Infectious/Fungal Flashcards
What is the rate of movement of the larva migrans in strongyloides (larva currens?)
5-10cm/h
Madura foot (Actinomycetoma) with grain color: white
Nocardia
Riettsialpox: bacteria and vector
R. akari & vector: mouse mite (Liponyssodies sanguineus)
Treatment for Rhinoscleroma
Cipro
Tick vector for Boutonneuse fever
Rhipicephalus sanguineus
Treatment for African sleeping sickness
Suramin Or Pentamidine
Lymphogranuloma venereum is caused by which bacteria
Chlamydia trachomatis
Vector of Epidemic Typhus
Body louse (Pediculosis humanus var. corporis)
Fever, arthritis, ulceration of the site of the bite, associated with rash, acral distribution
Ratbite/Haverhill fever (streptobacillus moniliformis)
Glossina spp.
Tsetse fly - vector in sleeping sickness (African trypanosomiasis)
What do you add to amphotericin B to help treat crypto?
Flucytosine
Describe the three leprosy reaction states and what you treat each with
Type 1 - reversal reaction (upgrading downgrading) - Steroids Type 2- E. Nodosum leprosum -Thalidomide Type 3 - Lucio reaction - vasculitis - Steroids
how many weeks after primary stage of syphilis does secondary stage happen?
9 weeks
Verruga paruana
The chronic stage of Oroya fever
First stage -indurated chancre, resolves, fevers, anular erythematous patches, posterior cervical lymphadenopathy, then second stage of daytime somnolence
Sleeping sickness (African Trypanosomiasis)
White islands in a sea of red
Dengue fever
Another name for Frambesia
Yaws
What does the hobo spider look like?
Herringbone striped pattern on the abdomen
Patient with TB gets a deep nodule over the cervical lymph node
Scrofuloderma (seen in a sensitized host with low immunity) *route is contiguous spread from underlying lymphadenitis
Most common organism causing Majocchis granuloma
T. Rubrum
what stage syphilis is the maculopapular rash?
second
What do you treat a Type II leprosy reaction state with?
Thalidomide
Bacteria causing Oroya fever
Bartonella bacilliformis
Gram stain “school of fish”
Haemophilus ducreyi (Chancroid)
Treatment for Tinea Capitis
Griseofulvin 25mg
What causes MRSA to be resistant?
(PBP2a) Altered penicillin binding protein. Resulting from the mecA gene
R. akari
Rickettsialpox
Which deep fungal infection resembles molluscum in an HIV patient?
Coccidiomycosis
Name the four conditions associated with Bartonella infection
1.Ororya fever (fever, hemolytic anemia) 2. Cat scratch disease (lymphadenitis after cat scratch) 3. Bacillary Angiomatosis (lots of PGs, in HIV pts) 4. Trench fever (relapsing fever, sore shins, back pain, transient rash)
inflammatory skin plaque in the urinary tract which turns into a weeping or polypoid mass
Malakoplakia
Vector for Bacillary angiomatosis
lice, ticks, fleas
Undulant fever
Brucellosis
Fever, HA, myalgias, rash that spreads from hands and feet onto the body
RMSF
Name the pneumonic for fluorescent ectothrix
Cats (M. Canus) And (M. Audouninii) Dogs (M. Distortum) Fight (M. Ferrugineum) & Growl (M. Gypsum) Sometimes (T. Schoenleinii)
Which organism causes Favus?
T. Schoenleinii
Hebra nose
Rhinoscleroma
One to few erythematous papules at inoculation site which disappears, then new smaller lesions spread symmetrically over the body, finally can get gum at a, keratoderma, midfacial distruction
Yaws
Treatment for Lobomycosis
Surgical excision (antifungals are ineffective)
Winter bottoms sign associated with what tropical disease?
African sleeping sickness(African trypanosomiasis) caused by the tstste fly glossina spp
On what part of the hand do you usually find erosio interdigitalis blastomycosis?
Fingers - 3rd webspace Toes - 4th webspace
Acrodermatitis chronic atrophic and
Loss of subcutaneous fat w/thin atrophic skin associated with Lyme disease
What three diseases does the Ixodes Scapularis tick cause?
Lyme disease Babesiosis Erlichiosis (human granulocytic)
Name some infections (besides syphilis) that you use penicillin to treat with?
Haverhill fever/Rat bite fever Leptospirosis
Treatment for Haverhill/rat bite fever
Penicillin
A gardener gets a subcutaneous nodule, which ulcerates and then begins spreading up his leg. What is this? What does it look like on path? What is the treatment?
Lymphocutaneous Sporotrichosis Sporothirx asteroid body (yeast cell with surrounding eosinophilic fringe Treat with SSKI (supersaturated potassium iodide) *side note: the treatment for non lymphocutaneous sporotrichosis is just itraconazole
formal name of the BROWN DOG TICK
Rhipicephalus sanguineus
Tick causing Lyme disease in the wester US
Ixodes pacificus
stage of syphilis: mucous patches
second
What route is military tuberculosis spread?
