STDs/HIV
Paradoxical worsening of symptoms in patients who recently began appropriate anti-retroviral therapy
What is Immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome?
Empiric triple antibiotic therapy for bacterial meningitis in an older adult
What is Ampicilin, Ceftriaxone, Vancomycin?
Name 5 live vaccines
What are MMR, Varicella (chicken pox), shingles (herpes zoster), oral polio, rotavirus, small pox, typhoid and yellow fever?
Most common cause of health-care related diarrhea
What is Clostridium difficile?
Most common cause of post-influenza community acquired pneumonia
What is Streptococcus pneumonia?
CD4 Cell Count thresholds to begin prophylactic therapy for Mycobacterium Avium Complex and Pneumocystis Jirovecii Infection
What is CD4 <50 - < 200 respectively?
Management for mild travelers diarrhea
What is aggressive oral hydration only?
Varicella vaccine can be given to patients with HIV infection and this CD4 count
≥200 cells/μL
CDC prefers IGRA over tuberculin skin testing in patients with this medical history
What is Previous BCG vaccination (accept BCG treatment)?
Tick-borne protozoal infection found in the coastal northeastern US
What is Babesiosis?
Name of syphilitic lesions in intertriginous areas characterized by moist, white plaques
What is Condylomata lata?
Empiric antifungal treatment of candidemia
What is Echinocandins (Caspofungin, aniludafungin, micafungin)?
Administration sequence and timing of pneumococcal immunization in a patient with HIV Infection
Administer the 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine followed by the 23-valent pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine 8 weeks later
Cholesterol-lowering drug used as adjuvant therapy for relapsing C. difficile diarrhea
What is Cholestyramine?
Imaging study for acute osteomyelitis when MRI is contraindicated
What is Contrast Enhanced CT?
Post exposure prevention for varicella infection in an immunocompromised person
What is varicella-zoster immune globulin?
Indicated treatment for early localized Lyme disease during pregnancy
What is Amoxicillin?
4 indications for Meningococcal vaccines
What are asplenia, terminal complement deficiency, military recruits, college dorm residents and travellers to Mecca?
2 Non-gastrointestinal complications of E. coli O157:H7 infection
What is Hemolytic-uremic syndrome (accept TTP) or reactive arthritis?
Tick-borne bacterial co-infection that may accompany Lyme Disease
What is Anaplasma phagocytophilum?
Impact and mechanism of action of the drug cobicistat on serum creatinine
What is elevated serum creatinine level as a result of inhibition of tubular secretion of creatinine?
4 antibiotic choices for uncomplicated cutaneous anthrax
What are
- Ciprofloxacin
- Levofloxacin
- Moxifloxacin
- Doxycycline
CD4 level below which live attenuated vaccines are contraindicated
What is CD4 <200?
Which infection is classically associated with hemorrhagic mediastinitis?
What is Anthrax?
Diagnosis for trismus, unilateral tonsillar swelling, and uvula deviation?
What is Peritonsillar abscess?