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Infectious Disease Flashcards

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White curd like vaginal discharge should make you think of what diagnosis

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Vaginal candida infection

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Owl Eye inclusion bodies should make you think of what diagnosis

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Cytomegalovirus (CMV)

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If you have a patient with positive blood cultures for candida what is the first line drug

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Amphotericin B

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What is the treatment for pertussis

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Erythromycin for seven days

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A leukemia patient has a CT of the liver which shows punched out lesions. What diagnosis should you be thinking of

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Hepatosplenic candida

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What disease does rickettsia rickettsii cause

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Rocky Mountain spotted fever

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An India ink stain showing cyst should make you think of what diagnosis

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Cryptoccosis

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A COPD patient has apical cavities in calcified nodes on his CXR. You also discovered he has a pet bat and a few birds. What is the most likely diagnosis

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Histoplasmosis

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An HIV patient presents with a nonproductive cough and a chest x-ray showing diffuse interstitial infiltrates. What is the most likely diagnosis

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Pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia (PCJ) formerly known as pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP)

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Honey and babies should make you think of what diagnosis

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Botulism

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What type of organism causes botulism

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A gram-positive rod

Clostridium botulinum

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12
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What is the treatment for botulism

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Antitoxin

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A patient presents to the ER with acute progressive weakness, diplopia and a very dry mouth. What organism may be causing this

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Cholera

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Is diphtheria gram-positive or gram-negative organisms

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Gram-positive

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15
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A stuck on gray membrane in the pharynx should make you think of what diagnosis

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Diphtheria

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16
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What are four steps in treating diphtheria

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Antitoxin, penicillin, remove membrane, report the case to the CDC

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What is the clinical name for whooping cough

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Pertussis

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What type of organism causes tetanus

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A gram-positive rod, clostridium tetani

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A patient ate out last night and today has cramping and bloody diarrhea. What is the most likely organism

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Salmonella

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20
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Diarrhea with blood and mucus should make you think of

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Shigella

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21
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What is the best test to diagnose malaria

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Peripheral blood smear

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22
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What organism has been linked to reactive arthritis

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Shigella, also remember that reactive arthritis has a positive HLA – B27

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What is the treatment for shigella

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Bactrim or fluorquinolones and hydration

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24
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What organism causes Lyme disease

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Borrelia burgdorferi

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25
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What is the minimum amount of time needed for a tick to transfer Lyme disease to a human

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24 hours

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What is the drug of choice to treat Lyme disease in a kids or pregnant woman

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Amoxicillin

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What is the drug of choice to treat C. Difficile

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Metronidazole

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28
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A patient was in the woods yesterday and today presents with erythema migrans. What is the most likely diagnosis

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Lyme disease

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29
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What drug is used for the treatment or prophylaxis of malaria

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Cloroquine

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30
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A patient was camping a few days ago and now has a rash that began on his wrist and ankles. What is the most likely diagnosis

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Rocky Mountain spotted fever

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What is the drug of choice for treating Rocky Mountain spotted fever

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Doxycycline

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32
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What is the drug of choice for the treatment of syphilis

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Penicillin

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33
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Any reference to dark field microscopy should make you think of what organism

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Treponema pallidum

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34
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Is Staph gram-positive or gram-negative

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Gram-positive

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35
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A patient being treated with penicillin for a syphilis infection develops fever, chills, muscle pain and headaches. Do you stop the treatment

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No this is Jarisch-Herxheimer reaction. The patient must be closely monitored, but it is a response to released endotoxin from the death of the spirochetes and not an allergic reaction

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36
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What organism is believed to be the main culprit in creating peptic ulcers

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Helicobactor Pylori

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A painless, clean base chancre should make you think of what diagnosis

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Primary syphilis

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38
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Is pseudomonas gram-positive or gram-negative

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Gram-negative

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39
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A patient complains of a rash on his palms and soles. He has a fever and chills. In conversation he mentioned a strange painless chancre he had a few weeks ago. What is the most likely diagnosis

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Secondary syphilis. This is the most contagious stage

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40
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What is the treatment for cholera

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Fluids

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41
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What is the current drug of choice for the cytomegalovirus

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Ganciclovir

42
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Which herpes virus causes Epstein-Barr

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Herpes four

43
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A 16-year-old girl presents with an exudative sore throat and general malaise. On physical exam you observe some posterior chain lymphadenopathy and mild splenomegaly. What is the most likely diagnosis

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Epstein-Barr virus

44
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What are the two important pieces of patient education for anyone diagnosed with mononucleosis

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No contact sports in no kissing due to splenic rupture and highly contagious

45
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What is the first symptom of a rabies infection

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Pain and anesthesia at the site of the bite

46
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How do you definitively diagnosed rabies

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Pathology of the brain of the animal that preformed the bite using fluorescent antibody stain

47
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A patient is bitten by a rabies infected raccoon. On what days do you give human diploid cells

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0, 3, 7 , 14, 28

48
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A diaper rash with satellite lesions should make you think of what diagnosis

