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Zoonoses

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Brucella abortus, Francisella tularensis, Yersinia pestis, Pasteurella multocida

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Small gram (-) rods without a capsule, contaminated dairy, direct contact, undulating fever

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Brucellosis

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Brucellosis: Cow

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B. abortus

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Brucellosis: Dog

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B. canis

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Brucellosis: Goat/Sheep

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B. melitensis

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Brucellosis: Sheep

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B. ovis

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Brucellosis: Treatment

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Doxycycline + Rifampin

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Small gram (-) rods, reservoir - rabbits, deer, rodents, transmission - ticks (Dermacentor), aerosols, contact, ingestion

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Francisella tularensis (Tularemia)

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Francisella tularensis: Treatment

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Streptomycin, Gentamicin

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Most virulent bacteria

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Yersinia pestis

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Small gram (-) rods with bipolar (safety pin) staining, reservoir - rodents, transmission - flea bite, inhalation

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Yersinia pestis

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Buboes, cutaneous hemorrhage

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Yersinia pestis

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Bubonic, Pneumonic and Septicemic Plague

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Yersinia pestis

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Yersinia pestis: Treatment

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Streptomycin, Tetracycline

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Short encapsulated gram (-) rod that exhibits bipolar staining, buttery colonies with musty odor due to indole production, osteomyelitis, reservoir - cats and dogs, transmission - animal bites

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Pasteurella multocida

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Pasteurella multocida: Treatment

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Penicillin G

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Aerobic, acid-fast rods, Ziehl-Neelsen (hot), Kinyoun (cold), high lipid content, mycolic acids, wax D, produces catalase and niacin, slow-growing on Löwenstein–Jensen medium (1 mo.), luciferase assay for drug resistance

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Mycobacterium tuberculosis

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Mycobacterium tuberculosis: Location

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lungs

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Mycobacterium tuberculosis: Transmission

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respiratory droplets from coughing

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TB Virulence Factors: Prevents phagosome-lysosomal fusion

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Exported Repetitive Protein (Sulfatides)

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TB Virulence Factors: Most important VF, prevents leukocyte migration

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Cord Factor

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TB Virulence Factors: Elicits delayed hypersensitivity

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Tuberculin Surface Protein (Purified Protein Derivative - PPD)

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Mycobacterium tuberculosis: Lesions

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exudative, granulomatous

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Central area of Langhan’s giant cells surrounded by a zone of epithelioid cells, tubercle is a granuloma surrounded by fibrous tissue that has undergone central caseation

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Mycobacterium tuberculosis Granulomatous Lesions

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TB Phase of Infection: Middle-lower lobes, subpleural granuloma, CLAD, radiologically detectable calcification

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Primary Complex

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TB: Subpleural Granuloma

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Ghon’s Focus

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TB: Subpleural Granuloma + Associated LN

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Ghon’s Complex

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TB: Radiologically Detectable Calcification

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Ranke’s Complex

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TB Phase of Infection: Apices (Simon’s Focus), cicatricial changes, subpleural blebs, cavitation, fibrosis, nodules, secondary colonization with A. fumigatus (fungus ball), pneumothorax

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Reactivation TB

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Reactivation TB: X-ray Findings

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apices (Simon’s Focus), cicatricial changes, subpleural blebs, cavitation, fibrosis, nodules

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PPD: HIV (+), AIDS, old TB, immunosuppressed

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> 5 mm

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PPD: High-risk Population

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> 10 mm

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PPD: Low-risk Population

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> 15 mm

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TB: Spectrum of Disease

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pulmonary TB, miliary TB, scrofula (CLAD), erythema nodosum, TB meningitis, spondylitis (Pott’s), GI TB (ileocecal), renal TB, abdominopelvic TB

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Cough ≥ 2 weeks ± local/constitutional symptoms

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PTB Suspect

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PTB: Local Symptoms

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hemoptysis, chest pain, dyspnea

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PTB: Constitutional Symptoms

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night sweats, weight loss, anorexia, fever, chills, fatigue, malaise

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Specimen: PTB

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sputum AFB x 3

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Specimen: TB Lymphadenitis

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excisional biopsy

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Specimen: TB Effusion

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pleural fluid studies

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Specimen: Genitourinary TB

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urine AFB (PCR)

