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if a traveller has returned with jaundice, consider
hepatitis
malaria
yellow fever
management rickettsiosis
tetracycline
when would therapeutic trials be used in pyrexia of unknown origin
- suspected TB
- suspected vasculitis or connective tissue disorder
define Hep D superinfection
personal with chronic Hep B infection becomes infected with Hep D
define type II necrotising fasciitis
monomicrobial
presentation chronic HBV infection
non-specific - fatigue - anorexia - depression OR transmits it to someone else who suffers from an acute episode
risk factors invasive candidiasis
- immunocompromised
- broadspectrum antibiotics
- intravascular catheters
- infections mostly of endogenous origin
- abdo surgery
- total parenteral nutrition
describe flucloxacillin use in staph aureus bacteraemia
- first line MSSA
- min for 14 days
- not for MRSA
progression of rabies from bite
incubation ranges from 2 weeks –> several months
takes time to travel up CNS via peripheral nerves -> Brian
lipodystrophy
problem with the way the body makes, uses and stores fat; can be fat loss, and fat build up
what can panton-valentine leucocidin toxin cause
SSTI
haemorrhagic pneumonia
SSTI
skin and soft tissue infection
function of haemaglutinin
facilitates viral attachment and entry to host cell
describe management of HEV infection
- no licences treatment
- reduction of immunosuppression
- ribavarin monotherapy
management fabricated fever
psychiatric involvement
most common organism type II necrotising fasciitis
strep pyogenes
presentation leptospirosis
- fever
- meningism
- myalgia
- headaches
- abdo pain
how does leptospirosis get into you
penetrates abraded skin or mucous membranes causing systemic illness
presentation of shigella
bloody diarrhoea
HEV presentation in elderly men
- severe illness
- liver failure
define ‘complicated’ malaria
1 or more of:
- impaired consciousness
- seizures
- ARD
- hypoglycaemia
- parasite count >2%
- haemoglobin <8mg
- spontaneous bleeding
- haemoglobinuria
- renal impairment
- pulmonary oedema
furunculosis presentation
- single hair follicle-associated inflammatory nodule
- may spontaneously drain purulent material
- systemic symptoms uncommon
