Infectious disease Flashcards
Hand foot mouth disease is caused by what virus
Coxasackievirus A16 or A10
Vesicles and a maculopaplar eruption on the palms of the hands and soles of the feet with oral lesions in children is most likely to be what
Hand foot mouth disease
how long is the recovery in hand, foot mouth disease
usually a week
what is the period of infectivity for measles
4 days before to two days after rash
Child presenting with malaise, fever, conjunctivitis, lymphadenopathy in the sub occipital, post auricular and posterior cervical groups, pinkish red, macular and discrete rash is what?
Rubella
Name three VHFs
Ebola, degree and yellow fever
Patient presenting with sudden onset fever, malaise, headache, eye pain, conjunctival suffusion, severe back pain, petechiae and transient rash and lymphadenopathy after tropical holiday is most likely to be what?
Dengue
Patient presenting with fever, malaise,, eye pain, maculopapular rash and prostration with spontaneous resolution after tropical holiday is most likely to be what?
Zika virus
Fever, headache, artralgia, maculopapular rash, myalgia and sometimes encephalitis that is mosquito born is what virus
chikungunya
What antibiotic is most used in Acute bacterial gastroenteritis?
Ciprofloxacin 500mg Bd
What two bacterial causes of Acute bacterial gastroenteritis are not treated with ciprofloxacin?
C.diff and campylobacter
What is the treatment of C.diff infection
Vancomycin or fidoxamycin
what is the most common cause of travellers diarrhoea?
E.coli
what is the incubation period of E.coli
24hrs
what bacterial cause of gastroenteritis has an incubation period of 48-72hrs
Campylobacter
