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Cold Agglutinin Disease

3 Types of Cold Sensitive Antibodies:
  1. Cold Agglutinins (CAD)
  2. Donath-Landsteiner
Clinical Presentation ... Positive Coombs testing ... , EBV, HIV, rubella ... younger pts) Differential ... #anemia #hematology
CNS Infection in HIV / AIDS - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Principles of HIV-Associated CNS Opportunistic Infections:
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HIV / AIDS - Differential ... should be based on clinical ... Antimicrobial treatment ... tuberculomas, or abscesses ... Demyelinating disease
Lung Abscess - Diagnosis and Management Summary

Lung Abscess Etiology:
 • Necrosis of lung parenchyma by a
polymicrobial infection ... Lung Abscess - Clinical ... Putrid sputum/sour-tasting ... Differential Diagnosis ... #pulmonary #differential
Nontuberculous Mycobacteria (NTM) Infections 

Mycobacterial species other than those belonging to the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex and
Nodular or ... : Clinical Manifestations ... : • Clinical ( ... #differential # ... diagnosis #infectiousdiseases
IDSA Recommendations for Treating Coccidiodomycosis in HIV-AIDS
Treating Mild Infections (Such As Focal Pneumonia or asymptomatic patients
with positive serology ... Extrathoracic Disseminated Disease ... • Use until clinical ... Coccidiodomycosis #IDSA #Prevention ... #Treatment #management
Immune Reconstitution Inflammatory Syndrome - Overview of IRIS

What Is IRIS?
	• A state of hyperinflammatory response that
worsening of that disease ... initiation Clinical ... osteomyelitis, cutaneous abscesses ... skin lesions, ocular ... Zoster flare, ocular
Mycoses

HISTOPLASMOSIS
• Inhalation of conidia → Yeast → travel to lymph nodes → spread in body
• Bird
has five major clinical ... Urinary antigen testing ... Sinusitis • Brain abscess ... osteoarticular, pulmonary, ocular ... ) #Mycoses #InfectiousDiseases