Infection Flashcards
IV drug abusers organism?
think pseudomonas
Septic arthritis in multiple joints with synovitis?
think gonococcal
who gets infections in S-joints? with what?
IV drug abusers
pseudomonas
Salmonella infection, who gets it?
Sickle Cell people
patients ingesting uncooked snake flesh, most often as a folk remedy for joint pain
the leading cause of pyarthrosis in children in the first 2 years of life?
Haemophilus influenzae
parrot-beak–like osteophyte has been reported as a characteristic feature of ?
spinal brucellosis
psittacosis is from what source?
zoonotic infectious disease contracted from parrots and other birds
How often do TB patients get MSK involvement?
approximately 10 cases per 10,000
LEPROSY AKA?
HANSEN’S DISEASE
what do you call nasal destruction in Leprosy?
rhinomaxillary or Bergen syndrome
Clutton’s joints?
In older syphilitic children, bilateral painless effusions, especially of the knee
hutchinsonian triad in syphilis?
Hutchinson’s teeth, interstitial keratitis, and nerve deafness
most common osseous lesion in early-acquired syphilis?
proliferative periostitis
Resorption of cortical bone due to the inflammatory reaction about a gumma frequently is termed?
caries sicca
two diseases indistinguishable from syphilis?
Yaws, Bejel
Infection after human bite - what organism?
Actinomycosis
an organism that demonstrates unusual predilection for the central nervous system?
CRYPTOCOCCOSIS (TORULOSIS)
NORTH AMERICAN BLASTOMYCOSIS MC where?
frequency is highest in the Ohio and Mississippi River valleys and in the Middle Atlantic States
desert rheumatism/valley fever?
In approximately 20 per cent of cases of COCCICIOIDOMYCOSIS, a sterile migratory polyarthritis without radiographic changesoccurs during the primary infection, 8 to 15 days after its onset, and is representative of a hypersensitivity syndrome
the most common systemic fungal infection in the United States?
HISTOPLASMOSIS
skeletal findings in congenital rubella infection?
The radiographic features consist of metaphyseal lesions in long bones characterized by symmetry, linear areas of radiolucency, and increased bone density, producing a longitudinally oriented striated pattern (celery stalk appearance) and the absence of periostitis
With healing, beaklike exostoses can be noted at the metaphyses
