ID 2020

What commonly causes conjunctivitis in contact lens wears?

Which is given around an animal bite (if needed)?

Toxic Shock Syndrome

•Rare in the US, but leading cause of blindness in the developing world, due to scarring from recurrent infections

Most common cause of urinary tract infections in women

Dirty wound, age 20, last TDAP at age 11

–germinates in food such as meat, poultry (usually rewarmed food in the culprit). Nausea, cramping, diarrhea for 24-48 h

•Transmitted through traditional burial practices and direct care of ill persons, as well as infected animals

Why are beta lactam antibiotics ineffective against staph aureus?

Epstein Barr causes?

Common cause of UTI is sexually active young women

Age 35, dirty wound, last Tdap 4 years ago

diplopia, dry mouth, dysphagia, dysphonia, muscle weakness progressing to respiratory paralysis

Antibiotic for animal bites

Treatment for C. difficile

Lyme Disease rash

Most common type of anthrax

Neurotransmitter affected by Clostridium Botulinum

Chlamydia psittaci

Group A Beta Hemolytic Strep

Gray pseudomembrane

Klebsiella pneumoniae

Vaccine preventable, used to cause meningitis and epiglottitis

Causes pharyngitis

Affects ages 6m to 2y, army recruits, college freshman

Rocky mountain spotted fever rash occurs?

Most deadly type of anthrax

Rabies is transmitted via:

How would you diagnose tapeworms?

Who gets vaccinated for strep pneumoniae

Cocci that form grape like clusters

flagellated protozoa that causes diarrheal illness

preschool/nursing homes, bloody diarrhea, hand to hand or fecal oral

Normal Skin Flora- frequent contaminant of blood cultures

rice water stool

scarlet fever can evolve from untreated?

treatment for RMSF

Clostridium botulinum

May have residual neurological defects

First symptoms of tetanus

Major cause of neonatal meningitis

What is this?

Diphtheria is not vaccine preventable

Cruise ship gastroenteritis

•All contacts should have booster of vaccine•Non immune contacts should also be given prophylactic antibiotics after tx

Vaccine preventable cause of diarrhea in kids

associated with rabbits and rodents

Most common type of Botulism in the US

Causes otitis media in children

Treatment for anthrax

whooping cough organism

Age group for mycoplasma pneumonia

Rust colored sputum

seasonal outbreaks, under 6 months, cough/wheezing/rhinitis

Which bacteria has increasing resistance to vancomycin?

Roundworm that is ingested from undercooked pork, will invade muscle and myocardium

Occurs in the Southwest US, rodents are vectors, causes massive pulmonary edema

First line treatment for UTI in a young female

Pregnant women should avoid non pasteurized milk, soft cheeses, butter, deli meats because of?

Scalded Skin Syndrome

Which disease is diagnosed via peripheral blood smear?

Age 35, dirty wound, last Tdap 8 years ago

Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Can form a "fungus ball"in lung

Pinworms

"cat scratch" disease

Neurotransmitter affected by clostridium tetani

Most likely cause of toxic shock syndrome?

Causes croup in children

What is this?

The period in which there are no symptoms of an infectious disease (even though the person is infected) is called?

Mosquito spread, ranges from asymptomatic to hemorrhagic fever, may see in travelers returning from endemic countries

flexion of arms, extension of legs, spasm of intercostal muscles and diaphragm 

What disease occurs in the "red dot" areas?

Nervous system involvement in Lyme Disease

What type of rash is "classic" for neisseria meningitidis?

Which of the following is NOT caused by neisseria gonorrhoeae?

gram negative rod

Age 4, clean wound, has never been vaccinated

Dirty wound, age 5, up to date on immunizations

Which of the following is given to neutralize unbound toxins?

Cholera always requires antibiotics

transmitted via water droplets (AC for example), usually occurs in groups

Which antibiotic treats MRSA?

•Major cause of health-care associated infections •Normally inhabit large bowel

"rose spots"