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Undulating fever

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Brucella abortus

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Infection from rabbits, deer or rodents; transmitted by tick bite (dermacentor)

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Tularemia (Francisella tularensis)

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Most virulent bacteria; causes buboes and cutaneous hemorrhage

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Yersinia pestis (plague)

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Animal bite infection

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Pasturella multocida

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Buttery colonies of pasturella multocida with musty odor due to production of _________

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Indole

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Reproductive tract infection in cattle, infection through contaminated dairy or direct contact with cows

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Brucella abortus

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Uses heat to stabilize carbolfuscin

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Ziehl-Neelsen

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Uses detergent to stabilize carbolfuscin

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Kinyoun

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Lipids of mycobacterium tuberculosis (2)

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  1. Mycolic acid, 2. Wax D
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Prevents phagolysosome fusion in M. tuberculosis

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Exported repetitive protein (sulfatides)

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Prevents leukocyte migration in TB

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Cord factor

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Delayed hypersensitivity against TB; basis for the PPD test

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Tuberculin surface protein

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Subpleural TB granuloma

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Ghon’s focus

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Ghon’s focus + lymph node

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Ghon’s complex

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Radiologically detectable TB calcification

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Ranke’s complex

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Reactivation TB, usually in the apices

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Simon’s focus

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17
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TB may be secondarily infected with ____________

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Aspergillus fumigatus

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18
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PPD cutoff value: Philippines

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> 8mm

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PPD cutoff value: immunosuppressed

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> 5mm

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PPD cutoff value: high risk population

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> 10 mm

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PPD cutoff value: low risk population

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> 15 mm

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Most common extrapulmonary TB

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Scrofula

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Other use of BCG vaccine other than TB prevention

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Intravesical injection for urinary bladder CA

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Pulmonary disease when CD4

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Mycobacterium avium intracellulare complex

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Must be cultured on the footpads of a mouse or armadillo

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Mycobacterium leprae

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Macrophages filled with M. leprae

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Globi

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Free bacilli, not contained in globi

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Red Snappers

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Marked tissue destruction, many lesions, many acid-fast bacilli, high infectivity, negative lepromin skin test due to reduced or absent cell mediated response

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Lepromatous leprosy

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Minimal tissue destruction, few lesions, few acid-fast bacilli, low infectivity, positive lepromin skin test due to intact cell mediated response

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Tuberculoid leprosy

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Hypopigmented plaques, thickened superficial nerves and significant anesthesia

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Tuberculoid leprosy

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Leonine facies, erythema nodosum leprosum

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Lepromatous leprosy

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32
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  1. Tx for lepromatous leprosy

2. Side effects of the drugs

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  1. Dapsone (methemoglobinemia), 2. Rifampicin (hepatotoxic, orange colored secretions), 3. Clofazimine (bronze discoloration)
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  1. Tx for erythema nodosum leprosum

2. Side effect of the drug

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  1. Thalidomide

2. Phocomelia

34
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Hard, nontender swelling with sinus tracts draining sulfur granules

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Actinomyces Israelii

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Aerobic, filamentous gram positive rods with aerial hyphae, weakly acid fast on Fite-Faraco stain

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Nocardia asteroides

36
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Mycetomas, orange colonies of lung and brain abscesses

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Nocardia asteroides

37
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Only bacteria with sterol in its cell membrane; produces P1 adhesin, H2O2, cold agglutinins

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Mycoplasma pneumoniae

38
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“Walking pneumonia”; associated with SJS (most common cause), Raynaud’s phenomenon, Guillain-Barre syndrome

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Mycoplasma pneumoniae

39
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Coiled microaerophilic spirochete; seen on darkfield microscopy

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Treponema pallidum

40
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Nontender chancre

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Primary syphilis

41
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Condyloma lata, maculopapular rash

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Secondary syphilis

42
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Gummas, Neurosyphilis, tree-bark aortitis

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Tertiary syphilis

43
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Pupils that are unreactive to light but are able to accommodate

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Argyll-Robertson pupil (prostitute’s pupil)

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Snuffles, mulberry molars, saber shins, pulmonary hemorrhage, Clutton’s joints (synovitis)

