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if a traveller has returned with jaundice, consider
hepatitis
malaria
yellow fever
management rickettsiosis
tetracycline
when would therapeutic trials be used in pyrexia of unknown origin
- suspected TB
- suspected vasculitis or connective tissue disorder
define Hep D superinfection
personal with chronic Hep B infection becomes infected with Hep D
define type II necrotising fasciitis
monomicrobial
presentation chronic HBV infection
non-specific - fatigue - anorexia - depression OR transmits it to someone else who suffers from an acute episode
risk factors invasive candidiasis
- immunocompromised
- broadspectrum antibiotics
- intravascular catheters
- infections mostly of endogenous origin
- abdo surgery
- total parenteral nutrition
describe flucloxacillin use in staph aureus bacteraemia
- first line MSSA
- min for 14 days
- not for MRSA
progression of rabies from bite
incubation ranges from 2 weeks –> several months
takes time to travel up CNS via peripheral nerves -> Brian
lipodystrophy
problem with the way the body makes, uses and stores fat; can be fat loss, and fat build up
what can panton-valentine leucocidin toxin cause
SSTI
haemorrhagic pneumonia
SSTI
skin and soft tissue infection
function of haemaglutinin
facilitates viral attachment and entry to host cell
describe management of HEV infection
- no licences treatment
- reduction of immunosuppression
- ribavarin monotherapy
management fabricated fever
psychiatric involvement
