Infection

Question 1

What is the treatment for orbital cellulitis?

Answer 1

Intravenous cefotaxime

Question 2

What lobe would you expect herpes simplex encephalitis?

Answer 2

Temporal lobe

Question 3

Treatment for life threatening c.diff?

Answer 3

Oral Vancomycin IV metronidazole

Question 4

What hepatitis is most likely in pregnant women?

Answer 4

E

Question 5

What valve is most commonly affected in infective endocarditis?

Answer 5

Mitral

Question 6

What is the most common cause of travellers diarrhoea?

Answer 6

E coli

Question 7

What is the treatment for recurrent C.diff?

Answer 7

Oral fidaxomicin

Question 8

Why do you not give ibuprofen in chicken pox?

Answer 8

Risk of necrotising fasciitis

Question 9

What antibiotics can cause pseudomembranous colitis?

Answer 9

Ceftriaxone

Question 10

What is the most common site of infective endocarditis in IVDU?

Answer 10

Tricuspid valve

Question 11

What is the most common organism to be found in ascitic fluid of spontaneous bacterial peritonitis?

Answer 11

E coli

Question 12

What is the indication for pneumocystis jiroveci prophylaxis and what antibiotics?

Answer 12

CD4 count < 200 - cotrimoxazole