Hematogenous
What wavelength does ectothrix fungi flouresce at?
365nm (365nm - earth, on a mercury (mercury) lamp made of nickel chromium oxide (planets) filter
What bacteria causes Rhinoscleroma
Klebsiella Pneumonia
Tender nodule on guy who cleans out fish tanks
Mycobacterium marinum
stage of syphilus: condyloma lata
second
What organism causes black Piedra?
Piedraia hortae
Name the findings of the second stage of syphilus
Maculopapular rash Condyloma lata Lues maligna alopecia mucous patches
You can get Parinaud-oculoglandular syndrome from what three conditions?
Sarcoidosis Tularemia Cat Scratch Disease (bartonella)
Non-venereal treponemal infection with white vitiligo-like lesions on the face, hands, wrists
Pinta (carate) caused by treponema carateum
Most common cause of tinea capitis
T. Tonsurans
A child comes home from school after being treated for a lice breakout in his school and he has a seizure. What was the drug he was most likely treated with?
Lindane
Thrombiculid
Chiggar mite which is a vector for Scrub Typhus
Bacteria causing Trench fever
Bartonella quintana
What two conditions do you treat with Streptomycin?
Tularemia and the Plague
Tiny blue-red papules which become crusted, seen mainly in infants or immunosuppressed patients, associated with TB
Military tuberculosis
Treatment for meningococcemia
High dose IV PCN or third gen cephalosporin
Bartonella infection associated with fever in Peru
Oroya fever
Treatment for Rat-bite/Haverhill fever
Streptomycin
Soft ticks - ornithodoros are the vector for what disease?
Tick-born relapsing fever
What is OVERALL (serologic, treponemal, nontreponemal, path stains ect) most sensitive and specific test to detect PRIMARY syphilis?
Darkfield microscropy *treponemal tests (FTA-ABS and MHA-TP) are the most sensitive and specific SEROLOGIC tests And the *nontreponemal tests (VDRL AND RPR) are the serologic tests used to track progress of treatment
Trichphytan concentricum causes:
Tinea Imbricata
What kind of virus is HCV, and what other diseases are caused by it?
Flavivirus -also causes Dengue fever and Yellow fever (RNA virus)
Which stain stains dematiaceous (pigment producing) fungi? Like Tinea Nigra
Fontana-Masson
What do you treat a Type I leprosy reaction state with?
Steroid (treat type II with Thalidomide)
What stain identifies spirochetes of syphilis?
Warthin Starry stain
R. Tsutsugamushi
Scrub Typhus
treatment for leishmaniasis
pentavalent antimonial (sodium stibogluconate)
Which syphilis tests become nonreactive over time, and especially after treatment?
The non-treponemal test (RPR, VDRL)
C. Tenuis VS C. Minutissimum - which one causes erythrasma and which one causes trichomycosis axillaris?
C. Minutissimum causes erythrasma C. Tenuis causes trichomycosis axillaris
How often does the head louse: Feed? Lay eggs?
Feeds every 4-6 hours Lays eggs every 5-10 days
What three antibodies become positive after infection with Group A Strep?
Antistreptolysin O (ASO), anti-hyaluronidase, anti-DNAse B
what stage of syphilis is the chancre?
primary stage
Organism causing Pinta (carate)
Treponema carateum
fistulous tract in the groin plus von hansemann cells and michaelis-gutmann bodies
Malakoplakia
Mikulicz cell, Russel bodies
Rhinoscleroma
Influenza is caused by what kind of virus?
Orthomyxovirus (RNA)
Name the two types of treponemal tests for syphilis
FTA-ABS MHA-TP *RPR and VDRL are NONtreponemal serologic tests
stage of syphilis: cardiovascular
tertiary
Michaelis-Guptmann bodies (von-Hansemann cells)
Malakoplakia
Dengue fever is caused by what kind of virus?
Flavivirus (RNA)
What two bacteria is the body louse (Pediculus humanus) a vector for?
Bartonella quintana (Trench fever) & Rickettsiae prowazekii (Endemic Typhus)
Treatment for general and non-general treponematoses
Benzathine PCN
R. Typhi
Endemic Typhus
Treatment for Malakoplakia
Cipro and surgical removal
Name two examples of gram positive rods
Corynebacteria and Anthrax
Measles and mumps are what kind of virus?
Paramyxovirus
What do you treat erysipelas with?
Penicillin
first, a fever and a hemolytic anemia then, erythematous papules and nodules which resol\ve spontaneously
Oroya fever
A person being treated for lepromatous leprosy has a severe reaction during treatment and develops vasculitis (E nodosum leprosum). What to treat with?