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Specimen: Spinal TB (Pott’s)

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tissue biopsy

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Specimen: Abdominal TB

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barium studies (intestinal), CT (extraintestinal), peritoneal fluid studies (AFB, Q/Q)

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Specimen: TB Meningitis

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CSF studies (AFB, Q/Q)

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Specimen: TB Pericarditis

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pericardial fluid studies (AFB, Q/Q)

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PTB Treatment: New smear (+), new smear (-) with extensive disease, new severe extrapulmonary TB

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Category I - Initiation: 2 HRZE, Continuation: 4 HR

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PTB Treatment: Sputum smear (+), relapse, treatment failure, defaulter

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Category II - Initiation: 2 HRZES + 1 HRZE, Continuation: 5 HRE

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PTB Treatment: New smear (-) other than Cat. I, new less severe extrapulmonary TB

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Category III - Initiation: 2 HRZE, Continuation: 4 HR

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Mycobacterium tuberculosis: Prevention

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droplet precautions, BCG vaccine limits extent of disease

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Uses of BCG (Bacillus Calmette-Guerin) Vaccine

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TB prevention, urinary bladder CA treatment (intravesicular infusion)

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Cause pulmonary disease in immunocompromised hosts (CD4 < 50)

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Mycobacterium Avium-Intracellulare Complex (MAI/MAC)

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Mycobacterium Avium-Intracellulare: Treatment

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Azithromycin

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Aerobic acid-fast rods, can’t becultured in vitro (mouse footpad, armadillo)

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Mycobacterium leprae (Hansen’s coccus spirilly)

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Mycobacterium leprae: Location

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humans, armadillos

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Mycobacterium leprae: Transmission

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prolonged exposure to nasal secretion of patients with the lepromatous form

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Leprosy: One or few lesions

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Tuberculoid

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Leprosy: Little tissue destruction

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Tuberculoid

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Leprosy: Few acid-fast bacilli

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Tuberculoid

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Leprosy: Low transmission rate

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Tuberculoid

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Leprosy: Cell-mediated response to M. leprae

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Tuberculoid

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Leprosy: Lepromin skin test (+)

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Tuberculoid

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Leprosy: Many lesions

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Lepromatous

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Leprosy: Marked tissue destruction

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Lepromatous

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Leprosy: Many acid-fast bacilli

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Lepromatous

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Leprosy: High transmission rate

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Lepromatous

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Leprosy: Reduced/Absent cell-mediated response to M. leprae

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Lepromatous

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Leprosy: Lepromin skin test (-)

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Lepromatous

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Hypopigmented plaques, thickened superficial nerves, significant anesthesia

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Tuberculoid

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Leonine facies, erythema nodosum leprosum

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Lepromatous

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Tender red nodules, humps on both shins, signals acute lepromatous leprosy flare-ups

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Erythema Nodosum Leprosum

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Leprosy: Treatment for Tuberculoid Form

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Dapsone, Rifampin

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Leprosy: Treatment for Lepromatous Form

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Dapsone, Rifampin, Clofazimine

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Leprosy: Treatment for Erythema Nodosum Leprosum

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Thalidomide → Phocomelia

74
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Anaerobe, normal oral flora, local trauma (broken jaw, dental extraction), hard, non-tender swelling, sinus tracts draining sulfur granules

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Actinomyces israelii

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Actinomyces israelii: Treatment

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Penicillin G, drainage

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Actinomycete, aerobic, filamentous gram (+) rods with aerial hyphae, weakly acid-fast (Fite-Faraco stain), inhalation of particles from soil, mycetomas, lung and brain abscesses (orange colonies)

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Nocardia asteroides

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Nocardia asteroides: Treatment

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TMP-SMX, drainage

78
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Smallest free-living organisms

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Mycoplasma pneumoniae

79
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No cell wall, only bacteria with cholesterol in cell membrane, Eaton’s medium

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Mycoplasma pneumoniae

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Mycoplasma pneumoniae: Location

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respiratory tract

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Mycoplasma pneumoniae: Transmission

