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| Name some complications of HSV-1 |
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1. necrotizing encephalitis
2. keratoconjunctivitis
3. meningitis |
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| T/F: Patients whose diets are high in Lysine have fewer recurrances of HSV |
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| CMV is latent in the ____ and ____ |
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| a clinical syndrome of CMV in which the patient does not have to be immunocompromised is __ |
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Definition
| mono-like syndrome: fever, malaise, pharyngitis, blood atypical lymphocytes. |
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| how does a superinfections of CMV happen? |
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Definition
patient who is seropositive for CMV, recieves latently infected cells from another seropositive patient. The resulting CMV infection is from the latent donor cells, not the recipient cells.
Result: mononucleosis syndrome that will last for 2 months. |
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| Complications of CMV mono-like disease are (2) |
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Definition
| hepatitis or pneumonia (these would come from superinfections) |
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| complications in patient with CMV and is immunocompromised include |
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Definition
1. pneumonia
2. esophagitis, gastritis, colitis
3. retinitis |
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| main way to diagnose CMV would be |
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ELISA - measure anti-CMV IgM
use PCR to detect viral replication |
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Definition
gancicylovir.
also useful as a prophylactic prior to BM transplant. |
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| Patient is 4 years old, presents with fever for 3 days, sore throat, difficulty swallowing, painful vesicular lesion on palate and tongue. You have ruled out a bacterial cause of the patients symptoms. you isolate an enterovirus from patients blood. patient has? |
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| Patient has a severe headache, stiff neck, fever for 7 days and is a combination of two enteroviruses. paitnet has? |
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| aseptic meningitis - combo of cocksackie A and B |
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