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Chagas Disease (American trypanosomiasis) - Diagnosis and Management Summary
Acute Chagas Disease (8-12 weeks):
 • Mild: Malaise,
American trypanosomiasis ... Diagnosis and Management ... Mild: Malaise, fever ... useful for chronic infection ... #Microbiology #
Endocarditis checklist
Initial evaluation
 • Peripheral blood cultures (three sets at three different sites)
 • Additional culture
for metastatic infection ... • Persistent fever ... • Aggressive management ... metastatic foci of infection ... Josh Farkas @PulmCrit
Endocarditis Summary

Who?
Infectious:
• Pre-existing valvular disease
• Prosthetic valve
• Congenital heart disease
• IV substance use
• IV catheter
• Recent
Infectious: • Pre-existing ... Hypercoagulable (APLAS) Microbiology ... night sweats, fever ... • Infectious insult ... #diagnosis #management
Q Fever (Coxiella Burnetii) - Acute vs Chronic Diagnosis and Management

Acute:
 - Self-limited flu-like illness
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Q Fever (Coxiella ... Diagnosis and Management ... Hepatitis - Acute endocarditis ... #microbiology ... #diagnosis #management
Tularemia - Diagnosis and Management Summary
Francisella tularensis - Aerobic fastidious gram-negative Coccobacillus - Zoonotic Infection
 •
Diagnosis and Management ... Coccobacillus - Zoonotic Infection ... Ulceroglandular: Fever ... Treatment: • Severe Disease ... infectiousdiseases #microbiology
Chagas Disease (American trypanosomiasis) - Diagnosis and Management Summary
Acute Chagas Disease (8-12 weeks):
 • Mild: Malaise,
American trypanosomiasis ... Diagnosis and Management ... Mild: Malaise, fever ... useful for chronic infection ... #Microbiology #
Chagas Disease - American Trypanosomiasis - Diagnosis and Management Summary
Chagas disease (American trypanosomiasis) is an infectious
Diagnosis and Management ... ) is an infectious ... family Route of infections ... mild (malaise, fever ... #Diagnosis #Management
Mycoses

HISTOPLASMOSIS
• Inhalation of conidia → Yeast → travel to lymph nodes → spread in body
• Bird
Increased protein level ... normal glucose level ... arthritis, and endocarditis ... Local Disease: ... Fungal #Diagnosis #Management
Myasthenic Crisis Checklist - Myasthenia Gravis

Evaluation 
 - Chest X-ray and lung ultrasound (exclude other lung
possible - Infectious ... workup or TSH level ... if symptoms of infection ... ://twitter.com/PulmCrit ... MyastheniaGravis #Checklist #Management
Capnocytophaga
Pathogen: Capnocytophaga
 • 9 species, C. canimorsus responsible for the majority of infections
 • Gram-negative rod,
the majority of infections ... • Cellulitis: Fever ... 13%), Pneumonia, Endocarditis ... Capnocytophaga #canimorsus #microbiology ... infectiousdiseases #diagnosis #management