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Summary of Infections in which Steroids play a role in treatment
 • TB meningitis
 • TB
play a role in treatment ... • TB meningitis ... • Pneumococcal meningitis ... • Eosinophilic meningitis ... #management #treatment
Adjuvant therapies in critical care: steroids to treat infectious diseases
 - Severe Community Acquired Pneumonia
steroids to treat infectious ... - Bacterial meningitis ... - Tuberculous meningitis ... #Pharmacology #Management ... #Treatment #Indications
Initiation of ART in HIV patients with Opportunistic Infections
 • Pulmonary TB and CD4 cell count
Opportunistic Infections ... • Cryptococcal Meningitis ... of starting OI treatment ... Opportunistic #Infections ... #management #infectiousdiseases
Immune Reconstitution Inflammatory Syndrome - Overview of IRIS

What Is IRIS?
	• A state of hyperinflammatory response that
six months of treatment ... CNS tuberculoma meningitis ... • Cryptococcal meningitis ... for TB meningitis ... Differential #Diagnosis #Management
Syphilis - Clinical Manifestations and Treatment

1) Primary Syphilis
 • Direct lesion contact during sex is responsible
Manifestations and Treatment ... Neurological: Headache, meningitis ... Treatment: ... stages #diagnosis #management ... #Treatment
The algorithm below shows how pre-test probability could be combined with various criteria to determine which
short course of treatment ... provide empiric treatment ... than bacterial meningitis ... is proposed: #Management ... #Meningitis #Encephalitis
Candida Glabrata
Species of Candida Most Commonly Isolated in Bloodstream Infections
 • Symptomatic mucosal infection is detected
in Bloodstream Infections ... endocarditis, meningitis ... Treatment: • Exhibits ... candidemia #diagnosis #management ... #fungemia #management
Capnocytophaga
Pathogen: Capnocytophaga
 • 9 species, C. canimorsus responsible for the majority of infections
 • Gram-negative rod,
the majority of infections ... Presentations: FUO, Meningitis ... Treatment: • 50% ... infectiousdiseases #diagnosis #management ... #treatment
Legionnaires' Disease
Clinical features:
 • Gl- nausea, vomiting, diarrhea
 • Hyponatremia
 • Elevated transaminases
 • CRP >100
respond to B-Lactams Treatment ... Other Legionella Infections ... pericarditis, meningitis ... Disease #diagnosis #management
Mycoses

HISTOPLASMOSIS
• Inhalation of conidia → Yeast → travel to lymph nodes → spread in body
• Bird
Histoplasmosis Treatment ... pulmonary, systemic or meningitic ... (~40%) • Meningitis ... Invasive Disease: • Meningitis ... Fungal #Diagnosis #Management