Ambler's Word Associations Flashcards by Briana Tillman

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young, healthy patient

A

mycoplasma

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HIV patient with CD count less than 200

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pneumocystis jiroveci

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alcoholic, diabetic, chronic lung disease

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klebsiella or lung abscess

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southwest desert exposure

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coccidiodomycosis, pneumonic plague

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exposure to rabbits

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francisella tularensis

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travel to southeast Asia

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SARS

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seizure in a Mexican

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neurocysticercosis (taenia solium)

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Birds exposure

A

chlamydia psittaci

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bird droppings, spelunking, bats

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histoplasma capsulatum

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whoop or post tussive vomiting

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bordetella pertussis

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contaminated water source, smoker, elderly

A

legionella

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exposure to animal while giving birth

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Q fever

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animal wools

A

wool sorter disease - anthrax

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rusty sputum

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strep pneumo

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red currant jelly bloody sputum

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klebsiella

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foul smellling sputum

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anaerobes and lung abscess

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HIV patient or immunocompromised or 3rd world

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TB

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cystic fibrosis

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mucoid pseudomonas, s. aureus, burkholderia

Q

smoker and COPD

A

H. influenzae

Q

post viral (after influenza)

A

staph aureus, strep pneumo

Q

rose gardener

A

sporothrix

Q

strep bovis/ glalolyticus

A

GI malignancy

Q

recurrent pna

A

HIV, asplenia

Q

recurrent meningitis

A

mollaret’s/ HSV, csf leak

Q

Eosinophilia, erythema nodosum, AZ

A

coccidiodomycosis

Q

necrotizing sinus

A

zygomycetes (mucor, rhyzor)

Q

mycotic aneurysm/ osteo in sickler

A

salmonella

Q

diarrhea Rocky mtns

A

giardia

Q

fever and liver mass/ anchovy paste in imigrant

A

entamoeba histolytica

Q

thickened ulnar nerve and anesthetic lesions

A

Hansen’s (M. leprae)

Q

really high fever post op

A

malignant hyperthermia

Q

severe pneumococcal sepsis in young

A

immune deficiency/ HIV and in old = multiple myeloma

Q

infection post eating mexican soft cheese

A

listeria and brucella