Question | Answer |
Animal exposure + jaundice + renal = | Leptospirosis |
What is the MC late manifestation of Lyme dz | Joint involvement |
What is the MC cardiac sequelae of Lyme dz | AV node block |
What is the MC neurologic sequelae of Lyme dz | 7th CN palsy (Bell’s) |
What dz is also carried by Ixodes tick and present w/ hemolytic anemia | Babesiosis |
What dz is also carried by Ixodes tick and presents w/ elevated LFTs, low platelets, low WBCs | Erlichiosis |
Pt returned from trip abroad and has hemolysis plus GI complaints | malaria |
What respiratory bug has branching weakly acid fast and gram positive filaments | Nocardia |
What branching filamentous bacteria affects the respiratory system of immunocompetent pts | Actinomyces |
Pt went to wet areas of Ohio/Mississippi river valley. Has palate/oral ulcers pancytopenia and splenomegaly. Dx | Histoplasmosis |
What other respiratory dz does Histoplasmosis mimic | TB |
Pt came from rural Southeast with pulmonary complaint and bone lesions | Blastomycosis |
Pt had GU/Gu procedure and now has subacute endocaritis, what organism | E. faecalis |
Bacterial endocardx in pt w/ colonic malignancy | Strep bovis |
Endocardx in pt with prosthetic valve | Staph epi |
Non flagellated protozoa causing DILATED cardiomyopathy | T. cruzi |
Fever, chest pain, heart failure. Dx and bug | Myocardx / coxsackie |
Diarrhea post travel | ETEC |
What actually causes food poisoning | Preformed heat stable toxin of S. aureus |
What actually causes food poisoning of re-heated rice | Preformed toxin of B. cereus |
Late onset watery diarrhea from food poisoning | Clostridium PERFRINGENS (spores need to germinate and release toxin) |
Copious watery diarrhea | V. cholera |
Blood diarrhea, animal/pet to human transmission | Campylobacter jejuni |
Raw poultry / eggs / recent abroad travel, fever, ab cramps, BLOODY diarrhea, spots on ab | Salmonella |
Bloody diarrhea, appendicitis like pain | Yersinia enterolytica |
Invades mesenteric veins and cause liver abscesses | Entamoeba histolytica |
Hepatitis type where there is AVERSION to smoking | Hep A |
South America, travel, dysphagia, constricted distal esophagus | T. cruzi |
UTI, hospitalized pt w/ urinary catheter | Klebsiella pneu / E. faecalis |
Most highly resistant bug causing subacute endocarditis and hospital catheter acquired UTI | E. faecalis |
Stages of syphilis | Painless chancre; condyloma lata macular lesions; CNS deterioration and aortic aneurysms |
Positive Tzanck, multinucleated cells w/ intranuclear inclusions | HSV-2 |
Three etio of common cold | Rhino, corona, adeno |
Pharyngitis, pink eye, pt in summer camp or military or college dorm | ADENOvirus |
PNA w/ broad based bud, chronic, granulomas in lungs | Blasto |
PNA in SW USA/mexico | Coccidioides |
PNA-like, hemoptysis, animal hair/hide | B. anthrax |
Mild PNA, animal hide | Coxiella |
PNA related to water reservoir in elderly and smokers | Legionella |
PNA w/ Anemia, DRY persistent cough, INTERSTITIAL infiltration | Mycoplasma pneu |
PNA w/ LOBAR consolidation, rusty sputum | Strep pneu |
Impetigo | S. aureus |
Erysipelas | Strep pyo |
Rash begins on palm and spreads to trunk | Rickettsia (RMSF) |
Abscess following trauma to neck/head, draining sinus tracts | Actinomyces |
Animal bite, osteomyelitis | Pasteurella |