Infections Flashcards
(45 cards)
Bacteria - other
1. DDx for eschar
2. Gram positive cocci
3. GP bacilli (rods)
4. Bacteria with branchiing filaments
5. Gram neg cocci
6. Gram neg bacilli
- Burn, anthrax, cutaneous diphtheria, tick bite, ecthyma, ecthyma gangrenosum
- GPC - Staph, Strep
- GP bacilli - Corynebacterium, Clostridium, Bacillus anthracis, Erysipelothrix
- Nocardia, Actinomyces
- Neisseria gonorrhoea, Neisseria meningitidis
- Pseudomonas, Bartonella, Burkholderia pseudomallei
Bacteria - Staph
1. Cx/serious disorders a/w Staph
2. Re impetigo
- Risk factors
- DDx non bullous impetigo
- DDx bullous impetigo
- Mgmt measures
2. Ecthyma
- who gets it
- clinical pres
- Rx
3. Staph folliculitis - mgmt
4. SSSS
- cause
- presentation
- mgmt
- compare SSSS vs TEN
5. TSS
- Risk factors
- Which staph toxin
- Which strep toxin
-Criteria
- In strep, associated with?
- Bacteraemia / sepsis, OM, septic arthritis, IE, TSS, SSSS
- Impetigo - see page
- Non B: IBR, eczema, HSV, candida, tinea
- B: bullous IBR, thermal burn, HSV, acute contact derm
- Decolonisation. Hygiene. Bleach baths. Return to school 24hr after Rx (cover sores) - see page
- ssss page
- RF: tampon use, post partum, diaphragm contraception, extremes of age. Nasal packing, surgical mesh
- TSST1
- SPE A, B, C
- 1) fever >38.9, 2) BP <90, 3) diffuse macular erythema, 4) desquamation 1-2/52 later, 5) involvement 3+ organs (GIT, MSK, renal, liver, plt, cns), 6) negative Ix for other causes (cultures)
- A/W soft tissue infection eg nec fasc
Bacteria - Strep
1. Cx/serious disorders a/w Strep
2. Invasive GAS - mgmt household contacts and why
3. Examples of iGAS infections
4. Scarlet fever
- typical presentation
- Cx
5. General strep Ix
6. Perianal/VV strep
- can you get general strep Cx?
- will also swab positive where?
- Rx?
- clinical presentation
7. Cellulitis - risk factors for recurrence
- Scarlet fever, rheumatic fever, post strep GN, guttate psoriasis. TSS. Bacteraemia / sepsis, OM, septic arthritis, IE
- rch - at risk of iGAS within 7/7. Empiric Rx - cefalex 10/7, azithro 500 5/7
3.Bacteraemia, STSS, nec fasc, pneumonia, empyema, OM, meningitis - high fever. Sandpaper like fine erythema, ‘sunburn with goosebumps’. Transverse red lines in skin folds ‘pastia lines’. Bright red tongue ‘strawberry tongue’. Resolves w desquamation
- myocarditis, hepatitis, arthritis, meningitis, OM, RF, GN
- ASOT (repeat 2/52 later), anti DNAse B. Urinalysis - RBC, casts. Throat swab
- yes can get strep Cx
- throat
- cefalex 5/7
- bright well demarcated erythema. Pain w defecation. Constipation
- Cellulitis: lymphoedema, DVT, PVD, chronic venous insufficiency, oedema, prev venectomy
Infection - other
1. Sporotrichoid spread
2. DDx widespread maculopapular rash
- Bacterial: Staph, Strep, Nocardia, Tularaemia
Fungal: Sporotrichosis, chromoblastomycosis
Typical mycobacterial: leprosy, TB
Atypical mycobacterial: M marinum
Parasitic: Leishmaniasis
Viral: cowpox - Viral - measles, rubella, EBV CMV, roseola, dengue, RRV, BFV
Bacterial - scarlet fever, TSS, secondary syphilis
Inflam - Kawasaki, GVHD, Stills
Drugs
Bacteria - other
1. Nec fasc
- types
- Risk factors
- immediate mgmt
2. IE
- Osler vs Janeway lesions
3. Clostridium
- Organisms (TBD)
- Gas gangrene. When to think about it. mgmt
4. Erythrasma
- Organism
- Woods, reason
- RF
5. Pitted keratolysis
- RF
- Wood’s fluorescence
1
- Polymicrobial, monomicrobial (GAS), marine organisms, fungal
- Diabetes, immunosuppression, cardiac or PVD, renal failure, penetrating injury, IVDU, recent surgery, preexisting ulcers
- see notes
2.
- Osler: painful papules fingers
Janeway: nontender erythematous papules palms. Can culture organism
3. Clostridium
- Tetani, Botulinum, Diphtheria
- Gas gang. Trauma, penetrating inj. Pain, swelling, d/c. Crepitus. XR - gas. Mgmt - debride. IV penicillin
4.
