Pneumonia Part 2 Flashcards
Who gets the pneumonia vaccine?
2-64 with risk factors and everyone 65 and older
What type of bacteria is PA and what two things does it produce that is noteworthy?
Gram negative rod
Pyocyanin and pyoverdine
What is the main difference between an antigenic shift and drift?
Shift leads to a pandemic, drift leads to an epidemic
What kind of pneumonia does staph aureus cause and what condition does it follow?
Necrotizing flu.
Follows viral pneumonia.
The flu vaccine is recommend for who?
All persons over the age of 6
People who have been infected with coccidioidomycosis will may develop what?
Erythema nodosum, painful nodular lesions.
What fungus grows as narrow based budding and which grows broad based budding?
Histo is narrow and blasto is broad
What 3 changes can blasto cause?
Skin, bone and neuro
What are of the US do we most commonly find cryptococcus?
Northwest
What kind of bacteria is burkolderia capacia?
Gram negative bacillus
What type of virus is bunyavirus?
Hantavirus
We can get bunyavirus from being infected by what?
Rodents
Bunyavirus starts off like what as far clinical symptoms and then rapidly turns to what?
Flu like
Respiratory distress
4 labs that identify bunyavirus?
Thrombocytopenia, luekocytosis, elvelated LDH, and bilateral pulmonary infiltrates
3 things to remember about coxiella burnetti?
High fever, shepherds, farmers
