Microbiology Flashcards
Name 4 important intrauterine infections
rubella
parvovirus b19
VZV
CMV
(herpes HIV HEPb)
what causes rubella
RNA virus with respiratory spread. togaviridae family
name 5 routes of CMV transmission
Saliva, blood, sexual, intrauterine, perinatal eg breastfeeding
Main problem assocaited with intrauterine CMV infection
Accounts for 20% of sensory- neural hearing loss
What viruses would you be suspecting in a child scan of foetal microcephaly
CMV and rubella, zika?
What is the treatment for a pregnant woman with chicken pox
aciyclovir
What mosquito transmits malaria
anopheles
what mosquito transmits dengue
aedes
How would HIV present in a returning traveller
pharyngitis, like mononucleosisby EBV or CMV
How does rickettsial disease present?
Fever, myalgia and headache and vasculitis as it invades the endothelial cells and may have an eschar from the bite
what organism causes rickettsial disease
tics, lice mites, scrub typhus causes chiggers
how do you treat rickettsia
doxy
how do you diagnose cysticercosis
see brain abcess with a fluid level, often walled off by bone. commonest cause of adult onset epilepsy.
how do you treat cysticercosis
cestocidal drugs and steroids (e.g praziquantel)
what is the largest risk factor for TB
HIV but most tb attributable to malnutrition
What causes african sleeping sickness
trypanasoma brucei (rhodesiense (east) and gambiense (west))
east - more severe and results in death
west indolent present late with psych conditions - posterior lymphadenopathy
present with chancre
how is trypanosoma transmitted
tsetse fly
how is leishmaniasis transmitted
sand flies