Infectious disease Flashcards
How do you dx CMV and treatment?
Inclusion bodies on smear and pos IgM. Symptomatic treatment. Gancyclovir tx but side effect neutropenia.
What is cytomegalovirus?
A mono like virus (fever, malaise, leukopenia, increased lymphs) WITHOUT pharyngitis. Member of the herpes family. Leading cause of blindness in AIDS patients.
What is EBV?
Member of the herpes family. Transmitted by saliva. Fever, pharyngitis, malaise, lymphadenopathy, fine lacy rash, splenomegaly.
Lab testing and treatment of EBV?
Lymphocytosis with atypical lymphs. Screening test…. Positive herterophile antibody or mono spot. VCA-IgM is best test for primary infection. Treat with supportive care.
Describe erythema infectiosioum. Cause, presentation, treatment.
Fifth disease. Caused by parvovirus B19. Malaise, headache, slapped cheek rash and macular papular rash on trunk, no palms or soles. Treatment supportive care.
What is a rash of grouped small vesicles on an erythematosus base?
Herpes simplex.
Describe the process of herpes type 1.
Any mucosal surface. Painful lasts 5-10 days. Burning then lesions.
Describe herpes type 2.
Genital herpes. 5 day incubation after exposure. Painful multiple lesions. Paresthesias noted 12-24 hrs before lesions.
What is the lab test for herpes?
Tzank smear.
Treatment for herpes simplex?
Acyclovir. IV for encephalitis.
Describe influenza and the clinical presentation.
RNA virus. Spread by respiratory droplets. Incubation is 1-3 days. Patient presents with abrupt fever, myalgia, headache, nonproductive cough. Look sick but exam normal. WBC may be low.
Where is influenza A found?
Institutional settings.
Where is influenza B found?
Schools and military.
What is the treatment for influenza A?
Rimantadine or zanamivir. Antivirals MUST be given within 48 hrs!!! No later.
What is Reye’s syndrome?
Side eft of giving a child aspirin. No ASA for kids with viral infections!
Describe mumps.
Painful swollen parotid glands, fever, headache, malaise. Incubation 12-24 days, may have orchitis, oophoritis, pancreatitis. Dx with viral culture in saliva. Treat supportive or vaccine to prevent.
Describe rabies.
Rhabdovirus, transmitted by infected saliva. S/S: paresthesias, hydrophobia, rage. Convulsions, paralysis, thick muscle spasm, saliva.
Treatment for rabies exposure?
Wash and clean wound. Post rabies exposure immunization. RIG -full dose around wound (don’t give if previously immunized) then vaccine on day 0,3,,7,14,28. If previously immunized then vaccine on day 0,3.
What is roseola?
From herpes virus 6 & 7. Under age 5. High fever x 3 days then rash on trunk. Supportive care and fever control.
Roseola?
High fever x 3 days then rash on trunk.
What is rubella?
Systemic illness with lymphadenopathy 5-10 days before rash. Fever, then macula papular rash to face then trunk then extremities. May have Forcheimer spots. Complication include cataracts and deafness in congenital rubella. Treatment is immunization.
What are forchheimer spots?
Petechial lesions on the soft palate found in rubella
Rubella?
Lymphadenopathy then fever and rash on face then trunk then extremities.
Describe rubeola? (Measles)
Transmitted by infects droplets, prodrome of coryza, cough, conjunctivitis then fever AND rash. Brick red macula papular rash on face the trunk then limbs. Treatment is symptomatic and isolate 1 week after rash gone. Has koplik’s spots.
What s a koplik’s spot?
White or blue grey lesions on a red base opposite a molar, found in rubeola ( measles)
Describe acute varicella (chicken pox).
Starts with fever and malaise, then a puritic papular rash appears. First lesions is dewdrop on a rose petal. lesions at any stage at any given time
What is the most common complication of varicella?
Bacterial infection.
Treatment for varicella?
Supportive, antivirals, immunoglobin in a pregnancy or immunocompromised.
Who get the zoster vaccine?
Anyone I’ve the age of 60 gets vaccine once.
What is the most common opportunistic fungal infection?
Candida
What is thrush?
Oropharyngeal candida infection. White plaques on buccal mucosa with. Erythematous base.
Describe a cutaneous candida infection.
Erythematous lesions with distinct borders and satellite lesions.
How do you diagnose candida infection?
KOH
Treatment for candida infections?
Azoles….. Fluconazole in AIDS. Bad fungal infection? Amphotericin B.
What causes the most fungal meningitis?
Cryptococcosis.
Describe cryptococcosis.
Most common in immunocompromised patients. Fungal meningitis. Looks like bacterial meningitis with headache, mental status changes, meningismus, visual abnormalities.
What does cryptococcosis look like on lab tests?
CSF: decreased glucose, increased WBC. India ink prep.
Treatment for cryptococcosis?
Amphotericin B plus flucytosine.
Histoplasmosis buzz words?
Mississippi and Ohio river valley, bird or bad dropping, caves, causes respiratory illness.
What does the CXR look like in histoplasmosis?
Pneumonia with miliary pattern,
Torment of histoplasmosis?
Itraconazole - mild to mod
Amphotericin B - severe
Buzz words for coccidioidomycosis?
SoCal to Texas, pulmonary sx and arthralgias. Dx by culture. Tx: fluconazole or Amphotericin B
What is the most common vector borne infection in the US and the bug that causes it?
Lyme disease caused by borrelia burgdorferi.
Lyme disease is common when and where.
New England and Wisconsin in summer months hiking or camping.
Describe stage 1 of Lyme disease.
3-30 days after tick bite. Flu like symptoms, headache, malaise, classic rash of target lesion (erythema migrans).
Describe stage 2 of Lyme disease.
Weeks to months later: Bell’s palsy, AV block, meningitis
What happens in stage 3 of Lyme disease?
Migratory polyarthritis.
What is the lab test for Lyme disease?
ELISA
Treatment for Lyme disease?
Doxycycline. If serious heart or neuro sx the IV rocephin