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Day 7

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Normal flora: skin   Staph epidermidis  
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Normal flora: nose   Staph epidermidis; colonized by Staph aureus  
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Normal flora: oropharynx   Viridans group sterptococci  
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Normal flora: dental plaque   Stre mutans  
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Normal flora: colon   Bacteroides fragilis > E coli  
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Normal flora: vagina   Lactobacillus, colonized by E coli and group B strep  
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In which situation would a neonate have no flora?   Neonates delivered by C-section; they get rapidly colonized after birth  
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Bug assoc'd with contaminated seafood (shellfish, ocean water)   Vibrio parahaemolyticus and V vulnificus  
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Wound infections from contact with infected ocean water or shellfish   Vibrio vulnificus  
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Preformed toxin in meats, mayonnaise, and custard   S aureus (food poisoning happens and ends quickly)  
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Bug assoc'd with reheated rice   Bacillus cereus (food poisoning happens and ends quickly)  
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Bug assoc'd with reheated meat dishes   Clostridium perfringens  
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Bug assoc'd with undercooked meat   E coli O157:H7  
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Bug assoc'd with eating poultry, meat, and eggs, and touching reptiles or turtles b/f eating with unwashed hands   Salmonella  
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Lactose negative flagellar motility oranism causing bloody diarrhea   Salmonella (salmon swim)  
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Bug causing bloody diarrhea and pseudoappendicitis   Yersinia enterocolitica  
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Bug causing watery traveler's diarrhea   ETEC (T for Traveler's diarrhea)  
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Protozoan causing watery diarrhea   Giardia and Cryptosporidium (immunocompromised)  
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Which viruses are associated with watery diarrhea?   Rotavirus, adenovirus, and Norwalk virus (norovirus)  
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What are the MCC of pneumonia in neonates?   Group B strep and E coli (colonize vagina)  
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What are the MCC of pneumonia in children (4wks-18yo)?   RSV (viral), Mycoplasma, Chlamydia pneumoniae, Strep pneumo (Runts May Cough Sputum)  
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What are the MCC of pneumonia in adults 18-40yo?   Mycoplasma, Chlamydia pneumoniae, and Strep pneumo  
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What are the MCC of pneumonia in adults 40-65yo?   Strep pneumo, H flu, Anaerobes, viruses, mycoplasma  
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What are the MCC of pneumonia in the elderly?   Strep pneumo, influenza virus, anaerobes, H flu, gram negative rods (fecal matter due to poor hygiene)  
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What is the treatment for neonatal pneumonia?   Ampicillin and gentamycin  
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What is the treatment for pneumonia in adults 18-40yo?   Macrolides for Mycoplasma and Chlamydia pneumo, and penicillin or cefriaxone (3rd gen cephalosporin) for Strep pneumo  
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What is the treatment for pneumonia in adults 40-65yo?   Ceftriaxone (3rd gen ceph) for Strep pneumo, 2nd gen ceph for H flu, clindamycin for anaerobes, and Macrolides for Mycoplasma, Clindamycin for anaerobes,  
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What is the treatment for pneumonia in the elderly?   Ceftriaxone (3rd gen ceph) for strep pneumo, clindamycin for anaerobes, 2nd gen cephalosporin for H flu, and aminoglycosides (gentamycin) for gram neg rods; can also just use a big gun like imipenem/cilastatin or meropenem to cover everything  
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Cause of nosocomial pneumonia   Staph, enteric gram neg rods  
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Cause of penumonia in HIV   Pneumoncystis jiroveci  
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Cause of aspiration pneumonia (general)   Anaerobes  
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Cause of pneumonia in an alcoholic or IV drug user   Strep pneumo, Klebsiella, Staph  
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Pneumonia in CF patient   Pseudomonas  
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Post viral pneumonia   Staph, H flu  
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Cause of atypical pneumonia; what's the treatment?   Mycoplasma, Legionella, Chlamydia (pneumo and psittaci); treat with macrolides (azithromycin)  
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What is the MCC of meningitis in newborns?   Group B strep, E coli, and Listeria  
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What can be used to treat meningitis in neonates?   Ceftriaxone for Group B strep and E coli, and ampicillin for Listeria  
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What is the MCC of meningitis in children 6mos-6yo?   Strep pneumo, Neisseria meningitidis (life threatening purpura), H flu type B, Enteroviruses  
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What is the MCC of meningitis in people 6-60yo?   Enteroviruses, Strep pneumo, N meningitidis, and HSV (temporal lobe encephalitis)  
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What is the MCC of meningitis in people over 60yo?   Strep pneumo, gram neg rods, and Listeria  
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What should be administered prior to a dose of ceftriaxone to reduce neural sequelae in children and to decrease morbidity/mortality in adults during treatment for meningitis?   Dexamethasone (steroid)  
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What is used to treat meningitis caused by toxoplasmosis?   Pyrimethamine and sulfadiazine  
