Bug Hints (if All Else Fails)

Question 1

Branching rods in oral infection, sulfur granules

Answer 1

Actinomycetes israelii

Question 2

Chronic granulomatous disease

Answer 2

Catalase + microbes (esp S.aureus)

Question 3

“Currant Jelly” sputum

Answer 3

Klebsiella

Question 4

Dog or cat bite

Answer 4

Pasteurella multocida

Question 5

Facial Nerve palsy

Answer 5

Borrelia burgodorferi (Lyme disease)

Question 6

Fungal infection in diabetic or immunocompromised pt

Answer 6

Nucor or Rhizopus spp.

Question 7

Health care provider

Answer 7

HBV (from needlestick)

Question 8

Neutropenic patients

Answer 8

Candida albicans (systemic), Aspergillus

Question 9

Organ transplant recipient

Answer 9

CMV

Question 10

PAS +

Answer 10

Tropheryma whipplei (whipple disease)

Question 11

Pediatric infection

Answer 11

Haemophilus influenzae (including epiglottitis)

Question 12

Pneumonia in cystic fibrosis, burn infection

Answer 12

Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Question 13

Pus, empyema, abscess

Answer 13

S.aureus

Question 14

Rash on hands & feet

Answer 14

Coxsackie A virus, treponema pallidum, rickettsia rickettsii

Question 15

Sepsis/meningitis in newborn

Answer 15

Group B strep

Question 16

Surgical wound

Answer 16

S.aureus

Question 17

Traumatic open wound

Answer 17

Clostridium perfringens

Question 18

Asplenic patient

Answer 18

Encapsulated microbes esp SHiN
(S.pneumoniae»HiB>N.meningitidis)
Due to surgical splenectomy or autosplenectomy - eg chronic sickle cell disease