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Listeriosis Summary - Listeria Monocytogenes
Pathogen: Listeria Monocytogenes - Gram-positive rod, Aerobic, facultative anaerobe, motile, beta-hemolytic, Non-spore-forming
Risk
Listeriosis Summary ... beta-hemolytic, Non-spore-forming ... TheIDtrivia #Listeriosis ... Monocytogenes #diagnosis #management ... infectiousdiseases #treatment
Listeriosis Summary - Listeria Monocytogenes
Pathogen: Listeria Monocytogenes - Gram-positive rod, Aerobic, facultative anaerobe, motile, beta-hemolytic, Non-spore-forming
Risk
Listeriosis Summary ... beta-hemolytic, Non-spore-forming ... TheIDtrivia #Listeriosis ... Monocytogenes #diagnosis #management ... infectiousdiseases #treatment
Infective Endocarditis - Diagnosis and Management Summary
Pearls:
 - Consider non-infectious endocarditis in pts with cancer/SLE and
Diagnosis and Management ... Summary Pearls ... of IE like Roth spots ... #Diagnosis #Management ... #Summary
Systemic Lupus Erythematosus - Summary
Antinuclear (ANA) - 95% - Initial screening test
Anti-dsDNA - 50%
 • Associated
Erythematosus - Summary ... severe disease Treatment ... Hydroxychloroquine *Short ... Erythematosus #SLE #Summary ... #rheumatology #management
Endocarditis Summary

Who?
Infectious:
• Pre-existing valvular disease
• Prosthetic valve
• Congenital heart disease
• IV substance use
• IV catheter
• Recent
Endocarditis Summary ... Prosthetic Valve Endocarditis ... nodes • Roth’s spots ... #Endocarditis ... #diagnosis #management
Myasthenia Gravis - Summary
 • an autoimmune disease of the postsynaptic neuromuscular junction associated with antibodies
Myasthenia Gravis - Summary ... Treatment: • Symptomatic ... treatment Of ocular ... myasthenia usually • Starts ... Gravis #diagnosis #management
Guillain-Barre Syndrome - Summary

Acute AIDP that presents with rapidly progressive flaccid weakness

Epidemiology:
 • 1-2 cases/100,000 per
Guillain-Barre Syndrome - Summary ... • Weakness: Starts ... Treatment: • Plasmapheresis ... Syndrome #diagnosis #management ... #treatment #neurology
Endocarditis - Diagnosis and Management Summary
What is it? Inflammation of endocardium, typically secondary to infection of
Endocarditis - Diagnosis ... and Management ... Summary What is ... Osler nodes, Roth spots ... #Diagnosis #Summary
Multiple Sclerosis - Summary

Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune-mediated neurodegenerative disease of the central nervous system
Multiple Sclerosis - Summary ... Multiple Sclerosis Treatment ... taper 3-7 days - Short ... sclerosis #diagnosis #management ... #neurology #treatment
Mycoses

HISTOPLASMOSIS
• Inhalation of conidia → Yeast → travel to lymph nodes → spread in body
• Bird
Histoplasmosis Treatment ... Mucormycosis Treatment ... Inhalation of spores ... arthritis, and endocarditis ... Fungal #Diagnosis #Management