Micro Pics Flashcards

staphylococcus

staph aureus
left: furuncle (boil): infection of hair follicle, purulent material extends through dermis into subcu, abscess
middle: carbuncle: coalescence of several inflamed follicles
right: paronychia

staph aureus
left: folliculitis: superficial infection of hair follicles with purulent material in epidermis
right: cellulitis: infection of soft tissue: involves deeper dermis and subQ fat

staph aureus
top left: hordoleum
top right: blepharitis
bottom: conjunctivitis

staph aureus
scalded skin syndrome

bullous impetigo
staph aureus

staph TSS
D test
clindamycin and erythromycin

positive: D
inducible clindamycin resistance

staph epidermidis
left: urease pos.
right: urease neg.

left: catalase neg.
right; catalase pos.

top: coagulase neg.
bottom: coagulase pos.

strep

pharyngitis

erysipelas
GAS

impetigo
GAS

cellulitis
GAS
lots of PAIN

GAS necrotizing fasciitis

GAS necrotizing fasciitis

GAS necrotizing fasciitis
feels like sandpaper

scarlet fever
GAS

scarlet fever
GAS
sandpaper rash, strawberry tongue, desquamation,

bile esculin
enterococcus faecalis

alpha hemolysis

non-hemolytic
gamma hemolysis

beta hemolysis

Rickettsia rickettsii

Rickettsia ricketsii
rocky mountain spotted fever

Rickettsia rickettsii in vascular endothelial cell
IFA: indirect immunofluorescent assay

Rickettsia prowazekii

Rickettsia typhi

blood smear: morulae in monocytes
Ehrlichia chaffeensis
human monocytic ehrlichiosis

anaplasma phagocytophilia: morulae in GRANULOCYTE
human granulocytic anaplasmosis: Rocky Mountain Spotless Fever

Coxiella burnetii

spirochete

blacklegged tick: Ixodes
Lyme disease

Lyme disease: Borrelia burgdorferi
erythema chronicum migrans
ticks not usually found in rash

spirochete on blood smear
Borrelia spp.

tightly coiled, fine spirochete
Leptospira interrogans

Cat scratch disease
Bartonella heneslae

angioma in skin and visceral organs
cat scratch disease in immunocompromised
Bartonella heneslae

Bartonella heneslae
Cat scratch disease
swollen lymph nodes

Bacillus anthracis

Bacillus anthracis
eschars

Burkholderia pseudomallei
melioidosis or Whitmore’s disease

Francisella tularensis

lymphadenopathy, ulcergalndular tularemia
Francisella tularensis

Yersinia pestis

buboes
Yersina pestis

blueberry muffin rash
rubella
togavirus

hand, foot, and mouth: coxsackievirus
herpangia, vescular lesions on hands/feet

mumps
paramyxovirus
parotid swelling

HSV in HIV

chicken pox
VZV

VZV
shingles

smallpox

molluscum contagiosum

lesion due to smallpox vaccine: vaccinia
umbilicated

top left: generalized vaccina
top right, bottom left: inadvertant inoculation
bottom right: erythema multiforme
severe rxns to small pox vaccine

life threatening rxns to smallpox vaccine
left: progressive vaccinia
right: eczema vaccinatum
top left: cat bite
bottom: IVDU

septic arthritis
top left: knee, most common (except in children)
top right: 3rd MCP, pasteurella multocida
bottom: sternoclavivular (uncommon except in IVDU)

septic arthritis
bony erosion (arrow) and soft tissue swelling
patient had prostatectomy 2 weeks before
P. aeruginosa in urine

pubic symphysis septic arthritis
widended joint space, small cortical erosions

top: painless, nonpruritc lesions
bottom: tenosynovitis
gonococcal arthritis
foot pain for 5 months
initial xray and CT neg.
repeat xray here: AFB stain/culture positive

MTB septic arthritis
above the knee amputation

draining sinus
osteomyelitis

right: epidural abscess
left: vertebrae and disk space change
vertebral osteomyelitis

foot ulcers due to PVD or DM
osteomyelitis

right: diskitis with vertebral destruction
middle: diskitis
left: abscess
Pott’s disease

C. perfringens
arrow A: air in external iliac vein
arrow B: gas in butt soft tissue
bottom: gram stain of muscle biopsy