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The drug of choice for cellulitis secondary to Group A Streptococcus.
What is penicillin?
The 3 transmission-based infection-control precautions.
What are contact precaution, droplet precaution, airborne precaution.
This virus causes herpes zoster.
What is varicella-zoster virus?
Any disease or infection that is naturally transmissible from vertebrate animals to humans
What is zoonosis?
This antimicrobial agent targets the ribosomes.
What is an aminoglycoside, tetracyclines, linezolid, chloramphenicol, macrolides, clindamycin?
The standard treatment for MSSA infections.
What is oxacillin or cefazolin?
Name 2 components of contact precaution
What are hand washing, gowns, gloves.
This disease should be suspected in patients with a history of mosquito bites and marked thrombocytopenia.
What is dengue fever, yellow fever?
The pathogen to be suspected in a patient with diarrhea who has snakes and turtles as pets?
What is Salmonella?
The drug of choice for treatment of CMV infections.
What is ganciclovir?
We treat vancomycin-allergic patients with MRSA bacteremia with this drug.
What is daptomycin, linezolid, ceftaroline, ceftobiprole?
Aside from TB, Patients with this disease should be placed under airborne precaution.
What are measles, small pox, disseminated zoster, varicella?
The most common viral cause of vomiting and diarrhea in adults.
What is norovirus?
This disease is seen more often in patients who cleans pigeon droppings.
What is cryptococcosis, psittacosis, histoplasmosis?
This agent causes dark pigmentation of skin and teeth after prolonged use.
What is minocycline?
The standard treatment of early syphilis.
What is 1 dose of 2.4M IU penicillin or 2 weeks doxycycline?
The single most effective intervention in preventing health care associated infections?
It is the virus that causes infectious mononucleosis.
What is Epstein-Barr virus?
The virus commonly associated with bat exposures.
What is rabies?
It is the first antimicrobial agent in the glycylcycline class
Tigecycline
The anti-staphylococcal agent that is NOT recommended in the treatment of MRSA pneumonia.
What is daptomycin?
Infection control when seeing patients with C. difficile infection.
Wear gowns and gloves
Name 3 herpes viruses.
What are HSV-1, HSV-2, VZV, EBV, CMV, HHV-6 to 8
The pathogen to be suspected when someone has lymphadenopathies after a cat-scratch
What is Bartonella henselae?
Two antibacterial agents that are associated with torsades de pointes
What are macrolides, linezolid, imipenem, FQ, penicillin-combinations, ceftriaxone