Infectious Pneumonia Flashcards
Most important muscles that raise the rib cage to facilitate inspiration
1 external intercostals
2 SCM
3 anterior serratus
4 scalenes
Muscles that pull ribs downward during expiration
1 abdominal recti
2 internal intercostals
soil enriched with bat and bird dropping (medium of mycelial growth) producing infectious spore
H capsulatum
Valley fever
C immitis
Round to oval small yeast forms measuring 2-5 um in diameter
H capsulatum
Thick walled non budding spherule 20-60 filled with small endospore
C immitis
Round to oval larger than H capsulatum
broad based budding
Blastomyces dermatitidis
CMV infection is transmitted through (5)
1 transplacental
2 cervical/vaginal secretion and breast milk (perinatal)
3 saliva in preschool
4 venereal in 15 y/o, respi and feco-oral
5 organ trans and blood trans
Enlarged 40um dm cells with cellular and nuclear polymorphism
intranuclear basophilic inclusion spanning half nuclear diameter off from nuclear membrane by clear halo
Cowdry Type A