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Candida

49
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Name three series reactions in a patient may have with the use of Vancomycin

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Nephrotoxicity, ototoxicity and Steven Johnson syndrome

50
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What test are done to screen for HIV

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Eliza and then if the positive diagnosis is confirmed with the Western blot

51
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What is the drug of choice for the treatment of Lyme disease

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Doxycycline

52
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What does trismus mean

A

Lockjaw, often secondary to tetanus

53
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How do you treat Amebiasis

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Metronidazole

54
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How do you treat PCJ or PCP

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Bactrim

55
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What is the treatment for tetanus infection

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Penicillin, immunoglobulin and supportive care

56
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How do hookyou hook worm larvae enter the body

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They penetrate the skin usually through the soles of the feet

57
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How do you treat hookworm

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Azoles

58
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What type of mosquitoes carry malaria

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Anopheles

59
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How do you treat white oral plaques that can be scraped off

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This is most likely Candida. Topical nystatin oral fluconizole 1 mg are first line choices

60
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A CT scan shows ring enhancing lesions in an HIV patient. What is the most likely diagnosis

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Toxoplasmosis

61
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What is the drug of choice for toxoplasmosis

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Bactrim

62
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What organism causes toxoplasmosis

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Toxoplasma Gondii

63
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What drug do you use to treat pinworm

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You treat everyone in the house with albendazole. Two weeks later you treat them again

64
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The scotch tape test is used to diagnose what disease

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Pinworm

65
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Is Neisseria gram-positive or gram-negative

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Gram-negative

66
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Syphilis is caused by what organism

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Treponema pallidum

67
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A gram-positive organisms in chains should make you think of what diagnosis

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Strep

68
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A gram negative diplococci should make you think of what diagnosis

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neisseria

69
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What is the most common prophylactic anabiotic used preoperatively

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Cefazolin = ancef

Keflex

70
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What oral anabiotic can be used for Pseudomonas

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Ciprofloxacin

71
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What is the suffix used for most fluoroquinolones

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Oxacin

72
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Why aren’t fluoroquinolones used more frequently

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They have lots of side effects

73
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A patient presents with a ruptured Achilles tendon. He states he was recently in the hospital for a blood infection and on a ton of anabiotic‘s. What antibiotic class may he have been on

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Fluoroquinolones

74
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Why can’t you get fluoroquinolones to kids

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They can cause Cartlidge development problems

75
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What class of anabiotic‘s should you start with for community acquired pneumonia

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Macrolides

76
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List two macrolides

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Erythromycin, Azithromycin, clarithromycin

77
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What anabiotic class is the class of choice for chlamydia

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Macrolides

78
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What class of anabiotic‘s is sometimes prescribed specifically for the effects on increasing GI motility

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Macrolides

79
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Which medication is worse to give to a pediatric patient, tetracycline or in aminoglycoside

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Tetracycline

80
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Pizza pie retinopathy should make you think of what diagnosis

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Cytomegalovirus

81
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A patient presents complaining of a metallic taste in her mouth and dark brown urine. What anabiotic might she be on

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Metronidazole

82
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What anabiotic is most likely to cause clostridium difficle

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Clindamycin

83
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What is the current drug of choice for treating MRSA

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Vancomycin

84
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You place the patient on rifampin. What side effects should you warn them about

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Orange red discoloration body fluids

85
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What might happen if you infuse vancomycin too fast

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Red man syndrome

86
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Name one oral medication that can be used for MRSA

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Linezolid (Zyvox) and Bactrim

87
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What organism is most commonly responsible for community acquired pneumonia

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Strep pneumoniae

88
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What organism is the most common cause of an uncomplicated urinary tract infection

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E. Coli

89
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Gummas or granulomatous nodules should make you think of what diagnosis

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Tertiary syphilis

90
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Bloody stool with cyst and trophozoites she make you think of what diagnosis

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Amebiasis

91
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Community acquired carditis is most often caused by one of the HACEEK organisms. List the HACEK organisms

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Haemophilus 
Actinobacillus
Cardiobacterium
Eikenella 
Kingella
92
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What are three medications often combined as a first-line treatment for H. Pylori

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Omeprazole, clarithromycin, and amoxicillin (CAP)

93
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What is the prophylactic anabiotic most commonly given before dental procedure if one is necessary

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Amoxicillin 2 grams PO one hour before procedure

94
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A pregnant woman and cat litter should make you think of what diagnosis

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Toxoplasmosis

95
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What is the drug of choice to treat a urethritis caused by neisseria

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Ceftriaxone

96
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Is klebsiella gram-positive or gram-negative

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Gram-negative

97
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A gram-positive organisms in clusters should make you think of what diagnosis

A

Staph

98
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What is the best test for diagnosing rocky Mountain spotted fever

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Indirect immunofluorescent antibodies

99
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A gram-negative cocci bacilli found in the sputum of patient with pneumonia should make you think of what diagnosis

A

H. Flu

100
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What medication is used as prophylaxis for a meningococcal meningitis

A

Rifampin

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