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respiratory droplets

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M. pneumoniae Virulence Factors: Attachment, inhibition of ciliary motion, necrosis

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Toll-Like Receptor 2 Protein (P1 Adhesin)

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M. pneumoniae Virulence Factors: Contributes to the damage to the respiratory tract cells

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Hydrogen Peroxide

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M. pneumoniae Virulence Factors: Autoantibodies against red cells and brain, lung and liver cells

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Cold Agglutinins

85
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Most common type of atypical pneumonia

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Mycoplasma pneumoniae

86
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“Walking Pneumonia” (clinical findings not compatible with x-ray), hemolysis, Stevens-Johnsons Syndrome, Raynaud’s, Guillain-Barré Syndrome

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Mycoplasma pneumoniae

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Most common infectious cause of Stevens-Johnsons Syndrome

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Mycoplasma pneumoniae

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Mycoplasma pneumoniae: Treatment

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Macrolides (Erythromycin, Azithromycin)

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Mycoplasma pneumoniae: Resistance

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Penicillins and Cephalosporins - does not have a cell wall

90
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Coiled spirochete, too thin for Gram-stain, cannot be cultured in vitro due to absence of TCA cycle, microaerophilic

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Treponema pallidum

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Treponema pallidum: Location

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genital tract

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Treponema pallidum: Transmission

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sexual contact, transplacental

93
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Syphilis: Within hours, enters lymphatics and multiplies, local non-tender ulcer (chancre) in 2-10 weeks

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Primary Syphilis

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Syphilis: Condyloma lata, maculopapular rash (palms, soles), fever, headache, malaise, anorexia, lymphadenopathy, after 1-3 months from inoculation

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Secondary Syphilis

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Syphilis: Many years after inoculation, granulomas (gummas), neurosyphilis (tabes dorsalis, dementia paralytica), aortitis

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Tertiary Syphilis

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Tabes dorsalis presents with _____ which _____ but does not react.

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Argyll Robertson pupil, accomodates

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Obliterative invasion of small blood vessels and vasa vasorum by Treponema pallidum causing endarteritis

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Syphilitic Aortitis

98
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Syphilis: Snuffles, saddle nose, mulberry molars, Hutchinson triad, saber shins, rhagades (angle of mouth), Higoumenakis sign, Clutton’s joints (synovitis), pulmonary hemorrhage

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Congenital Syphilis

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Syphilis: Hutchinson teeth, deafness, keratitis

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Hutchinson Triad

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Syphilis: Unilateral enlargement of the sternoclavicular portion of the clavicle → detachment

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Higoumenakis sign

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Most important diagnostic test for Primary Syphilis

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dark-field microscopy

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Secondary/Tertiary Syphilis: Diagnostic Tests

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Screening - Rapid Plasma Reagin/Venereal Disease Research Laboratory (RPR/VDRL), Confirmatory - Fluorescent Treponemal Antibody-Absorption (FTA-ABS)

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Causes for False (+) VDRL Results

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Viruses (EBV, Hepatitis), Drugs (Marijuana), Rheumatic fever, Rheumatic arthritis, Lupus, Leprosy

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Syphilis Diagnostic Test: Most specific, earliest positive, remains positive longest

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Fluorescent Treponemal Antibody-Absorption (FTA-ABS)

105
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Syphilis: Treatment

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Benzathine Penicillin G

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Influenza-like symptoms a few hours after receiving penicillin due to lysis of treponemes

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Jarisch-Herxheimer Reaction

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Syphilis: Prevention

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condoms, post-exposure antibiotics, serologic follow-up

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Weakly staining gram (-) spirochetes, largest medically important bacteria, aniline dye (Giemsa or Wright), BSK medium

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Borrelia burgdorferi

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Borrelia burgdorferi: Location

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white-footed mouse, white-tailed deer

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Borrelia burgdorferi: Transmission

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bite from deer ticks (Ixodes scapularis)

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Borrelia burgdorferi: Disease

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Lyme Disease

112
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Lyme Disease Stages: Erythema Chronicum Migrans (target lesion)

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Stage 1

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Lyme Disease Stages: Myocarditis (AV block), meningitis, Bell’s palsy

