Infectious Disease Flashcards
Pneumonia + blood smear (red cell agglutination) - organism?
Mycoplasma pneumoniae
IgM ab against the bug react against RBCs at cold temp -> haemolytic anaemia
Why do you get continuous motor spasms with tetanus toxin (tetanospasmin)?
Blockage of inhibitory neurotransmitters GABA and Glycine
Pruritic rash on the buttocks or soles
GI - diarrhoea + abdo pain / bloating
Organism? method of infection?
Strongyloides stercoralis - penetrates the skin
How do penicillins and cephalosphorins work?
Inhibit cell wall formation (beta-lactams)
Mx of Leigonella?
Macrolides - erythromycin / clarithromycin
Measles transmission?
Aerosol transmission
Mx of chlamydia? what if pregnant?
7d Doxycycline (If CI Azithromycin)
If pregnant:
- Azithromycin, erythromycin or amoxicillin
A history of Intravenous drug use coupled with a descending paralysis, diplopia and bulbar palsy is characteristic of infection with ……
Clostridium botulinum
Mx of UTI in pregnancy?
Nitro unless close to term
What are the features of Japanese encephalitis?
Headaches, fever, seizures and confusion
Parkinsonian features suggest basal ganglia involvement
Can also present with flaccid paralysis
Mx of C. Jejuni infection?
Clarithromycin
What medication should should all patients with CD4 <200/mm3 recieve?
Prophylaxis against Pneumocys
What are some characteristic features of pneumococcal pneumonia? (strep pneumo)
rapid onset
high fever
pleuritic chest pain
herpes labialis (cold sores)
Ciprofloxacin increases the risk of which infection?
MRSA
Draw and learn the Gram +ve bacteria diagram
Yes please!
Bilateral conjunctivitis, bilateral calf pains and high fevers in a sewage worker
Organism? mx?
Leptospirosis
Mx: High dose benzylpenicillin / doxycycline
Trypanosoma cruzi, causes what disease? what is the most frequent and severe complication? other complications?
Chagas disease
Dilated cardiomyopathy (due to myocarditis + can also have arrhythmias)
GI features - Megaoesophagus + Megacolon -> constipation and dysphagia
Investigations for Lyme disease?
ELISA 1st
If +ve or equivocal -> immunoblot test (western blot)
gram-negative diplococci that can be identified on gram staining
Organism?
Neisseria gonorrhoea
What can occur in lung cavity from prev TB?
Aspergilloma
How do macrolides work? What are some adverse effects?
Inhibit the 50S subunit of ribosomes
Adverse:
- Nausea (esp erythromycin)
- P450 inhibitor
- Prolonged QT interval
Most common cause of bladder calcification? mx?
Schistosomiasis is the most common cause of bladder calcification worldwide
Schistosoma haematobium causes haematuria
mx: single oral dose of praziquantel
Which vaccines are live attenuated and hence CI in those on immunosupressive therapy
BCG
measles, mumps, rubella (MMR)
influenza (intranasal)
oral rotavirus
oral polio
yellow fever
oral typhoid
vaginal discharge: offensive, yellow/green, frothy
vulvovaginitis
strawberry cervix
pH > 4.5
in men is usually asymptomatic but may cause urethritis
Suggestive of which organism infection? mx?
Trichomonas vaginalis
Mx: oral metronidazole 5-7d or 1 dose 2g
Most common cause of central line infections?
Staph epidermis
Features of severe malaria falciparum?
Feature of severe falciparum malaria
schizonts on a blood film
parasitaemia > 2%
hypoglycaemia
acidosis
temperature > 39 °C
severe anaemia
complications as below
Complications
cerebral malaria: seizures, coma
acute renal failure: blackwater fever, secondary to intravascular haemolysis, mechanism unknown
acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS)
hypoglycaemia
disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC)
Which bacteria are gram +ve cocci and which are gram -ve cocci?
Gram-positive cocci = staphylococci + streptococci (including enterococci)
Gram-negative cocci = Neisseria meningitidis + Neisseria gonorrhoeae, also Moraxella catarrhalis
Which bacteria are Gram +ve rods (bacilli)
mnemonic = ABCD L
Actinomyces
Bacillus anthracis (anthrax)
Clostridium
Diphtheria: Corynebacterium diphtheriae
Listeria monocytogenes
Some examples of Gram -ve rods?
CHESS P
Campylobacter jejuni
Haemophilus influenzae
Escherichia coli
Salmonella sp.
Shigella sp.
Pseudomonas aeurginosa
black eschar that is typically painless
Organism / infection? mx?
Anthrax - Bacillus anthracis
Mx: Ciprofloxacin
What is an alternative for PCP mx? Issues with this?
Aersolised pentamidine - less effective and risk of pneumothorax
Most commonly isolated organism from animal bites?
Pasteurella multocida
What is Q fever caused by? how does this present?
Coxiella burnetti
No rash but causes pneumonia
Gram+ve organism in clusters
Coagulase -ve
Causes UTI - which group esp?
Esp in young sexually active women
Staph saprophyticus
What can cause IDA in patients returning from travel to endemic regions (eg indian subcontinent)
Hookworms
Retro-orbital headache, fever, facial flushing, rash, thrombocytopenia in returning traveller
Diagnosis?
Dengue
Abx of choice for animal bites?
Co-amox
What malignancies are associated with EBV?
Burkitt’s lymphoma
Hodgkin’s lymphoma
nasopharyngeal carcinoma
What does atypical lymphocytes on blood film suggest?
Glandular fever
What is Kaposi sarcoma caused by?
HHV-8 (human herpes virus 8)
Describe LP findings in Viral meningitis:
Opening pressure - normal
Cell count - raised
Cell differential - Lymphocytes
Glucose - Normal / 2/3 of serum levels
Protein - within normal range / raised
depigmentation and loss of sensation
Infectious cause?
Leprosy
Gram-positive cocci in clusters, which are coagulase positive
Organism?
Staphylococcus aureus
Mx of toxoplasmosis inn immunocompromised patients?
pyrimethamine plus sulphadiazine
Abx recommended for animal and human bites?
Co-amox
What are some examples of live attenutated vaccines which should be not recommended for those with weakened immune systems?
MY BOOTI
MMR
Yellow
BCG
Oral poilo
Oral rotavirus
Typhoid oral
Influenza intranasal
Severe vomiting
Short incubation period
suggestive of which cause of gastroenteritis?
Staph aureus
Hep E - risk is associated with what? how is it spread?
Faecal-oral spread, commonly affecting shellfish and pork products
Mx of PCP?
co-trimoxazole
IV pentamidine in severe cases
aerosolized pentamidine is an alternative treatment for Pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia but is less effective with a risk of pneumothorax
steroids if hypoxic (if pO2 < 9.3kPa then steroids reduce risk of respiratory failure by 50% and death by a third)
Why is primaquine used in mx of non-falciparum malaria?
Destroy liver hypnozoites and prevent relapse