Clinical - Pulmonary Viral Infections

Question 1

What are the viral causes of the common cold?

Answer 1

Rhinovirus
Parainfluenza virus
Adenovirus
Respiratory syncytial virus
Coxackievirus

Question 2

What viral infection is common in the summer and fall?

Answer 2

Coxackievirus

Question 3

What are the surface antigens of influenza A?

Answer 3

Hemagglutinin (H)

Neuroaminidase (N)

Question 4

WHat complications can arise form influenza A?

Answer 4

Secondary pneumonia
Primary influenza
Viral pneumonia
Coinfections

Question 5

How do you treat influenza A and B?

Answer 5

Zanamivir and oseltamivir

Question 6

What is the antigenic subtype of Avian influenza A?

Answer 6

H5N1

Question 7

What is the reservoir of hantavirus?

Answer 7

Deer mouse (peromyscus maniculatus)

Question 8

What are symptoms of a hantavirus infection?

Answer 8

Fever, malaise, headache, abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, cough
Respiratory distress, shock, hypoxemia
Bilateral pulmonary infiltrates and pleural effusion
Thrombocytopenia

Question 9

What virus causes SARS?

Answer 9

Coronavirus

Question 10

How does a SARS infection present?

Answer 10

Fever, chills, rigor
Headache, malaise, myalgia
Dry cough and dyspnea
Leukopenia, thrombocytopenia, elevated CK and liver aminotransferases

Question 11

Where is SARS most common?

Answer 11

Asia