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Stage 2

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Lyme Disease Stages: Autoimmune migratory polyarthritis (onion skin lesions), acrodermatitis chronica atrophicans (skin atrophy - hands)

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Stage 3

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Borrelia burgdorferi: Treatment for Early Localized or Disseminated Disease

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Doxycycline, Amoxicillin, Cefuroxime

116
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Borrelia burgdorferi: Treatment for Late Disease

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IV Penicillin, IV Ceftriaxone

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Borrelia burgdorferi: Prevention

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insecticides, insect repellants on clothing, protective clothing that reduces exposure of skin to insects

118
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Relapsing fever from rapid antigenic changes due to programmed rearrangements of surface protein DNA

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Borrelia recurrentis

119
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Borrelia recurrentis: Transmission

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human body louse (Pediculus humanus)

120
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Borrelia recurrentis: Diagnostic Test

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microscopy

121
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Borrelia recurrentis: Treatment

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Tetracycline, Erythromycin

122
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Thin, coiled spirochetes, hook at one or both ends (Shepherd’s crook), obligate aerobe (only aerobic spirochete), Ellinghausen-McCullough-Johnson-Harris (EMJH) or Fletcher’s medium

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Leptospira interrogans

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Leptospira interrogans: Location

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wild and domestic animals

124
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Leptospira interrogans: Transmission

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animal urine (dogs, livestock, rats), wading in floodwaters

125
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Leptospires penetrate intact mucous membranes or skin through small cuts or abrasions, multiply rapidly and damage endothelium of small blood vessels, early - blood & CSF, late - urine, immune complex-mediated meningitis and glomerulonehritis

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Leptospira interrogans

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Leptospira interrogans: Diagnostic Tests

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EMJH/Fletcher’s medium (+) after 2 weeks, Leptospire Microscopic Agglutination Test (Lepto-MAT) - gold standard

127
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Leptospira interrogans: Incubation Period

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2-20 days

128
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Leptospirosis Phases: Fever, chills, intense headache, calf tenderness, conjunctival suffusion

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Acute Leptospirosis

129
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Leptospirosis: Cause of Calf Tenderness

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rapid multiplication of leptospires in muscles with high oxygen

130
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Leptospirosis: Cause of Conjunctival Suffusion

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damaged and leaky conjunctival vessels, painful and itchy but with minimal tearing

131
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Leptospirosis Phases: Aseptic meningitis, pulmonary involvement, hepatic necrosis, glomerulonephritis

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Immune Leptospirosis

132
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CSF pleocytosis ± meningeal symptoms, coincides with appearance of leptospire antibody titers

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Aseptic Meningitis (Leptospira interrogans)

133
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Snow-flake lesion on CXR

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Leptospira interrogans

134
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Leptospirosis: Cause of Glomerulonephritis

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immune-complex deposition

135
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Most severe form of leptospirosis

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Weil Syndrome

136
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Leptospirosis Phases: Jaundice, bleeding, uremia, orange cast skin (severe jaundice)

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Weil Syndrome

137
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Weil Syndrome: Triad

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bleeding, uremia, orange cast skin (severe jaundice)

138
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Weil Syndrome: Most common cause of death

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respiratory failure from massive pulmonary hemorrhage

139
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Leptospirosis: Treatment

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Penicillin G

140
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Leptospirosis: Prevention

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Doxycycline chemoprophylaxis, vaccination of domestic livestock and pets, rat control

141
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Obligate intracellular bacteria, energy parasites that use host ATP, cell wall lacks muramic acid, grows in cyclohexamide culture, cytoplasmic inclusion bodies (Giemsa)

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Chlamydia trachomatis

142
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Chlamydia trachomatis Forms: Inactive, extracellular, enters cells by endocytosis, infectious

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Elementary Body

143
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Chlamydia trachomatis Forms: Metabolically active, intracellular, seen microscropically, replicates via binary fission

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Reticulate Body

144
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Chlamydia trachomatis: Location

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genital tract, eyes

145
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Chlamydia trachomatis: Transmission

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Sexual contact, passage through birth canal, hand-eye contact

146
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Most common STD overall

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Chlamydia trachomatis

147
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Balance reached between host and parasite resulting in prolonged persistence of infection despite high antibody titers

