Infectious Diseases

Question 1

Diarrhoea with blood

Answer 1

Shigellosis, E coli, campylobacter, salmonella, c diff, yersinia, CMV

Question 2

Diarrhoea w/o blood

Answer 2

Noro/rota/astrovirus, adenovirus, E coli, Staph, Cholera, Clostridium perfringens, Giardia, cryptosporidium

Question 3

Mosquito borne

Answer 3

malaria, dengue, yellow fever

Question 4

Live vaccines

Answer 4

yellow fever

Question 5

Fresh water exposure

Answer 5

schistosomiasis, leptospirosis

Question 6

game parks

Answer 6

tick types, Lyme disease, anthrax

Question 7

caves

Answer 7

ebola

Question 8

Treponema Pallidum

Answer 8

syphilis

Question 9

Plasmodium Falciparum

Answer 9

Malaria

Question 10

Borrelia burgdoferri

Answer 10

lyme disease

Question 11

painless ulcer

Answer 11

syphilis, HSV

Question 12

E coli

Answer 12

common amongst travellers
watery stools
abdo cramps and nausea

Question 13

Giardiasis

Answer 13

Prolonged non bloody diarrhoea

Question 14

Cholera

Answer 14

profuse, watery diarrhoea
sever dehydration resulting in weight loss
not common amongst travellers

Question 15

Shigella

Answer 15

Bloody diarrhoea

vomiting and abdo pain

Question 16

Staph

Answer 16

severe vomiting, short incubation period

Question 17

Campylobacter

Answer 17

flu like prodrome followed by cramps abdominal pain, fever, diarrhoea (may be bloody)
mimic appendicitis
complications: GBS

Question 18

Bacillus cereus

Answer 18

vomiting within 6 hours, diarrhoea after 6 hours

Due to rice

Question 19

Amoebiasis

Answer 19

gradual onset bloody diarrhoea, abdo pain, tenderness which may last for weeks