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Micro Dzs Flashcards

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Pt with severe diarrhea, pneumonia and fever? Tx?

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Legionairre’s disease. Macrolide, quinolone

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pt with Joint pain with skin nodules and involuntary movements. Also notice red patches?

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Streptococcus pneumo. Rheumatic Fever criteria

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Pt has meningococci. Give contacts what? Treat pt with?

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rifampin, ciproflocacin, ceftriaxone

ceftriaxone or penicillin G

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Diabetic with cavitary lesion in lung?

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Klebsiella

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May occur after campylobactor infection?

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Reactive arthritis or Guillain-Barre

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Pt after eating shellfish has vesicular lesions on legs, diarrhea. Progresses to muscle necrosis, hypotension, death

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Vibrio Vulnificus

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Pt with bacterial infection that mimics appendicitis. Could have gotten it from?

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Yersinia enterocolitica. Puppies (feces), milk, pork

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Tx for H pylori?

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triple therapy: PPI, clarithromycin, amoxicillian/metronidazole

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Flu-like symptoms with jaundice and photophobia?

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Leptospira

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Jaundice, azotemia, fever, hemorrhage and anemia?

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Weil’s disease/ (icterohemorrhagic leptospirosis)

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Condylomata lata vs acuminata

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syphilis (Lata for syphiLis) vs HPV

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Rash starting from wrist and spreading to palms, trunk and soles. Bitten by?

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Rash starts centrally and spreads out, sparing palms and feet. Bitten by?

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Rickettsia rickettsii (tick) 
(rickettsia on the wRist)

vs

typhus - R. porwazekii (louse)
(typus on the Trunk)

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Rash on palms/soles?

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CARS
Coxasakie A
Rickettsia
Secondary Syphilis

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tick bite:

No rash monocytes with inclusions

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No rash and granulocytes

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Ehrlichia vs Anaplasma

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Mycoplasma - cannot treat with?

Tx with?

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Anything that targets cell wall.

Macrolide or fluoroquinolone.

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Pt with inflammatory lung disease that disseminates to bone/skin?

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Blastomycosis

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Fungi inside macrophages

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Histoplasmosis

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Pt with CF, more likely to get what fungal infection?

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Aspergillus

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Pt after TB, cavities may get filled with?

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aspergillus

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Pt asymptomatic but passing cysts of entamoeba. Tx? (tx if symptomatic)

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Iodoquinol (metronidazole if symptomatic)

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Pt with AIDs get severe watery diarrhea. Tx?

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Cryptosporidium. Nitazoxanide

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Chorioretinitis, hydrocephalus and intracranial opacities? Tx?

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Toxoplasmosis triad. Dulfadizine and prymethamine

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Pt who went swimming in lake. Rapidly progressing meningitis. Tx

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Naegleria fowleri. Amphotericin

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Pt with enlarged lymph nodes, recurring fever. Goes into coma. Bite mark on face. Tx?

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Trypanosome brucei (all except Cruzi). Suramin and Melasoprol

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Pt with fever, headache and splenomegaly. Fever comes every 48 hours? Tx.

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Plasmodium Vivax in western hemisphere
P. Ovale in east
Chloroquine and primaquine. Add quinidine is life-threatening.

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Pt with fever, headache and splenomegaly. Fevers every 72 hours. Tx?

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Malariae. Chloroquine. Use Mefloquine in resistant. Add quinidine is life-threatening.

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Pt with fever, headache, splenomegaly. Irregular fever patterns? Kidney and lung involvement? Tx?

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P Falciparum. Chloroquine. Use Mefloquine in resistant. Add quinidine is life-threatening.

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Maltese cross on slide. Tx?

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Baberiosis. Atovaquone and azithromycin

29
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Dz from Refuviid? Tx?

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Traypanosoma cruzi. Chaga’s disease. Nifurtimox

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pt with spiking fevers, hepatosplenomegaly, pancytopenia. Macrophages contain organisms. Tx?

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Leishmanina donovani (from sandfly). Stibogluconate. Macrophages contain amastigotes

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Pt with pain in bones, rash, headache?

