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Normal flora of the colon

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b. fragilis > E. coli

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Noraml flora of the vagina

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lactobacillus, colonized by E. Coli and group B strep

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B. cereus assoc with what kind of food poisoning

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reheated rice

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C. botlinum food poisoning

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improperly canned foods, raw honey

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C. perfringens food poisoning

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reheated meat

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E coli O157:H7 food poisoning association

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undercooked meat

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salmonella food poisoning

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poulty, meat and eggs

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staph aureus food poisoning

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meats, mayonnaise, custard; preformed toxin

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v. parahaemolyticus and v. vulnificus food poisoning

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contaminated seafood

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campylobacter

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bloody diarrhea; comma or S shaped organisms; grow at 42 deg C

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entamoeba hystolitica

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bloody diarrhea; protozoa; amebic dysentery, liver abscess

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EHEC

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0157:H7; bloody diarrhea; HUS; Shiga-like toxin

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EIEC

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bloody diarrhea; invades colonic mucosa

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Salmonella

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bloody diarrhea; lactose negative; flagellar motility; has animal resevoir, esp poultry and eggs

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Shigella

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bloody diarrhea; lactose negative; produces Shiga-toxin; human resevoir only; bacillary dysentery

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yersinia enterocolitica

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bloody diarrhea; day care outbreaks; pseudoappendicitis

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c. diff

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nonbloody diarrhea; pseudomembraneous collitis; caused by abx; occasionally bloody diarrhea

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c. perfringens

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nonbloody diarrhea; assoc wth reheated meat; also causes gas gangrene

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ETEC

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traveler’s nonbloody diarrhea; produces heat-labile and heat stable toxins

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protozoa

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nonbloody diarrhea caused by giardia or cryptosporidium

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vibrio cholera

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nonbloody diarrhea; comma-shaped organisms; rice water diarrhea; often from infected seafood

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viruses that cause nonbloody diarrhea

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rotavirus, norovirus, adenovirus

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Pneumonia in neonates

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GBS and e. coli

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pneumona in kids

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virueses (esp RSV), mycoplasma, c. trachomatis (less than 3 yo), c. pneumoniae (school-aged kids), strep pneumo

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pneumonia in adults

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strep pneumo, c. pneumoniae, mycoplasma, h. influenza, anaerobes, and viruses

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pneumonia in the elderly

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strep pneumo, influenza virs, anaerobes, h. influenzae, gram neg rods

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pneumonia in alcoholics/IVDU

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strep pneumo, klebsiella, staph aureus

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aspiration pneumonia

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anaerobes (peptostreptococcus, fusobacterium, prevotella, bacteroides)

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atypical pneumonia

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mycoplasma, legionella, chlamydia

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CF pneumonia

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pseudomonas, staph aurea, strep pneumo

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pneumonia in the immunocompromised

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staph aureus, enteric GNR, fungi, viruses, PCP

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nosocomial pneumonia

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staph aureus, pseudomonas, other enteric GNR

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postviral pneumonia

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staph aureus, h. influenzae, strep pneumo

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meningitis in newborns

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listeria, e coli, GBS

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meningitis in kids

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strep pneumo, neisseria meningitidis, HIB, enteroviruses

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meningitis in adults

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strep pneumo, neisseria menignitidis, enteroviruses, HSV

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meningitis in elderly

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strep pneumo, GNR, listeria

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treatment for suspected meningitis

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ceftriaxone and vancomycin (add ampicillin if Listeria is suspected)

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viral causes of meningitis

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enteroviruses (esp coxsackie virus), HSV-2 (HSV-1 is more encephalitis), HIV, West Nile virus (also causes encephalitis), VZV

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CSF findings in bacterial meningitis

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increased opening pressure, increased PMNs, increased protein, decreased glucose

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CSF findings in fungal or TB meningitis

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increased opening pressure; increased lymphocytes; increaed protein, decreaed sugar

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CSF findings in viral meningitis

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increased or normal opening pressure; increased lymphoctyes; increased or normal protein; normal glucose

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infections causing brain abscesses

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usually staph aureus or strep; if dental infection, think oral anaerobes; multiple abscesses are typically from bacteremia; single lesions are from contiguous sites (OM and mastoiditis cause temporal lobe and cerebellar abscess; sinusitis or dental infection cause frontal lobe abscess; toxo reactivation in AIDS

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osteomyelitis organism

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usually staph aureus

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osteo in sexually active

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neisseria gonorrhea (rare, septic arthritis is more common)

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osteo in sickle cell disease

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salmonella and staph aureus

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osteo in prosthetic joint replacement

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staph aureus or staph epidermidis

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vertebral osteomyelitis

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staph aureus, mycobacterium TB (Pott disease)

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osteo from cat or dog bite

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pastuerella multicoda

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osteo in IVDU

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pseudomonas, candida, staph aureus

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UTI bugs

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E coli, second is staph saprophyticus, third is klebsiella pneumoniae

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e coli

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leading cause of UTI, colonies show green metallic sheen on EMB agar

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staph sapro

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second most common cause of UTI

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klebsiella pneumoniae

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third most common cause of UTI; large mucoid capsule and viscous colonies

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serratia marcescens

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can cause UTI; some strains produce a red pigment; often nosocomial and drug resistant

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enterococcus

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can cause UTI; often nosocomial and drug resistant

