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Capsofungin

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Class of Echinocandins
Inhibit glucan synethase

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Infection suspect in patients with cardiac surgery with fever, pain, redness, fatigue, heat/pus at surgical site, night sweats, weight loss, abdo pain, nausea or vomiting

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  • Non-tuberculous mycobacterium identified amycobacterium chimaera
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IRIS - organisms

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Organisms: CMV, herpes zoster, mycobacterium alium complex, pneumocystis pneumonia, mycobacterium tuberculosis

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Immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome - scenarios

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1) unmasking of an occult opportunistic infection
2) Paradoxical symptomatic relapse of a prior infection despite microbiologic treatment success

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COVID treatment - Dexamethasone

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Reduced mortality with covid-19 requiring oxygen

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COVID - Prone positioning

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Potential treatment strategy for refractory hypoxaemia

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COVID - Remdesivir

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Reduce time to clinical recovery

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Covid - Baricitinib

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Janus kinase inhibitor - reduce recovery time and accelerate improvement in clinical status esp when combined with remdesivir

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COVID - Tocilizumab

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Reduce likelihood of progression to need for mechanical ventilation, not improved survival
Did not result in significantly better clinical status or lower mortality for severe covid-19

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Antibiotics do not cross BBB (so not for brain abscess)

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  • Aminoglycosides
  • Erythromycin
  • Tetracyclines
  • Clindamycin
  • First gen cephalosporin
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Brain abscess or subdural empyema

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IV metronidazole and ceftriaxone
Ceftazidime - when complicate a neurosurgical procedure or abscess culture grew P.aeruginosa
Vancomycin - abscess follow penetrating head trauma or craniotomy

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Carbapenums (imipenum, meropenum, Ertapenum)

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  • Against aerobic and anaerobic gram -ve bacilli including p.aeruginosa
  • Excellent against anaerobic and gram +Ve
    Ertapenum HAS no activity against P.aeruginosa
  • Carbapenum generally inactive against MRSA, VRE, Enterococcus faecium, mycoplasma, chlamydia and stenotrophonomas maltophilia
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Fidaxomicin

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First line treatment for c.diff as an alternate to vancomycin
(Metronidazole is not longer first line)

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Multi-drug resistant TB

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  • Isoniazid
  • Rifampicin
  • Rifabutin
  • Thioacetazone
  • Amoxicillin - clavulanate
  • Macrolide antibiotics
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Xpert MTB/RIF (GeneXpert)

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Automated molecular test for mycobacterium tuberculosis and resistance to rifampin
- sens 98.2% for smear positive TB
- 72.5% for smear negative TB

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S.pneumoniae

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For meningitis
- IV vancomycin + ceftriaxone or cefotaxime
- If allergic -> IV moxifloxacin + vancomycin

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Gram negative resistance with linezolid

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Addition of metronidazole in aspiration pneumonia indication

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  • Putrid sputum
  • Severe periodontal disease
  • History of chronic hazardous alcohol consumption
  • Development of lung abscess, empyema or necrotising pneumonia
  • Do not respond to initial therapy
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Addition of metronidazole in aspiration pneumonia indication

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  • Putrid sputum
  • Severe periodontal disease
  • History of chronic hazardous alcohol consumption
  • Development of lung abscess, empyema or necrotising pneumonia
  • Do not respond to initial therapy
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Daptomycin

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inhibit by surfactant so not useful for pneumonia

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Beta-lactamases class

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Class A: plasmid-mediated resistance
Class B: metalloenzymes (MBL) -> can hydrolyze penicillins, cephalosporins, carbapenems
Class C: intrinsically resistant to betalactamase inhibitor
Class D: Oxacillin hydrolysing enzyme

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Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS)

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  • Cough, fever, SOB
  • Mortality rate 30%
  • Recommend BAL, sputum, tracheal aspirates

Management mainly supportive

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Bordetella pertussis

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Gram negative coccobacilli

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Specific test for pertussis

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Culture from nasopharyngeal secretions - gold standard

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Dex in meningitis
- diminish rate of hearing loss and other neuro complications - Only continue if CSF reveals S.pneumonia
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Right sided IE - Indication for surgery
- Large vegetation ≥ 20mm - Recurrent septic pulmonary emboli - Presence of a highly resistant organism - Persistant bacteriaemia
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Most consistently observed RF for hospital acquired VRE
- Previous treatment of antimicrobials
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Most common cause of aseptic meningitis
- Enterovirus
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Necrotising fasciitis secondary to a GAS
- Clindamycin + penicillin G
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IE organisms
- Dental disease - strep viridans - Prolonged Indwelling vascular catheter + IVDU - S.aureus - Procedures involving gut and perineum - enterococcus faecalis - Bowel - S. bovis - Soft tissue infection - Staphlococci
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Culture negative endocarditis
- Coxiella - Burnetti - Bortenella - Chlamydia - Legionella
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Prophylaxis against endocarditis indication
- A prosthetic heart valve - History of IE - Many congenital (from birth) heart abnormalities e.g. single ventricle states, TGA, and TOF, even if the abnormality has been repaired. - PFO, the most common congenital heart defect, does not require prophylaxis
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Most common fungal infection in immunosuppresive
Candida
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Highest mortality rate in immunocompromised
Invasive aspergillosis
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Fever in traveller fever
- Malaria - Dengue fever - Enteric fever
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Most common in returned traveller
- Malaria
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Most virulent form of malaria
- Plasmodium falciparum
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36M with swallowing difficulty. Been traveled to Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia. Has had swollen R eye which now resolved. Barium swallow showed a bird's beak appearance of the oesophagus A. African trypanosomiasis B. Visceral leishmaniasis C. Giardiasis D. Cryptosporidiosis E. American Trypanosomiasis
E
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General S/B of NRTI
Peripheral neuropathy
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Tenofovir side effects
Renal impairment and osteoporosis
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Integrase inhibitors (-gravir)
Raltegravir, dolutegravir Block integrase (enzyme inserts the viral genome into the DNA of the host cell)

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