Bacteria Schmacteria
A gram stain of the pathogens most frequently identified in septic patients in the U.S.A would reveal this result.
What is gram-positive?
When no other underlying cause is found, a persistent oral or vaginal candidal infection should arouse a suspicion of this disorder.
What is HIV?
Lymphadenitis in adults caused by M. tuberculosis is often a manifestation of disseminated disease and is called this.
What is scrofula?
What is 65?
The most common cause of a mono-like syndrome with negative heterophile antibodies is this.
Infants that suffer from botulism most classically obtain the infection from what source?
What is honey?
This pathogen has been isolated from soil contaminated with bird or bat droppings in the central and eastern U.S.
What is histoplasma capsulatum?
(Note: "Histoplasmosis" is not the name of the pathogen, but instead is the name of the disorder it causes.)
Infection with M. marinum is commonly known as this.
What is swimming pool granuloma?
This substance is believed to play a central role in the vasodilation that accompanies septic shock.
What is N.O.?
This disorder is characterized by a fiery red "slapped cheek" appearance.
What is fifth disease or erythema infectiosum?
This skin lesion associated with acute rheumatic fever has a similar macroscopic appearance to many other skin disorders, such as erythema multiforme, though it differs histologically.
Most cases of P. jirovecii occur in AIDS patients once their CD4 cell count falls to a value less than this.
What is 200?
Disseminated MAC infection most commonly occurs in patients in the late stages of HIV once the CD4 count falls below this.
What is 50?
Acute tubular necrosis might be one mechanism by which sepsis leads to this.
Although most cases of rabies in humans are secondary to a bite from an infected dog in developing countries, most cases on the Eastern coast of the U.S. are from which wildlife reservoir?
Albert's stain can be used to reveal clusters of green, club-shaped organisms that resemble Chinese letters in this disorder.
What is diphtheria?
The pathogen responsible for cryptococcosis has been found in the feces of this type of bird.
Once a granuloma forms in TB and the tissue inside of the granuloma dies, it is called this.
What is a Ghon focus?
(We will also accept caseous necrosis.)
This is the most common central nervous system complication of sepsis.
What is encephalopathy?
(We will also accept "altered mental status" or "altered sensorium".)
What is reverse transcriptase?
Three risk factors for invasive candidiasis are as follows...
Prolonged neutropenia, recent abdominal surgery, broad-spectrum abx use, kidney disease, presence of intravascular catheters, cellular immunodeficiency.
The difference in a Ghon focus and a Ghon complex in TB is this.
Cellular injury in sepsis may lead to an altered rate of programmed cell death, which is also known as this.
What is apoptosis?
The Zika virus is transmitted primarily by this route.
What are mosquitos?