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proteus

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can cause UTI; motility causes “swarming” on agar; produces urease; assoc with struvite stones

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psuedomonas aeruginosa

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can cause UTI; blue-green pigment and fruity odo; usually nosocomial and drug-resistant

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Bacterial vaginosis

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no inflammation; thin, white discharge with fishy odor; clue cells, pH>4.5; treat with metronidazole

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trichomoniases

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inflammation; “strawberry cervix”; frothy gray-green foul-smelling discharge; motile trichomonads; pH>4.5; treat with metronidazole, and also treat sexual partner

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candida vulvovaginitis

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inflammation; thick, white cottage cheese discharge; pseudohyphae; pH normal (4-4.5), treat with the -azoles

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ToRCHeS infections

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microbes that pass from mom to fetus; toxo, rubella, CMV, HIV and HSV2, syphilis

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toxoplasma gondii

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cat feces or ingestion of undercooked meat; usually asymptomatic in the mother; neonatal manifestations are chorioretinitis, hydrocephalus, and intracranial calcifications, with or without blueberry muffin rash

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rubella

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transmitted by respiratory droplets; in mom, causes rash, lymphadenopathy, arthritis; neonatal manifestations are PDA (or pulm artery hyperplasia), cataracts, deafness, and possily blueberry muffin rash

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CMV

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acquired through sexual contact or organ transplants; in mom, usually asymp or mono-like illness; in baby, hearing loss, seizures, petechial rash, blueberry muffin rash, periventricular calcifications

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HIV

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presents in baby with recurrent infections, chronic diarrhea

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HSV-2

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usually asymp in the mom or herpetic (vesicular) lesions; in baby, presents with encephalitis and lesions

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Syphilis

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presents in baby as stillbirth, hydrops fetalis; if child survives, presents with facial abnormalities (notched teeth, saddle nose, short maxilla), saber shins, CN8 deafness

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red rashes of childhood

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coxsackie virus type A, HHV-6, measles, parvirus B19, rubella, strep pyogenes, VZV

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coxsackie virus type A

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hand-foot and mouth disease; oval vesicles on palms and soles; vesicles and ulcers in oral mucosa

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HHV-6

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roseola (exanthum subitum); asymp rose-colored macules appear after several days of high fever

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measles

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measles (rubeola); rash preceded by cough, coryza, conjunctivits and blue-white Koplik spots on buccal mucosa

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parvo B19

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slapped cheek rash on face; can cause hydrops fetalis in pregnant women

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rubella virus

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aka german measles; pink macules begin at head and move down to fine desquamating truncal rash; postauricular lymphadenopathy

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strep pyogenes

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can cause scarlet fever; erythematous sandpaper-like rash with fever and sore throat

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VZV

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chickenpox; vesicular rash begins on trunk and spread to face and extremities with lesions of different ages

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chancroid

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sexually transmitted; painFUL genital ulcer with exudate, inguinal adenopathy; caused by haemophilus ducreyi

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condylomata acuminata

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genital warts, caused by HPV 6 and 11

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lymphogranuloma venereum

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caused by chlamydia trachomatis (L1-L3); infection of lymphatics; painless genital ulcers, painful lymphadenopathy

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infections of decubitus ulcers, surgical wounds, drains

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staph aureus (incl MRSA), gram neg anaerobes

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infections of IV catheters

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staph aureus (incl MRSA), staph epi, enterobacter

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infections assoc with mechanical ventilations and ETT

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pseudomonas, klebsiella, acinetobacter, staph aureus; note, pseudomonas has a sweet odor

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infections assoc with renal dialysis unit, needlestick

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infections assoc with urinary catheter

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e coli, klebsiella, proteus

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infections assoc with water aerosols

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legionella (signs of pneumonia and GI symptoms)

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rubella virus

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rash beginning at head and moving down with posterior auricular lymphadenopathy

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measles virus

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rash begins at head and moves down; rash preceded by cough, coryza, conjunctivitis and Koplik pots on buccal mucosa

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HIB

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microbe colonizes the nasopharynx; can present as meningitis or epiglottitis (cherry red epiglottis) with thumbprint sign on xray

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poliovirus

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meningitis, myalgia, paralysis

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corynebacterium diptheriae

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toxin causes necrosis in pharynx, cardiac, and CNS tissue; grayish oropharyngeal exudate with painful throat

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asplenic patient

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encapsulated microbes (pneumococcus, meningococcus, HIB)

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branching rods in oral infection, sulfur granules

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actinomyces israelii

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chronic granulomatous disease

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catalase pos microbes, esp staph aureus

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currant jelly sputum

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klebsiella

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dog or cat bite

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pastuerella multicoda

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facial nerve palsy

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borrelia burgdorferi

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fungal infection in diabetic or immunocomp patient

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mucor or rhizopus

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health care provider

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hep B (from needle stick)

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neutropenic paitne

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candida albicans (systemic), aspergillus

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organ transplant recipient

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PAS pos

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tropheryma whipplei (Whipple disease)

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pediatric infection

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h. influenzae (incl epiglottitis)

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pneumonia in CF, burn infection

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pseudomonas

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pus, empyema, abscess

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staph aureus

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rash on hands and feet

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coxsackie A virus, syphilis, or rickettsia rickettsii

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sepsis/meningitis in new born

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traumatic open wound

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clostridium perfringens

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