Ambler's Word Associations - SRS Flashcards by Stephen Schaffner

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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 patient, diabetics, chronic lung disease

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Klebsiella or lung abscess

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Southwest desert exposure

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Coccidioidomycosis, 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

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Chlamydia psittaci

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Birds droppings, spelunking, bats (recreational cave exploration)

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Histoplasma capsulatum

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Whoop or post tussive vomiting

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Bordetella pertusis

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Contaminatedwatersources, smoker, elderly

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Legionella

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Exposure to animal while giving birth

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Q fever

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Animal wools —> wool sorter disease

A

antrhax

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Rusty sputum

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Streptoccocus pneumoniae

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RedCurrantJellybloody sputum

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Klebsiella

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Foul smelling sputum

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Anaerobes and lung abscess

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HIV patient or immunocomprased or third World

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TB

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Cystic fibrosis

A

mucoid Pseudomonas, S.aureus, Burkoholderia

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Smoker and COPD

A

Haemophilus inflenzae

Q

Post viral (after influenza)

A

Staph aureus, Strep pneumo

Q

Rose Gardener

A

Sporothrix

Q

Strep bovis/gallolyticus

A

GI malignancy

Q

recurrent pna

A

HIV, asplenia

Q

recurrent meningitis

A

mollaret’s/HSV, csf leak

Q

Eosinophilia, erythema nodusum, AZ

A

coccidioidomycosis

Q

necrotizing sinus

A

zygomycetes (mucur/rhizor)

Q

mycotic aneurysm/osteo in sickler

A

salmonella

Q

diarrhea Rocky Mnts

A

giardia

Q

fever and liver ‘mass’/anchovy paste in immigrant

A

entamoeba histolytica

Q

thickened ulnar nerve and anetsthetic lesions

A

Hansen’s(M.leprae)

Q

really high fever postop

A

malig 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