ID

Question 1

Rust coloured sputum

Answer 1

Streptococcus pneumoniae

Question 2

Green coloured sputum

Answer 2

Psudomonas / heomphlius / pnumococcla

Question 3

Red current jelly sputum

Answer 3

Klebsiella

(more common in alcoholics)

Question 4

fould smelling/bad tasting sputum

Answer 4

anaerobic infections

Question 5

What is the most common cause of CAP

Answer 5

Strep pneumoniae

Question 6

Travellers diarrhoea common organism

Answer 6

E Coli

Question 7

campylobacter gastroeneteritis

Answer 7

Bloody diarrhoea with prodrome and adbo pain 1-6 days after injestion

Question 8

Bacillus cereus

Answer 8

Bacillus cereus is associated with food poisoning from reheated rice. The incubation period for Bacillus cereus is usually only up to 6 hours for vomiting disease and slightly longer for diarrhoeal illness. However, this would not usually cause bloody diarrhoea.

Question 9

Salmonella enteritidis

Answer 9

Salmonella enteritidis has an incubation period of 12 - 48 hours and is usually associated with severe vomiting and a high fever. It can cause bloody diarrhoea

salmon/pink rash

Question 10

Staph aureus gastroenteritis

Answer 10

Staphylococcus aureus has a short incubation period of 1-6 hours and is usually characterised by sudden onset of nausea, vomiting and abdominal cramps

Question 11

Acute food poisoning organisms

Answer 11

typically caused by Staphylococcus aureus, Bacillus cereus or Clostridium perfringens.