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16 - Infectious Diseases including Travel Infections Flashcards

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What is antimicrobial stewardship?

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Process of persuading prescribers to use evidence-based prescribing to prevent antibiotic overuse and therefore prevent antibiotic resistance

Preserves future effectiveness of antibiotics

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What are some of the steps in antimicrobial stewardship for every prescriber?

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  • Prescribe the most appropriate dose, for the shortest time to be effective and the most appropriate route, with the narrowest spectrum abx

- Take microbiological samples before prescribing antibiotic and review prescription when get the results

  • Consider delayed prescribing for self-limiting conditions
  • Explain to patients why antibiotics might do them more harm than good
  • Avoid repeat antibiotic prescriptions within 6 months
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What scenarios do the AMS team review?

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  • Set local antimicrobial guidelines and review regularly
  • Review patient safety events
  • Ensure antibiotic pack sizes are appropriate for course length
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What is the 10 point approach to a patient with a suspected infection?

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  1. What is the evidence for the infection?
  2. How severe is it?
  3. Any patient factors to consider?
  4. Which organ system is infected?
  5. What is the likely microorganism?
  6. Which anti-microbial therapy is best?
  7. Which route of administration is best?
  8. Any other treatment needed?
  9. Any risk of transmitting to others?
  10. How do we follow up and achieve discharge?
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What are some causes of immunosuppression?

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  • HIV
  • Immunosuppressive drugs e.g steroids, chemo
  • Primary immunodeficiency
  • Age
  • Malnutrition
  • Malignancy
  • Asplenism
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What do you need to consider with vaccinating immunosuppressed patients?

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- Cannot have live vaccines as can develop disseminated disease

- Try to give inactivated vacines two weeks before immunosuppressive therapy as poor antibody response when immunosuppressed

  • Need to be offered flu and pneumovax
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How are nosocomial infections managed?

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- Identify: e.g screening of MRSA

- Protect: isolate multiantibiotic resistant microbes, highly transmissable diseases or hgih risk groups

- Treat: using local guidelines

- Prevent: modify risk factors e.g improve nutrition, remove catheters, clean hands

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What are the preventative measures used in hospital to stop infection spreading?

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  • Hand washing/gelling (wash for C.Diff)
  • Bare below elbows and tie back hair
  • Scrubs in highly infectous areas
  • PPE
  • Aseptic techniques
  • Clean environment
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What is the difference between standard isolation and respiratory isolation?

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Respiratory:

  • Negative pressure room if AGP or room with door closed at all times if NAGP
  • Respiratory precautions sign on door
  • Gown, gloves, face shield and mask/FFP3
  • Dispose of waste in the room
  • Hand hygeine after glove removal
  • Limit movement to other departments and visitors
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What is the definition of sepsis and septic shock?

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Sepsis is dysregulated immune response to an infection leading to life threatening organ dysfunction

Septic Shock is a subset of sepsis with profound circulatory, cellular and metabolic abnormalities with greater risk of mortality than sepsis

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How is the risk of sepsis stratified?

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LEARN RED FLAGS!!

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What is included in the sepsis 6?

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What are the most common manifestations of travel related illness?

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  • Fever
  • GI symptons (N+V, Diarrhoea)
  • Jaundice
  • Lymphadenopathy
  • Hepatosplenomegaly
  • Respiratory symptoms (SOB, Cough)
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What are the most common infections acquired from travel in the following areas:

  • Subsaharan Africa
  • South East Asia
  • South and Central Asia
  • South America
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  • Malaria
  • Dengue fever
  • Typhoid (enteric) fever

Do not forget community acquired infections that may not be related to travel!!!

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Which travel related infections cause respiratory and neurological symptoms?

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Respiratory: S.Pneumoniae, H.Influenzae, Legionella, Influenza virus, SARS/MERS, TB

Neurological: malaria, meningococcal meningitis, lyme disease, leptospirosis, tick-bourne encephalitits, trypanosomiasis

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How do you take a travel history for a suspected travel-related infection?

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Who, What, Where, When, How

  • Geographic region and when (<10, 10-21, >21)
  • Type of accomodation
  • Time of onset of symptoms (incubation period)
  • Recreational activities e.g freshwater lakes, game parks, farms, caves
  • Food and water
  • Sexual history
  • Unwell contacts
  • Travel vaccinations
  • Any healthcare exposure
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What are some travel related infections with a long (>21 days) incubation period?

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  • Malaria
  • TB
  • Viral hepatitis
  • Infective endocarditis
  • Schistosomiasis
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What are some common pre-travel vaccinations you should be offered?

