Buzzword -GI infection

Question 1

rice water stool
watery diarrhoea
no fever?

Answer 1

Vibrio cholera

Question 2

raw seafood
Japan
3 days diarrhoea

Answer 2

vibrio parahaemolyticus

Question 3

reheated rice
grame +rods
spor forming?

Answer 3

bacilleus cereus

Question 4

necrotising granuloma
erythema nodosum
cold enrichment
enetercolitiis with mesenteric adenitis

Answer 4

yersinia enterocolitis

Question 5

immediate vomiting 2/3 hours after eating chicken

vomiting and watery diarrhoea

Answer 5

staph aureus
self limiting

Question 6

undercooked chicken at a bbq
bloody diarrhoea
fever, headache

Answer 6

campylobacter jejuni

cipro or erythromycin

Question 7

Shiga toxin?

Answer 7

0157:H7

Question 8

how is salmonella typhi treated?

Answer 8

IV ceftriaxone
PO azithromycin

Question 9

canned vacuum packed foods

Answer 9

clostridium botulinum
descending paralysis

Question 10

reheated meals
gas gangrene
watery diarrhoea and cramps

Answer 10

clostridium perfringens

Question 11

mx of clostridium difficile?

Answer 11

PO vancomycin
PO metronidazole
1-14 days

Question 12

gram +
tumbling motility
watery diarrhoea
cramps
headcahes
fever

Answer 12

listeria monocytogenes
- unpasteurised dairy
ampicillin to treat

Question 13

kinyoun acid fast stain?

Answer 13

cryptosporidium parvum

Question 14

pear shaped tropho`oites
foul smelling non bloody diarrhoea ?

Answer 14

giardia lamblia

Question 15

undercooked pork

Answer 15

yersinia