Exotics Flashcards
MO, Taxidermist, dead in a week
tularemia
tx for tularemia
streptomycin
prophylaxis with tularemiss
highly infecitous, ID5o is 1-10 particles–> all get prophylactic tx
AZ/ SE asia–> dead carcass, prarie dog, rat, mountina lion–> fleas
yersinia (plague)
tx for plague
usually wont help
tetracycline and streptomycin
dead rabbits and ticks
tularemia
safety pins on chest x ray
yersinia (plague)
fargo, ND, chills cough, elevated liver function tests, liver failure, endocarditis–> vector is a tick occasionally
Q fever
coxiella
tx for Q fever
doxycyline
animal viscers or contaminated dairy
Q fever and Brucellosis
ASIA/turkey, mediastinal wideinng, bilat. lower pulm infiltrates, raw meat balls
Anthrax
gram positive boxcars
anthrax
abdominal pain/skin lesions
anthrax
tx for anthrax
cipro for 6 mos or cipro IV and high penicillins
drowing in myanmar
burkholderia
aerosols after rain in muddy water
burkholderia psuedomaleii
drowing in america
tularemia
wool sorter dz
cutaneous anthrax
malta fever
brucellosis
granulomatous response
tx for brucellosis
tretacycline or doxy + rifampin
tx for burkholderia
ceftazidime
death ater 10 days of symptoms
q fever
tx is doxy
enveloped negative sne ss RNA virus in a sphere
hanta virus
aerosolized mouse excreta
hanta virus
SIN NOMBRE IN AMERICA
prognosis of hanta virus
death in 2-3 days in 50% of cases
dead rabbits
tularemia
field mice
tularemia
animal viscera and milk
q fever and brucellosis
plam civet
SARS
hotel shwoers
legionella
raw dairy
brucellosis and q fever
