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Chagas Disease (American trypanosomiasis) - Diagnosis and Management Summary
Acute Chagas Disease (8-12 weeks):
 • Mild: Malaise,
American trypanosomiasis ... (8-12 weeks): ... • Treatment: ... Diagnosis #Management #Microbiology ... #InfectiousDiseases
Listeriosis Summary - Listeria Monocytogenes
Pathogen: Listeria Monocytogenes - Gram-positive rod, Aerobic, facultative anaerobe, motile, beta-hemolytic, Non-spore-forming
Risk
food, salad bar Clinical ... Gastroenteritis → Invasive disease ... culture (Invasive disease ... diagnosis #management #infectiousdiseases ... #treatment #microbiology
Listeriosis Summary - Listeria Monocytogenes
Pathogen: Listeria Monocytogenes - Gram-positive rod, Aerobic, facultative anaerobe, motile, beta-hemolytic, Non-spore-forming
Risk
food, salad bar Clinical ... Gastroenteritis → Invasive disease ... culture (Invasive disease ... diagnosis #management #infectiousdiseases ... #treatment #microbiology
Chagas Disease (American trypanosomiasis) - Diagnosis and Management Summary
Acute Chagas Disease (8-12 weeks):
 • Mild: Malaise,
American trypanosomiasis ... (8-12 weeks): ... • Treatment: ... Diagnosis #Management #Microbiology ... #InfectiousDiseases
Cyclosporiasis - Diagnosis and Management Summary
Pathogen: 
 • Cyclospora cayetanensis
 • Foodborne, waterbone, and soil-transmitted.
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reported in Latin America ... routine O&P • Clinical ... Treatment: • TMP-SMX-DS ... #microbiology # ... infectiousdiseases
Cutaneous larva migrans skin Rash
25 F recent Caribbean vacation, walked barefoot on sand and now with
travelers Carribean & Americas ... Latin America, Southeast ... Diagnosis is clinical ... No treatment is ... one-time dose of 12
Capnocytophaga
GNR with long fusiform shape.  Fastidious facultative anaerobe that grows slowly and needs enriched agar
C.
cause of severe disease ... cats) Classic clinical ... shock with fever, rash ... febrilepodcast] #InfectiousDiseases ... Diagnosis #Cats #Dogs #Microbiology
Mycoses

HISTOPLASMOSIS
• Inhalation of conidia → Yeast → travel to lymph nodes → spread in body
• Bird
duration is 6 to 12 ... has five major clinical ... extrapulmonary disease ... fungal stain of clinical ... ) #Mycoses #InfectiousDiseases
Summary of Monkeypox: Current Knowledge as of May 2022
 • What is Monkeypox?
 • Origins of
5–21 days • Clinical ... smallpox) - Rash ... similar; monkeypox rash ... management #virus #infectiousdiseases ... #microbiology
Coccidioidomycosis (Valley Fever) - Diagnosis and Management Summary

WHAT?
 • Coccidioidomycosis due to Coccidioides immitis or Coccidioides
for disseminated disease ... Immunosuppressant drug use • African ... for disseminated disease ... TREATMENT: Clinically ... Diagnosis #Management #infectiousdiseases