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DOC Tularemia

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Streptomycin

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Organisms found in unpasteurized milk (2)

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Listeria monocytogenes

Brucellosis abortus

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Bipolar safety pin staining

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Yersinia pestis

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Most virulent bacteria

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Yersinia pestis

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Buttery colonies with musty odor

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Pasteurella multocida

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Lowenstein-Jensen medium

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Mycobacterium tuberculosis

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Assay used to detect drug resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

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Luciferase

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Ziehl-Neelsen or Kinyoun

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Mycobacterium tuberculosis

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Most important virulence factor in mycobacterium tuberculosis infection

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Cord factor: prevents leukocyte migration

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Radiologically detectable calcification in mycobacterium tuberculosis

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Ranke’s complex

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Sub pleural granuloma + associated lymph node

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Ghon’s complex

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Usually seen in the apices with reactivation tuberculosis

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Simon’s focus

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Most common extra pulmonary TB

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Scrofula (TB lymphadenitis)

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Appearance of CSF in TB meningitis

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Xantochromic

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Uses of BCG vaccination (2)

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TB prevention

Adjunct treatment for bladder cancer

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Signal of acute flare-up of lepromatous leprosy

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Erythema nodosum leprosum

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Treatment of Tuberculoloid leprosy

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Dapsone (SE: methemoglobinemia)

Rifampin

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Treatment of lepromatous leprosy

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Dapsone
Rifampin
Clofazimine (SE: bronze discoloration)

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Treatment of erythema nodosum leprosum

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Thalidomide

SE: Phocomelia

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Hard, non tender swelling with sinus tracts draining sulfur granules

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Actinomycosis (due to Actinomyces israelii)

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Fite-faraco stain

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Nocardia asteroides

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Orange colonies

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Nocardia asteroides

Lung & brain abscesses

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Antibiotics for actinomycetes

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S-N-A-P

Sulfa for Nocardia
Actinomyces (israelii) use penicillin

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Smallest free living organisms

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Mycoplasma pneumoniae

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Eaton's medium
Mycoplasma pneumoniae
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Facilitates attachment of Mycoplasma pneumoniae to cells
Toll-like receptor 2 protein (P1 adhesin)
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``` Walking pneumonia (Most common type of atypical pneumonia) ```
Mycoplasma pneumoniae
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Most common infectious cause of Steven-Johnson syndrome
Mycoplasma pneumoniae
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DOC Mycoplasma pneumoniae
Erythromycin or azithromycin do NOT use penicillins or cephalosporins: inactive due to lack of cell wall
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Painful chancroid
H ducreyi
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Painless chancre
Treponema pallidum (primary syphillis)
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Gummas
Tertiary syphillis
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Hutchinson triad (3)
Hutchinson teeth, deafness, keratitis | Seen in congenital syphillis
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Confirmatory test for secondary/tertiary syphillis
FTA-ABS (Fluorescent Treponemal Antibody-Absorption)
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Influenza-like symptoms after receiving penicillin due to lysis of treponemes and Leptospira
Jarisch-Herxheimer reaction
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DOC Borrelia burgdorferi
Doxycycline
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Largest medically important bacteria
Borrelia burgdorferi
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Giemsa or Wright stain (2)
B burgdorferi | Rickettsia
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Diseases due to Ixodes scapularis (deer ticks)
Borrelia burgdorferi | Babesia microtti
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Pathognomonic sign of Lyme disease | Stage 1 of Lyme disease
Erythema chronicum migrans
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Acrodermatitis chronica atrophicans
Stage 3 of Lyme disease
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Shepherds crook
Leptospira interrogans
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Medium used for Leptospira interrogans
Ellinghausen-McCullough-Johnson-Harris (EMJH) medium or Fletcher's medium
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Hallmark lesion of Leptospira interrogans
Vasculitis
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Gold standard test for Leptospira interrogans
Leptospire microscopic agglutination test (lepto MAT)
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Snow flake lesion on CXR
``` Leptospira interrogans (pulmonary involvement during the immune leptospiruric phase) ```
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Triad of Weil syndrome
Jaundice, bleeding, uremia
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Most severe form of leptospirosis
Weil Syndrome
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Chemoprophylaxis used for Leptospirosis
Doxycycline
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2 forms of Chlamidya trachomatis
``` Elementary body (inactive, infectious, extracellular) Reticulate body (active, intracellular) ```
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Most common STD overall
Chlamidya trachomatis
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Most common infectious cause of blindness
Trachoma | Chlamidya trachomatis types A-C
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Halberstadter-prowazek inclusions
Chlamidya trachomatis | Round to oval cytoplasmic inclusion bodies near the nuclei of conjunctival epithelial cells
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Associated with Reiters syndrome
Chlamidya trachomatis
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What disease is associated with Chlamidya pneumoniae? (2)
Atypical pneumonia | Atherosclerosis
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Bird fancier's disease
Psittacosis | Chlamidya psittaci
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DOC Chlamidya STD
Azithromycin
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DOC Chlamidya LGV
Doxycycline
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DOC Psittacosis
Azithromycin
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DOC for ALL Rickettsial infections
Doxycycline
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Test for detection of Rickettsiae
Weil-Felix test/reaction | EXCEPT Coxiella burnetti
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Weil-Felix reaction utilizes antigens of of strains from this pathogen
Proteus vulgaris
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Only Rickettsial disease that presents with Escher
Rickettsia okari (rickettsial pox) from mites (chiggers)
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Type of Rickettsial disease which presents with NO rash and has the highest mortality rate. It also has NO vector.
Coxiella burnetti (Q fever)
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Cat scratch disease
Bartonella henselae
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Cause of bacterial vaginosis
Gardinerella vaginalis
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Clue cells
Bacterial vaginosis
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Chocolate agar with factor X (heme)
Haemophilus ducreyi
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Pseudoappendicitis
Yersinia enterocolitica
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Bipolar densities that look like closed safety pins
Donovan bodies | Seen in Klebsiella granulomatis
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Another term for Granuloma inguinale
Donovanosis

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