Bacteria
This bacteria is commonly passed by rabbits
What is Tularemia?
The vector for leishmania
What is the sandfly?
This viral disease, transmitted through animal bites, causes encephalitis and is nearly always fatal once symptoms appear.
What is rabies?
This common yeast is part of the normal flora but can cause oral thrush, especially in immunocompromised patients or those using inhaled corticosteroids.
What is Candida albicans?
This organ is where sporozoites enter first in a human to begin to produce merosoites in malaria
What is the liver?
A common presentation of this disease is a "floppy and constipated" infant and is associated with honey ingestion.
What is Infantile botulism?
This parasite typically causes severe disease in asplenic patients, presents with a high fever and is transmitted by a tick
What is Babesia?
This mosquito-borne flavivirus can cause severe encephalitis and is endemic in parts of Asia, especially in rural agricultural regions.
What is Japanese encephalitis virus?
This fungal infection is associated with gardening and is caused by a dimorphic fungus that enters through the skin and spreads along lymphatics.
What is sporotrichosis?
This rapid diagnostic technique dissolves host cells, allowing visualization of fungal elements like pseudohyphae or hyphae under a microscope.
What is a KOH prep (potassium hydroxide preparation)?
These chemoprophylactic antibiotics should be offered to the roommates of an unvaccinated college student who develops a non-blanching rash with scattered petechiae and diffuse purpura.
What is Rifampin, Cipro or ceftriaxone?
This cardiac complication could present in a patient in Ecuador who states they were bitten at night on the face and was "kissed by the bug". They scratched the bite and now have developed a swollen eyelid and lymph nodes.
What is Cardiomyopathy?
This group of viruses includes the most frequent cause of the common cold and typically causes upper respiratory symptoms like sneezing and a runny nose.
What are rhinoviruses?
This is the term for moist, erythematous or hyperpigmented patches within skin folds caused by a common yeast
What is intertrigo?
This diagnostic study is used as the initial screening for chlamydia or gonorrhea
What is a Nucleic Acid Amplification Test (NAAT)?
This patient population is most at risk for death when infected by a gram positive beta-hemolytic rods in chains
What are newborns / neonates?
This whipworm infection can cause severe abdominal pain, tenesmus, bloody diarrhea and rectal prolapse
What is Trichuris trichiura?
This virus causes a limited but rapidly progressive rash that extends from the head and face to the trunk and extremities over three days
What is rubella?
This fungus causes a rapidly progressive infection in diabetic patients with ketoacidosis, often invading the sinuses and brain.
What is Mucor (or Rhizopus)?
This is the reason for ordering an Acid-Fast Smear
What is to examine mycobacteria?
This medication and course duration is prescribed for an HIV patient that became infected with a Gram-positive rod after cleaning her garden full of decaying plants in standing water who developed a lesion, pneumonia symptoms and then headache, fever and altered mental status whose brain MRI revealed an intracranial abscess.
TMP/SMX for 12 months
This is the treatment of choice and duration of treatment for a patient from Latin America who ate uncooked pork and now complains of abdominal pain. He presents with a seizure and is found to have multiple ring enhancing lesion.
What is Albendazole or paziquantel for 15-30 days?
Transmitted by rodents, this arenavirus is responsible for a severe hemorrhagic fever primarily found in West Africa.
What is Lassa fever?
The hallmark of this disease of immunocompromised patients is pain with swallowing
What is esophageal candidiasis?
This is the specific qSOFA criteria for the respiratory rate when diagnosing a patient with sepsis
What is a RR > 22 BPM?