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Candidemia Workup and Management - IDSA Guidelines
1) Antibiotics
 • Empiric: Echinocandins (e.g. micafungin) for most patients
- IDSA Guidelines ... micafungin) for most ... or TEE unless clinical ... #candidiasis #treatment ... #fungal #fungemia
Spinal Epidural Abscess - Illness Script
Epidemiology:
 - Patients at risk for bacteremia: IVDU, dental abscess, HD
Alcoholism, DM, HIV Microbiology ... - Staph aureus most ... common (63%) Clinical ... imaging as needed Treatment ... #diagnosis #management
Lung Abscess - Diagnosis and Management Summary

Lung Abscess Etiology:
 • Necrosis of lung parenchyma by a
and Management ... infection • Most ... Lung Abscess - Clinical ... Management: • ... Prevotella • Fungal
C.diff - Clostridioides Difficile Infection (CDI) - Diagnosis and Management - GrepMed Handbook

Clinical Presentation + Progression:
Diagnosis and Management ... GrepMed Handbook Clinical ... infection up to 10w post-ABx ... equivocal • CT A/P: Assess ... continue Tx for 7d post-Abx
Majocchi’s Granuloma due to Trichophyton rubrum 
This is GMS stain and culture of a skin biopsy
left leg / foot + tinea ... Treatment: Itraconazole ... plaques, pustules, abscess ... - Preexisting tinea ... recommended Mayo Clinic
Tuberculosis Overview

10 million new M. tuberculosis infections/year
Facultative intracellular rod-shaped bacteria
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) accounts for 4.6% of
infection (NTM) • Fungal ... emboli • Lung abscess ... characteristic features Clinical ... TB #Diagnosis #Management ... #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
infection (NTM) • Fungal ... emboli • Lung abscess ... characteristic features Clinical ... TB #Diagnosis #Management ... #Treatment #ActiveTB
Mycoses

HISTOPLASMOSIS
• Inhalation of conidia → Yeast → travel to lymph nodes → spread in body
• Bird
bat droppings • Most ... has five major clinical ... stain of clinical ... Sinusitis • Brain abscess ... #Diagnosis #Management
Relapsing Polychondritis

What is it?
Recurrent inflammation of the cartilage in the body (Autoimmune disorder)

Who?
• Most frequently: 40
common clinical ... ○ Syphilis ○ Fungal ... Diagnosis: • Clinical ... affected tissue Treatment ... #diagnosis #management