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  • Hep A/Hep B
  • Typhoid
  • Tetanus
  • Childhood vaccines e.g mMR
  • Yellow fever
  • Rabies
  • Malaria drug chemoprophylaxis and PPE (e.g nets, insect repellant)
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Rashes are common in travel-related infections. What differentials would you think of with the following rashes:

  • Maculopapular
  • Petechiae or Purpuric
  • Necrotic ulcer with erythematous borders
  • Rose spots on chest/abdomen
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Maculopapular: dengue, EBV, primary HIV, leptospirosis, CMV, rubella, parvovirus B19

Purpuric: dengue, meningococcal infection, viral haemorraghic fever

Necrotic ulcer: rickettsia from tick bit, anthrax

Rose spots: Typhoid fever

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If you suspect a travel-related infection and the following signs are found on examination, what are your differentials:

  • Pulse rate slow for degree of fever
  • Jaundice
  • Hepatosplenomegaly
  • Neurological issues
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  • Typhoid fever
  • Malaria, Viral hepatitis, enteric fever
  • EBV, malaria, typhoid, viral hepatitis, HIV, brucellosis, schistosomiasis, amoebic liver abscess
  • Also think meningo-encephalitis!! Japaense encephalitis, malaria, West Nile Encephalitis, HSV, N.Meningitidis, S.Pneumoniae
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What investigations should you do in a returning traveller with fever? (remembering always isolating them first and excluding VHF)

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- FBC: lymphopenia with viruses, eosinophillia with parasites, low platelets in malaria, dengue, HIV, sepsis

- Malaria blood smears x 3 and rapid diagnostic testing

- Blood cultures x 2 before antibiotics

- LFTs

- U+Es

- Urinalysis dipstick and culture

- Stool culure (cysts, ova, parasites)

- Serology/PCR

- CXR

- HIV, HepB/C, Syphillis serology

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What organism causes malaria?

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- Plasmodium Falciparum/P.Ovale/P.Vivax

- Parasite spread by Anopheles mosquito

  • Common in Sub-Saharan Africa
  • P.Falciparum incubation of 7 days-4 weels, Others can be up to a year
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What is the life cycle of malaria?

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  • Sporozites transferred to blood of human from mosquito
  • Sporozites travel to liver where they mature then rupture and go into RBCs
  • In RBCs merozites form larger trophozites which rupture the RBCs (haemolysis)
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What is the presentation and examination findings of a patient with malaria?

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Presentation: (Non-Specific)

  • Cyclical rigors and fever
  • Jaundice
  • Malaise
  • Severe headache
  • N+V
  • Vague abdominal pain
  • Myalgia

