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Infectious Disease Flashcards

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What are the three outcomes of an organism entering the body?

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Entry, cleared and NO INFECTION.

Entry, multiply without tissue damage get INFECTION.

Entry, multiply, tissue damage, get INFECTIOUS DISEASE.

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What is infectivity?

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Ability of an infectious agent to multiply.

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What is pathogenicity?

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Ability of an infectious agent to cause disease.

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Compare pathogenicity to infectivity.

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Pathogenicity-Can it cause disease?

Infectivity-Can it multiply?

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What are the steps of infection?

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  1. Enter the body. Can do so through lot’s of different ways, but you have to bypass the body’s natural barriers.
  2. Multiply locally.
  3. Spread-along the path of least resistance such as along tissue planes, lymphatics, blood.
  4. Set up focus of infection at distant site.
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Acute infectious state

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Short term infection with symptoms. Days to weeks.

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Chronic infectious states.

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Long-term active infection with symptoms. Weeks to years.

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Subclinical infectious states.

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Infection detectable by tests only.

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Latent infectious state

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No active growth or organisms, but can reactivate (TB, chickenpox, HIV)

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Carrier

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Active growth of organisms with or without symptoms.

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What is a culture and what is it used for?

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Isolation of the pathogen. Bacterial infections.

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How does serology work and what type of infections is it used for?

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Detecting pathogen specific antibodies in the serum. Bacterial, viral and fungal.

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What are Nucleic-acid based tests and what are they used for?

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Molecular diagnostics. PCR, transcription mediated amplification, nucleic acid hybridization, etc. Viral and fungal.

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Gross inspection vs. Microscopic inspection

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Both are observation of organisms/pathologic changes in tissue or other clinical samples.

Gross-resected or autopsy organs.
Microscopic-biopsy or fluids.

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What is H&E Staining?

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Direct observation of agents or products in hematoxylin and eosin staining. Acid vs. bases.

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What does Gram stain identify?

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Most bacteria, some yeast

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What does acid-fast stain?

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Mycobacteria and nocardia.

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What does silver stain?

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Fungi, legionella and pneumocystis.

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What does Mucicarmine stain?

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Cryptococci.

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What does giemsa stain?

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Campylobacteria, helicobacter, leishmaniae, malaria.

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What are specific antibody probes.

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Raise an antibody against the target. Becomes a colored tag. Used against all classes and common in cancers.

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What do special stains do?

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Identify organisms on the basis of particular characteristics of their cell wall or coat.

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How does host response induce damage?

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Immune mechanisms of host result in tissue damage. Our immune response is responsible for most of our symptoms.

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What are the mechanisms of damage of enzymes?

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Tissue destruction, vascular damage, ischemic injury.

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What type of inflammation doe lymphomononuclear and granulomatous fall under?

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Chronic.

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What causes the cytopathic/proliferative tissue response?

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Virus.

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What causes necrosis predominant?

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WARTS. Clostridium perfringes.

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What is cytopathic/cytoproliferative inflammatory response characterized by?

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Cell necrosis and/or cellular proliferation. Inflammatory cells are sparse.

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Viral inclusions

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Aggregation of viral material

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Multinucleated cells

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Fusion of host cells

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31
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What is infective endocarditis?

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A serious infection of the heart valves and endocardium caused by bacteria.

(Prescribe prophylatic antibiotics to patients with valve problems.)

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32
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What are vegetations?

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Globs of material formed by infective endocarditis. Composed of organisms and bits of clot that sit on the heart valve and destroy the underlying cardiac tissues.

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What is the characteristic injury type of infective endocarditis.

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Acute inflammation, evolving into chronic with eventual scarring.

34
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Describe community acquired acute pneumonias.

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Usually bacterial. Exudate (Neutrophililic inflammaiton). Lung consolidation seen radiographically and histologically. Clinically presents with high fevers, elevated WBC, difficulty breathing and copious sputum.

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Describe Atypical Pneumonias

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Moderate sputum, moderate or mild elevation of WBC. No exudates. Inflammation is interstitial and mononuclear. Can get additional bacterial infection. “Walking Pneumonia”

36
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What is the characteristic injury types of Acute pneumonias?

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Suppurative inflammation, evolving into chronic.

37
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What causes atypical pneumonias?

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Viral and mycoplasmal.

38
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What is the characteristic injury type of atypical pneumonias?

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Chronic inflammation, occasionally cytopathic.

39
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What type of injury is associated with Chronic Fungal Pneumonia?

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Granulomatous inflammation with or without some suppurative inflammation.

40
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What is the most important sign of TB?

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Granulomatous inflammation.

41
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Who is affected by primary TB?

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A newly exposed patient. First time getting it.

42
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What is the classic lesions of primary TB?

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Ghon complex. Mad up of Parenchymal lesion and hilar lymph node lesions.

43
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Who gets secondary TB?

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Previously sensitized host. It is a reactivation or reinfection.

44
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What type of lesions are found in secondary TB?

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Cavitary lesions. Mostly in apices of lung. Less involvement of hilar lymph nodes.

45
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What is Miliary TB?

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Bacilli disseminate throughout the lymphatic and arterial system. Hundreds of tiny granulomas. Can spread systematiccaly especially in the liver, bone marrow and spleen.