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Which viruses can cause meningitis?   enteroviruses (esp coxsackievirus and echovirus), HSV, HIV, West Nile virus, and VZV  
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AIDS patient with radiographic finding of ring-enhancing lesions in both cerebral hemispheres   Toxoplasmosis (brain abscess)  
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What are the CSF findings in bacterial meningitis?   Increased presure, increased neutrophils/PMNs, increased protein, decreased sugar (bacteria like to eat sugar)  
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What are the CSF findings in fungal or TB meningitis?   Increased pressure, increased lymphocytes, increased protein, decreased sugar (fungi like to eat sugar)  
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What are the CSF findings in viral meningitis?   Normal or slightly increased pressure, increased lymphocytes, normal or slightly increased protein, normal sugar  
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What is the treatment for staph aureus osteomyelitis?   Vancomycin (just assume that it's MRSA)  
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Osteomyelitis preferentially infects which part of the bone?   Metaphysis of the long bone  
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Osteomyelitis in sexually active   Neisseria gonorrhea (rare) or septic arthritis  
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Osteomyelitis in diabetics and drug addicts   Pseudomonas aeruginosa  
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Osteomyelitis in sickle cell patients   Salmonella  
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Osteomyelitis in prosthetic replacement   Staph aureus and Staph epidermidis  
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Osteomyelitis in vertebral bodies   Mycobacterium TB (Pott's disease)  
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Osteomyelitis after a dog or cat bite or scratch   Pasturella multocida  
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What test can rule out osteomyelitis?   Negative CRP  
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What tool is used to diagnose osteomyelitis?   Bone scan or MRI (X-rays are NOT sufficient to rule out osteomyelitis)  
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Osteomyelitis occurs most commonly in which population?   Children  
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Dysuria, frequency, urgency, suprpubic pain, and WBCs (no casts) in urine   UTI  
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Fever, chills, flank pain, CVA tenderness, hematuria,and WBC casts   Pyelonephritis (UTI that ascended to kidney)  
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Positive leukocyte esterase test   bacterial UTI; basically just means inflammation is somewhere in the urinary tract  
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Positive nitrite test   gram negative bacterial UTI; more specific than the positive leukocyte esterase test  
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Leading cause of UTI; shows metallic sheen on EMB (eosin methylene blue) agar   E coli  
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2nd leading cause of community-acquired UTI in sexually active women   Staph saprophyticus  
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3rd leading cause of UTI. Large mucoid capsule and viscous colonies   Klebsiella penumoniae  
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Motility causes swarming on agar; produces urease; associated with struvite stones; cause of UTI   Proteus mirabilis  
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Blue-green pigment and fruity odor; causes drug-resistant nosocomial UTIs   Pseudomonas aeruginosa  
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What is the treatment for UTIs?   TMP-SMX (treatment of choice), or fluoroquinolones or nitrofurantoin  
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What is the treatment for UTIs in pregnant women?   1st or 2nd generation cephalosporins, aminopenicillin, or nitrofurantoin  
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Neonate with cotton-like yellow-white scars on retina visible by fundoscopy (chorioretinitis), hydrocephalus, and intracranial calcifications   Toxoplasma gondii (TORCH infection)  
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How is toxoplasma gondii transmitted?   Via aerosolized cat feces or ingestion of undercooked meat; transplacental transmission in first 6mos gestation  
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Neonate with PDA, cataracts, deafness, and bluberry muffin rash (I'm hungry already!)   Rubella (TORCH infection); in children causes mild illness called German measles; a togavirus  
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How is rubella transmitted?   Via respiratory droplets  
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Newborn with unilateral hearing loss, seizures, and petechial rash   CMV (TORCH infection); CMV is MCC of TORCH infections  
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How is CMV transmitted?   Sexual contact, organ transplant  
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Neonate with recurrent infections and chronic diarrhea   HIV (TORCH infection)  
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Name 3 ways to prevent HIV transmission to a neonate/fetus.   1. Prophylax mom with zidovudine 2. Prophylax mom with HAART 3. Deliver infant via C-section  
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Neonate with vaginal deliver presents with temporal encephalitis and vesicular lesions; mother had vaginal vesicular lesions   HSV; vesicular lesions in mother are a contraindication for vaginal delivery due to easy transmissability through skin or mucous membrane contact intrapartum (during delivery)  
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Stillbirth or hydrops fetalis; if infant survives, presents with facial abnormalities (notched teeth, saddle nose, short maxilla) and saber shins   Syphilis  
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What other viral infection can cause hydrops fetalis?   Parvovirus (DNA virus)  
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What is the MCC of saddle nose deformity?   Wegener's granulomatosis! Gotcha!  