- C minutissimum
- Coproporphyrin III. Coral red fluoresce
- RF: obesity, humidity, hygiene, hyperhidrosis, diabetes
5.
- RF: occlusion, humidity, hyperhidrosis
- No fluoresce
Meningococcaemia
1. Microscopy appearance
2. Transmission, incubation
3. Clinical presentations
4. Cx
5. Urgent mgmt
6. Close contact mgmt
7. Vaccines
- GN diplococcus
- Respiratory. 2-10 days
- Meningococcal meningitis. Headache, neck stiff, photophob. Systemic
- Meningococcaemia. Petechiae, MP rash, purpuric lesions. Systemic Sx. Haemorrhagic bullae
- Sepsis, arthritis, DIC, pericarditis, deafness, peripheral neuropathy, MSK problems
- Hospital. Admission. LP. ABx - IV ceftriaxone 2g BD. Isolation, droplet precautions. Notifiable
- Empiric cipro 500mg stat
- 3 vax, diff serovars
Pseudomonas
1. Microscopy
2. Clinical presentations
- Gram neg rod
- Green nails. Folliculitis (hot tub folliculitis). Ecthyma gangrenosum. Pseudomonas hot foot. Otitis externa. Pseudomonas pyoderma
Bartonella
1. Organisms and their diseases
2. Tell me a bit about bartonellosis / Carrion disease
3. Tell me a bit about cat scratch disease
- B henselae -cat scratch
B quintana - trench fever
B bacilliformis - Carrion disease - Acute - Oroya fever. Systemically unwell, drop Hb from haemolysis, immunodeficiency. Recover ~10 wks
Chronic - varruga peruana. Vascular lesions, red papules and nodules. Painless - Recent bit or scratch. lNopathy can last weeks to months. May suppurate. Red papule at site
Cx: arthritis, osteolytic lesions, LNopathy, encephalopathy, pneumonia
Rx azithro
Bacillary angiomatosis
1. Organism/s
2. Who gets it
3. Clinical pres
4. Ix
5. Mgmt
- B henselae or quintana
- HIV
- Violaceous angiomatous papules and nodules
- Swab bacterial. Bartonella serology. Tissue bartonella PCR. Biopsy hhisto
- Doxy or erythro
or
azithro
Melioidosis
1. Exposure/transmission
2. Risk factors
3. Clinical pres
- how many have skin Sx
- how many present w sepsis
4. Ix/workup
5. Rx
6. Systemic sites which can be affected
- Soil, surface water. Occupational, recreational.
Wet weather - more inhalational. Military - Diabetes, immunosuppressed, male, CKD, pulmonary disease, malignancy
- Nonspecific. ‘Great mimicker’. 10-20% have skin Sx. ~50% p/w sepsis.
Skin - solitary nonhealing ulcer or inflamed skin patch - Swab. Biopsy. culture.
Ix for other involvement - BC, CXR, abdominal imaging - Initial IV 10-14/7 ceftazidime or mero then 12/52 oral eradication (bactrim). Consider surg drainage
- Pulm - pneumonia, abscess
MSK - OM, septic arthritis
CNS - encephalomyelitis
GU - renal, prostate
Non venereal treponematoses
1. Forms of disease. Brief description
2. Organism
3. does serology differentiate?
4. Rx
- Bejel: primary: papule or ulcer. Secondary: MP eruption, LNlpathy. Tertiary: gumma
Yaws: Primary - mother yaw, papule ulcerates heals w scar. Secondary - daughter yaws. Crops, near orifices. Infectious ++
Tertiary: abscesses, necrotic, ulcerate
Pinta: primary - papules/plaques at inoculation. Secondary - widespread pintids, dyspigmentation, scaly papules.
Tertiary: vitiligo like lesions - T pallidum
- No. Clinical Dx
- Azithro 30mg/kg max 2g stat
Actinomycosis
1. RF
2. Clin presentation
3. Key path features
- Dental procedures
- Lumpy jaw. Nodules, abscess. Drain ‘sulfur granules’ - clumps of bacteria
- Sulphur granules
Leprosy
1. Likelihood of acquiring infection if exposed?
2. Lepromatous leprosy - clinical features
3. Tuberculoid leprosy - clinical features
4. What would you look for O/E
5. Classification systems
6. Types of lepra reactions
7. Types of Ix
8. Pt workup Ix
9. Histopath lepromatous vs tuberculoid
10. Mgmt principles
- 5-20% (MJA)
- SMILES G CORP
- SHAG
- Sensation - pain, temperature, touch.
