Infectious diseases Flashcards

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Diagnosis:
Fever
Rash on palms and soles (maculopapular & vesicular rash)
Oropharyngeal sores (painful, erythematous macules, seen in early eruptions)

A

Hand, foot, mouth dz

*Coxsakievirus

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Diagnosis:
Fever
Conjunctivitis
cough
coryza (inflam of mucus membrane in nose)
Koplid spots, discrete buccal lesions
cephalocaudal spread of maculopapular lesions (darker and coalesce)

A

Measles

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3
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Diagnosis:
Fever, strauberry tongue, rash (can desquamate)
sandpaper textured, diffuse, prominent along skin folds (axillae, antecubital fossae)
Exudative pharyngitis

A

Scarlet fever

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Dx:

sydenham chorea

A

rheumatic fever
group A streptococcal infection

*brief, random, irreg contractions of limbs/face, emotional lability, hypotonia

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