Thalidomide
Solitary red purple nodule on the finger or multiple cherry red nodules at site of inoculation -working with cows and baby calves
Milkers nodule - Parapox
What two conditions does t. Mentag cause
Bullous tinea and white superficial spreading onychomycosis
What nerve is commonly affected in early disseminated Lyme disease
Facial nerve
Painless subcutaneous papule which ulcerates with painful, beefy, red granulation tissue
Granuloma inguinale
Rabies caused by which kind of virus
Rhabdovirus
Organism causing endemic syphilis (Bejel disease)
Treponema pallidum (endemicum subtype)
Potential side effect of Pyrethrin lice treatment?
Allergy in person who is allergic to ragweed or cysanthemum (bc pryrethrin is made from crysanathemum)
Vector for cat scratch disease?
cat flea (Ctenocephalides felis)
Treatment for onchocerciasis
Ivermectin or DEC (which causes the Mazzoti reaction)
Another name for Guinea worm disease
Dracunculiasis
culture medium used to diagnose leishmaniasis
Novy-McNeal-Nicolle
What other condition do coccidomycosis lesions in an HIV patient resemble?
Molluscum
What is scytalidium dimidatium and what do you treat it with?
The black nail! A dematiaceous (pigmented) fungus, treat with itraconazole
Finding in Lyme disease: loss of subcutaneous fate with thin atrophic skin
Acrodermatitis chronic atrophicans
What pigment producing chemical in psuedomonas produces the brown black pigment in pseudomonas?
Pyomelanin
Treatment for blastomycosis and also paracoccidio (South American blastomycosis)
Oral antifungal like itraconazole/ketoconazole
Subcutaneous inflammatory nodule with ulceration on posterior calves
Erythema induratum (Bazin)
Most common type of white superficial spreading onychomycosis
T. Mentag. (But in HIV patients, T rubrum is the most common for white superficial spreading)
Ulcerated nodule at inoculated site with regional lymphadenopathy, plus little nodules along the lymph nodes -nasal septal perforation
Glanders (*and those little buds along side the lypmh nodes are called farcy buds)

Name the live attenuated viruses
Influenza nasal spray Measles Mumps Rubella BCG Yellow fever Polio oral Typhoid oral
People with HLA-DQ1 are more likely to form which type of leprosy?
Lepromatous (TH2 response)
What does the Warthin Starry stain detecT?
Syphilis spirochetes
Which antifungal can cause drug induced LE?
Terbinafine and Griseofulvin
R. Prowazekii
Epidemic Typhus (Louse born)
Streptobacillus moniliformis
Rat-Bite fever
What do you treat Oroya fever with?
Chloramphenicol
What does R. conorri cause?
Mediterranean spotted fever (Boutonneuse fever)
Name two diseases that the body louse (Pediculus humanus) is a vector for:
Trench fever & Endemic typhus
What is a favorable sign in pulmonary coccidiomycosis?
Erythema nodosum
stage of syphilis: neurosyphilus
tertiary
Chlamydia trachomatis
Lymphogranuloma venereum
Mexican who is harvesting chicle gum in the forest gets a ulceration on his ear.
Chiclets ulcer - caused by new world Leichmaniasis
The plaque is transmitted by what animal
flea bites
What type of virus is Orf caused by?
Parapox
What bacteria causes syphilis?
Treponema pallidum
Flea borne Typhus
Endemic Typhus
Recurrent meningitis patients may have a defect in what cellular pathway component
C5-9
Treatment for the plague
Streptomycin
Tick borne relapsing fever caused by what vector
Soft ticks - ornithodoros
A patient has sore shins, relapsing fever, back pain, transient rash
Trench fever
What is the most common gram negative infection that we deal with in dermatology in the US?
Pseudomonas
Which atypical mycobacterium are photochromagens? (Pigmentation on exposure to light)
M. Kansasii M. Mariunum M. Simiae *monkey swim in kansas in the summer
Treatment for Chagas’ disease
Nitrofurtimox/benznidazole
Treatment for vibrio
Doxycycline
Vector for Endemic Typhus
Rat flea (Xenopsylla Cheops) * Everything is bigger EN teXas)
PPD positive how many days after exposure?
2-10 weeks
Burkholderia mallei
Glanders
Difference between Ecthyma and Ecthyma Gangrenosum
Ecthyma is a strep infection - treat with dicloxacillin Ecthyma gangrenosum is a pseudomonal infection - treat with IV amminoglycoside
Malta fever
Brucellosis
Name the three photochromagen atypical mycobacteria
M. Kansasii M. Marinum M. Simiae *monkey swim in kansas in the sun
What is different about the clinical presentation of scabies in kids vs adults?
Can see it on the scalp and face in kids
Warthin-Starry stain
Bacillary Angiomatosis
Treatment for Glanders
Streptomycin
What to treat erythrasma with? And what is it caused by
Caused by corynebacterium minutissimum and you treat with topical clindamycin
Treatment for Tularemia
Streptomycin
Ketoconazole - fungistatic or fungicidal?>
Fungistatic
Buruli ulcer
M. Ulcerans (atypical mycobacteria) presents as a growing ulcer on the abdomen of a child in Africa. Treatment is excision
Leptospira interrogans
Leptospirosis
Bacteria causing Granuloma inguinale
Calymmatobacterium granulomatosis (related to Klebsiella)
Treatment for Cryptococcus?
