Name that drug
This drug is used to treat most gram-negative bacterial infections
Tetracycline
Cause of a Yeast Infection
Candida albicans
This zoonotic disease causes neurological symptoms such as hydrophobia.
Rabies
Chancre
Kate goes to the hospital with a stiff neck (torticollis), headache, and fever. Her symptoms are generally mild and a lumbar puncture reveals increased lymphocytes in her CSF. What infection does she have?
Viral Meningitis
This drug is an Antihelminth used to treat most helminth infections including tapeworms.
Vermox
A Peptic Ulcer is caused when this microbe burrows through the stomach lining. It produces urease which neutralizes the stomach acid.
Helicobacter pylori
This infection causes a descending, flaccid paralysis. In babies it is called "floppy baby syndrome." Severe cases cause paralysis of the respiratory diaphragm, leading to death.
Botulism
Also called a Urinary Tract Infection, this infection caused by E. coli is characterized by frequent, urgent, painful urination. Urine may be cloudy with a foul odor.
Cystitis
Rebecca wears contacts and decides cleaning them is unnecessary. After leaving them in for a year she begins to have light sensitivity, severe eye pain, and blurred vision. She is found to have the Amoeba Acanthamoeba in her eye. What infection does she have?
Keratitis
What three drugs are included in the DTaP vaccine?
Diphtheria
Tetanus
Acellular Pertussis
What pathogen causes warts in the genitalia and surrounding areas. Large growths called condyloma acuminata may also form.
Human papillomaviruses
Mostly caused by MRSA, this infection is characterized by extreme pain not matching the injury. It progresses rapidly and amputation is needed or you're a goner
Necrotizing fasciitis
Lily had the time of her life at Makeout Monday, but a month later she starts to have a high fever, with a sore throat and extreme fatigue. Her lymph nodes in her neck are particularly enlarged (lymphadenopathy) along with her spleen (hepatosplenomegaly). She also has nasty white patches on her tonsils. What does she have?
Mononucleosis
This infection causes jaundice, enlarged liver, or fluid in the abdomen. Also includes abdominal pain, fatigue, vomiting, and appetite loss.
Viral Hepatitis
What infections is Acyclovir used to treat (3 main ones)
This drug is used to treat Genital Herpes, Shingles, and Chickenpox
Kara was bit by a mosquito last week while bravely voyaging through Egypt with Indiana Jones. She starts developing mild flu like symptoms, but soldiers on without complaint. However, she is later diagnosed with Encephalitis (dw she will be okay). What type of pathogen caused this unfortunate infection?
Arbovirus
Name the three types of Botulism and which is the most common form in the US?
Infant Botulism - Most common in the US
Foodborne Botulism
Wound Botulism
This infection is typically asymptomatic in males, but in females causes thin, frothy, yellow-green vaginal discharge with a foul, fishy odor. May also have small red spots on the cervix ("strawberry cervix")
Trichomoniasis
Caused by a mosquito bite, this disease comes from a Protozoan of the Plasmodium genus, creating symptoms of fever, chills, and anemia.
Malaria
This combination antibiotic is used to treat Cystitis. What is the name and the type drugs in it?
Bactrim - Trimethoprim and sulfamethoxazole
This Gram-negative bacterium is the cause of what was called the Bubonic Plague or the "Black Death"
Yersinia pestis
Tetanus is an infection with a 50% mortality rate, causing spastic paralysis that can break the back. What is the name of the causative agent and the neurotoxin that it produces?
Clostridium tetani causes tetanospasmin
Cholera is caused by the gram-negative bacterium Vibrio cholerae, which produces cholera toxin. What is the key clinical symptom experienced when infected?
"rice-water stool"
This infection of the cardiovascular system can come from contact with infected animals or inhalation of spores. Symptoms include respiratory distress when inhaled, GI symptoms, and the key clue of Black eschar (necrotic black tissue on wounds).
Anthrax (Bacillus anthracis)