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microbio - context clues and other extras Flashcards

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“Bull neck” appearance + pseudomembrane

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Diphtheria

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Pale, greasy, malodorous stools with malabsorption after drinking untreated stream or lake water

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Giardia lamblia

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19yr old man develops fever, sore throat, malaise, headache, nausea, and rash on the lower parts of both is arms and legs

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Rickettsia rickettsii

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Travel to Europe + tick bite + flu-like + ecchymoses + petechiae

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Babesia

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Travel to US (Oklahoma/Arkansas/Missouri) + wild rabbits + tabanid fly

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Tularemia

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Army barracks + flu like+ maculopapular rash + petechiae

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Meningococcemia (n.meningitidis)

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Camping + tick bite + flu like + blanching macules

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Rocky Mountain spotted fever (rickettsia rickettsii)

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Hemorrhagic vesicles surrounded by a rim of erythema with central necrosis or ulceration

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Erythema gangrenosum (p.aeruginosa and A.hydrophila)

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Trauma/post-op incision + red, hot, shiny, swollen + exquisite tenderness

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Necrotizing fasciitis (group A strep)

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Transplant recipients + diabetes, elderly, Cancer patients + meningismus

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Bacterial meningitis ( strep.pneumoniae)

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Para nasal infection + fever + nuchal rigidity + brainstem signs

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Subdural empyema (microaerophilic staph and strep)

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Facial or sphenoidal sinus infection + unilateral + retro-orbital headaches

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Septic cavernous sinus thrombosis (staph)

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Ethmoid or maxillary sinus infection + nuchal rigidity + brain stem signs

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Septic thrombosis of the superior Sagittal sinus (s.pneumoniae)

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Travel + fever + jaundice + bleeding + neurologic signs

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Fulminant malaria (p.falciparum)

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Endocarditis + injection drug users + tricuspid valve

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Staph aureus

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Ingestion of shellfish + flu like + hypotension + bullous lesions + leg pain

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Vibrio vulnificus

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Most commons presenting sign of liver abscess

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Fever

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Inflammatory diarrhea + poultry + raw milk

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Campylobacter jejuni

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Dysentery + mollusks + crustaceans

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Vibrio parahemolyticus

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Diarrhea+ ingestion of potato + egg salad + mayonnaise

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Staph aureus

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Diarrhea + fried rice ingestion + china town

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Bacillus cereus

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Diarrhea + beef, poultry + legumes

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Clostridium perfringens

22
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Watery diarrhea + shellfish ingestion

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Vibrio cholera

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Watery diarrhea + salads + cheese

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ETEC

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Bloody diarrhea + salami + apple juice + raw veggies

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EHEC

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Necrotizing fasciitis that leaked into the perineal area causing massive swelling of scrotum of penis

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Fourneir’s gangrene

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Puncture wound of the foot

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P. aeruginosa

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Indolent + culture negative + a febrile + endocarditis

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Tropheryma whipplei

28
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Diagnosis of infective endocarditis

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Duke criteria

29
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Painful genital ulcers

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Chancroid

30
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Painless genital ulcer

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Primary syphilis

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Child + peri orbital cellulitis + sinusitis + ear discharge

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H. Influenzae

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Cellulitis + exposure to fresh water

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Aeromonas hydrophila

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HIV + hypoxemia + CXR infiltrates

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Pneumocystis jiroveci

34
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Un pasteurized milk + cabbage

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Listeria monocytogenes

35
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Aseptic meningitis + facial diplegia

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Borrelia burgdoferi

36
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Steeple sign + croup

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Parainfluenza virus

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Thumbprint sign + epiglottis

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H.influenzae

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Unilateral/ bilateral parotid swelling + pain aggravate when drinking citrus juice

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Mumps virus

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Outbreaks of respiratory infections every winter

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RSV

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Outbreaks of respiratory infections in hospitalized infants

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RSV

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Making more than one type of mRNA for the same piece of DNA (virus)

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Shifting the reading frame

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New properties that a bacterium acquires as a result of expression of the integrated probated genes

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Lysogenic conversion

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Major determinant of virulence in h.influenzae

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Capsule

44
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Toxin of v.cholerae and LT enterotoxic of E. coli are similar

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B subunits of the toxin bind to GM1 receptors on the host cell

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Quinolones kill bacteria by

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Inhibiting DNA gyrase

46
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Confers resistance to malaria

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G6PD, hemoglobin C or E

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Meyers-Kouwenaar syndrome is a synonym for

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Tropical pulmonary eosiophilia
Occult filariasis
Weingartner’s syndrome

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