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Rapid Review: Infectious Disease Flashcards

1
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The 3 most common causes of fever of unknown origin

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Infection, cancer, and autoimmune disease

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Four signs and symptoms of streptococcal pharyngitis

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Fever, pharyngeal erythema, tonsillar exudate, lack of cough

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A nonsuppurative complication of streptococcal infection that is not altered by treatment of primary infection

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Postinfectious glomerulonephritis

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4
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The most common predisposing factor for acute sinusitis

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Viral URI

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5
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Asplenic patients are particularly susceptible to these organisms

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Encapsulated organisms: pneumococcus, meningococcus, haemophilus influenzae, klebsiella

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The number of bacteria needed on a clean-catch specimen to diagnose a UTI

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10^5 bacteria/mL

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7
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Which healthy population is susceptible to UTIs

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Pregnant women. Treat aggressively

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A patient from Ca or Az presents with fever, malaise, cough, and night sweats. Diagnosis? Treatment?

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Coccidioidomycosis; amphotericin B

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9
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Nonpainful chancre

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Primary syphilis

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10
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A blueberry muffin rash is characteristic of what congenital infection?

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Rubella

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Meningitis in neonates. Causes? Treatment?

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GBS, E coli, Listeria. Treat with gentamicin and ampicillin

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Meningitis in infants. Causes? Treatment?

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Pneumococcus, meingococcus, H influenze. Treat with cefotaxime and vancomycin

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What should always be done prior to LP?

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Check for increased ICP; look for papilledema

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14
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CSF findings:

  • Low glucose, PMN predominance
  • Normal glucose, lymphocytic predominance
  • Numerous RBCs in serial CSF samples
  • Increased gamma globulins
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  • Bacterial meningitis
  • Aseptic (viral meningitis
  • Subarachnoid hemorrhage
  • MS
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15
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Initially presents with a pruritic papule with regional lymphadenopathy; evolves into a black eschar after 7-10 days. Treatment?

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Cutaneous anthrax. Treat with penicillin G or ciprofloxacin

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16
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Findings in tertiary syphilis

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Tabes dorsalis, general paresis, gummas, Argyll Robertson pupil, aortitis, aortic root aneurysms

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Characteristics of secondary Lyme disease

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Arthralgias, mirgratory polyarthropathies, Bell’s palsy, myocarditis

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18
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Cold agglutinins

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Mycoplasma

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A 24 year old man presents with soft white plaques on his tongue and the back of his throat. Diagnosis? Workup? Treatment?

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Candidal thrush. Workup should include an HIV test. Treat with nystatin oral suspension

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20
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At what CD4 count should Pneumocystitis jiroveci penumonia prophylaxis be initated in an HIV+ patient?

21
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Risk factors for pyelonephritis

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Pregnancy, vesicouretral reflux, anatomic anomalies, indwelling catheters, kidney stones

22
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Neutropenic nadir postchemotherapy

23
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Erythema migrans

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Lesion of primary lyme disease

24
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Classic physical findings for endocarditis

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Fever, heart murmur, Osler’s nodes, splinter hemorrages, Janeway lesions, Roth’s spots

25
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Aplastic crisis in sickle cell disease

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Parvovirus B19

26
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Ring-enhancing brain lesion on CT with seizures

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Taenia solium (cysticercosis)

27
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NTO: Branching rods in oral infection

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Actinomyces israelii

28
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NTO: Weakly gram +, partially acid fast in lung infection

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Nocardia asteroides

29
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NTO: Painful chancroid

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Haemophilus ducreyi

30
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NTO: Dog or cat bite

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Pasteurella multocida

31
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NTO: Gardener

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Sprorthrix schenckii

32
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NTO: Raw pork and skeletal muscle cysts

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Trichinella spiralis

33
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NTO: Sheepherders with liver cysts

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Echinococcus granulosus

34
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NTO: Perianal itching

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Enterobius vermicularis

35
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NTO: Pregnant women with pets

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Toxoplasma gondii

36
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NTO: Meningitis in adults

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Neisseria meningitidis

37
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NTO: Meningitis in elderly

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Streptococcus pneumoniae

38
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NTO: Meningoencephalitis in AIDS patients

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Cryptococcus neoformans

39
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NTO: Alcoholic with pneumonia

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Klebsiella

40
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NTO: Currant jelly sputum

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Klebsiella

41
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NTO: Malignant external otitis

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Pseudomonas

42
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NTO: Infection in burn victims

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Pseudomonas

43
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NTO: Osteomyelitis from a foot wound puncture

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Pseudomonas

44
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NTO: Osteomyelitis in a sickle cell patient

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Salmonella

45
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A 55 year old man who is a smoker and a heavy drinker presents with a new cough and flulike symptoms. Gram stain shows no organisms; silver stain of sputum shows gram negative rods. What is the diagnosis?

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Legionella pneumonia

46
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A middle aged man presents with acute onset monoarticular joint pain and bilateral Bell’s palsy. What is the likely diagnosis, and how did he get it? Treatment?

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Lyme disease, Ixodes tick, doxycycline

47
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A patient develops endocarditis 3 weeks after receiving a prosthetic heart valve. What organism is suspected?

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S aureus or Staphylococcus epidermidids

48
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A patient develops endocarditis in a native valve after having a dental cleaning

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Streptococcus viridans

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