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Abiotrophia defectiva on Blood Culture and Microscopy
 - only growing on Chocolate Agar
 - Gram pos
Abiotrophia defectiva on Blood ... Culture and Microscopy ... defectiva #clinical #microscopy ... #microbiology # ... culture
Acute Kidney Injury - AKI Workup Algorithm and Differential Diagnosis
Baseline Investigations: full blood count with differential,
Kidney Injury - AKI ... Investigations: full blood ... dipstick, urine microscopy ... renal biopsy • Abdominal ... screen, including blood
Causes of blood culture negative infective endocarditis

Bartonella spp, Brucella spp, Coxiella burnetii, Chlamydia spp, Tropheryma whipplei,
Causes of blood ... culture negative ... infective endocarditis ... #negative #Endocarditis ... InfectiousDiseases #Microbiology
Streptobacillus moniliformis on peripheral smear and culture microscopy
 - blood culture; patient w/ outdoor exposure
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microscopy - blood ... culture; patient ... #moniliformis #blood ... smear #clinical #microscopy ... #microbiology #
Endocarditis Summary

Who?
Infectious:
• Pre-existing valvular disease
• Prosthetic valve
• Congenital heart disease
• IV substance use
• IV catheter
• Recent
Hypercoagulable (APLAS) Microbiology ... : Blood cultures ... 90% of IE cases Culture ... staphylococci Culture ... • Blood cultures
Capnocytophaga spp on Culture and Blood Smear
Associated w/ dog/human oral flora, can cause bacteremia in immunocompromised
and Blood Smear ... immunocompromised pts From blood ... #Blood #Smear # ... clinical #microscopy ... #microbiology
Acinetobacter baumanii on culture and microscopy
 - MacConkey agar - Lactose Negative
 - gram negative (often
and microscopy ... violet esp. from blood ... baumanii #clinical #microscopy ... #microbiology # ... culture
Clostridium spiroforme on microscopy
- anaerobic Gram positive "rod" growing in blood culture
- the "C. dificile" of
spiroforme on microscopy ... rod" growing in blood ... sequencing, from blood ... spiroforme #clinical #microscopy ... #microbiology
Causes of Petechial Rash - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm

Pinpoint areas (less than 2 mm) of hemorrhage, which
Schonlein Purpura - Endocarditis ... Sjogren's, GPA, EGPA, Microscopic ... : • Complete blood ... • Fecal occult blood ... Skin biopsy • Abdominal
Histoplasma capsulatum on culture

Isolated from the blood culture of an HIV patient with a low CD4
capsulatum on culture ... Isolated from the blood ... culture of an HIV ... #clinical #microscopy ... #pathology #microbiology