Examination: Jaundice, confusion, fever, hepatosplenomegaly

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Malaria should be considered in all patients with a fever and recent travel history. (P.Falciparum incubation of 6 days and occurs within 3 months of travel) What investigations are done to diagnose malaria?
**3x thin and thick blood smear PLUS Rapid diagnostic test of parasite antigen** **_FBC_:** anaemia, thrombocytopenia, leukopenia **_LFTs_:** deranged **_Glucose_:** hypoglycaemia **_Clotting_:** DIC **_Urinalysis:_** check for AKI **_Head CT:_** if CNS symptoms **_CXR_**
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What defines severe falciparum malaria?
Increased risk of severe malaria with increased age and elevated serum lactate
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What is the issue with leaving P.Falciparum infection untreated?
- Hypoglycaemia - Renal failure due to AKI - Pulmonary oedema - Neurological deterioration - Metabolic acidosis
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What should you do as soon as somebody is diagnosed with malaria?
Report to PHE as it is a notifiable disease
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How is uncomplicated falciparum malaria treated?
**_1st Line:_** - Artemisinin combination therapies (ACT) such as ***Artemether-Lumefantrine PO*** - Take with high fat food to increase absorption **_2nd Line:_** - ***Oral quinine sulfate*** plus doxycycline (or clindamycine)
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How is uncomplicated falciparum malaria monitored after treatment is started?
Repeat blood films after 12-24 hours then daily until parasites have cleared
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How is severe falciparum malaria treated?
IMMEDIATE URGENT TREATMENT AND TREAT IN HDU **_1st Line:_** ***- Artesunate IV (need to do G6PDH screen before due to risk of haemolysis)*** - Followed by full course of oral ACT therapy **_2nd Line:_** ***- Quinine IV*** Monitor glucose every 4 hours, Hb, clotting, electrolytes, creatinine and daily parasite counts
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What are some of the adverse effects of quinine?
- Long QT - Hypoglycaemia - Vertigo - Tinnitus - Deafness
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How is non-falciparum malaria treated?
**- Chloroquine PO** - If P.Vivax/P.Ovale then give **Primaquine** too to clear liver hypnozites. **Check for G6PD**
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How is malaria prevented?
**_- Prevent bites:_** cover up, insect repellent with high DEET, mosquito nets **_- Vector control:_** destroy breeding sites (standing water), sterile male mosquito release **_- Chemoprophylaxis:_** usually chloroquine or doxycycline
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What countries is enteric fever common in and what is the incubation period?
- South East Asia - Southern and Central America Usually 2-3 weeks
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What organism causes enteric fever?
Gram negative bacilli **_Typhoid:_** Salmonella Typhi **_Paratyphoid:_** Salmonella Paratyphi Bacteria survive gastric acid and invade intestinal mucosa and disseminate ***without prior diarrhoea.*** This distinguishes from non typhoidal salmonella which has diarrhoea
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What are the symptoms of enteric (typhoid) fever?
**- Sustained stepwise fever** **- Relative bradycardia** - Fatigue **- Headache** - Anorexia - Vague abdominal pain **- Constipation** - Dry cough **- Rose spots**
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What might you find on examination of a patient with typhoid fever?
**- Pulse-temperature dissociation** (relative bradycardia) ## Footnote **- Hepatosplenomegaly** **- Rose spots**
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What are some complications of typhoid fever?
**- Intestinal haemorraghe/Perforation** - Myocarditis - Pneumonia - DIC - CNS involvement e.g meningitis, encephalitis, fits - Eye complications e.g uveitis, corneal ulcer
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What investigations should you do to diagnose typhoid fever?
**- FBC:** leucopenia, lymphopenia, raised CRP - **Blood cultures**: TAKE TWO!! **- Stool cultures** **- Urine cultures** **- Bone marrow cultures** **- Duodenal aspirates**
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How is enteric fever treated?
***- IV Ceftriaxone*** - When sensitivities are back switch to ***PO Azithromycin or PO meropenem*** - Antipyretics - Good nutrition and IV fluids ***- If CNS involvement add dexamethasone***
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What should you monitor when giving treatment for enteric fever?
- FBC - LFTs - CRP Fever should disappear within 5-7 days, if not consider pyogenic or metastatic infection
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What is the basis of the vaccine for enteric fever?
- Oral or IM - Live so do not give in pregnancy or immunosupprision - 3 years protection - No protection agaisnt paratyphoid
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What is the definition of pyrexia of unkown origin? (PUO)
**Temperature over 38 degrees** with no identified cause for **over 3 weeks** or \>3 outpatient visits, despite **1 weeks worth of inpatient investigation**
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What are the different types of PUO?
**Nosocomial PUO:** patient hospitalised \>48h with no infection on admission **Immunodeficient PUO**: Pyrexia in patient with neutrophils \<500/ul **HIV PUO:** Pyrexia in HIV lasting 3d as in patient or \>4 weeks as outpatient
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What are some common causes of PUO?
**Infective:** TB, infective endocarditis, abscesses **Autoimmune:** temporal arteritis, SLE, Wegener's granulamotosis **Neoplastic:** leukaemia, lymphoma, renal cell carcinoma **Other**: drugs, VTE, hyperthyroidism, adrenal insufficiency
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What should you ask in a history of PUO?
- Travel history - Animal contact - Changes in medication - Sexual history - Family history - Occupation - Vaccination history
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What should you look at on an examination of a patient with PUO?
