Infectious disease Flashcards
IgM role in immunity
IgM = the first antibodies made against an infection
IgG = most prevalent immune globulin in the bloodstream - phagocytosis of invading pathogens & transplacental immunity
IgA = found in mucosal surfaces & secretory immunity
IgE = present in allergy & anthelminthic immunity
Candidial esophagitis - CP, DX, TX
Odynophagia, GERD, epigastric pain, nausea, vomiting, +/- thrush
Endoscopy - white linear plaques/erosions
KOH smear: Candida = budding yeast & pseudohyphae (spagetti & meatballs)
Tx: Fluconazole PO
Oral thrush
CP - friable white plaques - leave erythema/bleed if scraped
KOH smear: Candida = budding yeast & pseudohyphae (spagetti & meatballs)
Tx: Nystantin S&S
VAGINAL CANDIDIASIS
Vulvar pruritis, burning, vaginal itching
KOH smear: Candida = budding yeast & pseudohyphae (spagetti & meatballs)
Tx: Mizonazole, clotrimazole
Intertrigo - what is it? CP? TX?
Pruritic red beefy rash w/ discinct scalloped borders & satellite liesions
KOH smear: Candida = budding yeast & pseudohyphae (spagetti & meatballs)
Tx: Topical clotrimazole
Fungemia, endocarditis
Seen in immunocompromised pt +/- indwelling catheters
Tx:
IV amphotericin B
Caspofungin if severe
Cryptococcosis - etio, transmission
Cryptococcus neoformans or C. gattii - encapsulated budding round yeast
Found in PIGEON / IRD DROPPINGS
MC in immunocompromised pt
Cryptococcosis - CP
CP:
1. Meningoencephalitis - HA meningeal si (neck stiffness, N/V, photophobia)
or
- Pneumonia
Cryptococcosis - DX & TX
Dx:
LP - inc WBC (lymphocytes), dec glucose, inc protein, india ink stain = encapsulated yeast , cryptococcal antigen in CSF
Tx:
Amphotericin B + Flucytosine x 2 weeks followed by oral fluconazole x 10 weeks
Histoplasmosis - etio? a/w? where found? CP?
Etio: Histoplasma capsulatum = dimorphic oval yeast
A/w: Soil contaminated w/ bird/bat droppings in OH/MI river valley
CP: ASX, atypical PNA (fever, non-productive cough, myalgias)
Disseminates if immunocompromised = hepatosplenomegaly, fever, ulcers, blood diarrhea, & adrenal insufficiency
Dx - labs, imaging histoplasmosis
Labs - Inc ALP, LDH, pancytopenia
CXR - pulmonary infiltrates & hilar/mediastinal lymphadenopathy
Tx histoplamosis
Mild- mid: IV Itraconazole
Severe dz: Amphotericin B
Pneumocystis PNA - etio, CP,
Etio: pneumocystis jiroveccii
CP:
O2 desat w/ ambulation, fever, DOE, nonproductive cough
Dx:
CXR - diffuse b/l interstitial infiltrates - may be normal, increased LDH
w/ Pneumo, PaO2 drops w/ ambulation P=P
Tx:
BACTRIM x 21 days - prednisone if hypoxic
Dapsone if sulfa allergy
CD4 count less than ? you PPX for PCP
< 200
PPX w/ Bactrim
PPX b/c PCP is most common opportunistic infection
Aspergillus found in? MC affects which parts of body?
Garden & house plant soil & compost - transmission via inhalation
Mc affects lungs, sinuses, & CNA
Aspergillus releases which substance which increases risk of which cancer?
Releases alfatoxin B1 which is a/w inc risk of hepatocellular carcinoma
Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis - MC in who? CP?
MC in asthma & CF
Airway type I hypersensitivity rxn to fungus (eosinophilia & inc IgE)
CP: Asthma sx, cough, thick brown sputum (mucus plugs), fever, pulmonary infiltrates
“Fungal ball” on CXR = ?
Aspergilloma - when fungus colonizes a pre-existin pulmonary cavitary lesion - can be asx or have couth + hemoptysis
Chronic sinusitis treated with several courses of abx that didn’t go away should make you think what?
FUNGAL infection like acute invasive aspergillus - fever, HA, toothache, epistaxis,
INVASIVE CHRONIC SINUSITIS - often fatal - pull out the big guns (voriconazole)
Tx allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis
Tapered corticosteroids - chest PT, itraconazole
Severe or invasive aspergilus sinusitis tx
Voriconazole
Symptomatic aspergilloma tx
Surgical resection
Infection found in men who work outdoors with decaying wood or around soil in close proximity to waterways
Blastomycosis - fungal infection caused by blastomyces dermatitidis = pyogranulamatous fungal infection
Tx: Itraconazole
What does disseminated blastomycossis look like?
Pulmonary = MC site –> MOST ARE ASYMPTOMATIC - if chronic - like the flu- cough with or without sputum, dyspnea, headache, fever,
Also cutaneous - verrucous crusted ulcerated lesions which expand - skin = MC extrapulmonary site
Look like little meteor blasts on the skin