Amphotericin B +/- flucytosine
Painful pretibial plaques
Leptospirosis
what infectious disease do hunters get?
Tularemia
Gram negative intracellular bacteria Transmitted by insects Adheres to and invades erythrocytes
Bartonella
Which types of Leichmaniasis cause Visceral (Kala-azar)?
L. Donovani L. Infantry L. Changasi
Name the bacteria and vectors for all of the bartonella causing diseases:
- Oroya fever - bartonella bacilliformis - sandfly(Lutzomyia verrucarum) 2. Cat scratch disease - bartonella henselae - cat flea(ctenocejphalidis felis) 3. Bacillary angiomatosis - bartonella henselae, quintana - ticks, lice, fle 4. Trench fever - bartonella quintana - body louse (pediculus humanas)
What is the aminoglycoside used to treat glanders, brucellosis, plague, ratbite fever, tularemia
Streptomycin
People with HLA-DR2, HLA-DR3 are more prone to form which type of leprosy?
Tuberculoid (TH1 response)
Tick that carries RMSF
Dermacentor andersoni (wood tick western US) Dermacentor variabilis (dog tick in eastern US)
Treatment for chromobrlastomycosis
Surgery and/or itraconazole
How long after exposure to TB will your PPD become positive?
2-10 weeks
Fever, erythema, then bullae and desquamation in the body folds
Staph Scalded Skin Syndrome
Tick causing Lyme disease in Europe
Ixodes ricinus
What organism causes Chancroid
Haemophilus ducreyi
Infectious granulomas in nasal mucosa and respiratory tracat, epistaxis, destruction of nasal cartilage
Rhinoscleroma
What stain do you use to identify bacillary angiomatosus?
Warthin-Starry
Old school lice treatment Lindane, and organochloride, no longer first line because of what potential complication
Neural toxicity (seizures, confusion)
which syphilis tests can you get false positive results with? (i.e. are also positive in many other diseases)
RPR/VDRL
stage of syphilus: lues maligna
second
Treatment for cutaneous larva migrans
Topical thiabendazole OR oral ivermectin
Vaccinia caused by what kind of virus?
Orthopox, leading tot he vaccinia virus
Jumping spider has what kind of toxin
Hyaluronidase (“jump high”
What antibiotic is good to use if pt allergic to PCN?
Erythromycin
What chemical causes pseudomonas to flouresce?
Pyocyanine
Argyll Robertson pupil
Tertiary syphilius
What cutaneous infectious diseases does Streptomycin treat?
Glanders Brucellosis Plague Tularemia Rat-bite Fever *basically all of the weird gram negative ones. Streptomycin is an amminoglycoside!
What is the most pathogenic form of strep?
Group A beta-hemolytic strep
What chemical causes ectothrix to flouresce?
Pteridine
Cause of bullous tinea pedis
T. Mentagrophytes
Katayama fever
Acute form of schistosomiasis *Treatment with praziquantel
Treatment for Rhinoscleroma
Cipro
What disease does the Dermacenter tick (American dog tick) cause?
Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
Meat handlers/fish handlers get this gram positive disease
Erysipeloid (painful red purple patches on the hands)
What do you treat erythema nodosum leprosum with?
Thalidomide
Stewart Treves syndrome
Development of angiosarc in the setting of chronic lymphedema
What type of bacteria is corynebacteria?
Gram positive rod
Treatment for mycetoma
Oral antifungal (itraconazole, ketoconazole, griseofulvin) and debridement
Which is the only flourescent Trichophyton ectothrix
T. Schoenleinii (the rest of them are M. Canus)
Treatment for Brucellosis
Streptomycin or Doxy with Rifampin
Treatment for severe cases of histoplasmosis, less severe cases?
Severe cases - amphotericin B Nonsevere cases - Ketoconazole
What stain outlines fungi magenta with green background?
PAS
what is the most sensitive test for primary syphilis?
FTA-ABS (fluorescent treponemal antibody absorption test)
What is the Panton-Valentine leukocidin (PVL)
Associated with increased virulence in CA-MRSA infections
farcy buds
Glanders

What is the chemical that tinea versicolor produces which causes hypopigmentation?
Azelaic acid
What do you give to pregnant women to treat Lyme disease?
Amoxicillin (doxycycline in normal folks)
Another name for African Trypanosomiasis
Sleeping sickness
What drugs used to treat Gpositives
PCN Erythromycin Kephlex
Lutzomyia verrucarum
sandlfl\y that is the vector for Oroya fever
Name two diseases that present similarly to anthrax?
