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Overview of Invasive Fungal Infections and Treatment - Yeasts and Dimorphic Fungi

 - @IDAGRAM

#Yeasts #Fungal #Invasive
Overview of Invasive ... Fungal Infections ... Fungal #Invasive #Infections ... Treatment #Diagnosis #Management ... #Microbiology #
Campylobacter
Clinical 
 • Fever 
 • Abdominal pain 
 • Diarrhea (bloody stools) 
 • Vomiting
Clinical • Fever ... Guillain-Barré syndrome Management ... • Supportive (infection ... Campylobacter #Diagnosis #Management ... #Overview
Cerebral Toxoplasmosis 
- Most comrnon CNS infection in patients with AIDS 
who are not receiving appropriate
Most comrnon CNS infection ... Headache • Fever ... • Seizure Management ... Toxoplasmosis #Diagnosis #Overview ... #Management
Flutycosine - Antibiotics Class Overview
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Mechanism: 5-FC interferes with DNA and protein synthesis.  Only
Antibiotics Class Overview ... B for initial management ... severe fungal infections ... - Virtually never ... Antibiotics #Review #Overview
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
Tularemia - Diagnosis and Management Summary
Francisella tularensis - Aerobic fastidious gram-negative Coccobacillus - Zoonotic Infection
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Diagnosis and Management ... Coccobacillus - Zoonotic Infection ... Ulceroglandular: Fever ... tularensis #diagnosis #management ... infectiousdiseases #microbiology
Disseminated Gonococcal Infection - Diagnosis and Management Summary

Bacteremic spread of the Gram-negative diplococci Neisseria gonorrhoeae. History
Disseminated Gonococcal Infection ... Diagnosis and Management ... syndrome: • Fever ... gonorrhea #Diagnosis #Management ... #Microbiology #
Hantavirus
Pathogen: Hantavirus - Rodents are the primary reservoir
Transmission:
 • Shed in the urine, feces, saliva of
common route of infection ... • Prodrome: fever ... Hantavirus #diagnosis #management ... #treatment #microbiology
Visceral Leishmaniasis - Diagnosis and Management Summary
Species: Leishmania donovani, Leishmania infantum, Leishmania chagasi
Where: South Asia, East
Diagnosis and Management ... and NO, Suppress induction ... 2-6 months • Fever ... Leishmaniasis #diagnosis #management ... infectiousdiseases #microbiology
Tuberculosis Overview

10 million new M. tuberculosis infections/year
Facultative intracellular rod-shaped bacteria
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) accounts for 4.6% of
Tuberculosis Overview ... . tuberculosis infections ... for 4.6% of new infections ... Active TB: • Fever ... TB #Diagnosis #Management