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Blood Culture-Negative Infective Endocarditis (BCNIE)
Definition: No etiology found after 3 separate blood cultures remain negative for
Culture-Negative Infective ... antimicrobials, clinical ... will vary with geographic ... ID_fellows #BCNIE #BloodCulture ... differential #workup #infectiousdiseases
Ever had a #traveler come in to your clinic with #fever and you were not sure
come in to your clinic ... not sure what #infection ... incubation period and geography ... diagnosis #medicine #infectiousdisease
Macrophage Activation Syndrome (MAS)
Classified among the secondary or acquired forms of haemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (sHLH)

What?
A subset of
fever syndromes Clinical ... Fever is the main clinical ... Petechial or purpuric rash ... SLE], AOSD) • Infection ... (eg, visceral leishmaniasis
Capnocytophaga
GNR with long fusiform shape.  Fastidious facultative anaerobe that grows slowly and needs enriched agar
C.
cats) Classic clinical ... shock with fever, rash ... febrilepodcast] #InfectiousDiseases ... Capnocytophaga #Infection
Summary of Monkeypox: Current Knowledge as of May 2022
 • What is Monkeypox?
 • Origins of
period (time from infection ... 5–21 days • Clinical ... smallpox) - Rash ... similar; monkeypox rash ... management #virus #infectiousdiseases