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1
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describe how MRSA is resistant to methicillin and nafcillin?

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altered penicillin-binding peptide

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gram positive infection on prosthetic devices

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staphylococcus epidermidis

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3
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dental caries

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streptococcus viridans - streptococcus mutans

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subacute endocarditis @ IVDU

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staph aureus

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subacute endocarditis @ post GI/Gu surgery

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enterococcus

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subacute endocarditis after oral surgery/dentist

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Streptococcus viridans - streptococcus sanginuous

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lancet shaped gram positive diplococci

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streptococcus pneumoniae

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pyrrolidonyl arrylamidase positive

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streptococcus pyogenes

GAS

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ASO titres positive

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recent infection with streptococcus pyogenes

GAS

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10
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sepsis in babies

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streptococcus agalactiae group B strep

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positive hippurate test positive

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streptococcus agalactiae

GVS

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12
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endocarditis + colon cancer

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group D non enterococci - Streptococcus bovis biotype I = Streptococcus gallolyticus
can cause bactermia and colon cancer.

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13
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ABCDEFG of diptheria

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ADP ribosylation
Beta phage
Corynebactirum
Diptheriae
Elongation Factor 2
granules
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14
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List the bacteria that can form spores.

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Bacillus cerues - food poisoning
Bacillus anthrax - anthrax
Clostridium difficilie - colitis
Clostridium tetani - tetanus
Clostridium perfriengens - gas gangrene
Coxiella burnetti - Q fever
Clostridium botulinum - botulism
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15
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I say double zone of hemolysis you say?

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clostridium perfringens and its alpha toxin

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if I say widening the beta hemolysis of staph aureus you say?

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streptococcus agalactiae with CAMP

GBS

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if I say positive hippurate test you say?

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streptococcus agalactiae

GBS

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if I say positive pyrrolidonyl arylamidase you say?

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streptococcus pyogenes GAS

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if I say positive Elek test you say?

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diphtheria toxin positive

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flu like symptoms that progress rapidly to a) Fever b) pulmonary hemorrhage c) mediastinitis and d) shock

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pulmonary anthrax

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actin polymerization to move from cell to cell and across membranes

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listeria monocytogenes with its tumbling motion and rocket tails from actin polymerization :) :)

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what is the only gram positive moo to produce an endotoxin?

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listeria monocytogenes

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23
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when I say black painless eschar with a surrounding vesicle that is PAINLESS and then becomes necrotic, still PAINLESS and can sometimes lead to bacteriemia/fatalities you think?

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cutaneous anthrax
lethal toxin
oedema toxin

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24
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when I say cereulide, you think?

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the preformed enterotoxin produced by bacillus cereus that causes emetic type of food poisoning after rehearting rice and pasta, you eat it. then you puke/nausea face after 1-5 hours of ingestion. hurrah.

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25
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oral and facial abscesses that drain through sinus tract
bacteria found in normal oral flora
not acid fast
anaerobe that you can treat with penicillin, not sulfur ;) :)

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actinomyces

yellow sulphr granules

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26
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@ immunocompromised - pulmonary infections

@ immmunocompetnent after trauma - cutaneous infections

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nocardia
aerobe
found in soul
treat with sulfonamides ;) (actinomycces sulfur granules)

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27
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niacin and heat resistant catalase, you say?

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mycobacterium tuberculosis

28
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low cell mediated immunity with a humoral TH2 response
cannot be grown in culture
glove and stocking
armadillos
deformity of digits
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lepramoatous leprosy

Hansen disease

29
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high cell mediated response with a largely TH! type immune response
few hypoesthetic, hairless skin plaques

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tuberculoid leprosy

Hansen disease

30
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leptospirosis presentation please

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flu like symptoms
photophobia
conjunctival suffusion (erythema with no exudate)
jaundice
calf (typically) myalgia
in a surfer :) bc there is pee in the water

31
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weil disease please

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severe form of leptospirosis
flu like symptoms
azotemia
jaundice
renal and hepatic failure
fever
hemorrhage
anemia
32
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flu like symptoms
azotemia
jaundice
hepatic and renal failure
fever
hemorrhage
anameia
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weil disease

leptospira interrogans

33
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flu like symptoms
jaundice
photophobia
calf myalgia
conjunctival suffusion
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leptospirosis

34
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early sxs: erythema chronicum migrans, flu like symptoms, +/- facial nerve palsy
later sxs: monoarthritis @ large joints, classically knee, migratory polyarthritis AND av nodal block AND meningitis, polyneuritis, bilateral facial nerve palsy

A

lyme disease

borrelia burgdorferi
ixodes (anaplasma and babesia)

35
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erythema marginatum
joints
subcutaneous nodules
carditis
syndenham chorea
impetigo or sore throat before.
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rheumatic fever

s pyogenes

36
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what can give a false positive (specificity low) in the VDRL for syphilis?