Neuropathic changes - muscle atrophy, vasomotor alterations, flexion contractures
Peripheral nerve enlargement
Motor power - reduced
Clinical signs above - WHO - pauci and multibacillary
Ridley Jopling - spectrum - Type 1 - reversal/upgrading. Acute neurology. Rx - pred
Type 2- ENL - type of vasculitis. Rx - thalidomide - Slit skin smear. Biopsy histo, IHC for PGL1. PCR. Serology - antiPGL Ab
Histamine; pilocarpine; lepromin - USS nerve, NCS. Nerve Bx. MRI nerve. touch testing. Sweat test
- Lepromatous: widespread infiltrate. Virchow cells - foamy macrophages. Sheets of histiocytes. ONion skin appearance of nerves.
Tuberculoid: perineural granulomas. Lymphocytic infiltrate - Multi vs pauci bacillary (12 vs 6/12)
clofazimine, rif, dapsone.
Notifiable.
F/U 5yrs, risk relapse
Cutaneous TB
1. How many infections lead to clinical disease?
2. How common is cutaneous tb?
3. Risk factors
4. True cutaneous TB:
- Endogenous (LSMOG)
- Exogenous (T/VC)
5. Tuberculids (3)
6. New pt workup
7. Path stains
8. Path features, how to differentiate from sarcoid
9. Rx
- 5-10%
- Uncommon. 8-24% cases are extrapulmonary. 1.5-3% of these are cutaneous
- HIV. Kids. Immunosuppression. diabetes, malnutrition, overcrowding
- Endogenous:
-Lupus vulgaris: most common. Red brown plaque, scale, fibrosed. Endogenous or ex.
-Scrofuloderma: contiguous spread from lN. Painless swellings, ulcers
-Miliary: unwel pts. Multiple papules, pustules, necrosis, umbilication
-Orificial: autoinoculation around orifices. Immsupp pts
-Gumma: uncommon. Fluctuating nodules
Exogenous:
- TB chancre: no prior exposure. Papulonodule -> ulcer
- TBVC: prev exposure. Verrucous plaque - Immune reactions to haematogenous dissemination of TB
EI: lobular panniculitis
Lichen scrofulosorum: numerous erythematous perifollicular papules
Papulonecrotic tuberculid:cyclic eruptions painless papules, pustules. Resolve w scarring - Palpate lNopathy. LNbx
- Lungs - cxr, ct, sputum
- Abdo - USS, CT, MRI
- Bones - XR
- Breast granulomatous mastitis
- Bloods. Biopsies - culture, AFB. PCR
Tuberculin skin test
- ZN, Fite
- Tuberculoid epithelioid granulomas, giant cells, caseation necrosis.
Sarcoid - won’t have peripheral rim lymphocytes. ZN neg - RIPE
Rif 600mg daily, Izoniaz 300mg daily, pyrazinamide 30mg/kg/day, ethambutol 15mg/kg/day for 2/12. THEN RI for 4/12
M ulcerans
1. Features suspicious for infection
2. Mgmt
- Long incubation. Painless ulcer. Deep necrotic base. Undermined edges. Solitary. can involve bone
- ID ref
Abx - rif 600mg OD + clarithro 500mg BD 8/52
Notifiable
Paradoxical worsening (stops mycolactone) - mgmt with pred
+/-: hyperbaric. Surgical
M marinum
1. Clinical
2. Incubation
3. ix
4. Mgmt
- Nodule, pustule. Solitary red to violaceous papule, nodule, plaque. Crusted ulcer
- Average 2-3/52. Can be up to 8/52
- Tissue - PCR, culture
- Clarithro 500mg BD, continue Rx 1-2/12 after resolution of lesions
Rickettsial
1. Important ones in Australia
2. General disease course
3. Complications
4. Typical histopath
5. type of organism
6. Tick paralysis - mechanism, Sx
7. Ix for Dx and Cx
8. Rx
9. How to remove a tick
10. Tell me about alpha gal
- Rickettsia australis - QLD tick typhus. Spotted fever. Ixodes holocyclus
Orientia tsutsugamushi - scrub typhus. Larval trombiculid mite
R honei - FISF - Bite -> fever in first few days. headache, myalgias, N/V, abdo pain -> D3-6 rash, MP, petechial. Eschar. LNopathy
- Pneumonitis, encephalitis, hypotension, DIC, death, renal failure, thrombocytopaenia
- Lymphocytic vasculitis, RBC extravasation
- GN rod
- Tick inject holocyclotoxins. Diplopia, lethargy, nystagmus, flulike Sx, unsteady gait. Must be attached for days for enough toxin in adults
- Paired serology and PCR from swab, Bx. Bx. Basic, ESR CRP
Cx: CXR, CT chest, MRI B. LP. USS abdomen
Convalescent serology 2-4/52 post, increase in titre 4fold - doxy 100mg BD 7/7 OR azithro 250-500mg 7/7. Ix don’t delay Rx
