1- AIDS Flashcards
What is the most common aids defining. Infection?
P jiroveci pneumonia
P. carnii
What is the other name for early acute phase of AIDS ? Time period?
Self limited Mononucleosis like stage
3-6 weeks after infection
Most common hemotologic abnormality in aids?
Thrombocytopenia- type III or type II
Stain for pneumocystic pneumonia
Silver stain gomeri methanamine
Fungal anatomy found in p. jiroveci
Cyst trophozite
Fungal anatomy of candida
Yeast pseudo hyphae elongated fungi
Fungal anatomy of cryptococcus neoformans
Narrow based budding form giant cells
Most common cns fungal infection
Cryptococcus neoformans
How do you confirm cryptococcus neoformans
Latex agglutination test
What kind if necrosis does atypical pneumonia from cryptococcus neoformans have
Granuloma with caseous necrosis
Most common agent causing diarrhea in AiDS
Parasite cryptosporidium parvum
Acid fast organisms
Bacteria-Mycobacterium avium inter
Parasite- cryptosporidium parvum oocyte
Nocardia
Tb- mycobacterium tuberculosis hominis
Mc cause of blindness in aids
Cmv
Mc cause for cholecystotis in aids
Cmv
In normal people the most common cause for cholecystitis
E.coli
Mc cause for focal space occupying. Lesion in AiDS
Parasite cns toxoplasmosis
Produces abscess in brain
What does the abscess in cns toxoplasmosis contain
Ring enhancing lesion cyst containing calcium and calcification
Congenital toxoplasmosis calcifies where
Bradyzoites calcify in basal ganglia
Histology all picture for kaposi sarcoma
Spindle cells and rbcs because of microhemmorhagea with slit like vascular channels
Hypergammaglobulinemia in aids due to What ?
Polyclonal b stimulation by EBV