Cowpox
This spider’s toxin is spingomyelinase D
Brown recluse (Loxoseles reclusa)
What do you treat Loiasis with?
DEC
infection caused by contact with infected horses
Glanders
how long after infection with primary syphilis will the FTA-ABS test become positive?
3 weeks
Which increases the risk of transmitting HSV infection from mom to fetus more: -primary infx of the mom vs secondary infx of the mom
PRIMARY infection has a MUCH higher risk of transmission (25-50%) VS Secondary infection (2-5%)
Ctenocephalides felis
the cat flea, vector in cat scratch disease
What are the two most sensitive and specific tests for syphilis Also Which is the first serologic test to become positive in syphilis?
- Most sensitive/specific = treponemal tests (FTA-ABS and MHA-TP) 2. Quickest to become positive: nontreponemal (RPR/VDRL)
What is the vector for Oroya fever?
sandfly (Lutzomyia verrucarum)
At what temperature is histo a yeast and at what temp does it have septae
25 degrees it has hyphae and septae (when you are 25 you get high*) 37 degrees it is a yeast (think has a bun in the oven)
What is a risk in using Malathion as a lice treatment?
Flammable
C. Minutissimum causes what condition
Erythrasma
Cat scratch disease can also cause what syndrome in common with sarcoid?
Parinaud oculoglandular syndrome : unilateral conjunctivitis and regional lymphadenitis *sidenote tularemia can cause this too!!
Name the ONLY single stranded virus
Parvovirus. *leutinant parvin from cedarville
Yellow fever is caused by what kind of virus?
Flavivirus (RNA)
Firm bluish tumor or plaque appearing on the ear lobes of children or the nipples of adults
Borrelial lymphocytoma (lymphocytoma cutis). Caused by b. Afzelli or borriela garinii both only present in Europe
What do you treat the lymphocutaneous form of sporotrichosis with?
SSKI (super-saturated potassium iodide)
What do you treat the plaque with?
Streptomycin
Pastias lines
Linear petechiael streaks along body folds in Scarlett fever
stage of syphilus:gumma
tertiary
other name for Carrions disease
Oroya Fever
Liponyssoides sanguineus
Mouse Mite (causes Rickettsialpox)
Shinebone fever also called
Trench fever
What causes tinea imbricata?
T. Concentricum
What is the Lucio reaction?
It is the Type 3 leprosy reaction state in which the patient with lepromatous leprosy develops extensive severe vasculitis
Which two cutaneous manifestations of TB are from an exogenous route, and what is the difference between the two?
Tuberous chancre - in a nonsensitized person Tuberculosis verrucousa cutis - re-inoculation of a previously sensitized person
Guarneri bodies
Smallpox
Treatment for amebiasis
Oral metronidazole
What do you use to culture Leichmeniasis?
NNN culture (Novy-mcNeal-Nicole)
Treat furuncle on the face near the midline with antibiotics because of the risk of what
Cavernous sinus thrombosis
B. Garinii B. Afzelli cause what condition?
Borrelial lymphocytoma (firm bluish tumor or plaque on the earlobes of children, nipples of adults)
treatment for visceral leishmaniasis
amphotericin B
Treatment for scytalidium dimidatum
Itraconazole
IL-2, TNF-alpha, IFN-beta are all cytokines seen in what kind of response?
Cell-mediated immune response (TH1)
Jarish-Herxheimer reaction
febrile systemic reaction after the inital dose of antisyphilitic treatment, occurs in abt 75% of patients -mediated by TNF-alpha
Most common new-world species of Leichmaniasis
L. Braziliensis
Name the causes of mucocutaneous Leichmaniasis
Old world - L. Aethipica New world - L. Brazillensis, L. Peruviana
What does the body louse Pediculus humanus also cause besides Trench fever?
Epidemic typhus Relapsing fever
Rhipicephalus sanguineus
Tick vector for Mediterranean spotted fever (Boutonneuse fever)
Vector for African Trypanosomiasis (Sleeping sickness)
Tsetse fly (glossina spp.)
Ambylomma Americanum tick causes what disease
RMSF, Ehrlichiosis
Which lice treatment is derived from crysanthemums?
Pryrethrin
Treatment for schistosomiasis
Praziquantel
Treatment of Chancroid
Azithromycin 1g or Ceftriaxone IM
Name the bacteria and vector of Boutonnesuese fever
R. conorii Rhipicephalus sanguineus (brown dog tick)
another name for Peruvian wart
Oroya Fever
Treatment for fish tank granuloma (m. Marinum)
Minocycline!
What is the culture medium to grow leprosy?
None! There is no culture medium trick question. It can only be grown in mouse foot pad or non-banded armadillo
Another name for Loasis
Calabar swelling
Anclostoma braziliense
Cutaneous larva migrans
Which cutaneous manifestation of TB occurs in a person with the highest immunity?
Lupus vulgaris
When is a leprosy patient considered no longer infectious during her treatment?
