Term
| Indications for the use of vancomycin |
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Definition
| MRSA bacteremia, S. pneumo meningitis (vanc + cephalosporin), corynebacterium JK, severe B. cereus infection |
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Definition
| Supportive, metronidazole |
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Definition
Clean wound and immunization within last 10 years: no treatment
Dirty wound and immunization with 5 years: no treatment
Dirty wound and immunization not UTD: TIG and immunization
Clean wound not UTD: vaccine |
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Definition
| ceftriaxone, ciprofloxacin, azithromycin |
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Definition
Rickettsia rickettsii, gram neg, rash, fever, headache, arthralgias, hyponatremia, thrombocytopenia
Rash on palms and soles and spreads centripetally
Diagnosed best from skin specimen |
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Term
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Definition
Borrelia burgdorferi transmitted by Ixodes tick, treat with doxycycline
Early localized: erythema migrans
Early disseminated:rash, flu-like illness, neuritis, aseptic meningitis, carditis
Late: arthritis |
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Term
| Treatment for congenital toxoplasmosis |
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Definition
| 12 months of therapy with pyrimethamine, sulfadiazine, leucovorin |
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Definition
IgM-VCA: acute or recent infection
EBNA: convalescent or recovered EBV
IgG-VCA: positive with any EBV infx
anti-EA: Positive with any infx except recovered or convalescent |
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Term
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Definition
Includes coxsackie, echovirus, enterovirus, polio.
Causes fever, hand foot and mouth, herpangina, meningitis, myocarditis |
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Term
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Definition
Dog, cat or ferret: observe patient and animal, no treatment
wild animal: RIG and vaccine unless animal caught, killed and tested |
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Term
| HIV treatment side effects |
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Definition
ZDV: bone marrow suppression
ddl, ddc, d4t: pancreatitiis, peripheral neuropathy
abacavir: fatal hypersensitivity
efavirenz: teratogenic
Indinavir: kidney stones |
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Term
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Definition
| beta-lactams, fluoroquinolones, vancomycin, aminoglycosides, rifampin, metronidazole |
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Term
| Treatment of meningococcal meningitis and meningococcemia |
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Definition
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Term
| Summary of cephalosporins |
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Definition
1st gen:good for soft tissue infx, gram +
2nd gen:PID, abd infx, surgery, H. flu, neisseria, gram neg; NOT meningitis
3rd gen:good for meningitis; NOT staph
4th gen:cefepime |
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Definition
Human monocytic and human granulocytic
white-tailed deer and white-footed mouse
Rash is less common than RMSF
anemia, leukopenia, thrombocytopenia
Peripheral blood smear, serology, PCR |
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Definition
Intestine, live and lung
cough, dyspnea, wheezing, hemoptysis
Fever, heavy worm burden, acute intestinal obstruction and perforation |
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Term
| Hookworm (Necator americanus) |
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Definition
Can penetrate the skin
Swallowed and travel to intestines
Intensely pruritic, anemia, edema growth delay |
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Term
| Whipworm (Trichuris thrichiura) |
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Definition
| Dysentery, colitis, rectal prolapse |
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Definition
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Term
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Definition
Raw or undercooked pork
striated muscle, gastroenteritis, periorbital edema, conjunctival hemorrhage, myocarditis, elevated CK |
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Term
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Definition
Dog roundworm
Hypersensitivity reaction
fever, hepatosplenomegaly, malaise, peripheral eosinophilia, pneumonia, encephalitis |
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