Infectious Diseases Flashcards
What is NAAT? What is it testing for?
Nucleic acid amplificaiton test for chlamydia
What would a ground glass appearance on histology indicate?
Chronic hep b infection
What is the treatment for gonorrhoea?
IM ceftriaxone
What would you see on microscopy of gonorrhoea?
Gram negative diplococci
What is the treatment of chlamydia?
Oral doxycycline or azithromycin
In a traveller in bangladesh with watery diarrhoea and hypoglycaemia, what would you be worried about?
Cholera
Name 2 diseases which may cause blood in the stool.
Campylobacter jejuni and salmonella.
Frothy offensive discharge + vulvovaginitis + strawberry cervix _ very acidic vagina =??
Trichomonas vaginalis
In which condition would you see rose spots on the chest, and what is the causative organism?
Typhoid, salmonella typhi.
How would you distinguish between giargiasis and typhoid fever?
Giardiasis = diarrhoea Typhoid = constipation
What is the treatment for invasive (bloody) diarrhoea?
Ciprofloxacin
What is the treatment for traveller’s and non-invasive diarrhoea?
Clarithromycin
What is the treatment for cerebral toxoplasmosis? (Seen in HIV with a CD4 count <200)
sulfadiazine and pyrimethamine
Painless ulcer and painless lymphadenopathy?
Syphilis
Painless ulcer and painful lymphadenopathy
Lymphogranuloma venereum
Painful ulcer and painful lymphadenopathy?
Chancroid
What is the most common cause of intermenstrual bleeding in a young female?
STI e.g. chlamydia
What is the treatment for syphilis?
IM benzathine penicillin
What does e.coli look like under a a microscope?
Gram negative rod
What is the most common cause of traveller’s diarrhoea?
E.coli
If the CSF glucose is less than half of the serum glucose, what is causing the meningitis?
Bacteria
If the CSF white cells are mostly lymphocytes, what is the cause of the meningitis?
TB
What is given after a bite from a rabid dog?
Immunoglobulin + rabies vaccination
What antibiotic is used to treat exacerbations of chronic bronchitis?
Amoxicillin
What antibiotic is used to treat uncomplicated community-acquired pneumonia?
Amoxicillin
What antibiotic is used to treat CAP following flu?
Amoxicillin + flucloxacillin
What is the likely causative organism of pneumonia following flu?
S. aureus
What antibiotic is used to treat atypical pneumonia (e.g. legionalla, mycoplasma?)
Clarithromycin
What antibiotic is used to treat hospital acquired pneumonia within 5 days of admission?
Co-amoxiclav or cefuroxime
What antibiotic is used to treat hospital acquired pneumonia more than 5 days after admission?
Piperacillin with tazobactam
What antibiotic is used to treat acute pyelonephritis?
broad spectrum cephalosporin or quinalone
What antibiotic is used to treat impetigo?
topical fusidic acid
What antibiotic is used to treat widespread impetigo?
Erythromycin
What antibiotic is used to treat cellulitis?
Flucloxacillin
What antibiotic is used to treat animal or human bites?
Co-amoxiclav
What antibiotic is used to treat mastitis during breastfeeding?
Flucloxacillin
What antibiotic is used to treat throat infections?
Phenoxymethylpenicillin
What antibiotic is used to treat SINUSITIS AND OTITIS MEDIA?
Amoxicillin
What antibiotic is used to treat otitis externa?
Flucloxacillin + corticosteroid
What antibiotic is used to treat gonorrhoea?
IM cetfriaxone + oral azithromycin
What antibiotic is used to treat chlamydia?
Doxycycline or azithromycin
What antibiotic is used to treat pelvic inflammatory disease?
oral flucloxacillin and oral metronidazole
What antibiotic is used to treat syphilis?
benzathine benzylpenicillin
What antibiotic is used to treat BV?
metronidazole
What antibiotic is used to treat c.diff?
Metronidazole
What antibiotic is used to treat campylobacter enteritis?
Clarithromycin
What antibiotic is used to treat salmonella?
ciprofloxacin
What antibiotic is used to treat shigellosis?
Ciprofloxacin
Describe the appearance on microscopy of s. aureus?
Gram positive cocci
Haemolytic
Catalase positive