How would you treat?
Antibiotic therapy for suspected Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever?
What is Doxycycline/Chloramphenicol?
Diagnostic test for a person with syphilis of unknown duration and abnormal neurologic examination
What is CSF analysis?
The following image is a methenamine silver stain of a lung biopsy from a patient with fever and a new pulmonary infiltrate who is receiving chemotherapy for acute myeloid leukemia. Which organism does it demonstrate?
What is aspergillus fumigatus?
Empiric triple antibiotic therapy for bacterial meningitis in an older adult?
What are Ampicillin, Ceftriaxone and Vancomycin?
Patient with presumed meningitis undergoes LP with the following India ink of the CSF
What is Cryptococcus neoformans?
Treatment for C. diff negative hospital acquired diarrhea?
What is antimotility agent?
Three studies in the standard evaluation of encephalitis?
What are LP, MRI brain and EEG?
Post exposure prevention for varicella infection in an immunocompromised person?
What is varicella IVIG?
Fungal disease causing respiratory illness endemic in southwestern US and south and central America?
What is Coccidioidomycosis?
Water borne gram negative bacillus associated with necrotizing skin infections in immunocompromised patients?
What is vibrio vulnificus?
What is initial treatment for coccidioidal meningitis?
What is fluconazole/itraconazole? Add intrathecal amphotericin for severe meningitis
Diagnostic CSF finding in sporadic Creudztfelt-Jakub disease?
What is elevated CSF 14-3-3 protein?
Recommendations for tDAP immunization after organ transplantation
What is one-time booster immunization?
Area with endemic blastomycoses
Ohio and Mississipi river valleys, great lakes
Cause of skin infection associated with commercial pedicures and contaminated whirpool footbaths?
What is mycobacterium fortuitum?
Management of patients who remain febrile 72 hours after appropriate antibiotic therapy for pyelonephritis?
What is kidney imaging with US, CT or MRI?
What is the most common endemic mycoses in the US, and how is it definitively diagnosed?
What are Histoplasma and culture?
Vaccination strategy for a patient whose hepatitis B vaccine series was interrupted?
What is resume series (do not start over)?
Leptospiral syndrome characterized by a triad of jaundice, renal failure and hemorrhage
What is Weil's syndrome?
Lesions along lymphatic drainage in a gardener, which organism is implicated?
What is sporotrichosis?
Fungal bloodstream infection common in neutropenic patients, and its recommended first line treatment?
What are Candidiasis and Echinocandins?(micafungin/caspofungin)
Diagnosis and treatment of Brucellosis?
What are serum agglutination test, and
doxycycline+streptomycin/rifampin/gentamicin OR
fluoroquiniolones+doxycycline/rifampin
Bacteremia with which of the following is associated with the following skin findings?
What is Neisseria meningitides bacteremia?
Duration of continuation phase of TB therapy in patients with positive tuberculin sputum cultures after initial therapy phase?
What is 7 months?
Three potential clinical manifestations of selective IgA deficiency?
Recurrent sinopulmonary infections, anaphylaxis with blood transfusions, association with autoimmune diseases, association with allergic disorders and giardia lamblia gastrointestinal infection