Random antibiotic and fungal stuff

Question 1

Antibiotic class that acts on DNA gyrase

Answer 1

Fluoroquinolones

think: they gyrate on the dance floor/fluor

Question 2

Antibiotic class that inhibits ribosomal 30S subunit

Answer 2

Aminoglycosides, i.e. gentamicin

think: gentlemen lived in the 1930s

Question 3

Antibiotic that has side effects of staining teeth and affecting fetal bone growth

Answer 3

Tetracyclines

Question 4

Antibiotic used in close contacts of a patient with meningococcal meningitis

Answer 4

Rifampacin

think ‘fam’ for my fam

Question 5

Alternative antibiotic used in a meningitis patient with true penicillin resistance

Answer 5

Chloramphenicol

Question 6

Tobramycin is particularly effective against which organism?

Answer 6

Pseudomonas

Question 7

An organism that produces a fishy odour, alkaline urine, has a swarming motility. Can cause loin pain and fever.

Answer 7

Proteus Mirabalis

Question 8

What does the catalase enzyme do?

Answer 8

Convert hydrogen peroxide to water and oxygen

Question 9

This is a gram positive, catalase negative, novobiocin resistant organism

Answer 9

Staphylococcus Saprophyticus

Question 10

Which antibiotics are contra-indicated in EBV infection?

Answer 10

Ampicillin and Amoxicillin - people can develop an allergy

Question 11

Which antibiotic for Rheumatic Fever?

Answer 11

Ben Pen

Question 12

Antibiotic first-line for enterococci

Answer 12

Ampicillin

Question 13

“Bull-neck”

Answer 13

diphtheria

Question 14

long term side effect of linezolid?

Answer 14

bone marrow suppression –> thrombocytopenia

Question 15

Koplik spots seen in which condition

Answer 15

measles

Question 16

Cather in hospital and then develop an infection with what organism

Answer 16

Pseudomonas

Question 17

Develop an infection on ITU after intubation, how to treat?

Answer 17

Cefuroxime

Question 18

Biggest risk of giving chloramphenicol?

Answer 18

Aplastic anaemia

Question 19

Norwalk virus is known for what

Answer 19

Causing epidemics of gastroenteritis

Question 20

Young patient. Generalised candidiasis involving skin folds. Secondary to what?

Answer 20

Seborrheic dermatitis

Question 21

Infection. CT shows halo sign

Answer 21

Aspergillosis/Aspergilloma

Question 22

Sabourad’s agar used for what?

Answer 22

Dermatophytes

Question 23

Hypopigmentation on arms/face/trunk?

Answer 23

Melassezia furfur

Question 24

Where is fusarium found?

Answer 24

soil

Question 25

Headache
facial pain
black discharge

Answer 25

Rhizopus Arrhius

Question 26

a mycosis found in south and central america. Also infects bottle nosed dolphins.

Answer 26

Lobomycosis

Question 27

First line treatment for giardiasis?

Answer 27

Metronidzole

Question 28

Food
then GI symptoms
Gram negative
MacConkey’s turns red

Answer 28

E. Coli

Question 29

Swimming pool which is poorly chlorinated
Untreated water sources
What organism?

Answer 29

Crypto

Question 30

Child.
Cough/cold –> ear pain
What organism

Answer 30

RSV

Question 31

A pneumonia followed by random neurological signs

Answer 31

M. Pneumonia

Question 32

Galactomannan

Answer 32

Aspergillus

Question 33

New heart murmur

Green colour on blood agar

Answer 33

S viridans

Question 34

IVDU with bilateral alveolar/interstitial shadowing

Answer 34

Pneumocystis Jirovecii

Question 35

Swamplands

Watersports

Answer 35

Leptospirosis

Question 36

Double beta haemolysis

Answer 36

C perfringens

Question 37

Streptococcus agalacticae is also known as ….

Answer 37

Group B Streptococcus