ID

Question 1

tx Kaposi sarcoma

Answer 1

antiretroviral therapy (for HIV)
advanced: chemotherapy

Question 2

pt has guillain barre. next step?

Answer 2

spirometry - serial measurements of FVC

Question 3

bacteria that cause acute epididymitis in young vs old

Answer 3

young: chlamydia, gonorrhea
old: e coli (associated with UTI)

Question 4

first and second line tx for tinea corporis

Answer 4

1st: topical antifungals (clotrimazole, terbinafine)

2nd (or diffuse or on head): oral antifungals (griseofulvin, terbinafine)

Question 5

test for what diseases before starting methotrexate

Answer 5

hep B
hep C
TB

Question 6

tx hep B

Answer 6

young: interfereon

decompensated cirrhosis: tenofovir, entecavir

Question 7

tx hep C

Answer 7

pegylated interferon plus ribavirin

Question 8

first line tx for upper airway cough syndrome (postnasal drip)

Answer 8

oral first gen antihistamine (chlorpheniramine)

Question 9

staph scalded skin syndrome affects what patients

Answer 9

children less than 10
kidney disease
immunocompromised

Question 10

complication of mononucleosis

Answer 10

autoimmune hemolytic anemia that’s Coombs positive

Question 11

virus most associated with dilated cardiomyopathy

Answer 11

coxsackie B

Question 12

chronic granulomatous disease has issues with

Answer 12

catalase positive

• staph aureus
• serratia marcescens

Question 13

X linked agammaglobulinemia has issues with… & tx

Answer 13

pulm and GI infxns

IVIG

Question 14

characteristics of Dengue fever

Answer 14

fever
HA
retroorbital pain
rash
myalgias, arthralgias

Question 15

characteristics of Trichinella

Answer 15

periorbital edema
myositis
eosinophilia
GI complaints
splinter hemorrhages

Question 16

tx of entamoeba histolytica

Answer 16

metronidazole

Question 17

tx of echinococcus

Answer 17

aspiration and albendazole

Question 18

sxs of entamoeba histolytica

Answer 18

bloody diarrhea
h/o travel 
abd pain
incr WBCs
solitary liver lesion

Question 19

febrile neutropenic patient ANC less than 500 prone to infxn with

Answer 19

pseudomonas

Question 20

HIV med that causes pancreatitis

Answer 20

didanosine

Question 21

HIV med that causes hypersensitivity

Answer 21

abacavir (NRTI)

Question 22

HIV meds that cause lactic acidosis

Answer 22

NRTIs

Question 23

HIV meds that cause SJS

Answer 23

NNRTIs

Question 24

HIV med that causes liver failure

Answer 24

nevirapine (NNRTI)

Question 25

HIV med that causes nephropathy

Answer 25

indinavir (protease inhibitor)

Question 26

mono treated with PCN (b/c thought was strep) has what kind of rash

Answer 26

morbiliform rash that’s on trunk (spares limbs)

Question 27

Hep C transfusion risk factor

Answer 27

if had transfusion before 1992

Question 28

Hep B newborn screen started what year

Answer 28

1991

Question 29

tick bite, causing decr WBC, decr plt

Answer 29

Ehrlichiosis

Question 30

blood tests for acute hep B infxn

Answer 30

HBsAg and anti-Hbc