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Infectious Disease

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Woods, hikers; macular rash at wrist/ankles then moves up extremities then trunk. After 5 days rash at palms & soles =   RMSF (Rickettsia rickettsii)  
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Target lesion, arthralgia, Bell Palsy   Lyme Disease (Borrelia burgdorferi)  
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Lyme arthritis: 3 disease patterns   40% intermittent monoarticular / oligoarticular process: involves knee +/- other large joints; 20% pattern of waxing / waning polyarthralgias; 10% inflame synovitis: evolves into erosions & joint destruction  
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Lyme dz: stage 1:   7-10d post bite; erythema migrans (groin, thigh, axilla); 50% flu-like illness  
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Lyme dz: stage 2:   skin, CNS, MS; HA, stiff neck; cardiac (pericard, block) or neuro (Bell, meningitis, encephalitis)  
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Lyme dz: stage 3:   (months-years later); arthritis, chronic synovitis; CNS: encephalopathy, axonal polyneuropathy, leukoencephalitis  
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Acrodermatitis chronicum atrophicans =   bluish-red discoloration of distal extremitis w/atrophy (in Euro, not US); 2/2 Stage 3 Lyme dz  
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Incidence of arthritis associated with Lyme disease   70% of untreated Lyme disease pts develop arthritis  
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Human monocytic ehrlichiosis (HME) causative organisms   Ehrlichia chaffeensis and Ehrlichia canis  
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Human granulocytotropic ehrlichiosis (HGE) causative organisms   Anaplasma phagocytophilum and Ehrlichia ewingii  
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Ehrlichiosis organisms are:   Tickborne GN obligate intracellular organisms, exhibiting tropism for either macrophages or granulocytes  
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Major vector for Ehrlichiosis   HME: lone star tick (endemic in SE, mid-Atlantic, & S central US). HE: Ixodes deer tick (same geography as Lyme)  
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RMSF causative organism   Rickettsia rickettsia. Primary vector is Dermacentor andersoni (RM wood tick) in west and Dermacentor variabilis (American dog tick) in east  
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RMSF pathology   Rickettsia multiplies within endothelial cells lining small blood vessels  
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RMSF clinical features   2-14 day incubation (mean 7 days). Rash, rapid high spiking fever; severe HA; cough, pneumonitis, delirium; possible seizure, HSM, myocarditis, necrotizing vasculitis  
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RMSF rash appears when?   Day 2-7 of fever. Initial lesions faint macules that blanch with pressure => maculopapular => petechial. Wrists / ankles => spread centrally but mostly on palms/soles  
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Lyme pathology   Immune complexes accumulate in joints & attract neutrophils that attack antigen-Ab complexes. Neutrophil enzymes attack joints, erode bone => arthralgias. Borrelia O-antigen => macrophage interleukin-1 => collagenase & prostaglandin  
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