Infectious 3 Flashcards
What to do for patients with positive serology and negative PCR for HCV?
repeat serology–If positive–indicate the previous infection
Positive serology and negative PCR?
Recent infection
Right side IE complication?
Rare peripheral symptom
Common septic PE
HF is not common
Often lack audible murmur
Cause of post influenza bacterial pnumonia?
S, Pneumonia
CA-MRSA
S, Pneumonia?
MCC(especially age >65)
Rare in young
Lobar pattern
CA-MRSA?
MCC in young adult
Rapid,diffiuze necrotising pnumonia
Multiple cavitary lesions, pulmonary infiltrate
Leukopenia
Other screening to do inpatient with gonococcal urethritis?
HIV
HBV
Syphilis serology(But if positive no need for additional Tx, ceftriaxone treat it)
Hydatid cyst of the liver?
Unilocular(Echinococcus granulosus)
Multilocular(Echinococcus Multilocularis)
Usually asymptomatic
can involve any organ
Contact with a dog is a risk(it is a carrier)
Eggshell calcification cyst in the liver is diagnostic
Albendazole is the treatment with surgery
Is spilled during surgery it can cause anaphylaxis
What to do inpatient with active CMV infection(e.g colitis)
Retinal examination
How to diagnose CMG organ(GI and other ) infection?
Tissue biopsy
viremia not diagnostic
C.trachomatis infection?
Treat with azithromycin
Partner with contact in last 60 days should be screened and treated
Reinfection is common
The HACEK group of bacteria?
1) Include (Haemophilus species, Aggregatibacter species, Cardiobacterium hominis, Eikenella corrodens, and Kingella species)
2) Are a small, heterogeneous group of fastidious, gram-negative bacteria
3) Frequently colonize the oropharynx and
4) Have long been recognized as a cause of infective endocarditis(<3 %)
Coccidiosis?
Inhalation of arthroconidia SW USA(Arizona,California) Pneumonia Artheralgia Erythema nodusum Erythema multiform
diagnosis?
serology
Culture
Managment?
In healthy–Just do a follow-up
Inpatient with underlying disease–Dissemination(bone, CNS and skin is common)–Need antifungal(ketoconazole,fluconazole)