Ambler's Word Associations - SRS

Question 1

Young - Healthy patient

Answer 1

Mycoplasma

Question 2

HIV patient with CD count less than 200

Answer 2

Pneumocystis jiroveci

Question 3

Alcoholic patient, diabetics, chronic lung disease

Answer 3

Klebsiella or lung abscess

Question 4

Southwest desert exposure

Answer 4

Coccidioidomycosis, pneumonic plague

Question 5

Exposure to rabbits

Answer 5

Francisella tularensis

Question 6

Travel to southeast Asia

Answer 6

SARS

Question 7

seizure in a Mexican

Answer 7

neurocysticercosis(taenia solium)

Question 8

Birds exposure

Answer 8

Chlamydia psittaci

Question 9

Birds droppings, spelunking, bats (recreational cave exploration)

Answer 9

Histoplasma capsulatum

Question 10

Whoop or post tussive vomiting

Answer 10

Bordetella pertusis

Question 11

Contaminatedwatersources, smoker, elderly

Answer 11

Legionella

Question 12

Exposure to animal while giving birth

Answer 12

Q fever

Question 13

Animal wools —> wool sorter disease

Answer 13

antrhax

Question 14

Rusty sputum

Answer 14

Streptoccocus pneumoniae

Question 15

RedCurrantJellybloody sputum

Answer 15

Klebsiella

Question 16

Foul smelling sputum

Answer 16

Anaerobes and lung abscess

Question 17

HIV patient or immunocomprased or third World

Answer 17

TB

Question 18

Cystic fibrosis

Answer 18

mucoid Pseudomonas, S.aureus, Burkoholderia

Question 19

Smoker and COPD

Answer 19

Haemophilus inflenzae

Question 20

Post viral (after influenza)

Answer 20

Staph aureus, Strep pneumo

Question 21

Rose Gardener

Answer 21

Sporothrix

Question 22

Strep bovis/gallolyticus

Answer 22

GI malignancy

Question 23

recurrent pna

Answer 23

HIV, asplenia

Question 24

recurrent meningitis

Answer 24

mollaret’s/HSV, csf leak

Question 25

Eosinophilia, erythema nodusum, AZ

Answer 25

coccidioidomycosis

Question 26

necrotizing sinus

Answer 26

zygomycetes (mucur/rhizor)

Question 27

mycotic aneurysm/osteo in sickler

Answer 27

salmonella

Question 28

diarrhea Rocky Mnts

Answer 28

giardia

Question 29

fever and liver ‘mass’/anchovy paste in immigrant

Answer 29

entamoeba histolytica

Question 30

thickened ulnar nerve and anetsthetic lesions

Answer 30

Hansen’s(M.leprae)

Question 31

really high fever postop

Answer 31

malig hyperthermia

Question 32

severe pneumococcal sepsis in young

Answer 32

immune deficiency/HIV and in old = Multiple myeloma

Question 33

infection post eating mexican soft cheese

Answer 33

Listeria and Brucella