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What type of pathogen is generally associated with an empyema?

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Virus

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What tissue does cerebritis involve?

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The brain parenchyma

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What is a formal definition of encephalitis?

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Parenchymal infection generally referring to viral infections with necrosis, perivascular lymphocytic cuffing and microglial nodules

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What type of reaction occurs in bacterial infections?

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Vigorous polymorphonuclear (purulent) responses

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What type of response occurs in a fungal/mycobacterial infection?

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Indolent granulomatous rxns

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What type of reaction does a viral infection produce?

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Lymphocytic response

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What type of reaction does a protazoal infection elicit?

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Lymphoplasmacytic infiltrate

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Describe the host response to prions

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Vigorous gliosis

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What type of response does a metazoan infection elicit?

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Eosinophilic and lymphocytic inflammation

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Where in the CNS do bacteria produce leptomeningitis?

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Betwixt the pia and the arachnoid layers of the meninges

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What are the classic signs of menigitis? What is Kernig sign and Brudzinski sign?

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Headache, vomiting, fever, altered mental status, seizures, neck rigidity; knee pain with hip flexion (Kernigt), Knee/hip flexion when the neck is flexed (Brudzinski)

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CSF lab findings in bacterial meningitis

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Neutrophilia, decreased CSF glucose, elevated protein

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What is the major cause of meningitis in newborns? Why?

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E. Coli; For it to be neutralized, neonate requires IgM. IgM does not cross the placenta

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What is the most common source of bacterial meningitis for young children?

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Haemophilus Influenzae

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A patient who was stationed in a barracks experiences lethal adrenal hemorrhage and expires. What syndrome did he have? What was the likely pathogen that caused his meningitis?

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Waterhouse-Friderichsen Syndrome; Neisseria Meningititidis

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A patient expires due to bacterial meningitis. Shown is a biopsy of the subarachnoid space. What type of cellular infiltrate is shown? What is the name for the pia that surrounds blood vessels and penetrates the brain?

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Neutrophilic; Virchow-Robin spaces

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What is the typical response to cerebritis? Which cell makes a rare appearance? What are the layers of a cerebral cyst?

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Vigorous astrogliosis and fibroblasts; Fibroblasts;

  1. Granulation tissue
  2. Fibroblasts and collagen
  3. Astrogliosis, microglial activation and edema
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What condition is hallmarked by plasma cells surrounding the arterioles of the cerebral cortex?

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Meningovascular syphilis

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A myelin section of the spinalcord is shown. The patient died of syphilis. What pathological process occurred in the spinal cord? What is this process called? What is a classic sign?

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Posterior column degradation; Tabes Dorsalis; Unable to walk without visual cues because loss of proprioception

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What occurs if syphilis proliferates within the brain?

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Luetic Dementia

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What type of infections elicit granulomatous responses?

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Fungal and mycobacterial

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The lesion in the image shows caseous necrosis, macrophages and Langhans cells on histiologic analysis. What is the invading organism and what is the name of thee lesion?

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Mycobacterium tuberculae; Tuberculoma

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Tuberculosis of the spine is shown. What is the name of this deformity? What is this disease called?

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“Gibbus” Deformity; Pott disease

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Damn! This patient died of a brain infection. What infected him? How would you describe the lesions? Where is the infecting organism typically found? What stain would you use to identify the organism?

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Cryptococcus (C. neoformans); Soap bubble lesions; In the Virchow-Robin spaces; India Ink