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Rash begins on trunk, spreads to face with lesions of differnt age   Chicken pox caused by VZV  
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Erythematous, sandpaper-like rash with fever and sore throat   Scarlet fever caused by Strep pyogenes  
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Vesicular rash on palms and soles; ulcers in oral mucosa   Hand-foot-mouth disease caused by Coxsackievirus type A  
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Urethritis, cervicitis, creamy purulent discharge   Gonorrhea caused by Neisseria gonorrhea  
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Painful genital ulcer, inguinal adenopathy   Chancroid caused by Haemophilus ducreyi  
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Ulcers, lymphadenopathy, rectal strictures (may be mistaken for IBD)   Lymphogranuloma venereum (Chlamydia trachomatis serotypes L1-L3)  
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Vaginitis, strawberry cervix, corkscrew motility on wet prep   Trichomoniasis caused by Trichomonas vaginalis  
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Noninflammatory, malodorous discharge (fishy smell), positive whiff test, clue cells   Bacterial vaginosis caused by Gardnerella vaginalis (also mobiluncus and various anaerobes)  
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What are the top 2 bugs that produce the infamous chandelier sign?   PID: Chlamydia trachomatis (subacute, often undiagnosed) and Neisseria gonorrhea (acute, fever); C trachomatis is the MC STD in the US  
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Infection of the liver capsule and violin string adhesions of parietal peritoneum to liver   Fitz-Hugh-Curtis syndrome; complication of PID  
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Nosocomial infection assoc'd with hyperalimentation (e.g, TPN feeding)   Candida albicans  
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Nosocomial infection assoc'd with urinary catheterization   E coli, proteus mirabilis  
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Nosocomial infection assoc'd with respiratory therapy equipment   Pseudomonas aeruginosa  
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Nosocomial infection assoc'd with work in a renal dialysis unit   HepB (also assoc'd with needle sticks)  
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What are the 2 most common causes of nosocomial infections?   E coli (UTI) and Staph aureus (wound infection)  
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HIV + adult: Low grade fevers, cough, and hepatosplenomegaly; oval yeast cells within macrophages   Histoplasma capsulatum (Histo hides in macrophages)  
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HIV + adult: Superficial vascular proliferation; biopsy of skin reveals neutrophilic infiltrate   Bacillary angiomatosis caused by Bartonella henselae  
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HIV + adult: Superficial neoplastic proliferation of vasculature; biopsy reveals lymphocytic inflammation   Kaposi's sarcoma caused by HHV8  
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HIV + adult: Chronic watery diarrhea; acid fast cysts seen in stool   Cryptosporidium  
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HIV + adult: Encephalopathy due to reactivation of a latent virus; results in demyelination   Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy (PML) caused by JC virus  
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HIV + adult: Abscesses in brain; many ring-enhancing lesions on imaging   Toxoplasmosis gondii  
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HIV + adult: Cotton wool spots on fundoscopic exam   CMV retinitis  
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HIV + adult: Intersitial pneumonia; biopsy reveals cells with intranuclear Owl's eye inclusion bodies   CMV  
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HIV + adult: Pleuritic pain, hemoptysis, infiltrates on imaging   Invasive aspergillosis caused by Aspergillus fumigatus  
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HIV + adult: TB-like disease of the lungs, especially with CD4 counts <50   MAC (Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare)  
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A microbe that colonizes the nasopharynx and can lead to meningitis in children   H flu type B  
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Bug hints: Postive PAS stain   Tropheryma whippelii (Whipple's disease)  
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Bug hints: Chronic granulomatous disease   Catalase + organisms: staph aureus, nocardia, and aspergillus  
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Bug hints: Bilateral Bell's palsy   Borrelia burgdorferi (Lyme disease)  
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What is the correct tx for a woman who presents with purulent urethritis?   3rd generation cephalosporin (ceftriaxone) to treat N gonorrhea and azithromycin or doxycycline to treat Chlamydia. Must alway treat for Chlamydia with a gonococcal PID b/c Chlamydia often co-infects with N gonorrhea.  
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