- Lymph nodes - Stigmata of infective endocarditis - Evidence of weight loss - Joint abnormalities - Look at mouth, genitals, skin, thyroid
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What investigations should you do for patients with PUO?
**_Bloods:_** FBC, U+Es, LFTs, Bone profile, CRP, clotting, TFTs, *multiple* sets of blood cultures, LDH, ferritin, B12, folate, immunoglobulins, RF, ANA, dsDNA, pANCA, cANCA, C3, C4 **_Microbiology:_** HIV, HepB/C, Syphillis, MSU, sputum cultures, Malaria films, atypical pneumonia screen, CMV/EBV, **_Imaging:_** CXR, CT thorax/abdo/pelvis, transthoracic echo, PET scan, MR spine/head **_Biopsy_**: check for MC+S/TB/histology on all (bone marrow, lymph nodes, abscesses, liver)
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How is PUO managed?
**- Do not give empirical antibiotics**/steroids/antifungals without specialist input - Rheumatology/Haematology referral - Keep front sheet in notes of tests been done - Stable patients can be managed as outpatients - If no diagnosis despite prolonged investigation, good prognosis
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Dengue viruses are spread by the Aedes mosquito. How will a patient with dengue fever present?
**_Incubation of 3-14 days_** - Fever up to 40 - N+V - Headache - Retroorbital pain - Myalgia - Arthralgia
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What are some warning signs that dengue fever is turning severe, and what does severe dengue fever involve?
**Dengue Haemorraghic Fever/Dengue Shock Syndrome** ## Footnote **_Warning signs_**: abdominal pain, persistent vomiting, mucosal bleeding, hepatosplenomegaly **_Severe_**: shock, respiratory distress, severe bleeding, organ involvement
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How is dengue fever diagnosed?
**- PCR** for virus/**ELISA** for antigens during first 5 days of fever **- IgM/IgG** after first 5 days - Low WBC and platelets
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How is dengue fever treated?
**_Supportively:_** **- IV fluids** with careful fluid balance due to risk of plasma bleed - IV crystalloid if severe disease **- Avoid NSAIDs** **- Monitor via haematocrit**
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What diseases can the following organissm spread: - Mosquitos - Ticks - Bugs/Flies - Snails
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Lyme disease is spread by ticks. What is the presentation of this disease?
**Early Localised (3-30d after bite):** erythema migrans, pain, pruitis, lymphadenopathy, fever, malaise, headache **Early Disseminated (Weeks to months):** borrelial lymphocytoma on earlobes, nipples, genitals; lymphocytic meningitis, ataxia, facial/cranial nerve palsy, acute onset 2nd/3rd degree heart block **Late Disseminated (months to year):** lyme arthritis, focal inflammation then atrophic skin
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What is the organism causing Lyme disease and how is it diagnosed?
***Borrelia Burgdoferi*** (spirochete bacteria) **_Diagnosis:_** - Can be clinical with erythema migrans and known exposure - Borrelia culture or PCR - IgG/IgM serology after a few weeks
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How is Lyme disease treated?
**_Prevention_:** keep limbs covered, use DEET in insect repellent, inspect skin and remove ticks **_Treatment:_** **Erythema Migrans:** Doxycycline **Neuroborreliosis**: Ceftriaxone or IV benzylpenicillin
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What is the definition of Viral Haemorraghic Fever, and what are some causative organisms?
Severe multiorgan disease is which the endothelium is damaged and homeostasis impaired. Haemorraghe complicates the disease course **_Causes:_** ebola, dengue, yellow dever
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What are the most to least broad-spectrum beta-lactam?
Used for gram +ve bacteria mainly - Carbapenems (+ve, -ve, anaerobes) - Cephalosporins (+ve, -ve) - Penicillin (+ve)
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What antibiotic is used to treat P.Aeruginosa?
Ciprofloxacin (Fluoroquinolone)
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What monitoring do you need to do with aminoglycosides (getamicin) and glycopeptides (vancomycin)?
**_Aminoglycosides:_** - Monitor as narrow therapeutic levels - Nephrotoxicity **_Glycopeptides:_** - Monitor vanco daily and teico weekly - Nephrotoxicity
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What does Plasmodium Falciparum look like on blood smear?
Headphone shaped parasites in RBCs
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What do IgM and IgG indicate on blood serology investigation?
**IgM:** recent infection **IgG:** could be due to vaccination, previous infection or current re-infection
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Why does dengue only cause a severe infection on the second time a person is infected?
When there is a reinfection with a different serotype there is an antibody dependent effect which causes the illness
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What is an Amoebic Liver abscess caused by and what are the symptoms?
**Entamoeba Histolytica** (parasite) Prodome of bloody diarrhoea with incubaition of 2-4 weeks then parasite travels through blood to liver. **Symptoms**: RUQ pain, fever, cough, malaise
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How is an Amoebic liver abscess treated?
- Diagnose with stool PCR, microscopy and serology **- IV ceftriaxone** **- PO metronidazole** for liver abscess and Paromomycin to clear gut cysts **- US guided hepatic drain**
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What are some infections caught from fresh water lakes?
- Schistosomiasis - Leptosporodisis
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Where do HSV1 and 2 tend to affect?
1: mouth 2: genitals
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What are some causes of traveller's diarrhoea and how is it treated?
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What is the definition of dysentry?
Infectious gastroenteritis with bloody diarrhoea
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What bacteria causes tetanus?
Clostridium Tetani anaerobe
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What are some examples of live attentuated vaccines?
- BCG - Oral typhoid - MMR - Yellow fever

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