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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
infectionPulmonary ... characteristic features Clinical ... Active TB: • ... : Active TB: • ... #Treatment #ActiveTB
Tuberculosis Overview

10 million new M. tuberculosis infections/year
Facultative intracellular rod-shaped bacteria
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) accounts for 4.6% of
infectionPulmonary ... characteristic features Clinical ... Active TB: • ... : Active TB: • ... #Treatment #ActiveTB
Immune Reconstitution Inflammatory Syndrome - Overview of IRIS

What Is IRIS?
	• A state of hyperinflammatory response that
noncompliance • Clinical ... initiation Clinical ... , pulmonary infiltrates ... Fever, chills, lack ... • Persistently active
Lung Abscess - Diagnosis and Management Summary

Lung Abscess Etiology:
 • Necrosis of lung parenchyma by a
Lung Abscess - Diagnosis ... and Management Summary ... polymicrobial infection ... Lung Abscess - Clinical ... #Abscess #pulmonary
Septic Arthritis - Diagnosis and Management Summary
Clinical Exam: hot, swollen, pain with passive AND active ROM
and Management Summary ... Clinical Exam: ... with passive AND active ... ROM +/- fever, chills ... cervical, anal Cxs
Bronchiectasis - Summary

What?
• Bronchiectasis is derived from the Greek words bronckos meaning airway and ectasis meaning
Bronchiectasis - Summary ... Fevers and/or chills ... : TB, NTM, PNA ... parenchyma Diagnosis ... mycobacteria Treatment
Sporotrichosis - Sporothrix schenckii - Diagnosis and Management Summary
Sources: 
 • Landscaping, Christmas tree farming, Rose
and Management Summary ... • Pulmonary Sporotrichosis ... - Symptoms, CXR ... CSF similar to TB ... infectiousdiseases #treatment
Mycoses

HISTOPLASMOSIS
• Inhalation of conidia → Yeast → travel to lymph nodes → spread in body
• Bird
Fever, cough, chills ... has five major clinical ... Found primarily along ... , fever, chills, ... fungal stain of clinical
Cryptococcal meningitis on T2 MRI
30 M from sub-Saharan Africa presents w/ progressive Headache x1 mo, +neck
DDX Tb meningitis ... of prior silent pulmonary ... infection along ... Standard treatment ... likely due to IRIS