Ambler Word Associations Flashcards
(34 cards)
young healthy patient
mycoplasma
HIV pt with CD4 count less than 200
pneumocystis jiroveci
Alcoholic pt, diabetics, chronic lung disease
Klebsiella or lung abscess
Southwest desert exposure
Coccidiodomycosis, pneumonic plague
Exposure to rabbits
Francisella tularensis
Travel to southeast Asia
SARS
seizure in a Mexican
neurocysticercosis (taenia solium)
bird exposure
Chylamydia psittaci
bird droppings,spelunking, bats (recreational cave exploration)
Histoplasma capsulatum
whooping or post tussive vomiting
Bordetella pertusis
contaminated water source, smoker, elderly
legionella
exposure to animal while giving birth
Q fever
animal wools
Wool sorters disease
Anthrax
rusty sputum
streptococcus pneumonia
red currant jelly sputum
Klebsiella
foul smelling sputum
anaerobes and lung abscess
HIV pt or immunocompromised or third world
TB
cystic fibrosis
mucoid Pseudomonas, S. aureus, burkoholderia
smoker and COPD
Haemophilus influenza
Post viral (after influenza)
Staph aureus, strep pneumo
Rose gardener
Sporothrix
Strep bovis/gallolyticus
GI malignancy
recurrent PNA
HIV, asplenia
recurrent meningitis
mollaret’s/HSV, csf lead