Micro buzzwords for Respiratory Flashcards
(35 cards)
Broad-based budding yeast
Blastomyces
Bull neck
Diptheria, mumps
Catcher’s stance
H. influenza type b
Cherry red epiglottis
H. influenza type b
Cold agglutinin positive
Mycoplasma
Consumption
TB
Cottage cheese granuloma
TB
Currant jelly sputum
Klebsiella
Dented helments
Pneumocystis jeroveci
Downey cell
EBV, CMV
Farmer’s lung
Allergic aspergillosis (Aspergillus)
Fungal ball
Aspergilloma (Aspergillus)
Grape-like smell in culture
Pseudomonas
Green sputum in cystic fibrosis patient
Pseudomonas
Grows on chocolate agar, not on blood agar
Haemophilus
Heterophile positive
EBV
Heterophile negative
CMV
Kidney bean shaped diplococci
Neisseria
Koplik spot
Measles
Lancet-shaped diplococci
Step pneumo
Many PMNs in sputum, no organisms seen
Mycoplasma, chlamydophila
Mediastinal widening
Bacillus anthracis
Nonfermenter
Pseudomonas
Owl’s eye inclusion
CMV