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Listeriosis Summary - Listeria Monocytogenes
Pathogen: Listeria Monocytogenes - Gram-positive rod, Aerobic, facultative anaerobe, motile, beta-hemolytic, Non-spore-forming
Risk
Monocytogenes - Gram-positive ... : • Stool culture ... (Invasive disease ... #management #infectiousdiseases ... #treatment #microbiology
Listeriosis Summary - Listeria Monocytogenes
Pathogen: Listeria Monocytogenes - Gram-positive rod, Aerobic, facultative anaerobe, motile, beta-hemolytic, Non-spore-forming
Risk
Monocytogenes - Gram-positive ... : • Stool culture ... (Invasive disease ... #management #infectiousdiseases ... #treatment #microbiology
Blood culture contaminants
Grouped by gram negative vs gram positive vs other as well as never/maybe/probably
Some additional
Blood culture contaminants ... Grouped by gram ... ID #Infectious Diseases ... #Infections #Microbiology ... Differential #Ddx #Diagnosis
Guide to Interpretation of Positive Blood Cultures

I arrange the potential Gram stain results that one can
(+) cocci, Gram( ... rods, Gram(–) cocci ... Gram(+) cocci are ... Interpretation #Laboratory #Microbiology ... #Diagnosis
Streptocccus Pneumoniae
Microbiology: Gram Positive, Alpha-hemolytic, Catalase Negative
Epidemiology - 10% adult carriers:
 • Most common cause of:
: Gram Positive, ... • Most common cause ... sinus • Sputum culture ... Specificity of 97%) Treatment ... #diagnosis #management
Tularemia - Diagnosis and Management Summary
Francisella tularensis - Aerobic fastidious gram-negative Coccobacillus - Zoonotic Infection
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and Management ... Aerobic fastidious gram-negative ... Serology (preferred), Culture ... #management #treatment ... infectiousdiseases #microbiology
Psittacosis 
Pathogen: Chlamydia psittaci - obligate intracellular gram negative
Transmission:
 • Birds are the primary reservoir
 •
intracellular gram ... hemoptysis, diarrhea Diagnosis ... test • PCR • Culture ... Chlamydia #psittaci #microbiology ... #diagnosis #management
Oroya Fever
Hematologic disease caused by Bartonella bacilliformis
Restricted to the Andes highlands of Peru & Ecuador
B. bacilliformis:
Fever Hematologic disease ... caused by Bartonella ... bacilliformis: - Gram ... TREATMENT: ​• Acute ... #management #Bartonella
Rhodococcus - Microbiology Overview

Microbiology:
 • Facultative, intracellular, nonmotile, non-spore-forming
 • Aerobic acid-fast gram-positive coccobacilli
 • Produces
Aerobic acid-fast gram-positive ... Transmission (Zoonotic disease ... due to trauma Diagnosis ... Treatment: • ... #diagnosis #treatment
Septic Arthritis - Diagnosis and Management Summary
Clinical Exam: hot, swollen, pain with passive AND active ROM
and Management ... necrosis, Lyme disease ... , Gram stain, cell ... staphylococcus, gram ... until cultures