Infectious Disease Part 4 Flashcards
Mumps is parotid gland enlargement caused by
Paramyxovirus
Symptoms of mumps
- fever, fatigue, myalgias, headache, earache
- Parotitis usually bilateral
- Edema of Stensen’s duct
MC complication of Mumps
-Epididymo-orchitis
True or False: MMR is a live attenuated vaccine and contraindicated in pregnant women and significant immunosuppression?
True
Symptoms of Rubella
- Low grade fever, LAD
- Pink or light red non confluent maculopapular rash that starts on face and spreads to trunk (lasts 3 days)
- Forchheimer Spots: small red macule on soft palate
True or False: Rubella is teratogenic in the 2nd trimester?
False. It is teratogenic in the first trimester
Rabies is a life-threatening ______ infection of the CNS
Rhabdovirus
Transmission of Rabies
-Infected saliva from rabid animal bites (bats MC, raccoons, skunks and foxes)
True or False: If a person was asleep in a room with a bat, they should get prophylaxis for rabies even if there is no visible bite?
True
Symptoms of Rabies
- Pain, itching at site of bite
- CNS phase: hydrophobia, acrophobia, encephalitis
- Respiratory phase: respiratory muscle paralysis leading to death
Diagnostics for Rabies
- Negri bodies on immunofluorescence
- Animal observation for 7-10 days
What should a patient get post-exposure for rabies?
- HDCV (Rabies vaccine)
- Immunocompetent: Days 0, 3, 7, 14 + Rabies Immune Globulin
- Immunocompromised: Add Day 28
Roseola is MCC by
HHV6
Symptoms of Roseola
- High fever
- Rash: rose pink macular blanch able rash beginning on trunk and neck then spreads to face
- Nagayama Spots: Spots on soft palate and uvula
What is unique about the rash in Roseola?
Only childhood exanthem that begins on the trunk and spreads to face