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Associated with buttery colonies with musty odor due to indole production

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Pasteurella multicoda

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Bacteria that comprises the Zoonoses

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Brucella abortus - cows
Francisella tularensis - rabbits
Yersinia pestis - rodents
Pasteurella multocida - cats and dogs

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Medium for growing M.tuberculosis

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Lowenstein-Jensen medium

Luciferase assay for drug resistance

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Most important virulence factor of M.tuberculosis since it prevents leukocyte migration

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Cord factor

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Known to be most virulent bacteria

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Yersenia pestis - transmitted through flea bite, rod with safety-pin appearance. Reservior wild rodents

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Staining for M.tuberculosis

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Acid-fast stain
Ziehl-Neelsen (heat)
Kinyoun (cold)

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Predilection of primary complex

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Usually in middle or lower lobes

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Refers to radiologically detectable calcification in tuberculosis

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Ranke’s complex

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Virulence factor of M.tuberculosis that prevents phagosome lysosomal fusion

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Sulfatides

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Also known as subpleural granuloma

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Ghons focus

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Predilection of reactivated Tuberculosis

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Usually in apices - Simon’s focus

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Where can we culture M.leprae

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Mouse footpad or armadillo

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Refers to Ghon’s focus + lymph node

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Ghon’s complex

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Treatment for WHO category I TB patients

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2HRZE initiation

4HR continuation

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Leprosy: associated with marked tissue destruction

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Lepromatous leprosy

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Most common extrapulmonary TB presentation

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Scrofula

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Leprosy: associated with many lesions

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Lepromatous leprosy

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When to consider PTB suspect?

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Cough equal or greater than two weeks, WITH or WITHOUT local and constitutional symptoms.

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Leprosy: associated with many acid-fast bacilli

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Lepromatous leprosy

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Smallest free living microorganism

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Mycoplasma pneumoniae

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Transmission of M.leprae

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Prolonged exposure to nasal secretions of patients with the lepromatous form

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Leprosy: associated with leone facies and erythema nodusom leprosum

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Lepromatous leprosy

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Associated with walking pneumonia. And the most common type of atypical pneumonia

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M.pneumoniae

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Weakly acid fast stain used for Nocardia asteroides

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Fite-Faraco stain

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Most common bacterial cause of Steven Johnson syndrome

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M.pneumoniae

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Causes CHANCROID

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H.ducreyi - and it is painful

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Leprosy: positive for Lepromin Skin test

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Tuberculoid leprosy

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Infection that may manifest as mycetomas and lung and brain abscesses (orange colonies)

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Nocardia asteriodes

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Type of syphilis that usually occurs 1-3months after. Manifest as condylomata lata, maculopapular rash fever or headache

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Secondary Syphilis

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Drug of choice for M.pneumoniae

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Erythromycin or Azithromycin (macrolide)

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Type of syphilis that usually occurs many years after inoculation. Associated with gummas, neurosyphilis and aortitis

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Tertiary Syphilis

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Congenital condition that presents with snuffles, mulberry molars, hutchinson triad, saber shins, rhagades, Clutton’s joint, pulmonary hemorrhages and Higoumenakis sign

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Congenital Syphilis - Higoumenakis sign is a unilateral enlargement of the sternoclavicular portion of the clavicle

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Flu like Reaction after fee hours of receiving Penicillin due to lysis of Trepanemes

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Jarisch-Herxheimer reaction

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Largest medically important bacteria

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Borrelia burgdoferi

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Transmission of B.burgdorferi

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Deer ticks bite - Ixodes scapularis

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Bacteria that are associated with Ixodes scapularis

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Borrelia burgdorferi

Babesia microti

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Causative agent of syphillis

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Treponema pallidum

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Stage of Lyme disease that presents with erythema chronicum migrans

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Stage I

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Syphilis that manifest as local, nontender CHANCRE

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Primary Syphilis

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Conditions that causes acrodermatitis?

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Lyme disease - acrodermatitis chronica atrophicans

Zinc deficiency - acrodermatitis enterohepatica

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Treatment of choice for Relapsing fever

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Due to Borrelia recurrentis due to programmed rearrangements

TX is Tetracycline or Erythromycin -

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Disease caused by B.burgdoferi

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Lyme disease

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Growth media for L.interrogans

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Ellinghausen-McCullough-Johnson-Harris medium or Fletcher’s medium

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Culture medium for B.burgdorferi

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BSK medium

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Most severe form of Leptospirosis

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Weil disease - triad of jaundice, bleeding and uremia. Orange cost skin

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Obligate aerobe that has the appearance of Shepherd’s Crook

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Leptospira interrogans

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Leptospirosis phase that may presents with glomerulonephritis, aseptic meningitis and hepatic necrosis

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Immune Leptospiruric phase

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May present with Bells palsy, arthritis, cardiac block and erythema chronicum migrans

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Lyme disease

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Most important symptom of patients with Leptospirosis

