Associations Useful in Linking Symptoms to Causative Agents

Question 1

Axillary lymphadenopathy in child with new kitten

Answer 1

Bartonella Henselae

Question 2

Polyarthritis, fever, malaise, Hx tick bite in outdoorsman

Answer 2

Borrelia Burgdorferi

Question 3

Rash on hands and feet in Boy/Girl Scout

Answer 3

Rickettsia Rickettsia

Question 4

Generalized redness, rash, fever in menstruating female

Answer 4

Staph aureus toxic shock syndrome

Question 5

Meningitis with petechial hemoorhages

Answer 5

Neisseria Meningitidis

Question 6

Diarrhea in hospitalized patient treated with antibiotics

Answer 6

Clostridium difficile

Question 7

Gritty yellow pus draining from jaw abscess

Answer 7

Actinomyces isrealii

Question 8

Necrotizing fasciitis (after wound, surgery, or cellulitis)

Answer 8

Streptococcus pyogenes

Question 9

Flaccid baby

Answer 9

Clostridium botulinum

Question 10

Black eschar on carpet merchant

Answer 10

Bacillus anthracis

Question 11

Gas in devitalized tissue (myonecrosis)

Answer 11

Clostridium perfringens

Question 12

Fever in prairie dog trapper

Answer 12

Yersinia Pestis

Question 13

Multiply drug resistant infection in hospitalized soldier

Answer 13

Acinetobacter baumannii

Question 14

Recurrent fevers in slaughterhouse worker

Answer 14

Brucella sp.

Question 15

Fever and conjunctivitis in kayaker

Answer 15

Leptospirosis sp

Question 16

Pneumonia in sheep herder

Answer 16

Coxiella burnettii

Question 17

Fever history in traveler

Answer 17

Rule out Malaria First!

Question 18

Fever and malaise in an older gardener, US (mosquito exposure)

Answer 18

West Nile Virus

Question 19

Fever and Respiratory distress following exposure to rodent urine/feces

Answer 19

Sin nombre Virus

Question 20

Fever, Nausea, vomiting, Travel to Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea

Answer 20

Ebola Virus

Question 21

Hemorrhagic fever w/rodent urine exposure (Africa)

Answer 21

Lassa virus