Random ID Buzzwords

Question 1

Target rash, fever, VII palsy, meningitis, AV block

Answer 1

Lyme!

Question 2

Treatment of Lyme?

Answer 2

Doxy (amox if

Question 3

Rash @ wrists/ankles, palms/soles, fever and HA. Treatment?

Answer 3

ricketssia! tx w/ doxy.

Question 4

Tick bite, no rash, +myalgia, fever, HA, low plts and WBCs, high ALT.

Answer 4

Erhlichiosis.

Question 5

Dx of ehrlichiosis?

Answer 5

morulae intracell inclusion.

Question 6

Tx of ehrlichiosis?

Answer 6

Doxy.

Question 7

Gram+ aerobic branching partially acid fast. Immune suppressed, cavitary lung disease, purulent sputum, weight loss, fever.

Answer 7

Nocardia.

Question 8

Treatment of nocardia?

Answer 8

trim-sulfa.

Question 9

Gram + anaerobic branching, + sulfur granules. Neck or face infextion w/ draining yellow material.

Answer 9

Actinomyces.

Question 10

TX of actinomyces?

Answer 10

High dose PCN 6-12 weeks.

Question 11

Asplenic patients (surg or sickle cell autosplenectomy) are susceptible to?

Answer 11

Encapsulated organisms (decreased IgM, decreased complement activation and opsoniziation).

• Strep pneumo
• H. Influenza type b.
• Neisseria mening
• E. coli
• Salmonella
• Klebsiella
• Group B Strep.

Question 12

What vaccinations do patients w/ splenectomies needs?

Answer 12

pneumococcal, meningococcal, HiB, Flu.

Question 13

Branching rods in oral infxn + sulfur granules?

Answer 13

Actinomyces

Question 14

Chronic granulomatous disease

Answer 14

catalase + microbes, es. s. aureuas

Question 15

Currant jelly sputum

Answer 15

Klebsiella

Question 16

Dog or cat bite

Answer 16

Pasteurella

Question 17

Facial nerve palsy

Answer 17

Borellia burgdorferi

Question 18

Fungal infxn in DM or immunocomp patient?

Answer 18

Mucor or Rhizopus

Question 19

Health care provider needlstick

Answer 19

HBV

Question 20

Neutropenic patients

Answer 20

Candida albicans (systemic), Aspergillus

Question 21

Organ TX recipient

Answer 21

CMV

Question 22

PAS+ findings..

Answer 22

Whipple’s disease: Tropheryma whipplei.

Question 23

Pediatric infection..

Answer 23

Haemophilus influezna (epiglottitus)

Question 24

Pnemonia in cystic fibrosis or burn infection

Answer 24

pseudomonas

Question 25

Pus, empyema, abscess

Answer 25

Staph Aureus

Question 26

Rash on hands/feet

Answer 26

Coxsackie A virus, Treponema pallidum (syph), Rickettsia

Question 27

Sepsis/meningitis in newborn

Answer 27

Group B strep

Question 28

Traumatic open wound

Answer 28

C. perfringens