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Symptoms of west nile

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Fever

Rash

Enchplitis with possible flaccid paralysis

Meningitis

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What is the leading cause of meningitis in adults

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Strep pneumo

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What is the second leading cause if meningitis in people under 60

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N meningitidis

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What are most common neonate meningitis

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Strep b

Ecoli

Listeria

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What does the ventral posterior lateral nucleaus receive input from

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Spinothalamic

Dorsal column

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What does the ventral posterior medial nuc receive input from

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Trigemininal

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What is the inheritence of essential tremor

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AD

Most common movement disorder

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8
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How do you treat essential tremor

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Beta blocker

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9
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Who cannot use abacavir, how does the drug work, what does it treat

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HLA B 57 cannot use

NRTI

Rx for HIV

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10
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Systemic candida is most often due to

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PMN deficiency

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A tapeworm infection that affects the liver, lungs, brain, and other organs.

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Hydadit cyst

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12
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Most common cause of hydadit cyst

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Echinococcus granulosis (a tapeworm)

Comes from sheep and dogs

Rupture leads to anafalactic shock

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13
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Define micro reassortment

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Gene exchange by crossing over

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acute liver failure- rapid development of acute liver injury with severe impairment of the synthetic function and hepatic encephalopathy in a patient without obvious, previous liver disease.

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Fulminant hepatitis

seen in less than 1% of hep infections

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This is the most common helminthic infection in the USA

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Enterobiasis (aka scratchy butt)

Organism is a pinworm

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16
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How does anthrax toxin work

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increases cAMP casuing inflamation of mediatisnum

can fatally occlude airway

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17
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What is the characteristic finding of anthrax cutanous lesions

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painless ulcer

Black scab

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18
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What causes leishmaniasis and what are s/s

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Leishmania donovani

come from bit of a sand fly

s/s ab pain,distension, anorexia, wt loss, fever

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19
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What are the actinomyces buzzwords

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Mandibular lesion
thick yellow exudate
long branching filament

*seen with dental procedure

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20
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WHo typically gets pseudomonas osteomyelitis

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IV drug users

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21
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Cryptococcus neorformans basic buzzwords

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AIDS defining (usually under 50)

Causes meningoencephalitis

Heavily Encapsulated, non dimorphic yeast

Can come from pigeon droppings

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22
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this is the uptake of genes from the enviroment by bacteria

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Transformation

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23
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What is the best way to seperate fungal and bacterial meningitis

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CSF Findings

PMN= bacteria

Lymph= fungal

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24
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What is the genome of EBV

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Linear
DS DNA
+ Envelope

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25
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This marker can help you determine someone may be an alcoholic, thus narrowing pneumonia ddx to klebseliia

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y- glutamyltransferase

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26
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What is h pylori tripple therapy

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PPI

Clarithromycin

Amoxicillin/Metronidazole

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27
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This is a weird test you can do for ricketsia

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Weil Felix agglutination test

weil vs felix tennis game

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What are the two types of reovirus

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Rotavirus- #1 virus for kid diarrhea

Coltivirus

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This is the cause of colorado tick fever

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Coltivirus

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30
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Coltivirus symptoms

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colorado tick virus

Myalgia, fever, vomiting

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Gram positive motile rod with b hemoysis

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Listeria mono

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32
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What is a major way your body gets rid of listeria

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Cell mediated immunity
Infants do not have
Therefor more susciptable

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33
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Why can E. coli establish a CSF infection

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K1 capsular antigen allows it to survive CSF and bloodstream

34
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This causes release of tnfa and il1 by activating macs

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Lipid a

35
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Another name for shiga to in

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Verotoxin

36
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This is a ring enhancing lesion without toxo

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Primary central nervous system lymphoma

almost always from EBV

37
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What is primary cns lymphoma

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Ring enhancing
EBV
seen in HIV (2nd to toxo)
B cell cancer

38
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Large linear ulcers in esphogus is

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HSV

Cmv

39
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80 percent of hepatic access in USA is from

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Bacteria

Often s aures, E. coli, kleb

Undeveloped is parasite

40
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What does shiga toxin do

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Inactivates 60 s ribosomal subunit

41
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Asthmatic on steroids with eosinophilia and transient pulm infiltrates and bronciectasis

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Asprogilus hypersenstivity

ABPA

Stuff like strongaloides sometimes can present similar but no bronchectaisis

42
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How does strep viridans avoid the immune system

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Produce dextran using sucrose

Helps colonize

Likes to live in teeth and valves

43
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What do we use alcohol swabs? Like how do they work