AFTER THE FIRST DOSE OF RIFAMPIN AND DAPSONE
Treatment for toxoplasmosis
Sulfadiazine with pyrimethamine
Painful erythematous papule ulcerated in the oral cavity with TB
Tuberculosis cutis orificialis
Buruli ulcer (bacteria that causes)
M. Ulcerans (this is an atypical mycobacterium *ulcer on the hand after minor trauma - associated with agricultural activities
What cytokine is the Jarisch-Herxheimer reaction mediated by?
TNF-alpha
tabes dorsalis
tertiary syphilis
What is eczema vaccinatum?
Diffuse infection at the site of inoculation of a vaccine in atopic patients
What disease is Tache noir associated with?
Boutonnese fever (Meditteranean spotted fever)
Painful pretibial plaques, conjunctivitis, jaundice, diffuse extanthum
Leptospirosis
What is the acute form of schistosomiasis called
Katayama fever
Which type of leprosy is cell mediated vs not?
Cell mediated - Tuberculid (CD4 cell prominence :/) Non cell mediated - Lepromatous (CD8 cell prominence :/)
Vector for trench fever
body louse (Pediculus humanus var. corporis)
In which parasitic infection do you get wheezing puritis and urticaria as the worm migrates from the GI tract to lower leg skin?
Draculinosis
Cat scratch disease is caused by what bacteria?>
Bartonella henselae
What is the antigen that mediates TSS caused by: Staph Vs Strep Choices: ET-A/ET-B vs SPE-A
Staph - ET-A/ET-B Strep - SPE-A
What is the BCG vaccine?
Live attenuated TB vaccine with bacteria M. Bovis
What organism causes white piedra?
Trichosporon cutaneum (*cute little white spores!)
Name the two exotoxins formed by anthrax and name what they each do
Edema toxin - increases cAMP levels & Lethal toxin - increases TNFalpha and IL1b
Mite borne Typhus
Scrub Typhus
Erythematous tender papules and nodules resembling multiple PGs, seen mainly in HIV patients
Bacillary angiomatosis
Culture medium for atypical mycobacteria
Ziehl-Nelson stain; Lowenstein Jensen culture medium
Most common type of tinea pedis
T. Rubrum, T. Floccasum
What do you treat psuedomonal folliculitis with? (Hot tub folliculitis)
NOTHING. It is self limited
Another name for Donovanosis
Granuloma inguinale
What is the second most (and most inflammatory) cause of tinea capitis?
M. Canus
Borrelia burgdorferi
Lyme disease
Streptobacillus moniliformis
Rat-bite/Haverhill fever
What kind of virus is rubella?
Togavirus
What part of the body is strep a normal flora?
Vagina and aerodigestive tract
Treatment for Buruli Ulcer
Excision! (Drug therapy is disappointing)
Best site for biopsy of rabies
The neck
how long after initial infection does the tertiary stage of syphilis happen
3-5 years
RPR and VDRL are not positive until how long?
Not until at least one week after chancre appears (as opposed to 3 weeks after infection in the FTA-ABS test)
Bacteria that causes bacillary angiomatosis
Bartonella quintana Bartonella henselae
Eikenella corrodens
Human bite
stage of syphilus: alopecia
second
-infection seen in butchers, farmers, vets -cyclic fevers, arthralgias, hepatosplenomegaly with sometimes a papulonodular eruption -direct contact with meat or dairy unpasterized milk
Brucellosis
Most common cause of onychomycosis
T. Rubrum
Pitted keratolysis caused by what bacteria?
Corynebacterium or kytococcus sedentarius
Direct inoculation of TB presenting as a painless red-brown papule at the inoculation site
Tuberculous chancre (seen in non-sensitized host with no prior immunity)
What chemical causes corynebacterium to flouresce?
Copoporphyrin III
Pasteurella multocida
Cat bite
A patient treated for syphilis with IM benzathine PCN, and then gets an intense febrile reaction - what happened?
Jarish-Herxheimer reaction
Wuchereria bancrofti
Organism causing filariasis
What kind of fungus (endothrix ectothrix fluorescent, nonfluorescent) is T. Schoenleinii
Ectothrix flourescent
River blindness
Onchocerciasis
Which ticks cause Human Erlichosis?
Amblyomma and Ixodes scapularis
In what diseases can you get a positive RPR/VDRL?
syphilis lupus pregnancty malaria old age
which syphilis test would you choose to tract the progress of treatment, and is expressed in a titer form?
RPR/VDRL
Treatment of Dracuculiasis
Thiabendazole
Which venereal disease has Donovan bodies and russel bodies on path?
