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Tuberculosis Overview

10 million new M. tuberculosis infections/year
Facultative intracellular rod-shaped bacteria
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) accounts for 4.6% of
(LTBI) Pathophysiology ... killed - rest LTBI ... characteristic features Clinical ... Treatment: Active ... #Management #Treatment
Tuberculosis Overview

10 million new M. tuberculosis infections/year
Facultative intracellular rod-shaped bacteria
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) accounts for 4.6% of
(LTBI) Pathophysiology ... killed - rest LTBI ... characteristic features Clinical ... Treatment: Active ... #Management #Treatment
IDSA Recommendations for Treating Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Infection and Disease in HIV-AIDS
Treating LTBI (to prevent TB disease)
Indications:
for Treating Mycobacterium ... Tuberculosis Infection ... HIV-AIDS Treating ... #LTBI #Mycobacterium ... #Treatment #management
IDSA Recommendations for Treating Coccidiodomycosis in HIV-AIDS
Treating Mild Infections (Such As Focal Pneumonia or asymptomatic patients
for Treating Coccidiodomycosis ... in HIV-AIDS Treating ... Extrathoracic Disseminated Disease ... • Use until clinical ... #Treatment #management
Immune Reconstitution Inflammatory Syndrome - Overview of IRIS

What Is IRIS?
	• A state of hyperinflammatory response that
worsening of that disease ... skin lesions, ocular ... organizing PNA • Mycobacterium ... Zoster flare, ocular ... Differential #Diagnosis #Management
CNS Infection in HIV / AIDS - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Principles of HIV-Associated CNS Opportunistic Infections:
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should be based on clinical ... Antimicrobial treatment ... Demyelinating disease ... Aspergillosis • Coccidioidomycosis ... opportunistic #InfectiousDiseases
Nontuberculous Mycobacteria (NTM) Infections 

Mycobacterial species other than those belonging to the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex and
tuberculosis complex ... • Nodular or ... Kansasii: • Mimics TB ... : • Clinical ( ... differential #diagnosis #infectiousdiseases
IDSA Recommendations for Preventing and Treating Disseminated Mycobacterium Avium Complex in HIV-AIDS
Preventing 1st Episode of Disseminated
Avium Complex in HIV-AIDS ... based on clinical ... Note: Active TB ... #Prevention #Treatment ... #infections #HIVAIDS
Mycoses

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