Infections

Question 1

Infection associated with iron-overload states (such as hemochromatosis)?

Answer 1

Yersinia enterocolitica

Question 2

the one cause of bacterial (non-tuberculous) meningitis with CSF showing increased lymphocytes (greater than 25 percent)

Answer 2

Listeria

Question 3

eating improperly frozen raw salmon + Nausea and vomiting + worm on EGD

Treatment?

Answer 3

Anisakis

EGD with worm removal

Question 4

Infection that is initially pulmonary, then becomes GI after 2 months?

Answer 4

Ascaris lumbricoides

larvae pass through the lungs, (Loeffler’s syndrome), causing cough/hemoptysis

Then GI biliary/pancreatic symptoms or intestinal obstruction

Question 5

Infection begins when larvae enter cutaneously (itch) then causes Fe deficiency anemia

Answer 5

Ancylostoma duodenale (hook worm)

Question 6

Bloody diarrhea with, with right colon inflammation and higher risk of patients who recently took prednisone? Treatment?

Answer 6

Intestinal amebiasis

metronidazole 500 mg - 750 mg orally three times daily for 10 days, followed by a luminal agent such as paromomycin 25-30 mg / kg daily in three divided doses for seven days.

Question 7

Organism that causes an antibiotic-associated Hemorrhagic colitis (symptoms stop with cessation of antibiotics)

Answer 7

Klebsiella oxytoca