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A patient traveled to the San Jaquin Valley in California and Southwest US and came down with nervous sytem infection. What did he catch?
Coccidioidomycosis (Coccidioides immitis)
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A patient presents with a CNS infection and black nasal mucosa. What fungal infection does he likely have?
Mucormycosis (Rhizopus species)
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A child presents a acute sudden febrile illness witha severe headache. The LP results in excess lymphocytes, slight increase in protein and normal glucose. What type of infection does he likely have?
Viral meningitis
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A patient was bitten by a bat and expired. What did he likely die of? What likely occurred in the CSF of this patient? What inclusion bodies are diagnostic and shown below?
Rabies; Increased lymphocytes, Increased Protein, Normal Glucose; Negri Bodies
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A pteint with a history of cold sores dies. Histologic analysis is shown below. What are the diagnostic bodies shown below? What likely pathogen is this? What lobes were likely infected. If this was a newborn, how would the pathogen been acquired? What would the likely pathogen be?
Cowdry A bodies; HSV1; Temporal; Through the birth canal; HSV2
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A child is born with hydrocephalus and expires. The histologic analysis of the brain is shown below. What are these inclusion bodies? What are they diagnostic of? How did the newborn acquire this pathogen? What other pathogens could cause similar pathologies?
Ependymal Inclusion Bodies; Cytomegalovirus; CMV crossed the placenta; TORCH pathogens
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What are the TORCH complex pathogens and what can the cause?
Toxoplasmosis, Other pathogens (syphilis and viruses), rubella, CMV, HSV; Encephalitis in newborn
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What type of virus are Togaviridae, Bunyaviridae and Flaviviridae such as EEE, WEE, VEE, St. Louis Encephalitis, Japanese B encephalitis, California Encephalitis, WNV? What is their typical vector?
Arboviruses; Mosquitos
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8 years ago a patient contracted measles. The patient expires and the brain histology is shown below. Intranuclear inclusions with halo rings are prominent in neurons and oligodendroglia in addition to marked gliosis and patchy loss of myelin. What is your Dx? Pathologic evolution?
Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis (SSPE); Measles virus with defective expression of viral M (Matrix) protein allowing the virus to proliferate without eliciting an immune response
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This is a section of the medulla. Patchy demyelination is observed. What stain is used? What disease does this person have?
Luxol fast blue stain; Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy
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This person has PML! What is the virus that causes this disease? When does it leave latency? What drug was taken off the market because it correlated with PML? How would you describe the biopsy below?
JC Virus; In immunocompromised patients; Natalizumab; Oligodendrocytes with enlarged nuclei containing hyperchromatic, "ground-glass" intranuclear inclusions lacking a halo
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What are three disease processes highly suggestive of underlying HIV?
Cryptococcal meningitis, toxoplasmosis and EBV driven primary CNS lympoma
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These large cells are shown in a perivascular location. What are they and what are they indicative of? What stain is used for the inset?
Multinuclearted giant cells of the monocyte/macrophage system containing HIV; anti-p24
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What is vacuolar myelopathy?
Marked vacuolation of posterior/lateral columns of the thoracic levels of the spinal cord caused by HIV
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A brain scan reveals symetric myelin pallor. What is your DDx? What is you Dx? Why?
HIVE or Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy; HIVE; Pallor is symmetrical
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A patient had a brainscan that revealed a mass which was originally thought to be a tumor. A biopsy was taken. It was found that this infection is the most common mass lesion in patients with HIV. What protozoan infected this nice man?
Toxoplasma gondii
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A nice man was swimming in a warm freshwater pond and then suddenly he had a brain infection. BOOM. What does he have? How can you tell that these are not macrophages?
Protazoan Naegleria spp.; They have less prominent nucleoli
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In what CNS infection are Duerk Granulomata found?
CNS malaria
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A patient progresses with brain lesions that are asymptomatic. The infectious disease specialist believes that symptoms will become apparent once the pathogen dies. What is the disease and what is the infectious pathogen? What is the "common" name of the pathogen?
Cysticercosis, Taenia solium, Pig tapeworm
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A patient presents with a solitary large brain cyst. What is the bug and where else might you expect to find cysts?
Echinococcosis caused by either Taenia echinococcus or Echinococcus granulosus (dog tapeworm); The liver
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A biopsy is shown characterized by individual and clustered vacuoles with no evidence of inflammation. What is the Dx?
CJD
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What are the four types of CJD?
Sporadic, Familial, Iatrogenic, and new variant
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The codon at 129 confers differential susceptibility to sporadic CJD. What combination of AAs is most susceptible? Least susceptible?
MM or VV are most susceptible; MV are least susceptible
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What is atypical about new variant CJD presentation?
Mean age onset ist 26 yo (vs 65 yo); illness duration - 12 months (vs 4 months); Behavioral changes; Non

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