Granuloma inguinale
Name a few other names for Leptospriosis
For Bragg fever Pretibial fever Weil disease
Quickly name the atypical mycobacteria
M. Marinum - fishtank granuloma M. Ulcerans - Buruli ulcer M. Fortuitum - fast growing M. Adium complex - lung, immunosuppressed M. Kansasii - photochromagens
Organism causing cutaneous larva migrans
Ancylostoma braziliense
Vector in Loiasis
Deer or mango fly (Chrysops) *because Loiasis makes you a cyclops after it gets in one eye
Madura foot (Actinomycetoma) with grain color:Pink/cream
Actinomadura Madurai
Treatment for fast growing mycobacterial infection (FAC)
Clarithromycin
What three protozoan infections do you treat with DEC?
Onchocerciasis Loiasis Filariasis
Which is the only leprosy reactional state that you dont treat with steroids?
Type 2 E Nodosum leprosum - treat with Thalidomide!!!!
What an atomic structure does Ramsey Hunt syndrome involve?
HSV of the geniculate ganglion
Name four diseases caused by Corynebacterium
Erythrasma Trichomycosis Axillaris Pitted Keratolysis Cutaneous Diptheria
What wavelength, material, and filter is a Woods lamp?
365nm mercury lamp with a nickel chromium oxide filter
“Black-fever”
“Kala-azar” visceral systemic Leichmaniasis - caused by L. Donovani
Someone has a pet flying squirrel and they get a rash - what did they get?
Epidemic Typhus (R. Prowazekii), reservoir is the flying squirrel, vector is the body louse
Treatment for Erysipeloid?
*fish handlers disease, seen in butchers, meat-handlers, red in the third webspace of fingers Treat with PCN or Erythromycin if PCN allergy
Name the 4 lice treatments and their side effects
- Malathion - flammable 2. Lindaine - neural toxicity 3. Pyrmetherin - none. High resistance 4. Pyrethrin - cross reaction with crysanthemums/ragweed
which syphilis test remains positive even after treatment? and which one doesnt?
remains positive after treatment: FTA-ABS doesnt: RPR,VDRL
Madura foot (Actinomycetoma) with grain color: Yellow or brown
Streptomyces
Pentamidine and suramin are treatments for what tropical disease?
African sleeping sickness (African Trypanosomiasis, caused by tsetse fly)
What significant clinically about smallpox?
Vesicles all in the same stage of development
Tick causing Lyme disease in the eastern US
Ixodes dammini (Ixodes scapularis)
Haverhill fever
rate bite fever
Maculae Caerulea
Slate gray or blue macules on the pubis of people with pubic lice (phthirus pubis)
Treatment for Malakoplakia
Cipro
Treatment for Burulli ulcer
Excision
Name the dsDNA viruses
Herpesvirus Hepadenovirus (HBV) Adenovirus Poxvirus Papilloma virus Parvovirus (the only ssDNA)
Which can flouresce, endothrix or ectothrix fungi?
Some of ectothrix can
Louse born Typhus
Epidemic Typhus
What is the live virus used for the smallpox vaccine called?
Vaccinia
Larva currens
Strongyloides
What do you treat a fish tank granuloma with?
Minocycline
Which spider’s web is funnel shaped?
Hobo spider
RSV is what kind of virus
Paramyxovirus
Which stain stains the capsule of cyrptococcus?
Mucicarmine
“The groove sign”
Pathopneumonic in Lymphogranuloma venerem - which is the enlargement of the femoral lymph nodes, separated by Poupart ligament
Bartonella henselae causes what disease?
Cat scratch disease
Organism which causes Yaws
Treponemum pallidum (subspecies pertunue)
Virchow cells
Foamy histiocytes containing M. Leprae in lepromatous leprosy
Which lice remedy should you not give if treating someone with allergy to ragweed or crysanthemums?
Pyrethrin
Which fungus is endothrix and ectothrix
T. Rubrum
What is the candidal infection in between the third and fourth webspace of the finger called?
Erosio interdigitalis blastomycetica
infection cause by direct contact with infected animal or ingestion of dairy (unpasterized) infected meat
Brucellosis
pentavalent antimonial is used to treat which disease
cutaneous leishmaniasis
Madura foot (Actinomycetoma) with grain color: Red
Actinomadura pelletieri
What are the Conventional treatment of anthrax? Bioterrorism treatment of anthrax?
Conventional is - PCN Bioterrorism is cipro or doxy
What do you treat treatment resistant HSV with?
foscarnet
What does togavirus give you?
Rubella
Name all of the conditions caused by a pox virus?
Molluscum Orf Miller’s nodule Vaccinia Smallpox Cowpox
What is the most common cutaneous manifestation of TB?
Tuberculosis verrucousa cutis (Warty TB) *presents as a small indurated hyperkeratotic papule or warty plaque with serpiginous border *route is exogenous - reinfection with direct inoculation at the site of trauma
Treatment for Brucellosis
Doxycycline
Coxiella Burnetii
Q fever
Calabar swelling
Another name for Loiasis
Lues maligna
crusted necrotic papulopustular lesions in second stage of syphilus
What chemical in a pseudomonas infection produces the green-blue pigment?