- see notes
- see notes
HIV
1. Examination features to support Dx of acute HIV1
2. Features of established HIV
3. Ix you would do
4. What is IRIS?
- Fever, LN, weight loss
Myalgia, arthralgia. Night sweats, pharyngitis
Morbilliform exanthem. Oral and genital ulcers. Acute retroviral syndrome resembles mono - HIV related infections
Bacterial. Viral. Fungal. Parasitic. Ectoparasites
Noninfectious (seb derm, psoriasis)
Pruritic papular eruption - Confirm Dx - HIV serology (window period, false neg, can last up to 3/12), PCR
Exclude DDx - EBV, CMV, other viral
Assoc - full sti screen - Immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome. After starting ART - paradoxical exacerbation of infection, inflamamtory diseases, neoplasm. ~15% pts.
HPV
1. Broad classification
2. Anogenital warts risk factors
3. Transmission. Target in the skin
4. Buschke Lowenstein. What is it. Cx
5. Trick to identify mucosal warts
6. Path buzz words
7. Schedule for 9 valent HPV vax
8. Anogenital warts in pregnancy - counselling, mgmt
9. Wart Rx:
- Imiquimod
- TCA
- Cryo
- Podophyllin
- DCP
- SA
10. EV - brief
- Alpha - pathogenic in normal hosts
Beta - a/w EV - Early age sexual intercourse, MSM, uncircumcised, no barrier contraception, more sexual partners
- Contact - skin to skin, contaminated surfaces, autoinoculation. Basal keratinocytes
- Giant condylomata acuminata. A/W HPV 6, 11. Cx: fistulas, abscess, local invasion, SCC
- 5% acetic acid soak for 3-5 mins. ‘Aceto whitening’
- Papillomatosis, hyperkeratosis. Hypergranulosis. Koilocytes (vacuolated cells with hyperchromatic shrivelled nuclei)
- On NIP single dose. For adults 3x doses
- See notes
- See notes
- Genetic. AR. EVER1 and EVER2. Polymorphic widespread lesions. Risk scc ~50%
Fungal - superficial
1. Tinea nigra
2. Piedra
3. Pit versi
- Types malassezia
- Microscopy appearance
- Rx options
4. Clinical features
5. Effect of sebum on dermatophyte
6. Tinea capitis
- Risk factors
- Look at table in notes on kerion
- Endothrix organisms
- Ectothrix organisms and fluorescence
- Oral Rx
7. types of tinea pedis
8. Types tinea unguium
9. Tinea unguium treatment options
- F GROS
- Branching hyphae and yeast. Spag and mball
- see notes
- Annular lesion, central clearing, peripheral scale, pustules. Vesicular
- Inhibitory. So - scalp infections pre-pubertal. Hand - looks different on palms, lack of sebaceous glands
- Animal exposure, scalp shaving, overcrowding, poor hygiene
- TV SGYR
- Micro CADFG. Yellow green fluorescence for VM FACD
- Trichophyton - Terbinafine 250mg OD 4/52. Paeds dosing
Microsporum - griseo. 20mg/kg/day 6-8/52 - MJA 8-12/52
- Moccasin, interdigital, inflammatory, ulcerative
- Distal/lateral subungual, superficial white, prox subungual
- See notes
Mucocutaneous candidiasis
1. Risk factors
2. Types oral candidiasis
3. Mgmt approach and Rx options:
- Vulvovaginal candidiassi
- Mucocutaneous candidiasis
- Immunosuppressed, diabetes, smoking ABx, HIV, extremes of age, dentures, nutritional deficiency
- Pseudomembranous, chronic atrophic, chronic hyperplastic, glossitis
Chromoblastomycosis
1. DDx
2. histopath buzz word
3. Where/who acquire
4. Clinical pres
5. Rx
- Mycobacterial, tertiary syph, blastomycosis, leish
- Medlar bodies - pigmented round, resemble copper pennies. Within giant cells and extracellular
- Tropical and subtropical. Farmers, miners
- Verrucous, granulomatous plaque, central clearing and scarring
- Itraconazole 200-400mg daily 6/12 at least
Mycetoma / Madura foot
1. Broad classification
2. Acquired?
3. Clinical
4. Rx
- Eumycotic (true fungi), Actinomycotic (filamentous bacteria)
- Soil. Tropical and subtropical
- Unilateral painless lesion, swells, draining sinuses. Grains - masses of colonies
- Targeted to organism
- Eumycotic: antifungal
- Actinomycotic: ABx
Sporotrichosis
1. Organisms
2. Histopath buzz words
3. Rx
- S schencki, Mexicana, braziliensis, globosa
- Cigar shaped yeast forms. Asteroid bodies (yeast cell w surrounding eosinophilic fringe)
- Itraconazole 100-200mg/day 3-6/12