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1
Q

Infection associated with iron-overload states (such as hemochromatosis)?

A

Yersinia enterocolitica

2
Q

the one cause of bacterial (non-tuberculous) meningitis with CSF showing increased lymphocytes (greater than 25 percent)

A

Listeria

3
Q

eating improperly frozen raw salmon + Nausea and vomiting + worm on EGD

Treatment?

A

Anisakis

EGD with worm removal

4
Q

Infection that is initially pulmonary, then becomes GI after 2 months?

A

Ascaris lumbricoides

larvae pass through the lungs, (Loeffler’s syndrome), causing cough/hemoptysis

Then GI biliary/pancreatic symptoms or intestinal obstruction

5
Q

Infection begins when larvae enter cutaneously (itch) then causes Fe deficiency anemia

A

Ancylostoma duodenale (hook worm)

6
Q

Bloody diarrhea with, with right colon inflammation and higher risk of patients who recently took prednisone? Treatment?

A

Intestinal amebiasis

metronidazole 500 mg - 750 mg orally three times daily for 10 days, followed by a luminal agent such as paromomycin 25-30 mg / kg daily in three divided doses for seven days.

7
Q

Organism that causes an antibiotic-associated Hemorrhagic colitis (symptoms stop with cessation of antibiotics)

A

Klebsiella oxytoca