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Alcohol disorganizes lipid membrane structures

Kills bacteria (but not spores), fungus, virus

44
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In alcoholics where do aspirates usually end up

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UPPER LOBES

They usually asparate while laying down

45
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Ulcerative or vesicular lesion on genitals

Significant painful regional LAD

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Chlamydia trachomatis

46
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How do you catch campylobacter

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Domestic animals

Contaminated food

47
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An old TB cavity now shows a round mass inside

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Asprigillis fumigatus

Likes to form fungus balls in lungs

May be asympt or show hemptosis

48
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What kind of drug is cefuroxime

A

2 cephlosporin

Inhibits cell wall

49
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What kind of drug is chloramphenicol

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Inhibits 50 s

Chlorinated pool sketchy

50
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What kind of drug is ciprofloxacin

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Fluoroquinolone

Inhibits DNA gyrase

51
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Aspirating stomach content is likely to lead to

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Chemical pneumonitis&raquo_space;> abscess

52
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What do most people aspirate

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Oropharyngeal contents- anarobic

Creates foul smelling sputum

53
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What is the ETEC toxin most similar to

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Cholera toxin

54
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Hematin and NAD are required for growth of

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Haemophilus influ

Hematin= 10
NAD= 5
55
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What are the three treatments for c diff

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Metro

Vanc

Fidaxomicin (bacterialcidal, like a macrolide)

56
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What does strep viridans like to bind

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Fibrin and platelets, which aggregate at sites of endothilial trama

57
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What is Thayer Martin vcn

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Vanc
Colistin
Nystatin

Selective medium for n gonhreah

Inhibits everything but gon and fungi

58
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What is the capsul of anthrax like

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Polymer of d glutamic acid resides

Inhibits phagocytosis

59
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  • Thick walled spherules containing Endo spores
  • Dimorphic

Seen in deserts of USA and Mexico

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Coccidioides immatus

Asymptomic, flu like, or pneumonia can be see.

60
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Separate hyphae branch at 45

Mold form only

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Asprigilus fumigatus

61
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Broad based budding

Thick, doubly refractive wall

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Blastomyces dermatitdis

62
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Thick capsule
India ink stain
Causes meningitis usually

A

Cryptococcus neoformis

63
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Small oval yeast in macs

Smaller than RBC

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Histoplasma capsulatum

64
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Broad ribbonlike hyphae with rare septations

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Rhizopus

65
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Conidia and hyphae classically seen

Causes pustular ulcerated lesions

Localized to wound or lymph

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Sporothrix schenckii

Rose gardener disease

66
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In neutropenia, the most common fungal infections are

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Asprigilus- fever, CP, cough, hemoptosis

Candida- rarely respitory

67
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This is classically seen in DM

Sinus infection, can spread to orbits or brain

A

Rhizopus–> mucormycosis

68
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What is hep e genome

A

Naked

ss RNA

Fecal oral

Infects pregers

69
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What do we use primaquine for

A

Malaria
P vivax and ovale

Eradicates intrahepatic stages aka hypnozoites (these cause relapse)

70
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Mycobacterium

Inhibits fusion of Lysosome to phagsome

A

Sulfatide

71
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Mycobacterium

Establishes virulence through pmn inhibition, mitochondria destruction, release of tnf

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Cord factor- mycoside

Makes mycos grow as serpentine cords

72
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Hat is the H flu satellite phenomena

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H flu likes to grow with s aureus

S aureus produces factor 5 and 10

73
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Buds off through nuclear membrane to get lipid bilayer

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Herpes family

74
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What is the hep b vacciene made of

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Recombanat surface protein

75
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How does diptheria vacciene work

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IgG vs protein aka extortion B

A= active. Inhibits ribosome

B= binding. Allows a to penetrate

76
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What blood complication exists for mycoplasma

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Call membrane of M pneumo and erythrocytes are very similar

IgM cross reacts (hence the igm agglutination)

77
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What is the mortality of Mucor Species

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even with frogs (amphotericin) and surgery mortality is very high

78
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What causes progressive multifocal Leukoencephalopathy

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JC Virus

PML lesions in brain–> AMS, ataxia, motor issues, DEATH in 6 months

79
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How do you treat diptheria

A

Diptheria anti toxin (passive imunization) ** most effect on prognosis

Antibiotics

Active immunization

80
Q

How does one diagnosis strongaloides infection

A

Rhabditiform larva in the stool

Eggs and adults are only seen in intestinal biopsy

81
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What are most common CGD bugs

A

S aurues

Burkholderia cepacia

Serratia

Nocardia

Asprigilus

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