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Calf tenderness

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Chlamydia trachomatis is grown using what medium

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Cycloheximide culture

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Infectious for. If Chlamydia

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Elementary body

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Reproductive active form of Chlamydia

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Reticulate body

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Most common STD overall

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Chlamydia

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Refers to round to oval cytoplasmic inclusion bodies near the nuclei of conjunctival epithelial cells in trachoma

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Halberstadter-Prowazek inclusions

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Type of Chlamydia associated with genital tract infections

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Types D-K, while Types A-C are associated with Trachoma

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Birth complications of Chlamydia

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Neonatal conjunctivitis

Neonatal pneumonia - staccato cough

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Caused by C.trachomatis types L1-L3, presenting with papule or vesicular which ulcerates and leads to suppurative inguinal lymphadenitis (buboes)

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Lymphogranuloma venereum

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Test for Lymphogranuloma venereum

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Frei test

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Causes atypical pneumonia and associated with atherosclerosis

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Chlamydia pneumoniae

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Disease cause by C.psittaci due to bird exposure

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Bird Fancier’s disease

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Test to detect antirickettsial antibodies in patients serum by agglutination of the Proteus organism

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Weil-Felix test

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Drug of choice for rickettsial infection

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Doxycycline

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Causes cat-scratch disease

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Bartonella henselae

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Facultative gram-variable rod, causes bacterial vaginosis, presents with clue cells and positive for Whiff test

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Gardnerella vaginalis - malodorous vaginal discharge

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Causes painful genital ulcer

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Haemophilus ducreyi - causes chancroid

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Gram negative rod that causes mesenteric adenitis (pseudoappendicitis)

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Yersinia enterocolitica

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Causes granuloma inguinale (Donovanosis)

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Klebsiella granulomatosis

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Major membrane sterol of fungi

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Ergosterol

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Two basic forms of fungi

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Yeast and mold

72
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Toxin of Aspergillus flavus that causes liver cancer after ingestion of contaminated peanuts and grains

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Aflatoxin

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Growth agar for fungi

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Sabouraud’s agar

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Three important dermatophytes - infect only superficial keratinized structures

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Microsporum canis
Trichophyton tonsurans
Epidermophyton floccosum

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Diagnosis of Dermatophytoses could be done using?

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10% KOH - septate hyphae
Sabourauds agar - hyphae and conidia
Green fluorescence on Wood lamp

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Fungi that causes tinea vesicolor or an-an

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Malassezia furfur - treatment with miconazole

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Appearance of M.furfur in 10%KOH

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Spaghetti and meatballs appearance

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Causes Sporotrichosis or Gardeners disease

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Sporothrix schenckii - treatment: Itraconazole or potassium iodide

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Causes Valley fever - an influenza like illness with arthralgia, erythema nodusom and may have meningitis due to inhalation of arthrospores. Very common among Filipinos living in Latin America

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Coccidioides immitis - systemic mycoses, treated with Amphotericin B or Itraconazole

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Causes Histoplasmosis, associated with bird droppings (starlings) or bat guano. Closely mimic tuberculosis. And may cause tongue ulceration in AIDS patient

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Histoplasma capsulatum - treated with Amphotericin B or Itraconazole

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Two great mimickers of PTB

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Histoplasmosis

Paragonimos

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Most common cause of fungal pneumonia. Endemic to eastern North America

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Blastomyces dermatitidis - treated with Itraconazole and Amphotericin B in severe infection

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Causes pneumonia and painful ulcers on mouth and nose. Restricted to Central and South America. A dimophic fungus in wheel configuration (marine’s wheel)

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Paracoccidioides brasiliensis - treated with Itraconazole

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Causes pseudomembranous esophagitis

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Candida albicans

85
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Causes oral thrush and vulvovaginitis (curd-like discharged) in immunocompetent individuals

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Candida albicans

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Treatment for disseminated Candidiasis

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Amphotericin B
Clotrimazole - for skin infection
Nystatin - oropharyngeal and esophageal

87
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Species of Paracoccidioides that is more common in males due to protective property estrogen in females

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P.lutzii

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Causes asymptomatic lung infection but meningoencephalitis in HIv patients. Associated with birds especially pigeon droppings

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Cyrotococcus neoformans - DOC: amphotericin B and Flucytosine

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Septate hyphae that forms V-shaped. Associated with allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA). Fungus ball (aspergilloma) in lung cavities

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Aspergillus fumigatus - treatment Amphotericin B

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Diagnosis of Pneumocystis jeroveci can be made using?

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BAL washing : toluidine blue, methenamine silver stain

91
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Mist common AIDs defining illness

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P.jeroveci at CD4<200 treated with Trimethoprim-Sulfamethoxazole

92
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Culture medium for M.pneumoniae

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Eaton medium

93
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Leptospirosis has a ____ lesion in CXR

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Snow-flake lesion

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Gold standard for detection of Leptospira

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Leptospire microscopic agglutination test (lepto MAT)

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