Antimicrobials
Unwelcome Guests
Risky Business
Insane in the Mem-brain
Pathognomonic
100
When administering Daptomycin, this lab should be checked weekly?
What is a CK level?
100
This blood smear is pathognomonic for this infection:
What is babesiosis?
100
The treatment for gonorrhea if chlamydia co-infection has not been excluded:
What is a single IM dose of Ceftriaxone (500mg) and Doxycycline (100mg BID) x7d?
100
The CDC recommends vaccination against S. pneumonia at this age (assuming no comorbidities that would require earlier vaccination):
What is 65 years old?
100
Most common animal carrier of rabies in US
What is Bat?
200
This antibiotic subunit decreases the tubular secretion of creatinine (often mistaken for AKI).
What is trimethoprim?
200
Halo sign
What is Aspergillosis?
200
The treatment for syphilis in an asymptomatic patient with no prior diagnosis of syphilis?
What is 2.4 million units of IM Penicillin G benzathine once weekly x3 weeks?
200
In patients with suspected meningitis, adults over this age should also receive ampicillin as part of their empiric treatment.
What is >50 years old.
200
Raw oysters
What is Vibrio vulnificus?
300
Vancomycin class of antibiotic
What is Glycopeptide?
300
The treatment for this cat owner:
What is pyrimethamine, sulfadiazine, and leucovorin?
300
Treatment for these critters, as seen on vaginal wet mount:
What is metronidazole? (500mg BIDx7d)
300
The benefit of dexamethasone in meningitis.
What is decreases hearing loss?
300
Armadillos
What is Mycobacterium leprae?
400
Duration of antibiotics recommended for uncomplicated gram-negative bacteremia.
What is 7 days?
400
A patient with diphyllobothriasis may suffer from this vitamin deficiency.
What is Vitamin B12?
400
The USPSTF recommends these screening methods for cervical cancer:
What is q3year pap smears with cytology only in females 21-29, and in women aged 30-65, q3 years with only cytology or q5years with hrHPV co-testing?
400
This syndrome, seen primarily in meningococcemia, causes bilateral adrenal hemorrhage with subsequent adrenal crisis.
What is Waterhouse-Friedrichsen Syndrome?
400
Pet turtles
What is Salmonella?
500
Antibiotic choice to treat Lyme disease in a pregnant patient. (I'll take either of the 2 answers that the CDC recommends)
What is amoxicillin or cefuroxime?
500
Infection with this organism causes leukopenia, thrombocytopenia, and can appear on blood smear with a WBC inclusion:
What is Ehrlichiosis?
500
painless genital ulcer
Positive VDRL
Genus and species name of this spirochete
What is Treponema pallidum?
500
3 diseases transmitted by rodents
hantavirus, LCMV, plague, leptospirosis, salmonellosis, rat bite fever, tularemia, etc.
500
HHV-8
What is Kaposi sarcoma?