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causative agents/vectors Flashcards

1
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early infection in pacemaker infection

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Staphylococcus aureus or epidermidis

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major causes of lung abscess

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Type 3 Streptococcus pneumoniae and S. aureus

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rust colored sputum

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S. pneumoniae

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brown “currant” jelly sputum ; bulging fissure sign; associated with herpes labialis

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K. pneumoniae

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5
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bilateral lower lobe infiltrates

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P. aeruginosa

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6
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more prominent cause of pneumonia in the summer; can affect other organs

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Legionella

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7
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most common cause of bacterial pneumonia in patients with HIV

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S. pneumoniae

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8
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50% to 80% of all infectious diarrhea

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Norovirus

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9
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most common cause of puerperal mastitis

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Staphylococcus aureus

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10
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leading cause of viral meningitis worldwide

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Enteroviruses

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11
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VP shunt infection predominant organism

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Staphylococcus epidermidis

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12
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most common cause of meningitis in children with implants

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S. pneumoniae

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13
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most common causative agent of Acute bacterial dacroadenitis

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S. aureus

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14
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Herpangina

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coxsackievirus A16 and human enterovirus 71

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15
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causative agent of severe form of hand-foot-and-mouth disease in Southeast Asia

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Enterovirus 71

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16
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Erythema Infectiosum (Fifth disease)

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human parvovirus B19

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17
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most common cause of UTI in children

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E. coli

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18
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most common pathogens of Periorbital cellulitis

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S. pneumoniae and Streptococcus pyogenes

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19
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Most common of Acute Otitis Externa (AOE)

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Pseudomonas aeruginosa

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20
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Most common bacterial pathogens of Acute Otitis Media (AOM)

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Streptococcus pneumoniae (23.6%), non-typeable Haemophilus influenzae (29.1%), Streptococcus pyogenes (3.7%), and Moraxella catarrhalis (2.8%)

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21
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most frequently cause of Viral conjunctivitis in childhood

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adenovirus

22
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Most commonly isolated pathogen obtained from culture at bronchoscopy in bacterial tracheitis

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S. aureus

23
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more common causative agent in those with underlying heart disease of infective endocarditis

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Viridans streptococci

24
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most common cause of diarrhea without vaccination

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rotavirus

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most common cause of diarrhea with vaccination

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norovirus

26
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most common organism reported on blood culture in sepsis

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staphylococcus

27
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single most common cause of endocarditis

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staphylococcus

28
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erysipelas is commonly caused by

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B-hemolytic streptococci

29
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Chancroid is commonly caused by

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Haemophilus ducreyi

30
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Lymphogranuloma venereum is caused by

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C. trachomatis (L1, L2, and L3)

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second most common cause of endocarditis which tends to be indolent

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Streptococci

32
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vector that transmits malaria a protozoan disease

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Female Anopheles mosquito

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most commonly involved bacteria in epidural abscess

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S. aureus

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most commonly cultured agent is, which accounts for nearly half of all shunt infections

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Staphylococcus epidermidis

35
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natural host of P. knowlesi

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Macaques (old world monkeys)

36
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dinoflagellate Gambierdiscus toxicus produces

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Ciguatera Poisoning

37
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vector of Lyme Disease

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B. burgdorferi

38
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principal vector of Babesiosis

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Ixodes ticks

39
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vector of human monocytic ehrlichiosis

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Ehrlichia chaffeensis

40
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vector of Ehrlichiosis, Southern Tick-Associated Rash Illness (STAR)

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Lone star tick (Amblyomma americanum)

41
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vector of Anaplasmosis

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Black-legged tick (I. scapularis and I. pacificus)

42
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causative agent of Colorado Tick Fever

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RNA virus of the genus Coltivirus in the family Reoviridae

43
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principal vector of Colorado Tick Fever

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wood tick, D. andersoni

44
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Francisella tularensis zoonotic vectors

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Dermacentor species (wood tick, dog tick) and the Amblyomma species (lone star tick)

45
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vector of relapsing fever

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Ornithodoros ticks

46
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principal vector of pulmonary plague (Yersinia Pestis)

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Rodent Flea

47
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the primary vector of Hantavirus

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deer mouse (Peromyscus maniculatus)

48
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diseases that cause severe headache and fever

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malaria, ricketssial disease, dengue, typhoid, human African typanosomiasis

49
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vector for dengue fever “break bone fever”

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Aedes aegypti mosquito

50
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vector for Japanese encephalitis flavivirus

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Culex mosquito

51
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definitive T. solium hosts

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humans

52
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transmits nematode, Onchocerca volvulus, causing onchocerciasis (River Blindness)

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female black fly

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