Pyocyanin
HIV and HTLV are what kind of viruses?
Retrovirus
What is a stain you can use to determine Kaposis?
HHV -8 (or another name for it is the LANA-1 stain)
This syphilis test detects IgM/IgG to a “reagin” which is a mixture of cardiolipin, l\ecithin, and cholesterol
RPR AND VDRL
Old world Leichmaniasis vector New world Leichmaniasis vector
(Both sandfly) Old world:Phlebotomus New world: Lutzomyia
Streptobacillus moniliformis causes what disease?
Ratbite fever/Haverhill fever
What disease is caused by a mouse mite bite?
Rickettsial pox
What three diseases are caused by pediculus humanus var. coporis
Louse born relapsing fever Epidemic typhus Trench fever
Brown recluse spider’s toxin
Spingomyelinase D
IL-4, IL-10 represent which type of immune response?
Humoral/antibody mediated (TH2)
What stain outlines fungi black?
GMS
Treatment for strongyloides (larva currens)
Albendazole, thiabendazole, ivermectin
Another name for Boutonneuse fever
Mediterranean spotted fever
What is the pneumonic for endothrix?
Ringo (t. Rubrum) Gave (t. Gourvilli) Yoko (t. Yaoundé) Two (t. Tonsurans) Squeaky (t. Soudanese) Violins (t. Violaceum)
Treatment for Glanders
Streptomycin, or doxycycline
Gamma Favre bodies
Lymphogranuloma venereum
Apple jelly red-brown nodules involving the face or neck in a patient with TB
Lupus vulgaris *associated with the highest immunity
Name one disease you treat with Thalidomide?
Erythema nodosum leprosum
Vector for Dracunculiasis
Infected water crustaceans (cyclops) *remember though that Chrysops which is a deer or mango fly causes Loiasis bc you turn into a cyclops bc it gets in your eye
Surgical abdomen after a spider bite -which spider?
Black widow (lactodectus mactans).
Rickettsiae Rickettsii
RMSF
Bartonella quintana
Bacillary angiomatosis
Name the findings in the tertiary stage of syphilis
Gumma (syphilitic granulomas) cardiovascular syphilis Neurosyphilis (tabes dorsalis, Argyll Robertson pupil)
Term for infection of raw seafood eating
Vibrio
Treatment for sporotrichosis
Itraconazole or supersaturated potassium iodide (for lypmhocutaneous form)
What syndrome can be caused by cat scratch disease, tularemia, and sarcoid?
Parinaud oculoglandular syndrome (ipsilateral conjuncitivis and regional lymphadenopathy)
What gene encodes the PCP2a protein (causing MRSA resistance)
MecA gene
What chemical in pseudomonas produces the green-yellow pigment?
Fluorescein
Subcutaneous swelling and conjunctivitis of the eye with a parasite
Loiasis
Diagnostic criteria for Kawasaki
Crash and Burn Fever (burn) C-conjunctivitis R-rash A-adenopathy S-strawberry tongue H-hands and feet
What is the name of the vector for Oroya fever?
Lutzomyia verrucarum (sandfly)
Which rickettsial borne illness has a negative Weil-Felix test?
Rickettsialpox
Vector for Scrub Typhus
Chiggar mites (Trombiculid)
Black widow spider releases what toxin?
Alpha-latrotoxin (Depolarizes neurons)
Name some paramyxovirus
Measles, mumps, RSV
Capnoctytophaga canimorsus Pasteurella canis Pasturpella multocida
Dog bite
Treatment for Vibrio
Tetracycline
How do you treat crabs?
Same as head lice (it is lice of the pubic hair)
Gamma-Favre bodies
Lymphogranuloma venereum (Chlamydia trachomatis)
Recurrent meningitis in patients with what type of complement deficiency?
C5-9
Wolf spider has what kind of toxin?
Histamine
Culture medium for Leichmeniasis
NNN
Tache noir
indurated papule at the site of a tick bite which leads to a necrotic ulcer (seen in Meditteranean Spotted fever)
Tapir face
Perforation of the nasal septum in Mucocutaneous Leichmaniasis (predominantly New World L. Brazilinesis
Tinea corporis aquired from the soil - what organism?
T. Gypsum
Ridged wart HPV type
HPV 60
Sub cutaneous nodules containing worms, depigmentation on lower legs, vision loss
Onchocerciasis (river blindness)
Novy-mcNeal-Nicole culture medium
Leichmeniasis
What percent of cases is RMSF “spotless”
10-20%
Which bacteria causes Q fever?
Coxiella Burnett I
Name the disease caused by Haemophilus ducreyi
Chancroid
Tinea imbricata cause by:
T. Concentricum
What do you use to treat RMSF in pregnant ladies?
Chloramphenicol (usually treat with Doxy)
Ecthyma gangrenosum is caused by what bacteria
Pseudomonas
Treatment for filariasis
DEC