Vector Borne Flashcards
Direct vs indirect
D = saliva, blood etc.
I = where animals live and roam
Vector borne means
A bite
Food borne means
Eating/drinking stuff contaminated with poo from infected animal
Brucella sketchy setting
Red barn / farm
What causes Malta fever
Brucella
Skinny sweating farmer with undulating hills
Anorexia, undulating fever
Brucella
B. Melitensis causes
Undulant fever
Coxiella sketchy setting
Curly Q the ram
Obligate INTRACELLULAR that forms spores
Coxiella
Hepatitis and pneumonia could indicate
Coxiella or brucella (this would have undulant fever)
Acute vs chronic Coxiella and antibiotic
A: Headache, fever, cough - doxycycline
C: endo/pericarditis, hepatitis - chloroquine and doxy
Coxiella transmission
Aerosol
Leptospirosis sketchy scene
Surfing
Famrming communities and sewage control breakdown
Leptospira
Conjunctival suffusiom
Red eyes with no pus
Leptospira
Rabbit fever and deer fly fever
FrancisElla tularemia
Happens in Martha’s Vineyard
FrancisElla tularemia
Treatment of FrancisElla
Streptomycin, gentamicin, doxy, and ciprofloxacin
Localized cellulitis and lymphadenitis after animal bite
Pasteurella
Specifically a cat bit could lead to
Osteomyelitis, septic arthritis
Pasteurella sketchy scene
Guy with cat and dog
Francisella sketchy scene
Rabbits
Bartonella skethchy scene
Aladdin
Cat scratch disease
Bartonella henselae
Regional lyphadenitis after papule at site of cat scratch
Bartonella henselae
Treatment for serious cat scratch
Chloramphenicol, ciprofloxin
Bumps in one arm
Bartonella henselae
Trench fever
In _____ people
Bartonella Quintana
Immunocomprimised
In WWI soldiers and homeless
Quintana
Bacillary angiomatosis havppens in _____ people
What disease
Immunocomprimised
Quintana
Bacillary angiomatosis treatment
Doxy
Or
Macrolides
Cat scratch disease
No treatment
Azithromycin - Macrolides
Rat bite fever
Streptbacillus moniliformis
Aerobic, g - , pleomorphic
Streptobacillus moniliformis
Relapsing fever, shaking chills, myalgia, asymp poly arthritis, nausea/vomiting, followed by erythematous papulovesicular rash at bit site
Streptobacillus moniliformis
How to remember Streptobacillus moniliformis
Rat name Sir Bacillus of Monoliform
Treatment for rat bit fever
Aka disease called
Streptobacillus moniliformis
Amoxicillin, penicillin, erythromycin, or doxycycline