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stimulates g protein to activate adenylate cyclase

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cholera toxin

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hand-foot-mouth disease + fevers, fecal oral route

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Coxsackie A virus

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hand-foot-mouth + myocarditis, muscle aches, GI distress

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Coxsackie B virus

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nosocomial infection due to respirator

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pseudomonas aeruginosa

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virulence of neisseria

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LPS

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bug associated with guillian-burre

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campylobactor jejuni, mycoplasma pneumonia

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activates the immune response resulting in increased cAMP

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salmonella

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pseudomembranes in throat

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corynebacterium diptheriae

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inactivates elongation factor 2 -> inhibiting protein synthesis

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corynebacterium diptheriae

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swarming pattern on culture

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proteus mirabilis

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struvate crystals with previous UTI - Mg NH4 PO4

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proteus mirabilis (staghorn caliculi)

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meningitis from swimming in lakes

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naegleria fowleri (ameoba)

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round infiltrates in the lungs, eosinophilia (maybe charcot leydin crystals) no eggs in stool (until 40 days)

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ascaris lumbricoides

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drooling, dysphagia, distress, thumb sign

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epiglottis

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cause of epiglottis

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H. flu

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parainfluenza virus

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croup

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caves, bird, bat droppings, hilar lymphadenopathy

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histoplasma capsulatum

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dessert, california, arizona, small budding yeast

SSx: fever, chest pain, difficulty breathing, erythema nodosum

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coccidomycosis

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halo sign in lungs, fungus ball, acute angle branching

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aspergillus

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great lakes, ohio river valley, cutaneous symptoms, difficulty breathing

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blastomycosis

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upper respiratory infections or pneumonia from mister or air conditioning units

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leigonella pneumophila

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treatment for leigoneres disease

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fluoroquinolones

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cultured on buffered charcoal yeast agar

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leigonella pneumophila

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bacterial travelers diarrhea and prophylactic treatment

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ETEC, salmonella, campylobactor, shigella

Tx: ciprofloxacin

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viral travelers diarrhea
rotavirus, norovirus
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common causes of myocarditis
T. cruzi, Coxsackie B virus, cornybacterium diptheria
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stridor in a child, seal bark
croup
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respiratory distress, wheezing, trouble breathing in an infant, winter months
RSV Tx: ribavirin
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recurrent pulmonary infections in CF patients
pseudomonas aurginosa
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common cause of pneumonia in alcoholics
klebsiella (currant jelly sputum)
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guillian-barre HS
type IV
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cutaneous fistula with yellow "sulfur" draining puss due to poor oral health care
actinomyces israleii
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How can you tell if a UTI is gram - or +
gram negative is + for nitrites, gram positive is not
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Unique to Gram +
teichoic acid
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Unique to Gram -
LPS
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gray smelly vaginal discharge, clue cells on wet mount
gardnerella vaginalis (bact vaginosis)
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palm and sole rash seen in what infections
CARS - Coxsackie A, Rocky mountain spotted fever (rickettsia), Syphilis
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causes of walking pneumonia
chlamydia, leigonella, mycoplasma
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seen mostly in diabetic ketoacidosis and leukemia patients, penetrates cribaform plate, black eschar on face, branching at right angles, non septate
mucor and rhizopus
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cigar shaped budding yeast, forms a local pustule or ulcer with nodules along draining lymphatics
sporothrix
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cat scratch with nodules along draining lymphatics
bartonella henselae
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enlarged lymphnodes, recurrent fever, somnolence
trypanosoma brucei
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transmission for T brucei
tsetse fly
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transmission of babesia
ixodes tick (same as borrela burgdorferi)
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fevers, hemolytic anemia, maltese cross
babesia
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RBC schizont with merozoites, schuffner dots
malaria
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treatment for malaria
chloroquine, mefloquine if resistant, primaquine for vivax and ovale
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spiking fever, hepatosplenomegaly, pancytopenia
leishmania
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transmission of leishmania
sandfly
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Tx of leishmania
sodium stibogluconate
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foul smelling green discharge with itching and burning | motile on wet mount
trichamonas vaginalis (vaginitis)
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tx of schistosoma
praziquantel
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brain cysts, seizures, parasite
taenia solium (cystercercosis)
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All DNA viruses except _____ are dsDNA
parvovirus (ssDNA)
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all DNA viruses are linear except
papillomavirus, polyomavirus, hepadnaviruses (circular)
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All RNA viruses are ssRNA except
reovirus (dsRNA) - rotavirus and coltivirus
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All DNA viruses replicate in the nucleus except
poxvirus
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All RNA viruses replicate in the cytoplasm except
influenza and retroviruses
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most viruses acquire their envelopes from the plasma membrane, except
herpesvirus - from the nuclear membrane
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traumatic open wound infection
clostridium perfringens
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surgical wound infection
S aureus
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dog or cat bite
pasteurella
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positive PAS stain
tropheryma whipplie (whipples disease)
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asplenic patient
SHiN - S. pneumo, H. influenza type B, N. meningitis
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chronic granulomatous patient infection
catalase positive bugs esp S. aureus
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another name for croup
laryngotracheobronchitis
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cause of croup
parainfluenza virus (most common) and RSV, influenza, adenovirus
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diabetes drug causing weight gain and edema
-glitazones
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AIDS associated diarrhea, acid fast cysts in stool
cryptospordium parvum
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anti-saccharomyces cerevisiae ab
associated with crohns
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high fever for 3-4 days, when the fever breaks a maculopapular rash appears starting on trunk and ascending to face, febrile seizures may occur
roseolla HHV-6 and HHV-7
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afebrile, lacy rash starting on arms and then to cheeks, worse with sunlight
erythema infectiosum (parvovirus B19) - fifths disease
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3 Cs - cough, coryza, conjunctivitis, gray specks on buccal mucosa, high fever
Rubeola or mumps
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parotid gland swelling
mumps
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opportunistic infection in AIDS CD4 < 500
Candida, kaposi sarcoma
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opportunistic infection in AIDS CD4 < 200
PCP, histoplasma, JC parvovirus (PML), coccidomycosis
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opportunistic infection in AIDS CD4 < 100
toxoplasmosis, cryposporidia, cryptococcus, CMV
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opportunistic infection in AIDS CD4 < 50
Mycobacterium avium complex
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causes of pseudomembranous colitis
ampicillin and clindamycin
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tx of pseudomembranous colitis
oral metronidazole or oral vancomycin
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cause of VIRAL pink eye - watery eyes, conjunctiva, swollen eyelids
adenovirus, ds DNA non-enveloped
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findings AIDS associated demenita
multinucleated giant cells

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