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Invasive fungal infections: Morphology, Risk Factors, Disease Characteristics, Diagnostic Tools, First-Line Treatment
Aspergillus, Mucorales, P. Jiroveci, Cryptococcus,
Invasive fungal infections ... Risk Factors, Disease ... Tools, First-Line Treatment ... , Coccidiodes, Fusarium ... #InfectousDiseases
Causes of Culture Negative Abscess - Differential Diagnosis Framework
Consider prior antibiotics as a cause of a
Mucormycosis, Fusarium ... Dracunculiasis - Non-Infectious ... Sweet's Syndrome, hidradenitis ... Autoimmune: Crohn's disease ... Differential #Diagnosis #InfectiousDiseases
Invasive Aspergillus (IA) - Diagnosis and Management
Aspergillus is ubiquitous in nature. Most invasive infections are caused
positive with Histo, Fusarium ... appearance includes: Fusarium ... this morphology Treatment ... Diseases Fellows ... #fungal #infectiousdiseases
Fusarium Infections
Acquired through:
1. Inhalation of airborne conidia > germinates > blood > disseminated
2. Trauma (implantation with
Fusarium Infections ... , Disseminated disease ... : • Optimal treatment ... Diseases Fellows ... #Infections #infectiousdiseases
Fusarium Treatment
 • Antifungal "susceptibility" can vary with Fusarium spp
 • F. oxysporum: low MICS to
Fusarium Treatment ... for disseminated disease ... require enucleation Infectious ... Diseases Fellows ... #Infections #infectiousdiseases
Adjuvant therapies in critical care: steroids to treat infectious diseases
 - Severe Community Acquired Pneumonia
steroids to treat infectious ... diseases - Severe ... Corticosteroids #Adjuvant #InfectiousDiseases ... #Infections #Pharmacology ... #Management #Treatment
Blood Culture-Negative Infective Endocarditis (BCNIE)
Definition: No etiology found after 3 separate blood cultures remain negative for
Blood Culture-Negative ... microbiological techniques Work-up ... Diseases Fellows ... #differential #workup ... #infectiousdiseases
Tuberculosis Testing

LATENT TB
• LTBI is diagnosed when an asymptomatic patient has a positive TST or IGRA
intermediate risk of disease ... because false-negative ... sample = 95% • A negative ... Testing #Diagnosis #Workup ... LatentTB #ActiveTB #InfectiousDiseases
Travel History - Clues to Infectious Disease Diagnosis in a Traveler 
 • Where did you
History - Clues to Infectious ... Disease Diagnosis ... rural → Geographic disease ... Commercial sex worker ... HPI #Interview #InfectiousDiseases
Tularemia - Diagnosis and Management Summary
Francisella tularensis - Aerobic fastidious gram-negative Coccobacillus - Zoonotic Infection
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fastidious gram-negative ... Coccobacillus - Zoonotic Infection ... Culture & GS, PCR Treatment ... : • Severe Disease ... #infectiousdiseases