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Target rash, fever, VII palsy, meningitis, AV block
Lyme!
Treatment of Lyme?
Doxy (amox if
Rash @ wrists/ankles, palms/soles, fever and HA. Treatment?
ricketssia! tx w/ doxy.
Tick bite, no rash, +myalgia, fever, HA, low plts and WBCs, high ALT.
Erhlichiosis.
Dx of ehrlichiosis?
morulae intracell inclusion.
Tx of ehrlichiosis?
Doxy.
Gram+ aerobic branching partially acid fast. Immune suppressed, cavitary lung disease, purulent sputum, weight loss, fever.
Nocardia.
Treatment of nocardia?
trim-sulfa.
Gram + anaerobic branching, + sulfur granules. Neck or face infextion w/ draining yellow material.
Actinomyces.
TX of actinomyces?
High dose PCN 6-12 weeks.
Asplenic patients (surg or sickle cell autosplenectomy) are susceptible to?
Encapsulated organisms (decreased IgM, decreased complement activation and opsoniziation).
- Strep pneumo
- H. Influenza type b.
- Neisseria mening
- E. coli
- Salmonella
- Klebsiella
- Group B Strep.
What vaccinations do patients w/ splenectomies needs?
pneumococcal, meningococcal, HiB, Flu.
Branching rods in oral infxn + sulfur granules?
Actinomyces
Chronic granulomatous disease
catalase + microbes, es. s. aureuas
Currant jelly sputum
Klebsiella
Dog or cat bite
Pasteurella
Facial nerve palsy
Borellia burgdorferi
Fungal infxn in DM or immunocomp patient?
Mucor or Rhizopus
Health care provider needlstick
HBV
Neutropenic patients
Candida albicans (systemic), Aspergillus
Organ TX recipient
CMV
PAS+ findings..
Whipple’s disease: Tropheryma whipplei.
Pediatric infection..
Haemophilus influezna (epiglottitus)
Pnemonia in cystic fibrosis or burn infection
pseudomonas
Pus, empyema, abscess
Staph Aureus
Rash on hands/feet
Coxsackie A virus, Treponema pallidum (syph), Rickettsia
Sepsis/meningitis in newborn
Group B strep
Traumatic open wound
C. perfringens
