)

Journal article link: Nguyen MH, Haas MK, Kasperbauer SH, et al. Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Pulmonary Disease: Patients, Principles, and Prospects. Clin Infect Dis. 2024;79(4):e27-e47. doi:10.1093/cid/ciae421

Journal companion article - Executive summary link: https://academic.oup.com/cid/article-abstract/79/4/805/7823163

From Clinical Infectious Diseases

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Drs. Till Koch and Annette Hennigs join to discuss their ID podcast Infektiopod and dive into varicella!

Check out Infektiopod here!

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Drs. Sumanth Cherukumilli, Milagritos Tapia, and Adama Mamby Keita join Febrile to describe an approach to a gray membranous pharyngitis!

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