Pathology Of Infections Flashcards
Vitamin that has shown to reduce the severity of measles infection
Vitamin A
Multi-nucleated giant cells seen in measles
Warthin-Finkeldey cells
Whitish ulcerated oral muscosal lesions near the opening of Stensen ducts
Koplik spots
Infection that manifests with blotchy reddish brown rash on face trunk and proximal extremities
Measles
Cowdry type A bodies (Large, pink to purple intranuclear inclusions)
Herpes simplex infection
Causes temporal lobe encephalitis
Herpes simplex infection
Viral infection that causes sterility
Mumps
Centrifugal rash with dewdrop in a rose petal appearance, with dermatomal distribution.
Varicella
Facial nerve paralysis with mononuclear infiltration with herpetic intranuclear inclusions
Ramsay hunt syndrome
Owl’s eye inclusions
Cytomegalovirus infection
Congenital infections that causes blueberry muffin baby
CMV
Congenital rubella syndrome
Disseminated neuroblastoma
Drug of choice for CMV infection
Ganciclovir
Downey cells
Epstein-Barr virus infection
Positive for heterophile antibodies
Epstein-Barr Virus infection
Malignancies associated with EBV
Burkitt’s lymphoma
Nasopharyngeal CA
Atypical lymphocytes in EBV
Downey cells
Causes necrotizing pneumonia complicated by empyema and pneumatocele
Staphylococcus aureus infection
Cleaves desmoglein in desmosomes causing separation of the stratum granulosum
Exfoliatin
Scalded Skin Syndrome (Ritter disease)
Tumbling motility
Listeria monocytogenes
Swarming motility
Proteus mirabilis
Shooting star motility
Vibrio cholerae
Falling leaf motility
Giardia lamblia
Large box-car shaped gram positive extracellular bacteria in chains
Bacillus anthracis (Cat 1)
Hemorrhagic, enlarged hilar and peribronchial lymph nodes seen in Bacillus anthracis infection
Mediastinal hemorrhage
Slender beaded gram-positive organisms arranged in branching filaments
Nocardia asteroides
Modified acid fast stain used to visualize Nocardia asteroides
Fite-Faraco
Virulence factor in Bordetella pertussis that causes whooping
Tracheal cytotoxin
Organspisms that cause necrotizing pneumonia
Staphylococcus aureus
Pseudomomnas aeruginosa
Yersinia pestis
Aspergillus fumigatus