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1
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What are penicillins good at treating?

A

strep/staph, syphilis

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What is vanco good at covering?

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gram-pos and c. diff (PO)

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What are macrolides good at covering?

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atypicals and ppl with PCN allergy

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4
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What is clindamycin used for?

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additional anearobic coverage

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5
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What are common SE of flouroquinolones?

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prolonged QT, cartilage damage, tendon rupture

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6
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What are common SE of aminoglcosides?

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ototoxicity (irreversible), nephrotoxicity (reversible)

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What are aminoglucycosides good at covering?

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gram-neg

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8
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What is metronidazole good at covering?

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anaerobes and C. diff

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9
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Patient who is a cattle farmer presents with black eschar rash, pneumonia and N/V/D

A

anthrax

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10
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What is anthrax?

A

gram-pos spore-forming rod

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11
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What is tx of anthrax?

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cipro or doxy

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Patient returns from mexico and has bloody diarrhea, fever, maliase, abd pain

A

salmonella

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13
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How do you tx salmonella?

A

cipro x2 weeks

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14
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What is presentation of shigella?

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diarrhea, cramps

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15
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How do you treat shigella?

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only if severe, bactrim or flouroquinolone

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16
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Patient presents with rice water stools, and no fecal odor

A

cholera

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17
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How do you tx cholera?

A

macrolide

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18
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How do you dx rocky mountain spotted?

A

ELISA then western blot

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19
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How do you treat rocky mountain spotted?

A

doxycycline

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20
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Where do you see tularemia?

A

Arkansas, Oklahoma

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21
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How do you treat tularemia?

A

gentamicin or tetracycline

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22
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How do you dx malaria?

A

blood smear

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23
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What is tx of malaria?

A

chloroquine

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24
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Patient has multiple ring-enhacing lesion son CT scan

A

toxoplasmosis

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25
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What is tx of toxoplasmosis?

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pytimethamine and sulfadiazine

26
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Patient presents with bloody diarrhea and hepatic abscess

27
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What is tx of amebiasis?

A

metronidazole

28
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Patient presents after camping with diarrhea and greasy foul smelling stools w/o blood

29
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What is tx for giardia?

A

metronidazole

30
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What is associated with schistosomiasis?

31
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What is assocaited with infected pork?

A

trichinosis

32
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What do you treat worms with?

A

albendaole and mebendazole

33
Q

When is someone considered to have AIDS?

A

CD4 under 200 or AIDS-defining condition

34
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CD4 under 200 diseases

A

Kaposi sarcoma, TB, oral thrush, PCP, lymphoma, oral hairy leukoplakia

35
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How do you treat PCP pna?

36
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What causes kaposi sarcoma?

A

human herpes virus 8 (HHV8)

37
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CD4 under 100 diseases

A

toxoplasmosis, cryptococcosis, disseminated candida

38
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CD4 under 50

39
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How do you treat CMV?

A

gangciclovir

40
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How do you treat MAC?

41
Q

philadelphia chormosome

42
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How do you treat CML?

A

imatinib, chemo, BM transplant

43
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Aure rods

44
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what age does AML usually occur?

45
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Which leukemia is tolerated well for years?

46
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How do you treat CLL?

A

rituximab, prednisone, fludarabine

47
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What age does ALL affect?

A

kids usually

48
Q

What is multiple myeloma?

A

malignant plasma cells

49
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What sxs are associated with multiple myeloma?

A

hyperCa, fx, renal failure, anemia

50
Q

When do you see bence jones proteins?

A

multiple myeloma

51
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how do you treat multiple myeloma?

A

clacitonin, biphosphonates, alkylating agents, thalodomide, prednosone, BM transplant

52
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What is caused by antibodies against platelets causing thrombocytopenia?

53
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What is tx for ITP?

A

steroids acutely, IVIG, splenectomy

54
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Patient presents with renal failure, hemolytic anemia, thrombocytopenia, and neuro changes and fever

55
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What are risk factors for TTP/HUS?

A

E. coli 0157:H7

56
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What is treatment for TTP/HUS?

A

plasmaphoresis, FFP

57
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What shouldn’t you do in TTP/HUS?

A

platelet transfusions

58
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When does HIT occur?

A

5-10 days after exposure to heparin

59
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What is treatment of HIT?

A

anticoag (argatroban, dabigatran)

60
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basophilic stippling

A

sideroblastic anemia

61
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What causes sideroblastic anemia?

A

lead poisoning

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