What is yersinia enterocolitica?
Diarrhea, high BUN/Creatinine, thrombocytopenia, and hemolytic anemia
Diarrhea and Turtle at home
What is Nontyphoid Salmonella?
Child with his family to the Bahamas on a cruise ship, all of them have diarrhea, and a large number of people on the ship have the same
What is Norovirus outbreak?
Child care centre, fever, vomiting, bloody diarrhea, new onset seizure, leukocytosis, bandemia and rectal prolapse
What is shigella?
A 12-year old boy stepped on a dirty rusty nail, the last DtaP immunization was 8 years ago (received 5 doses of Dtap by 4 years og age)
What is Tdap immunization?
Chicken pox rash is infectious for how long?
What is 1-2 days before the rash, and until all lesions are crusted over?
Dog bite and allergic to penicillin
What is Clindamycin or TMP-SMX?
Child visited Oklamhoma with family, they hunter and skinned rabbits, the child presented with large node in the groin, and fever
What is Tularemia (Francisella Tularensis)?
Head lice resistant after treatment with Permethrin
What is Malathion (ovicidal)
Adolescent with high risk behavior and IV drug abuse presents with fever, lymphadenopathy, ppharyngitis, muscle and joint pain, mouth and genital ulcers, skin rash including the palms and soles, rapid strep and monospot tests are negative
What is Acute retroviral (HIV) syndrome?
Cochlear implants are associated with an increased risk of which bacterial infection
What is streptococcus pneumoniae?
Most common organism that causes infection in cat bite
What is pasteurela multicoda?
Recently traveled to Africa, seizure, decreased level of consciousness, retinal hemorrhage and hypoglycemia?
What is Plasmodium Falciparum? (Cerebral Malaria)
What is human metapnemovirus?
A 12-year old boy with h/o swimming in fresh water lagoons, developed headaches, myalgia, and fever, 7 days later he became jaundiced with elevated creatinine level, high bilirubin level, mild elevation of AST and ALT
What is Leptospirosis?
What is Brain Abscess?
Tick bite, fever, rash, myalgia, headache, pancytopenia, elevated liver enzymes and hyponatremia
What is Ehrlichiosis? (anaplasmosis)
Travelled to Mexico, bloody diarrhea, tenesmus, no fever
What is Amebiasis?
Stiff neck, fever, CSF WBC <1000, 80% neutrophil, negative CSF gram stain. What is the best CSF study?
What is enterovirus PCR?
A 3-year-old developed osteomyelitis, culture is negative, not responding to Vancomycin. What is the most common complication?
What is Kingella Kingae? (aerobic CO2 enhanced culture)
Most common electrolyte disturbance associated with Amphotericin B therapy
What is hypokalemia/hypomagnesemia?
Breeds Turkey, high fever, pneumonia, muscle pain and splenomegaly
What is Chlamydophila Psittaci?
A child spent summer, vacation at his uncle's farm in California presenting with fever, chills, cough, shortness of breath, night sweat, bronchial breathing sound, tender erythematous nodules on the lower extremities, ESR is elevated
What is Coccidiomycosis?
Developed large matted cervical lymph node and persistent for 6 weeks and not responding to antibiotics, you notice the overlying skin is violaceous. Most likely diagnosis
Mycobacterium Avium