Infectious Diseases 1 Flashcards
(27 cards)
Farmer with chest tightness and cough
Jaundice and hepatomegaly
Hydatid cyst
Hepatitis D doesn’t increase the risk of progression to chronic
Hepatitis B
But co infection can increase the severity of hepatitis
Vaccination for India
DTPA & typhoid
Treatment of shingles if patient presented within three days since the onset of rash
Anti-viral
Beyond 3 days anti viral not helpful
Once measles is diagnosed
Contact Department of health
Positive rapid plasma reagin RPR means
Syphilis
Do dark field microscopic exam
Herpes zoster vaccination is contraindicated if
Patient is on steroids
Has haematological malignancy
Malaria prophylaxis before travel
Doxycycline 100 mg daily one day before trip and
continuing for 4 weeks after leaving malaria zone
Gonorrhoea treatment
Ceftriaxone IM and azithromycin oral single dose
HBeAg
Highly infective
If the person exposed to hepatitis B has post vaccination level below 10
Vaccination and immunoglobulin are required
Farmer has a purulent discharge from the wound
Antibiotics
Common symptom of botulism
Dysarthria
If HIV test is negative
Perform again in 12 weeks
Return from overseas holiday with
fever
periorbital pain
joint pain and
Rash
Dengue fever
Caused by a mosquito
Needlestick injury with HIV
Postexposure prophylaxis - anti-viral treatment
for 4 weeks
Homosexual man with papilloma virus - anal HPV
Anal Pap test required
CSF India ink stain positive
Cryptococcal meningitis
Loss of eyebrows
Leprosy
Perform biopsy of skin lesions
Patient with HIV had a lacerated wound but is fully immunised
Give tetanus immunoglobulin
Fever beyond five days of the onset of rash
Is not part of measles
Could be Kawasaki disease
10 week pregnant woman has measles
next step
Contact tracing
Hospital acquired pneumonia
Staph aureus
Urethral discharge that wasn’t successfully treated with Ceftriaxone (therefore not gonococcal )
Chlamydia trachomatis
