Infectious Flashcards
Red eye in neonates
Red eye with purulent discharge, tense edema of eyelids with marked chemosis
Causative agent and treatment?
N gonorrhea
Ceftriaxone 50mg/kg 1 dose
Red eye in neonates
Mild to severe swelling of eyelids with copious purulent discharge
Causative agent and treatment
Chlamydia trachomatis
Erythromycin
Red eye in neonates
Edema and erythema of eyelids
Purulent discharge
Pannus formation, endophthalmitis
Causative agent and treatment?
Pseudomonas
Gentamicin eye ointment
Systemic antibiotics
Red itchy eyes
Thin exudate
Pain and photophobia
+/- Cough and colds
Adenovirus
Older children
Red eyes with presence of pus
Staph
Red eyes with pus Inclusion bodies in scraping Inturned eyelashes Corneal scarring Blindness
Chlamydia
Bilateral eye lid swelling
Eosinophils
Muscle pain
History of GIT infection
Trichinella
Unilateral inflammation at bite site around eye or mouth
History of travel to mexico or South America
Trypanosoma
All cestoded are treated with praziquantel except
Echinococcus - albendazole
Treatment for trichuris
Mebendazole
Treatment for enterobius
Pyrantel pamoate
Treatment for strongyloides
Ivermectin
Treatment for trichinella
Thiabendazole
Treatment for wuchurerianand brugia
DEC
Treatment for recurrent carbunculosis to eradicate nasopharyngeal carriage of staphylococcus aureus
Mupirocin
Cutaneous lesions from mosquito bite and child keeps on scratching
Multiple, dry heaped up tightly adherent crusts
Ecthyma
Cutaneous lesions from mosquito bite and child keeps on scratching
Initially vesicular, honey crusted lesion
Catalase negative
No systemic symptoms
Impetigo
GABHS
To prevent disease in those siblings exposed to varicella, live vaccine is given within how many days?
3-5
Inflamed erythematous skin, tender and warm
Red, raised, butterfly rash in appearance with pain and rapid spreading
Erysipelas
Cutaneous lesions from mosquito bite and child keeps on scratching
Following contact with saltwater or oysters
Vibrio
Cutaneous lesions from mosquito bite and child keeps on scratching
Burn patient
Blue green pus
Grape like odor
Pseudomonas
Solitary or lymphocutaneous lesions
Rose gardener or likes lying in the garden
Sporothrix schenckii
Lymphatic obstruction with painless genital ulcer
Chlamydia
Lymphogranuloma venereum
Granulomatous lesions with draining sinus tracts
Jaw area swelling
Yellow exudate
Dental caries
Actinomyces
Granulomatous lesions with draining sinus tracts
Tropical fish enthusiasts
Mycobacterium marinum
Granulomatous lesions with draining sinus tracts
Subcutaneous swelling of shoulder
Sinus tract formation
Granules
Nocardia
Malignant pustule
To dark red fluid filled
Necrosis to black eschar
Anthrax
Target or Bull’s eye lesion
Fever headache
Borrelia burgdorferi
History of animal bite
Cellulitis with lymphadenitis
Pasteurella
History of cat bite or scratches
Lymphadenopathy with stellate granulomas
Bartonella
History of shallow puncture wound through tsinelas or rubber shoes
Pseudomonas
Pharyngoconjunctival fever most commonly caused by
Adenovirus
Treatment for diphtheria
Penicillin G
Sore throat
White papules with red base on posterior palate and pharynx
Herpangina
Coxsackie A
Finely papular erythematous eruption producing a bright red discoloration of the skin, blanches on pressure, more intense along the creases of the elbow, axilla and groin
Skin has goose pimple appearance and feels rough
After 4 days, rash fades and desquamates
Scarlet fever
GAHBS
Infectious arthritis following GIT infection
Reiters disease
Petechiae to purpuric lesions
Generalized abrupt onset with fever, chills, prostration and shock
Meningococcemia
Petechiae to purpuric lesions
Fever headache and rash that includes palms and soles
Rocky mountain spotted fever
Rickettsia ricketsii
Petechiae to purpuric lesions
Fever headache and rash that spares the palms and soles
Rickettsia prowazekii
Diffuse erythematous macular sunburn rash
Trunk, neck and extremities with desquamation on palms and soles
Acute onset of fever, pharyngitis
Diarrhea
Hypotension
Toxic shock syndrome
Roseola causative agent
HHV 6
Cough
Coryza
Conjunctivitis
Fever
Measles
Rashes
Posterior cervical, cervical or auricular nodes
German measles
Slapped cheek then spread to trunk with central clearing
Erythema infectiosum
Abrupt onset fever with URTI
Fever disappears
Onset of rash on trunk and spread
Roseola
Rapid onset of fever Myalgia Ocular pain Hyperesthesia Rash blanches on pressure
Dengue
Intervention to decreased mortality of measles
Vitamin A supplementation
For children more than 1 year old, post exposure prophylaxis can be given through measles vaccine
How many hours post exposure can it be administered?
Within 72 hours
Cowdry type A inclusion bodies
HSV
Councilman bodies
Viral Hepatitis
Warthin Finkeldey cells
Measles
Koplik spots
Rubeola
Forchheimer spots
Rubella
Nagayama spots
Roseola
Period of communicability of mumps
1-2 days before onset of swelling until 5 days after
Treatment for leptospirosis
Penicillin or tetracycline