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management of subacute innvasive aspergillosis, aspergilloma and mucocutaneous candidiasis
- amphotericin B formulations
- azoles
- echinocandins
- flucytosine
leptospirosis investigations
- blood culture
- PCR
- ELISA
- microscopic agglutination test
pyrexia of unknown origin
persisting fever with unknown cause
staphylococcal toxic shock syndrome
Presentation
- fever
- hypotension
- abdo/ pelvic pain
- diffuse macular rash
involvement of 3 of the following:
1. liver
2. blood
3. renal
4. GI
5. CNS
6. MSK
presentation panton-valentine leucodin toxin
recurrent boils which are difficult to treat
epidemiology of campylobacter gastroenteritis
commonest bacterial food poisoning in UK
chicken/ contaminated milk/ puppies
isolated causes not outbreaks
management surgical site infection
consider unlikely pathogens as cause if obtained from a normally sterile site
antibiotics to target likely organism
define impetigo
superficial skin infection only infecting epidermis
highly infectious
typhoid investigations
- culture of blood, urine, stool and bone marrow
management seasonal flu
neuraminidase inhibitors ASAP
oseltamivir
zanamivir
complications typhoid fever
- intestinal bleeding
- perforation
- peritoneum
- metastatic infections
what causes an influenza pandemic
antigenic shift
presentation folliculitis
circumscribed, pustular infection of a single hair follicle
constitutional symptoms not often seen
small red papule
head/ back/ buttocks + extremities
risk factors for surgical site infections
- diabetes
- smoking
- obesity
- malnutrition
- concurrent steroid use
- colonisation with staph aureus
if a traveller returned with enlarged lymph nodes, consider
- leishmania
- trypanosomiasis
