General Information
This is the overarching phrase for a set of diseases that have been know to cause congenital defects.
What is TORCH?
This is the name for Strep pyogenes' virulence factor.
What is the M protein?
This is the causative pathogen of lyme disease.
What is borrelia burgdorferi (spirochete bacteria)?
This is the type of virus that EBV and CMV are
What is a DNA virus? (herpesvirus)
These are the hepatitis strains associated with bowel complications.
What are hep A and hep E?
This is the antibody that rises relative to the others in parasitic infections.
What is IgE?
This is what we do if someone's RPR test comes back reactive.
What is confirm with a treponemal test?
This is a distinctive rash seen in lyme disease.
What is bullseye rash or erythema migrans?
This is how viruses infect our cells (generally)
What is attaching to viral receptors on our cells then entering and infecting our DNA or RNA to make our cells create more viral cells?
This hepatitis is the only DNA hep virus.
What is hep B?
This is how we determine if someone has gone from the acute to convalescent phase of an infection.
What is a four fold rise in titer (typically looking at IgG)?
We make anti-Streptolysin O in response to this type of infection (think location of infection).
What is strep throat?
This tickborne parasite infects RBCs.
What is Babesia (Babesiosis)?
This is the disease caused by EBV.
What is infectious mononucleosis?
These are the two hep strains that we have a vaccine for
What are hep A and hep B?
This is how we classify fungal infections.
What is an opportunistic infection? (reminder: viral infections need a host)
This is the name for the flocculation used to test syphilis in the CSF.
What is VDRL?
This is the vector of Chikungunya disease.
What is a mosquito (virus)?
This is a major risk associated with CMV (think of what it causes)
What are congenital defects?
This hep virus needs HBV to cause infection.
What is HDV?
This is the parasite transmitted through cat feces that can cause extreme congenital defects.
What is toxoplasma gondii?
This is the name of the kidney complication caused by strep pyogenes and the cause of the complication.
What is post-strep glomerulonephritis caused by built up immune complexes in the kidneys?
These are the 4 tickborne diseases (we discussed) and their causative agents.
What is is lyme disease (borrelia burgdorferi), human erlichiosis (rickettsia of the genus ehrlichia), rocky mountain spotted fever (rickettsia rickettsii), and babesiosis (babesia)?
This is a unique detection/screening test feature of infectious mono.
What is the heterophile antibody?
These are hep strains that are capable of becoming chronic.
What are hep B, C, and D?