Infectious Diseases (Bacterial)

Question 1

Tx for diphtheria

Answer 1

Penicillin G for 14 days

Question 2

Complications of pertussis

Mnemonic: HSOAP

Answer 2

Hemorrhage, Seizures, Otitis media, Atelectasis, Apnea, Activation of latent TB, Pneumonia

Question 3

Meningococcemia with diffuse adrenal hemorrhage without vasculitis, DIC, coma and death

Answer 3

Waterhouse-Friederichsen syndrome

Question 4

Site of possible perforation in a patient with typhoid fever

Answer 4

Terminal ileum

Presence of peyer’s patches

Question 5

A potent protein synthesis-inhibiting exotoxin seen in shigellosis

Answer 5

Shiga toxin

Question 6

E. Coli infection causing infantile explosive diarrhea, common among toddlers and travelers

Answer 6

ETEC

Question 7

E. Coli infection with non-bloody but mucoid diarrhea, plus vomiting and low-grade fever

Answer 7

EPEC

Question 8

E. Coli infection that causes dysentery

Answer 8

EIEC

Question 9

Patient with diarrhea with (+) darting motility organisms in darkfield microscopy of stool, vomitus or rectal swab. Diagnosis?

Answer 9

Cholera

Question 10

Risus sardonicus
Opisthotonus
Laryngeal and respiratory muscle spasm
Seizures

Answer 10

Tetanus

Question 11

Higoumenakis sign

Uni/bilateral thickening of the sternoclavicular portion of the clavicle

Answer 11

Congenital syphilis

Question 12

Acute systemic febrile reaction during treatment for acquired or congenital syphilis with Penicillin

Answer 12

Jarisch-Herxheimer reaction

Question 13

Icteric leptospirosis

Answer 13

Weil’s syndrome

Question 14

Brown adherent pseudomembrane

Bull neck appearance

Answer 14

Diphtheria