Bugs

Budding yeast froms with thick capsules, red on mucicarmine stain in BAL
Red budding yeast with peripheral clearings or "halos" stained with India ink on CSF
Latex agglutination

Oral thrush associated with DM, immunosuppression, antibiotic and steroid treatment
Esophagitis

Waterhouse-friderichsen sydnrome with adrenal gland destruction, DIC and shock is a complication of?

Most common cause of UTI?

Most common cause of community acquired lobar pneumonia?

Most common cause of meningitis in adults?

Most common cause of infectious diarrhea in children?

Most common cause of infectious diarrhea in adults?

Acute endocarditis is most commonly caused by?

Subacute bacterial endocarditis is most commonly caused by?

What is a complication of a Group A stretococcal skin infection?

What is a complication of S. aureus skin infection?

Most common cause of viral aseptic meningitis:

They produce insoluble extracellular polysaccharides (dextrans) using sucrose as a substrate and cause dental caries that can lead to endocarditis, deep wound infections, abdominal abscesses and septicemia

Anterior uveitis

Migratory polyarthritis

hot tub folliculitis

Gram-negative, oxidase positive, non-lacotose fermenting, motile rods that produce pigment

Cysteine-tellurite agar

Loffler's medium

MacConkey agar

Thayer-Martin VCN

Blood agar containing bile and hypertonic saline

Blood agar containing bile

Coxsackie A, Echovirus, Poliovirus, Rhinovirus, Hepatitis A virus are all part of which family?

Dysuria and hematuria in children in daycare centers

Parotitis, orchitis, and (rarely) aseptic meningitis

Global cause of infantile gastroenterisis

Acute diarrheal illnss during the winter months in US

Epidemics of viral gastroenteritis worldwide

Aplastic crisis in patient swith chronic hemolytic disorders

Hydrops fetalis

Swollen, cherry-red epiglottis

Lecithinase, phospholipase C or alpha toxin is found in

Common cuase of urinary tract infections in patiens with indwelling bladder catheters

Enveloped double-stranded DNA virus

Escalating fever with initial diarrhea or constipation followed by hepatosplenomegaly, the formation of "rose spots" on the abdomen, and possible homorrhagic enteritis with bowel perforation are all characteristic of:

Very high fever in a smoker accompanied by diarrhea, confusion, cough causing chest pain

Working with wool is an important risk factor for:

Antiphagocytic D-gluatmate capsule

Protein A

Intracellular polyphosphate granules

Peritrichous flagella

Bacillary angiomatosis - red-purple papular skin lesions

toxic shock syndrome:fever, vomiting, diarrhea, desquamation, hypotensions

Hemolytic uremic syndrome

malignant otitis externa

Reiter's syndrome: urethritis, conjunctivitis, arthritis

condylomata acuminata

Non-enveloped single-stranded DNA virus

Cryptococcus neoformans - treat with?

S. epidermidis - treat with:

Pyrimethamine and sulfadiazine is first line treatment for:

Most common pathogen causing cystitis and acute pyelonephritis

acute hematogenous osteomyelitis in children

motile Gram-negative rods in colonies that have a "metallic" sheen on eosin methylene Blue agar and demonstrate hemolysis on blood agar

virulence factor for UTI E. Coli

virulence factor of neonatal meningitis E. Coli

virulenc efactor for enterotoxigenic E. coli

What factor causes activation of macrophages which leads to widespread relase of IL-1 and TNF alpha?

Sporothrix, Coccidioides, Histoplasma, and Blastomyces are all:

budding yeast with pseudohyphae

cutaneous mycosis with hypopigmented skin patches that produces short hyphae and spores (spaghetti and meatballs) with KOH preparation

Board non-septate hyphae in paranasal infection of DKA patients

Septate hyphae that form V branches

garden prick with round or cigar-shaped budding yeasts

doubly reflective wall with thick-walled spherules filled with endospores

branching hyphae with oval yeast cells within macrophages

branching hyphae with large round yeasts with single broad-based bud

transient recurrent pulmonary infiltrates and eventual proximal bronchiectasis

erythema chronicum migrans