Infectious Disease : Anicillary Material

Question 1

Rocky Mountain spotted fever

Answer 1

starts with fever and headache

Spots , soles of feet palms of hands starts peripherally moves central

In the south

American dog tick

Doxycycline

Question 2

Aspergillosis

Answer 2

mold with spores

dry areas

infects people with neutrophil defects (leukemia, lymphoma),

dx: fungal culture

necrotizing, fungus balls

tx: amphotericin (renal distal RTA, hypokalemia, metabolic acidosis) , voriconazole, caspofungin (echinocandin)

also could have allergic aspergillus (dx: precipitants)

Question 3

Blastomycosis

Answer 3

• broad budding yeast with spores
• decaying vegetation in woods
• goes first into lungs then disseminates to
• brain, bone, skin
• amphoteracin, voriconazole, caspofungin

Question 4

Histoplasmosis

Answer 4

• River values (wet)

Question 5

Coccidiomycosis

Answer 5

• dry
• joint, and bones
• arizona

Question 6

Toxic Shock Syndrome

Answer 6

• staph aureus
• desquamating
• hypotension
• liver, kidneys