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Dengue fever

32
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Fusion protein F?

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on RSV. Causes repiratory epithelial cells to fuse and from multinuclearted giant cells

33
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RSV - treatment that prevents pneumoina?

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Palivizumab

34
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AIDS pt with low-grade fevers, cough, hepatosplenomegaly and a tongue ulcer. CD<100. Organism in macrophages?

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Histoplasmosis

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AIDS pt with cottage cheese like lesions?

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AIDS pt with superfical vascular proliferation with lympcytes?

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bacillary angiomatosis

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AIDS pt with encephalopathy?

38
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AIDS pt with tongue lesion that cannot be scraped off?

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AIDS pt with squamous cell CA in anus?

40
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AIDS pt with pluritic pain, hemoptysis and infiltrates on imagine?

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aspergillus

41
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Pt with suspected UTI. Positve leukocyte esterase test?

Pt with positive nitrite test?

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bacterial UTI

Gram neg bacterial UTI

42
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Burning with urination? WBCs in urine?

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Urethritis. gonorrhea or chalmydia

43
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Increased urination and suprapubic pain? +urease test?

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Cystitis. Proteus, klebsiella

44
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Increased urination and suprapubic pain? negative urease test?

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E coli, enterococcus

45
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Works in dialysis unit?

46
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Pt with adhesions of parietal peritoneum to liver?

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Fitz-Hugh-curtis syndrome.

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Pt doesn’t take out contact lenses. Eyes feel dry and painful, feels like there are foreign bodies in them. Red and tear up frequently. Dx? How to Dx? Tx?

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Acanthamoeba. Slit-lamp for ring on cornea. Miconazole and neomycin

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Pt doesn’t take out contact lenses. Eyes feel dry and painful, feels like there are foreign bodies in them. Becomes photophobic and cannot see as well.

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HSV keratitis.

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Pt with diffuse crampy abdominal pain over past 4 days. Weight loss of 10 lbs over past month. Inflammed gallbladder, Irregular mass in second portion of duodenum. Stool sample shows rough surfaced eggs. Tx?

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Acscaris lumbricoides. Mebendazole.

50
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Pt comes in with sudden onset of weakness, nausea, vomiting, and blurred vision. Fixed, dilated pupils. If pt got it from ingesting a microbe? Progression of symptoms?

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Bolutlinum. GI distress, cranial nerves are the first affected. Then descending paralysis

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Pt comes in with white flakyy adherent substance under skin of left breast. Microbe can also cause yeast infections. How to Dx?

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Candida. KOH mount

52
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Non-immunocompromised pts who are at risk for candida?

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IV drug users can get endocarditis from candida.

53
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Pt presents with difficulty swallowing and abdominal bloating. Unilateral periorbital edema. Tx?

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Chagas.Nifurtimox.

54
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Pt with rusty sputum. History of recurrent lung and skin infections. Cousin dies at 5 from severe pneumonia and uncle has had 2 surgeries for intracranial fungi. Thymic shadow is normal. Test for Dx?

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CGD. Nitroblue tetrazolium

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50 year old pt who 1 year ago presented with symptoms of psychosis. Progressed to ataxia and involuntary movements to death.

56
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Newborn with petechiae, jaundice, microcepahly, retinitis, and deafness?

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Congenital CMV

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Pt returns from southeast asia with fever, severe muscle pain and knee pain. Erythematous rash covering her face and body with generalized lymphadenopathy. Most severe complication?

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Dengue Fever. Dengue hemorrhagic fever and dengue shock syndrome.

58
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Elephantitis? Transmission? Tx?

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Wuchereria bancrofti. From mosquito. Diethylcarbamazine for larvae.

59
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Pt with hemorragic destruction of adrenals. Microbe usually causes?

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N. Meningitidis (not gonorrhea). Causes meningitis

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Pt with cryptococcus. Most common disesases?

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1) Meningitis (infects lung first, but usually asymptomatic)
2) granuloma formation in lungs (not pneumonia)

61
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Pt with posterauricular lympadenopathy andpolyarthralgia?

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