46
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What is verruca vulgaris?

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Warts.

47
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What is the causative agent of verruca vulgaris?

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HPV Human papilloma virus.

48
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What type of reaction does verruca vulgaris cause?

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Cytopathic and cytoproliferative

49
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What is the causative agent of molluscum contagiosum? What type of reaction does it cause?

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Molluscum Contagiousum virus (Poxvirus)

Cytopathic.

50
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What is impetigo?

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A superficial bacterial infection. Blisters burst and form honey-colored crusts around the nose and mouth.

51
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What causes impetigo?

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Streptococcus pyogenes or staph aureus.

52
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What type of reaction is impetigo?

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Acute.

53
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What are superficial fungal infections?

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Caused by dermatophytes. Confined to the stratum corneum or the very top layer of skin.

54
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What type of reactions are superficial fungal infections?

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Acute, some chronic.

55
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What is meningitis?

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Inflammation of the meninges.

56
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What type of reaction is acute bacterial meningitis?

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Acute inflammation. Neutrophils! Pus!

57
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What does aspetic mean when referring to aseptic meningitis?

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A VIRAL infection. Aseptic refers to the fact that a causative agent that can’t be cultured. Usually enteroviruses and arboviruses.

58
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What type of reaction is viral meningitis?

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Chronic inflammation. Lymphocytes and macrophages.

59
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What are the 3 Ms of Herpes?

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Multinucleation
Nuclear Molding
Margination of Nuclear chromatin

60
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What causes Herpes and what is the injury type?

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Herpes simplex virus 1 & 2.

Cytopathic

61
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What is oral candidiasis?

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Thrush. Superficial, curdy, gray-white inflammatory membrane that is composed of fungal elements in a fibrinopurulent exudate. (Neutrophils and amorphous debris)

62
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What would a biopsy of Hand-Foot-and-Mouth disease show?

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Vesicle formation, mononuclear inflammation, individual necrotic cells.

63
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What type of a reaction is Hand Foot and Mouth disease?

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Cytopathic/chronic caused by coxsackie A16 or Enterovirus 71

64
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What are the oral manifestations of scarlet fever?

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Raspberry tongue (Fiery red with prominant papillae) and strawberry tongue (White coated with hyperemic papillae).

65
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What are the oral manifestations of measles?

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Koplik spots. Ulcerations of buccal mucosa appear as white spots in the oral cavity.

66
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What are the oral manifestations of infectious mononucleosis or Epstein Barr Virus?

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Acute pharyngitis and tonsillitis that may cause coating with white-grey membrane. Enlargement of lymphnodes in neck. Palatal petechiae.

67
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What are the oral manifestations of diptheria?

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Acute inflammation. Dirty white fibrinosuppurative, tough inflammatory membrane over tonsils and posterior pharynx. It is a pseudomembrane. NEVER PICK IT OFF. Can obstruct or release virus into airways.

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What is a primary immunodeficiency?

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Congenital defect in immune system.

69
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What is acquired immunodeficiency?

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HIV, transplant patients on immunosuppressive therapy, cancer patients, pregnant, elderly, etc.

70
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What is HIC pathogenicity based on?

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Suppression of cellular immunity as a result of the loss of CD4+ T helper lymphocytes.

71
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How can HIV primary infection be detected?

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May be subclinical. But can manifest as acute retroviral syndrome including conjunctivitis, pharyngitis, rash, etc.

72
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What is HIV latency?

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The primary infection is followed by a long period of clinical latency. On average 10 years. Carrier is clinically normal, but infectious. Virus is in CD4+ T lymphocyes, macrophages and langerhans cells in the skin.

73
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What is the HIV Lymphadenopathic stage?

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Drop in CD4+ T Lymphocytes. Rise in virus count in peripheral blood. Opportunistic infections begin to set in.

74
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What is the CD4+ Count thta indicates severe immunosuppression and AIDS?

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Below 200/mm3

75
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What are the 3 most important AIDS defining conditions?

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  1. P. carinni pneumonia
  2. Esophageal candidiasis
  3. Kaposi’s sarcoma.
76
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What is a Hairy Leukoplakia?

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Due to an EBV infection, but associated with AIDS.

Hyperkeratosis with fingerlike or hair-like extensions of keratin.

Many of the superficial keratinocytes show cytoplasmic clearing with perinuclear beading.

Candida is often found on the surface of the specimen.

77
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What is a Kaposi’s sarcoma?

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HIV related malignancy. Associated with Human Herpesvirus-8.

Proliferation of slit-like vessels and spindle cells.

78
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What are 3 things that cause pneumonia in an immunocomprimised host?

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Pneumocystis jiroveci
Aspergillus sp. (soil fungus)
Mycobacterium avium complex (MAI)

79
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In AIDS patients, what type of inflammatory response do the mycobacterial infections elicit?

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Diffuse with macrophages that are packed with the organisms. Acid-fast organisms.

(Granulomas are not the norm)

80
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What is toxoplasma gondii?

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Ingestion of cysts or oocytes. It is transplacental. Manifests in the CNS. Abcesses.

81
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What is cryptococcus?

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Fungal infection of meninges and CSF. Found in immunocompromised patients.

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