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Congenital syphilis

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Hutchinson triad in congenital syphilis

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Hutchinson teeth, deafness, keratitis

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Unilateral enlargement of the sternoclavicular portion of the clavicle, leading to detachment

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Higoumenakis sign

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Screening test for syphilis

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RPR/VDRL

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Confirmatory test for syphilis

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FTA-ABS

49
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Influenza-like symptoms occurring a few hours after commencing treatment with Penicillin G

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Jarisch-Herxheimer reaction

50
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Diseases transmitted by the deer tick (Ixodes scapularis) (2)

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  1. Babesia microti, 2. Borrelia burgdorferi
51
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Erythema chronicum migrans (target lesions)

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Stage 1 of Lyme disease

52
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Myocarditis, meningitis, Bell’s palsy

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Stage 2 of Lyme disease

53
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Autoimmune migratory polyarthritis, onion-skin lesions, acrodermatitis chronica atrophicans

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Stage 3 of Lyme disease

54
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Causes Relapsing Fever due to programmed rearrangements; transmitted by Pediculus humanus

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Borrelia recurrentis

55
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Thin, coiled spirochetes with “Shepherd’s crook” appearance

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Leptospira interrogans

56
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Gold standard in the diagnosis of leptospirosis

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LeptoMAT (microscopic agglutination test)

57
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Febrile illness, with intense calf tenderness, conjunctival suffusion

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Acute leptospiremic phase

58
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Aseptic meningitis, snowflake pulmonary lesions on CXR, hepatic necrosis, Type 3 hypersensitivity mediated glomerulonephritis

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Immune leptospiruric phase

59
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Triad of jaundice, bleeding, uremia; with orange cast skin and massive pulmonary hemorrhage

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Weil syndrome

60
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Obligate intracellular bacteria (2)

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  1. Chlamydia, 2. Rickettsia
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Inactive, extracellular chlamydia; infectious form that enters the cell thru endocytosis

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Elementary body

62
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Metabolically active, intracellular chlamydia; comprises the cytoplasmic inclusions seen on Giemsa stain

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Reticulate body

63
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Most common STD overall

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Chlamydia trachomatis

64
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Chronic keratoconjunctivitis, Halberstadter-Prowazek inclusions near the nuclei of conjunctival epithelial cells

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Trachoma (types A-C)

65
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Non-gonorrheal urethritis in males, PID in females; neonatal conjunctivitis and pneumonia; associated with Reiter’s syndrome

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Chlamydia types D-K

66
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Late onset; tachypnea, staccato cough, absence of fever, eosinophilia

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Chlamydia neonatal pneumonia

67
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Inguinal lymphadenitis (buboes), (+) Groove sign

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Lymphogranuloma venereum (types L1-L3)

68
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Atypical pneumonia associated with atherosclerosis

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Chlamydia pneumoniae

69
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Sudden onset pneumonia with a history of exposure to exotic birds

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Chlamydia psittaci (Bird fancier’s disease)

70
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Cross reaction of rickettsiae with antigens of OX strains of proteus vulgaris

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Weil-Felix reaction

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Rocky mountain spotted fever

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Rickettsia rickettsii

72
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Rickettsial infection with eschar formation

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Rickettsia akari

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Epidemic rickettsia

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Rickettsia prowazekii

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Endemic rickettsia

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Rickettsia typhi

75
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Scrub typhus

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Orientsia tsutsugamushi

76
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Q fever; no vector, no rash, high mortality rate

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Coxiella burnetti

77
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Cat scratch disease in immunocompetent; bacillary angiomatosis in immunocompromised

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Bartonella henselae

78
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Transmitted by dog tick bite (Dermacentor); forms morulae in the cytoplasm of monocytes

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Ehrlichia chaffensis

79
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Clue cells, positive whiff test; fishy, malodorous vaginal discharge

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Gardnerella vaginalis

80
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Painful genital ulcer; cultured on chocolate agar with Factor X

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Haemophilus ducreyi (chancroid)

81
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Mesenteric adenitis

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Yersinia enterocolitica

82
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Donovan bodies, beefy red genital ulcers with pseudobuboe formation

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Klebsiella granulomatis (granuloma inguinale/donovanosis)

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