Small Bowel And Colon

Question 1

Bacteria that causes ascending paralysis?

Answer 1

Campylobacter jejuni- Guillain-Barré syndrome

Question 2

Pear shaped trophozoite with 2 nuclei and 4 pairs of flagella

Answer 2

Giardia

Question 3

Spiral comma shaped microaerophilic gram negative organism that are urease positive

Answer 3

H. Pylori

Question 4

Gram negative rod that forms a “shiga like” toxin

Answer 4

EHEC

Question 5

Protozoan organism that stains positive for AFB

Answer 5

Cystoisospora belli

Question 6

N/V within six hours of eating, most likely organism?

Answer 6

S. Aureus

Question 7

What organism causes watery diarrhea and is associated with rice?

Answer 7

Bacillus cereus

Question 8

Presenting symptoms for C. Diff infection

Answer 8

Pseumembranous colitis, foul smelling watery diarrhea, antibiotic use, fever,

Risk of toxic megacolon and perforation

Question 9

What organism, assocaited with hemochromatosis, mimics appendicitis?

Answer 9

Yersinea

Question 10

What are the characteristic findings for infection with Salmonella typhi?

Answer 10

High fever, rose spots, invasion into the peyers patches

Question 11

What causes watery diarrhea and can cause infection from contaminated ham?

Answer 11

Clostridium perfringens

Question 12

Associated with Human T-cell lymphotriphic virus-1 (HTLV-1)

Answer 12

Strongyloides

Question 13

What is the dog tapeworm?

Answer 13

Echinococcus granulosus

“Hydatid cyst on CT”

Question 14

Municipal water systems and crowded swimming pools

Answer 14

Cryptosporidium

Question 15

Infection assocaited with freshwater, leads to watery diarrhea.

Answer 15

Aeromonas hydrophila

Question 16

Infection from salt water causing N/V, watery diarrhea, in a cirrhotic patient with a bullous lesion

Answer 16

Vibrio Vulnificus

Question 17

Gram positive round organism in long chains that can cause watery diarrhea and myalgias

Answer 17

Strep pyogenes

Question 18

Parasite with oval eggs and a nobby surface that can cause obstructions

Answer 18

Ascaris lumbricoides

Question 19

Site of residence of salmonella typhi in a chronic carrier state

Answer 19

Gallbladder

Question 20

What parasites can cause liver cysts?

Answer 20

Schistomiasis and Entamoeba histolytica

Question 21

Motile, S-shaped gram negative rod

Answer 21

C. Jejuni

Question 22

Motile comma-shaped gram negative bacillus

Answer 22

Vibrio cholera

Question 23

N/V, abdominal pain, watery diarrhea followed shortly by bloody diarrhea, fecal leukocyte positive

Answer 23

Vibrio parahemolyticus

Question 24

What are the most common infectious causes of bloody diarrhea?

Answer 24

Salmonella, shigella, E. Coli (O157H7), Campylobacter, yersinia enterocolitica (sometimes)

Question 25

Intermittent abdominal pain associated with improvement of symptoms with a bowel movement

Answer 25

IBS

Question 26

Tea-colored diarrhea, abdominal pain, flushing, malaise, N/V, and muscle cramps. Labs show hypokalemia

Answer 26

VIPoma- secretory diarrhea.

Question 27

Omrprazol puts the patient at risk for what?

Answer 27

C.Diff associated diarrhea.