Infectious Diseases Flashcards
Neutropenic sepsis
IV tazocin
Rocky mountain spotted fever
Organism
Symptoms
Risk factors
Rickettsia rickettsii
Headache, fever, rash starting at peripheries
Endemic to east coast US, ticks
Q fever
Organism
Symptoms
Risk factors
Treatment
Coxiella burnetti
Pneumonia, fever, hepatitis, culture -ve IE
Exposure to cattle/abattoir/infected dust
Doxy
Congenital toxoplasmosis
(Signs and symptoms)
Chorioretinitis (white focal lesion with surrounding exudate and scarring)
Cerebral calcification
Hydrocephalus
Congenital CMV
(signs and symptoms)
Low birth weight
Microcephaly
Sensorineural hearing loss
Purpuric skin lesion
Painless black eschar
Condition
Treatment
Anthrax (Bacillus anthracis)
-> or Rickettsia (spotty mountain fever)
Ciprofloxacin
Gonorrhoea
Treatment
Single dose IM ceftriaxone
Chlamydia treatment
Doxycycline PO 7 days
PEP post-needle stick
1 month 3-drug anti-retroviral combination
Travellers diarrhoea -
watery diarrhoea
Acute
Enterotoxigenic E coli
Travellers diarrhoea -
bloody diarrhoea
acute
Campylobacter
Travellers diarrhoea -
watery diarrhoea
chronic
Giardiasis
Travellers diarrhoea -
bloody diarrhoea
chronic
Entamoeba histolytica
Schistosomiasis
(Bilharzia)
Treatment
Praziquantel
Threadworm treatment
Mebendazole
Strongyloides treatment
Ivermectin
Meningitis
Most common organisms <1 mth
Streptococcus agalactiae
E coli
Listeria monocytogenes
Meningitis
Most common organisms 1 - 23 mths
S agalactiae
E coli
Strep pneumoniae
Neisseria meningitides
Meningitis
Most common organisms 2 - 50yrs
S pneumoniea
N meningitides
Meningitis
Most common organisms >50yo
S
Lower motore neurone VII palsy
Headache
Camping
Lymes
Borrelia burgdorferi
Cellulitis management
First line
Pen allergic
Flucloxacillin
Clindamycin
Acute epiglottitis organism
Haemophilus influenzae
Travellers diarrhoea
Mesenteric adenitis
Yersinia
Meningococcal meningitis prophylaxis
Ciprofloxacin
or Rifampicin
Congenital Rubella
Symptoms
Sensorineural hearing loss
Cataracts
Heart disease (patent ductus arteriosus)
Glaucoma
Chlamydia treatment in pregnancy
Azithromycin
Erythromycin
Amoxicillin
Returning traveller
Fever
Debilitating joint pain
Chikungunya
Amoxicillin + red rash
Cause
Test
Infectious mononucleosis
Heterophile antibody test (monospot test)
treatment toxoplasmosis
pyrimethamine plus sulphadiazine
Empirical treatment of bacterial meningitis
IV ceftriaxone and dexamethasone
Endocarditis organism
Staph aureus
Staph epidermidis (if <2 months after valve replacement)
Cryptosporidium testing
Ziehl-Neelsen on stool sample
Lassa fever vector
Rats/rodents
