Infectious diseases Flashcards
Paralysis after eating canned food
Botulism
Pseudohyphae
Candida
Owl’s eye intranuclear inclusions
CMV
Fever + skin rash + retro-orbital headache after visiting north Queensland
Dengue fever
Rash + flu-like symptoms + lymphadenopathy + neurological changes
Lyme disease
Inclusion bodies
Malaria
Kernig’s sign + Brudzinski’s sign
Meningitis
Erythematous/violaceous cutaneous lesions
Kaposi’s sarcoma
Spindle cells surrounding slit-like vascular spaces
Kaposi’s sarcoma
Constitutional symptoms + urticaria + eosinophilia after contact with fresh water
Schistosomiasis
Diarrhoea + weight loss + joint pain
Whipple’s disease
PAS positive macrophages
Whipple’s disease
Atypical mononuclear cells
EBV
Severe diarrhoea in HIV patient
Cryptosporidium parvum
Meningitis in HIV patient
Cryptococcus neoformans