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Rapidly Growing Mycobacterial Infections

 • Mycobacterium abscessus - Is the most pathogenic and the most likely
underlying lung disease ... as disseminated disease ... It can also cause ... keratitis. ... #differential #infectiousdiseases
Infectious Causes of Adrenal Insufficiency
Anatomical distribution of vessels to the adrenal makes the gland prone to
Infectious Causes ... disseminated microbial disease ... Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome ... neoformans, Blastomyces dermatitidis ... endocrinology #infectiousdiseases
Waterborne Infections - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Infections that can be acquired from fresh water, brackish water, sea
Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome ... • Cercarial dermatitis ... is biphasic • Clinical ... - And, in rare cases ... Differential #Diagnosis #InfectiousDiseases
Adjuvant therapies in critical care: steroids to treat infectious diseases
 - Severe Community Acquired Pneumonia
Adjuvant therapies in critical ... steroids to treat infectious ... diseases - Severe ... respiratory distress syndrome ... Corticosteroids #Adjuvant #InfectiousDiseases
BEE Syndromes - Non-inflammatory Causes

Immune-mediated conditions affecting the Brain, Eye, and Ear

Visual or auditory symptoms in
Non-inflammatory Causes ... and less common diseases ... Non-inflammatory causes ... • Lyme disease ... MRI lesions and clinical
Purpura - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Non-blanchable, dark red to purple, hemorrhagic skin lesions that result from leakage
SLE) - Viral infections ... Kasabach-Merritt syndrome ... APLS • Acute Infectious ... Pigmented Purpuric Dermatosis ... Gardner-Diamond syndrome
Cutaneous manifestations associated with myelodysplastic syndrome
 • Myeloid hemopathy with the most frequent skin lesions (20%)
myelodysplastic syndrome ... appearing during the disease ... Infectious manifestations ... Neutrophilic dermatosis ... dermatology #oncology #clinical
Common Variable Immunodeficiency (CVID)

What?
CVID: Immunodeficiency disorder with hypogammaglobulinemia -> increased infection risk secondary to impaired B-cell
to 8 years Clinical ... • Infectious ... DDX - Other causes ... : • Nephrotic syndrome ... (Epstein-Barr syndrome
Problem Representation - Approach to the Infectious Disease Patient

Who: Patient age and host/risk factors (such as
Approach to the Infectious ... Disease Patient ... that define the clinical ... syndrome - Does ... febrilepodcast@gmail.com #InfectiousDiseases
Causes of Culture Negative Abscess - Differential Diagnosis Framework
Consider prior antibiotics as a cause of a
Causes of Culture ... antibiotics as a cause ... SAPHO, Sweet's Syndrome ... Autoimmune: Crohn's disease ... Differential #Diagnosis #InfectiousDiseases