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Question 1

Five cardinal symptoms of thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (FAT RN)

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Fever, Anemia (hemolytic type), thrombocytopenia, renal dysfunction, nervous system changes

Question 2

Definitive diagnostics for Shigellosis

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Culture of stool and rectal swab specimen (MacConkey agar, xylose-lysine deoxycholate, SS agar)

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4 species responsible for bacillary dysentery

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dysenteriae, flexneri, boydii, sonnei

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Most common mode of transmission of enteric fever

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Human feces

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Maculopapular rashes in 25% of patients with enteric fever (proper name)

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Rose spots

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Diffuse adrenal hemorrhage without vasculitis, DIC, coma, eventually death in patients with meningococcemia (syndrome)

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Waterhouse-Friderichsen Syndrome

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Triad of acute ophthalmoplegia, ataxia, areflexia

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Miller-Fisher Syndrome (associated with Guillain-Barre Syndrome

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Characteristic paralysis in Guillain-Barre syndrome characterized as weakness beginning in the lower extremities and progressively involving the trunk, upper limbs, and bulbar muscles

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Landry Ascending Paralysis

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Commando crawl (condition/disease)

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Spasatic diplegia (35%) in cerebral palsy

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Infratentorial tumor with circular patterns of tumor cells sorrounding a center of neutrophils (histopathology)

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Medulloblastoma (Homer-Wright Rosettes)

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First line drug for bloody diarrhea (dysentery)

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Ciprofloxacin

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Composition of reformulated WHO ORS (meq or mmol/L, osmolarity

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Glucose 75
Sodium 75
Chloride 65
Potassium 20
Citrate 10
Osmolarity 245

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Leading cause of mental retardation and pregnancy loss (50% in 1st trimester, 20% in 2nd trimester)

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Chromosome abnormalities

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Components of Quad screen for Down Syndrome

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B-hcg (high)
Inhibin A (high)
Alpha-feto protein (low)
Unconjugated estriol (low)

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Most common malignant neoplasm in childhood

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Leukemia

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Diagnosis of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia

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> 25% of bone marrow cells as a homogenous population of lymphoblasts

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Definition of remission of acute lymphoblastic leukemia

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< 5% blasts in bone marrow and a return of neutrophil and platelet count to near normal levels after 4-5 weeks of treatment

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Most common posterior fossa tumor in childhood

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Cerebellar astrocytoma

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Most common cerebellar astrocytoma and has a better prognosis

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Pilocytic astrocytoma

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More aggressive cerebellar astrocytoma

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Diffuse or fibrillary

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2nd most common posterior fossa tumor of childhood

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Medulloblastoma