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How do all cases of croup spread?
By respiratory transmission of saliva or respiratory secretions.
What is the HACEK group?
They are gram - bacteria. Part of the normal flora but have an enhanced capacity to cause endocarditis.
Haemophilus Actinobacillus Cardiobacterium hominus Eikenella corrodes Kingella
What 2 STDs are most commonly reported?
Chlamydia
Gonorrhea
What is a bubo?
An inflamed lymph node
Which gram + phylums looks like rods microscopically?
Corynebacterium
Firmicutes
Listeria
Tell me about Diabetes mellitus type I.
Insulin-dependent type of diabetes. An autoimmune type of diabetes which needs exogenous insulin hormone to regulate the glucose in the blood.
Tell me about Diabetes mellitus type II.
Non-insulin dependent. It’s a metabolic disorder in which the body has enough insulin, but the cells stop responding to it.
What causes pharyngoconjuctive fever.
Adenoviruses
Tell me about prostate cancer.
Most common cancer in American males, lung is the seance most common form of cancer.
Difficulty urinating is an early symptom of prostate cancer as well as being prostatic hypertrophy (BPH). The incidence in both increase with age particularly among men over 50.
Tell me about non-hodgkin’s lymphoma.
Multiple lymph node involvement
Spreads non-contiguously
Mesenteric nodes & Waldeyer ring often involved
Extra-nodal presentation common
Tell me about hodgkin’s lymphoma.
Localized lymph node involvement
Spreads contiguously from node to node
Mesenteric nodes and Waldeyer song rarely involved
Extra-nodal presentation rare
What is a procarcinogen?
A substance that can be metabolized to a carcinogen.
Dephosphorylation
Phosphatases
Methylation
Methyltransferases
Phosphorylation
Kinases