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viruses - mono and hepatitis
drugs
rheumatic fever
lupus and leprosy

anti beef cardiolipin - sensitive but not specific thus can rule out but not rule in. hurrah biostats.

37
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neonatal pneumonia with staccato cough and eosinophilia

neonatal conjunctivitis

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chloamydia trachomatis serotypes d-k

38
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chlamydia trachomatis serotypes ABC

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Africa
blindness - follicular conjunctivitis (conjunctival scarring, inverted eyelashes)
chronic infection

39
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small painless ulcers on genitals

swollen painful inguinal lymph nodes that ulcerate to buboes

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lymphogranuloma venereum

chlamydia trachomatis L123

40
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chlamydia psitticia and pneunomiae

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atypical pneumonia

41
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insidious onset of headace, nonproducive cough with a positive cold agglutination test and growth of mulberry like colonies on cholesterol enhanced media in people less than 30 yo in the military, prison or college dorms

A

mycoplasma pneumoniae

42
Q

name invasive bacteria that will cause PMNs to be observed in stool

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shigella
salmonella
EIEC
campylobacter

43
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name toxogenic bacteria diarrhoea style please

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clostridium perfringens
ETEC
EHEC
vibrio cholera

44
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list some motile gram negative/positive moos

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vibrio cholera like a shooting star
helicobacter pylori
pseudomonas
salmonella
e coli
campylobacter like gall wings
yersina when its cold
listeria tumbles rocket
45
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bacteria associated with Fitz-Hugh-Curtis

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inflammation of liver capsule with adhesions

Neisseria gonorrhoea

46
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bacteria associated with Waterhouse-Friedrichson syndrome

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Neisseria gonorrhoea
ecchymose, DIC. shock, coma and fatal
fever cills malaise prostration and petechial rash

47
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high fever
severe pneumonia - upper lobe and unilateral
gi
CNS symptoms

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leigonnaires disease

air conditioner

48
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uti in catheter patients

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pseudomonas and klebsiella

49
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differentiate between EIEC, EPEC, EHEC, and ETEC

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EIEC: invasive, presents like dysentery ie shigella style
EPEC: adheres to M cells; flattens villi and prevents resorption. diarrhoea in children
EHEC: shiga like toxin, no invasion but causes necrosis anyways - dysentery like presentation
ETEC: heat labile and heat stabile watery like cholera; contaminated water - travellers diarrhoea

50
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red current jelly sputum
alcoholics
chronic lung disease
diabetics

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klebsiella

51
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puppies, poultry, meat, unpastuerized milk
gall wings
likes it hot

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campylobacter jejuni

52
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guillian barre and reactive arthritis

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campylobacter jejuni

53
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gallbladder colonization
week one - constipation with bacteria in blood
week two - fever
week three - bacteria in stool

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salmonella typhi/paratyphi

54
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rice water diarrhoea
alkaline media
permanent activation fo Gs

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vibrio cholera

55
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pseudoappendicitis
puppies
contaminated milk or porl
cold
motile when its cold but not when its hot
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Yersinia pestis

56
Q 
gastritis
peptic ulcers
urease positive
positive urease breath test
gastric adenocarcinoma
MALToma
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helicobacter pylori

57
Q 
flu like symptoms
myalgia of the calfs
photophobia
jaundice
conjunctival suffusion (erythema no exudate)
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leptospirosis

58
Q 
jaundice
azotemia (liver and renal failure)
fever
hemorrhage
anaemia
exposure to water
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tropics/Hawaii/surfers/occupation

weil disease aka icterohemorrhagic leptospirosis

59
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broad based ataxia
positive rhomberg
charcot joint
stroke without hypertension
constriction with accommodation but not reactivit to light pupils
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tertiary syphillis

60
Q

what can give false positive VDRLs

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virus - mumps and hepatitis
drugs
rheumatic fever
leprosy and lupus

61
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epithelial cells undermicroscope that look stifled

vaginal fluid

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bv

garnderella vaginalis

62
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outdoor exposure
north Carolina, south Carolina, tenessee
rash that started on trunk
not on palms and soles

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Typhus
epidemic R prowaekki from louse
endemic R typhi from flea

63
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monocytes with morulae - berry like inclusions - in cytoplasm

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erlichiosis

tick

64
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granulocytes with morulae - berry like inclusions - in cytoplasm

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anaplasmosis

ixodes tick

65
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cattle and sheep amniotic fluid
pneumonia
endocarditis

A

Q fever

coxiella burnetti

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