Infectious Diseases Flashcards
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Histoplasmosis
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- Fungus: mold in cold, yeast in heat
- Yeast found inside macrophages
- Starling and bat feces
- Associated with cave entrances
- Common in Mississipi and Ohio river valley
- Causes pneumonia
- Caseating necrotic granuloma
- Erythema nodosum
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Brucella
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- Caused by a gram-negative coccobacillus
- From unpasteurized milk, goats cheese and contact with infected animals
- Resides in macrophages
- proliferates inside lymph nodes causing lymphadenopathy
- Acutely undulating fevers, rigors, sweating, lethargy, headache, joint pain, palpable spleen
- Granulomas can develop from attempts to clear the infection
- Serum agglutination tests
- Management with doxycycline+ rifampicin, Doxycyclin+streptomycin, gentamycin
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Salmonella Typhii
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- Gram negative bacillus
- Acid labille- more at risk if taking PPI or pernicious anaemia
- Infection of macrophages at peyers patches in terminal ileum, can perforate and bleed into ileum
- Fever >3 days AND GI Sx
- Abdo pain, diarrhoea (pea soup)/constipation
- Ix blood and stool cultures
- Treat with ceftriaxone
- Chronic carriers harbour it in gall bladder
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Enteric Fever syndrome
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- consumption of infected food or water
- Salmonella enterica or paratyphi
- endemic to south east asia and pacific
- abdo pain, fever, chills, brady cardia
- pulse temperature disscociation
- Rose spots (salmon coloured macules on trunk and abdomen)
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Salmonella Enteridis
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- Chickens are natural reservoir
- inflammatory diarrhoea
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Klebsiella pneumonia
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- Gram negative bacillus
- Most common cause of liver abcess
- Infection is usually hospital acquired
- Immunoscopromised
- Lobar pneumonia: uncommon but causes red current sputum
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Infective Endocarditis
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- Abnormal valves, following endocardial damage (MI, pacemaker,IVDU etc.)
- Embolic phenomena
- 3 blood cultures over 2 hours
- Image for vegetations
- Emperical Benzyl penecillin
- Alpha hemolytic strep (mutans, mitor, sanguinis)
- S.bovis: suspect colon cancer
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Syphilis Symptoms
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- Treponema pallidum
- Can’t be cultured
- Initial ulcerative lesion: chancre which heals
- Infects lymph nodes and deseminates
- Secondary syphillis has systemic symptoms: fever, rash, headache, malaise, anorexia, diffuse lymphadnopathy, sore throat, myalgia, alopecia
- Late secondary: Aortitis leading to regurg, gummate with nodular lesions
- CNS syphili: lightning like leg pain and paraesthesia (tabes dorsalis), argyll robertson pupil
- Treat wiyh IM benzathin penecillin, ceftriaxone, azithromycin
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Syphilis investigations
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Serology
EIA, TPPA, RPR
Apart frm RPR tests are + for life
RPR is the dilution at which bacteria is detected, this should drop with treatment.
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Herpes Simplex
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Vesicles rupture and ulcer multiple painful lesions HSV1 is facial with or without genital- can cause encephalitis (requires high dose acyclovir) HSV2 is genital- can cause meningitis Swab and PCR Acyclovir for primary infection
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Cystitis
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- Bladder infection
- No fevers
- No systemic symptoms
- No bacteraemia
- Frequency, urgency, dysuria
- Nitrofurantoin
- E coli
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Pyelonephritis
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- Kidney infection
- fever, back pain
- systemic upset
- bacteramia
- E.coli (pseudomonas)
- send for urinanalysis and culture
- Gentamycin (IV), trimethprim (PO)
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Leptospirosis
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- Jaundice
- Abrupt fever, rigors, myalgias, headache
- conjunctival suffusion (red and swollen conjunctiva)
- haemoptysis
- Alveolar haemmorhage
- Rate urine- entry vis cuts and abrasions
- May cause renal impairement (ATN), uveitis, ARS, myocarditis, rhabdomyolysis
- Tropics and water sports are risk factors
- Polymorphic leukocytosis, may have thrombocytopenia.
- Blood and urine cultures
- Treat with Doxycicline or IV penicllin
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Infectious mononucleousis
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- Caused by EBV
- Commonly amongst young adults
- lymphadenopathy
- Fever, pharyngeal inflammations and exudate
- May have splenomegaly
- palate peticheia
- perioccular oedema
- hepatitis
- Atypical lymphocytes
- positive monospot indicating heterophils
- Supportive management- no amoxy (causes reaction), can give a short course of prednisone for throat oedema
- Avoid contact sport (risk of spleen rupture)
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Cytomegalovirus
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- Older age group vs EBV (25-35 yo)
- Transmission via body fluids
- Hepatomegaly, splenomegaly more likley
- Pharyngitis,lymphadenopathy tonsillitis less likely
- Negative monospot
- Fewer atytpical lymphocytes
- Derranged LFTs
- CMV specific IGM
- Supportive treatment, avoid amoxycillin
