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Mycobacteria - Treatments Flashcards

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How do you treat someone with a positive PPD, but so symptoms of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and a normal lung x-ray?

A

3 month isoniazid and rifampin

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How do you treat someone positive for Mycobacterium tuberculosis?

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Isoniazid, rifampin, pyrazinamide, ethambutol daily/biweekly for 6-9 months

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What is multidrug-resistant TB?

What is extreme drug-resistant TB?

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Isoniazid and rifampin - resistant

MDR-resistant, + flurorquinolone and one 2nd-line - resistant

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Treatment for XDR-TB?

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Meropenem + clavulanate

Linezolid (potential adverse effects)

Bedaquiline

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Treatment for Mycobacterium leprae?

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Dapsone (sulfone) + rifampin for 6-9 months

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Treatment for Mycobacterium avium-intercellulare?

Nosocomial (AIDS patients); bacteremia, organ failure, death

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Clarithromycin + ethambutol for life

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