Infectious Disease Flashcards
Organism most closely linked with GBS
Campylobacter jejuni
GI illness from water park with oocysts in stool
Cryptosporidium (tx with nitazoxanide)
History of influenza increases chance of PNA caused by
Staph Aureus
Recent chicken pox increases chance of toxic shock sepsis 2/2
Strep pyogenes
Most common cause of catheter related bacteremia
Staph epidermidis
Most common bacterial cause of OM, meningitis, PNA, bacteremia
Strep pneumoniae
Group A Strep (strep pyogenes) causes (6 things):
Pharyngitis Impetigo Strep TSS Rheumatic fever Acute GN Scarlet fever
Treatment of strep throat
Pen V x 10 days OR
Amoxicillin OR
Erythromycin x 10 days for PCN-allergic
Or IM pen G x 1
Sandpaper rash
Scarlet fever (strep pharyngitis plus rash). Treat like pharyngitis.
Major cause of newborn PNA, bacteremia, and meningitis
Group B strep (strep agalactiae)
Strep pyogenes
Group A Strep
Strep agalactiae
Group B strep
Gram positive rods
Listeria Corynebacterium Arcanobacterium Bacillus Clostridium
Gray white pharyngeal membrane, URI, low grade fever, hoarseness
Diphtheria
Sheep handler with painless papule, progresses to painless ulcer and eschar.
Bacillus anthracis
Presents with scarlet fever like rash and sore throat
Arcanobacterium
CXR with PNA and Widened mediastinum
Bacillus anthracis
Fried rice left at room temperature
Bacillus cereus
Chitterlings
Yersinia
Diarrhea with seizures
Shigella
Penetrating injury to eye
Bacillus cereus
Constipated and hypotonic child
Clostridium botulism
Gram negative cocci
Neisseria (meningococcus, gonorrhea)
Mortadella
Meningitis prophylaxis for pregnant women
Ceftriaxone
Tx for neisseria meningitidis
PCN G or ceftriaxone
Concern for complement deficiency in N. Meningitidis
Order CH50
Eye ointment at birth is useful for preventing
Gonococcal ophthalmia (does not prevent chlamydia)
Nail puncture wounds through a tennis shoe
Pseudomonas
IV drug user with endocarditis/osteomyelitis
Pseudomonas