PreTest Pediatrics: "Infectious Diseases and Immunology" Flashcards
Infants born to HIV-positive mothers are usually treated prophylactically for _____________.
PCP
Determining the infant’s HIV status can take time, so PCP prophylaxis is usually begun at 6 weeks.
Reye syndrome has a high mortality from _______________.
encephalopathic features: increased ICP, seizures, coma
Which of the inflammatory diarrheas can cause seizures?
Shigella
It is referred to as Ekiri syndrome.
Explain the similarities and differences in Kawasaki disease and scarlet fever.
• Similarities:
- Cervical lymphadenopathy
- High fevers
- Desquamating rash
- Strawberry tongue
- Pharyngitis
- Cardiac involvement (aneurysm and rheumatic fever)
• Differences:
- SF is toxin-mediated
- SF can be diagnosed with RST or ASO
- KD has conjunctivitis
What infection often has a generalized phase with fever, myalgia, adenopathy, conjunctivitis, hepatorenal involvement, and photophobia followed by a meningitic phase?
Leptospirosis
The usual course of antibiotics for endocarditis is _____________.
4 to 6 weeks
If a newborn has been exposed to pertussis and the mother was not immunized in pregnancy, then you need to ________________.
give erythromycin to the infant
The orchitis seen in mumps usually affects ___________ males.
postpubertal
_____________ can have CNS involvement 10 days after the first signs of infection.
Mumps
_______________ is often the cause of outbreaks of watery diarrhea in daycare centers.
Cryptosporidium
If you give amoxicillin for suspected Strep and then the person develops a rash (that is not hives), then they likely had _________________.
EBV
A kid steps on a nail through his shoe and then the wound becomes infected. The offending organism was likely _____________.
Pseudomonas
