Micro Flashcards

Erythema infectiosum (parvovirus)
Notice the slapped cheek appearance
What causes this type of reaction?

Vaccinia (pox vaccine)
What disease can manifest this way?

Lepromatous leprosy (Mycobacterium leprae)
Note the neurotrophic atrophy

Elrichia (HME)
Notice morulae in cytoplasm of monocyte
Organism causing the disease described here?

Parvocirus - Erythema contagiosum
(flu-like illness followed by rash)

Molluscum contagiosum (pox virus)

RMSF
Notice rash on PALMS

Molluscum contagiosum

Borellia burgdorferi
Bulls eye rash (erythema chronicum migrans of initial LD)
What organism may cause this finding?

B. burgdeorferi
(tertiary lyme disease can cause erosive arthritis, especially of the knee)

Aplasma phagocytophilia (HGA)
Notice morulea in cytoplasm of granulocyte

Bartonella henselae
(Lymphadenopathy in kid = think cat scratch)

Parvovirus
Notice the lacy (reticulate) red rash on limbs and trunk

Fifth disease
Notice slapped cheek appearance + lacy (reticular) red rash

Smallpox

RMSF
Notice rash on PALMS and wrist
This shows the structure of what virus?

Pox virus (brick-shaped)

Eczema vaccinatum from vaccinia (pox vaccine)
What disease is transmitted by the organism on the left? Right?

Left = deer tick = HGA
Right = deer tick nymph = LD
The mother of this fetus could have been infected with what org?

Parvo B19
(Lyses RBCs = miscarriage, fetal anemia, hydrops fetalis)

HGA distribution
(Transmitted via Lone Star tick)

Molluscum contagiosum (poxvirus)
Which organism replicates this way?

Pox virus
(Only DNA virus that replicates in the cytoplasm; envelope formed de novo)

Pox virus

R. rickettsia distribution (RMSF)
OK, SC, NC, AR, MI

RMSF
Notice rash on SOLES

Bed bug bite
Breakfast, lunch, and dinner
First step in management?

Doxycline + amoxicillin

Leptospirosis
Jaundice