Etiology
This gastroenteritis infection is classically associated with reptiles.
What is nontyphoidal salmonella?
Virus targets the “manager” of the immune system, leading to impaired B-cell activation, reduced CD8 function, and increased susceptibility to opportunistic infections.
What is HIV?
This sexually transmitted infection causes a frothy green vaginal discharge and a "strawberry cervix."
What is Trichomonas vaginalis?
Test used to diagnose enterobiasis
What is scotch tape test?
This IV antiviral should be started immediately for suspected neonatal HSV.
What is acyclovir?
Virus causing roseola infantum, also known as sixths disease
What is human herpes virus 6?
Fungal organism that is carried asymptomatically by many and can be cultured from the mouth, vagina, and feces of healthy individuals.
What is candida albicans?
The hallmark finding of this disease is a thick gray pseudomembrane that bleeds when removed.
What is diphtheria?
This laboratory test is commonly used to diagnose infectious mononucleosis.
What is the heterophile antibody (Monospot) test?
Active pulmonary tuberculosis is initially treated with this regimen.
What is RIPE therapy?
Rifampin, isoniazid, pyrazinamide, ethambutol
Causative organism of cytomegalovirus
What is human herpesvirus 5?
An infected human cell that bursts in the reproductive cycle of malaria.
What is schizont?
This autoimmune neurologic complication may develop several weeks after Campylobacter gastroenteritis.
What is Guillain-Barré syndrome?
This laboratory test remains the gold standard for diagnosing malaria.
What are thick and thin peripheral blood smears?
Current guidelines recommend administering this treatment within the first hour after recognizing septic shock.
What are broad-spectrum intravenous antibiotics?
Expanding erythema migrans rash results from outward spread of this organism through the skin.
What is Borrelia burgdorferi?
Enterotoxin increases intracellular cAMP in enterocytes, resulting in massive chloride and water secretion, leading to secretory diarrhea
What is Vibrio cholerae?
Liver abscesses caused by this parasite classically contain "anchovy paste" material.
What is Entamoeba histolytica?
Measles is confirmed by detecting viral RNA using PCR from this respiratory specimen.
What is a nasopharyngeal swab?
The first-line treatment for an initial nonfulminant C. difficile infection is this oral antibiotic.
What is oral vancomycin?
Most common cause of fungal meningitis
What is cryptococcus neoformans?
Most lung injury in tuberculosis results from this type of immune response rather than direct bacterial destruction.
What is a Type IV (delayed) hypersensitivity reaction?
Later findings include splenomegaly, abdominal distention and tenderness, relative bradycardia, and rose spots that blanch
What is typhoid fever?
A patient with ≥3 unformed stools in 24 hours should be tested using these tools.
What are glutamate dehydrogenase (GDH) antigen and toxin assay (with NAAT if discordant)?
For an uncomplicated skin abscess caused by MRSA, this is often the most important treatment.
What is incision and drainage?