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Chlamydia trachomatis

148
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C. trachomatis types A-C, chronic keratoconjunctivitis leading to scarring and blindness, Halberstädter-Prowazek inclusion bodies

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Trachoma

149
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Most common infectious cause of blindness

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Chlamydia trachomatis

150
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Round to oval cytoplasmic inclusion bodies near the nuclei of conjunctival epithelial cells in trachoma

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Halberstädter-Prowazek inclusion bodies

151
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C. trachomatis types D-K, NGU (Non-gonococcal Urethritis) in males, PID in females, co-infection with gonorrhea, neonatal conjunctivitis and pneumonia, Reiter’s Syndrome

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Chlamydia GUT Infection

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C. trachomatis types D-K, late-onset (2-4 weeks), striking tachypnea, paroxysmal cough (staccato cough), absence of fever, eiosinophilia

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Chlamydia Neonatal Pneumonia

153
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C. trachomatis types L1-L3, papule or vesicular which ulcerates and leads to suppurative inguinal lymphadenitis (buboes), (+) Frei test (intradermal injection of antigen)

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Lymphogranuloma Venereum

154
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Atypical pneumonia similar to Mycoplasma pneumoniae, associated with atherosclerosis

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Chlamydia pneumoniae

155
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Bird exposure (bird fancier’s disease - parrots, parakeets, macaws, cockatiels), sudden onset pneumonia, malaise fever, anorexia, sore throat, photophobia, severe headache

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Chlamydia psittaci

156
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Chlamydia: Treatment for STD

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Azithromycin

157
Q

Chlamydia: Treatment for Conjunctivitis

A

Erythromycin

158
Q

Chlamydia: Treatment for Lymphogranuloma Venereum

A

Doxycycline

159
Q

Chlamydia: Treatment for Psittacosis

A

Azithromycin

160
Q

Cell wall resembles that of gram (-) rods, stain poorly with Gram-stain, obligate intracellular parasites (unable to produce sufficient energy to replicate extrecellularly), grown in cell culture, embryonated eggs, experimental animals, divide by binary fission within host cell

A

Rickettsiae

161
Q

Detected using Weil Felix reaction (cross-reaction with antigens of OX strains of Proteus vulgaris)

A

Rickettsiae

162
Q

Rickettsiae: Treatment

A

Doxycycline

163
Q

Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever: Rash starts in _____ and spreads _____

A

wrist, centripetally

164
Q

Rickettsia Typhus: Rash starts in _____ and spreads _____

A

trunk, centrifugally

165
Q

Rickettsia: Q fever is Queer because

A

no rash, no vector, (-) Weil-Felix reaction, not obligate intracellular, does not have Rickettsia in genus name (Coxiella burnetti)

166
Q

Diseases with Palm and Sole Rash

A

Coxsackievirus Type A (hand, foot & mouth disease), Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, Syphilis

167
Q

Cat-scratch disease, gram (-) rod, normal oral flora of cats, cat bite/scratch, cat-scratch fever (immunocompetent), bacillary angiomatosis (immunocompromised)

A

Bartonella henselae

168
Q

Dogs, morulae in cytoplasm of monocytes, dog tick (Dermacentor) bite

A

Ehrlichia chaffeensis

169
Q

Facultative gram-variable rod, clue cells (squamous cells attahced to bacteria, (+) whiff test (fishy odor with KOH), malodorous vaginal discharge (white, milk-splattered)

A

Gardnerella vaginallis

170
Q

Small gram (-) rod, culture on chocolate agar with heme (factor X), painful genital ulcer (chancroid)

A

Haemophilus ducreyi

171
Q

Mesenteric adenitis (pseudoappendicitis), gram (-) rods, domestic animals, oro-fecal transmission

A

Yersinia enterolitica

172
Q

Granuloma inguinale (Donovanosis), encapsulated, pleomorphic, gram (-) bacillus, bipolar densities (Donovan bodies) that look like closed safety pins, small painless papule ulcerates to form beefy red ulcer with velvety surface, pseudobuboe formation

A

Klebsiella granulomatis

173
Q

Klebsiella granulomatis: Treatment

A

Azithromycin

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