Upper Respiratory
Pneumonia
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UTI
Fungal
100
Which bacteria are the most common cause of otitis media?
Strep. Pneumoniae, Moraxella catarrhalis, H. influenzae
100
Most common causative agent of community acquired pneumonia in adults?
What is Streptococcus pneumoniae
100
What is the treatment for latent TB?
What is isoniazid
100
This organism is the most common cause of UTI.
What is E.coli
100
This organism has a pilot wheel morphology.
What is Paracoccidioides brasiliensis
200
A 6 year old comes into your office with shortness of breath, pursed lips and sits on the exam table in a tripod position. When cultured, the bacteria grows on chocolate agar, is a gram (-) rod and possesses a PRP capsule. Who am i?
What is Haemophilus influenzae type B
200
I am often found in the lungs of cystic fibrosis patients. Who am I?
What is Pseudomonas aeruginosa
200
Even though streptococcus pyogenes is typically self limiting, it is recommended to treat for fear of these two sequelae
What are acute rheumatic fever and acute post-streptococcal glomerulo-nephritis
200
What is the treatment for acute uncomplicated cystitis?
What is TMP/ SMZ - trimethoprim/ sulfamethoxazole
200
This pathogen takes two forms: in the body it presents as spherules and in the environment it's a mold. What is it?
What is Coccidioides immitis
300
A 15 year old presents with shortness of breath, upon PE you notice a gray exudate and thick pseudomembrane. you perform a swab, which media would you culture this organism on?
What is tellurite medium
300
I am a small obligate intracellular pathogen that causes atypical pneumoniae and can not be seen on a gram stain. Who am I?
Chlamydophila pneumoniae or psittaci
300
I am a facultative intracellular gram negative rod, that can survive in cooling towers, or central air conditioning systems. Who am I?
What is Legionella pneumophila
300
This family reduces nitrites to nitrates
What is Enterobacteriaceae
300
This dimorphic organism can be found as single broad-based budding yeasts in the infected host.
What is Blastomyces dermatitidis
400
A child who was not vaccinated presents to your office with a whopping cough. What media would be helpful to determine the causative agent?
What is charcoal blood agar
400
A 25 year old male presents with a fever, headache, malaise and persistent hacking cough, symptoms which indicate atypical pneumonia. The causative agent has no cell wall. What is the main virulence factor of this pathogen?
What is P1 adhesin (ciliary stasis)
400
Without me there wouldn't be any active anthrax toxins. Who am I?
What is the protective antigen?
400
This is the second most common cause of uncomplicated UTIs
What is staphylococcus saprophyticus
400
This pathogen does not have ergosterols present in the cell membrane.
What is pneumocystis jiroveci
500
I am an AB-exotoxin produced by a gram (+) club shaped bacteria. I cause cell death by blocking protein synthesis. What test can be done to identify me?
Elek test
500
A 50 year old female with COPD x10 years enters your office with a complaint of productive cough. She coughs up a bloody sputum that started suddenly 3 days ago. Upon culture, the organism is a gram (-) rod. What is the etiologic agent?
What is Klebsiella pneumoniae
500
An avid enthusiast of jurassic park and sympathetics presents to your office with fever, chills, cough, malaise, headache. He reports re-enacting a scene from jurassic park with the goats and sheep of Mare Island prior to development of symptoms. Culture shows a gram (+) rod in box car chains. What is the pathogenesis of this organism?
What is inhalation --> germinate and replicate in alveolar macrophages --> transport through pulmonary lymphatics to mediastinal lymph nodes --> mediastinal hemorrhagic lymphadenitis.
500
A 40 years old female presents with radiating flank pain, hematuria, dysuria and a PMH of recurrent UTIs. Culture shows a G(-) rod that forms white colonies on McConkey agar and is urease positive. What is the bug?
What is Proteus mirabilis
500
This encapsulated yeast causes meningitis in AIDs patients.
What is Crytococcus neoformans
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