GI Infections

Question 1

Bloody diarrhoea

Answer 1

Shigella or Escherichia coli

Question 2

Necrotising granulomas in colon with erythema nodosum

Answer 2

Yersinia enterocolitis

Question 3

Liver abscess and diarrhoea

Answer 3

Entamoeba histolytica

Question 4

Motile trophozoite in diarrhoea, tenesmus

Answer 4

Entamoeba histolytica

Question 5

Shellfish handlers with cellulitis

Answer 5

Vibrio Vulnificus

Question 6

Aesculin +ve

Answer 6

Listeria Monocytogenes

Question 7

Negri bodies (organism + disease)

Answer 7

Rhabdovirus = Rabies

Question 8

Plague organism

Answer 8

Yersinia Pestis

Question 9

Child present with abdominal pain, pancytopenia, skin disfigurement - what’s the organism?

Answer 9

Leishmani Donovani or Leismania Infantum

Question 10

Man presents with rigors, myalgia, arthralgia and normal WCC

Answer 10

Brucellosis

Question 11

Sandfly bit causing ulcer - organism and disease name?

Answer 11

Leishmania Major/Tropica

Cutaneous Leishmania

Question 12

Round black lesion with ring of oedema

Answer 12

Bacillus anthracis

Question 13

L. Braziliens causes what?

Answer 13

Mucocutaneous ulcers

Question 14

Conjunctival haemorrhages after swimming and fever etc

Answer 14

Leptospirosis Interrogans

Question 15

Treatment of borrelia burgdoferi?

Answer 15

Doxycycline

Question 16

Bullseye rash goes on to cause neuropsych disturbances; disease and organism?

Answer 16

Lyme disease (borrelia Burgdoferi)