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Listeriosis Summary - Listeria Monocytogenes
Pathogen: Listeria Monocytogenes - Gram-positive rod, Aerobic, facultative anaerobe, motile, beta-hemolytic, Non-spore-forming
Risk
use Food: Cold cuts ... Pregnancy • CNS ... disease) • CSF (CNS ... 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
use Food: Cold cuts ... Pregnancy • CNS ... disease) • CSF (CNS ... diagnosis #management #infectiousdiseases ... #treatment #microbiology
Nocardiosis - Nocardia spp
Pathogen: Filamentous gram-positive branching rod, grows in acid fast staining and anaerobic conditions
Clinical
infection 39% • CNS ... diagnosis #management #microbiology ... #infectiousdiseases
Filariasis - Life Cycle of Wuchereria bancrofti
1) Mosquito takes a blood meal
2) Adults in lymphatics
3) Adults
and migrate to thoracic ... lifecycle #diagnosis #pathophysiology ... #infectiousdiseases
Rigors And Bacteremia - Overview

• Rigors are a response to the release of cytokines and prostaglandins
PATHOPHYSIOLOGY: ... circumventricular organs CNS ... Rigors #Bacteremia #Pathophysiology ... #InfectiousDiseases
Loiasis - Loa loa Life Cycle
1) Fly (genus Chrysops) takes a meal (L3 larvae enter bite
and migrate to thoracic ... LifeCycle #diagnosis #pathophysiology ... #infectiousdiseases
Capnocytophaga
Pathogen: Capnocytophaga
 • 9 species, C. canimorsus responsible for the majority of infections
 • Gram-negative rod,
flora of healthy cats ... Capnocytophaga #canimorsus #microbiology ... #zoonotic #infectiousdiseases
Onchocerciasis - Onchocerca volvulus Life Cycle
1) Blackfly (genus Simulium) takes a blood meal (L3 larvae enter
and migrate to thoracic ... LifeCycle #diagnosis #pathophysiology ... #infectiousdiseases
C.diff - Clostridioides Difficile Infection (CDI) - Diagnosis and Management - GrepMed Handbook

Clinical Presentation + Progression:
of hospitalized pts ... Perforation) Pathophysiology ... equivocal • CT ... management #treatment #infectiousdiseases
The 2007 Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA)/American Thoracic Society (ATS) recommendations list macrolides as first
IDSA)/American Thoracic ... Society (ATS) recommendations ... #InfectiousDiseases