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Lung Abscess
Microbiology:
 • Polymicrobial 
 • Anaerobes (most common) 
Clinical: 
 • Indolent symptoms that evolve
Lung Abscess Microbiology ... , hemoptysis Treatment ... meropenem) #Lung ... #Abscess #Diagnosis ... #Pulmonary #Clinical
Rhodococcus - Microbiology Overview

Microbiology:
 • Facultative, intracellular, nonmotile, non-spore-forming
 • Aerobic acid-fast gram-positive coccobacilli
 • Produces
Rhodococcus - Microbiology ... inoculation due to trauma ... Diagnosis Treatment ... #diagnosis #treatment ... #pulmonary #Bacteria
Tularemia - Diagnosis and Management Summary
Francisella tularensis - Aerobic fastidious gram-negative Coccobacillus - Zoonotic Infection
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organism into the lungs ... More common in adults ... #management #treatment ... #infectiousdiseases ... #microbiology
Adult-Onset Still's Disease
Clinical triad: Fever, Arthralgia/arthritis, Skin rash ± odynophagia
+ Biological inflammation: Increased neutrophils, Hyperferritinemia, decreased
Adult-Onset Still's ... Differential Diaqnoses ... Complications: MAS ... hepatitis • Pulmonary ... #management #treatment
Nocardiosis - Nocardia spp
Pathogen: Filamentous gram-positive branching rod, grows in acid fast staining and anaerobic conditions
Clinical
involved) 32% • Pulmonary ... 9%, up to 20% lung ... Nocardiosis #Nocardia #diagnosis ... #management #microbiology ... #infectiousdiseases
Capnocytophaga
Pathogen: Capnocytophaga
 • 9 species, C. canimorsus responsible for the majority of infections
 • Gram-negative rod,
SIow growing, Long ... Treatment: • 50% ... Capnocytophaga #canimorsus #microbiology ... #zoonotic #infectiousdiseases ... #treatment
Nontuberculous Mycobacteria (NTM) Infections 

Mycobacterial species other than those belonging to the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex and
Diagnosis Of NTM ... Exclusion of other diagnosis ... • Microbiologic ... #differential #diagnosis ... #infectiousdiseases
Bronchiectasis - Summary

What?
• Bronchiectasis is derived from the Greek words bronckos meaning airway and ectasis meaning
in the adjacent lung ... of the affected lung ... parenchyma Diagnosis ... is abnormal in adults ... mycobacteria Treatment
Orthopedic Emergencies
Compartment Syndrome
 • An increase in compartment pressure to the point where tissue perfusion is
globules in the lung ... fractures in young adults ... • Diagnosis: ... H/O antecedent trauma ... #management #treatment
Toxocariasis
Pathogen: Toxocara - worldwide distributed helminth 
Transmission: 
 • Dogs and cats are the major source
migrate through the lungs ... Adult worms develop ... larva migrans Diagnosis ... #management #infectiousdiseases ... #treatment #microbiology