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C.diff - Clostridioides Difficile Infection (CDI) - Diagnosis and Management - GrepMed Handbook

Clinical Presentation + Progression:
Difficile Infection (CDI ... Toxic Megacolon, Shock ... Perforation) Pathophysiology ... post-ABx, but can ... be community-acquired
Community Acquired Pneumonia - Severity and Prognosis
Criteria for Severe CAP - Severe CAP present in 1
Community Acquired ... in 1 major criterion ... criteria: Septic shock ... #Community #Acquired ... #severe #psi #diagnosis
Community Acquired Pneumonia - Presenting Features
 • History in favor of CAP: Dyspnea, Cough, particularly if
Community Acquired ... Pneumonia - Presenting ... in 1 major criterion ... criteria: Septic shock ... #Pneumonia #diagnosis
Amebiasis - Acanthamoeba Life Cycle
1) Cysts
2) Trophozoite
3) Mitosis
4) Amebae (cysts and trophozoites) can enter humans in
Life Cycle 1) ... trophozoites) can ... #LifeCycle #diagnosis ... #pathophysiology ... infectiousdiseases #cdc
Intestinal Hookworm Life Cycle
1) Eggs in feces
2) Rhabditiform larva hatches
3) Development to filariform larva in environment
4)
Hookworm Life Cycle 1) ... Ancylostoma spp. larvae can ... Intestinal #lifecycle #diagnosis ... #pathophysiology ... infectiousdiseases #cdc
Cysticercosis - Taenia solium Life Cycle
1) Eggs or gravid proglottids in feces and passed into environment.
2)
solium Life Cycle 1) ... cysticerci. 5) Humans acquire ... TaeniaSolium #LifeCycle #diagnosis ... #pathophysiology ... infectiousdiseases #cdc
Immune Reconstitution Inflammatory Syndrome - Overview of IRIS

What Is IRIS?
	• A state of hyperinflammatory response that
ART ↑ improves CD4 ... low pretreatment CD4 ... occur at any CD4 ... an increase in CD4 ... Depends On: • CD4
Trypanosomiasis - Trypanosoma cruzi Life Cycle
1) Triatomine bug takes a blood meal (passes metacyclic trypomastigotes in
cruzi Life Cycle 1) ... manifestations can ... Tcruzi #LifeCycle #diagnosis ... #pathophysiology ... infectiousdiseases #cdc
Amebiasis - Balamuthia mandrillaris Life Cycle
1) Cysts
2) Trophozoite
3) Mitosis
4) Amebae (cysts and trophozoites) can enter humans
mandrillaris Life Cycle 1) ... trophozoites) can ... mandrillaris #LifeCycle #diagnosis ... #pathophysiology ... infectiousdiseases #cdc
Sjogren's Syndrome Overview

Epidemiology:
• F > M: 9:1
• 5-6th Decades (can be any age)

Autoimmune exocrinopathy multisystemic disease
Epidemiology: • F > M: 9:1 ... Antinuclear antibodies ≥ 1: ... /aggregate) of CD4 ... Lymphocytic interstitial pneumonia ... Usual interstitial pneumonia