22 results
Stool Cultures - Indications in Diarrhea
Patient Categories to Order Stool Cultures On:
 • Persisting 1 week
Stool Cultures - ... IBD, age > 70, pregnant ... outbreak) Few infectious ... causes of acute ... 196 (1.5%) had a positive
Listeriosis Summary - Listeria Monocytogenes
Pathogen: Listeria Monocytogenes - Gram-positive rod, Aerobic, facultative anaerobe, motile, beta-hemolytic, Non-spore-forming
Risk
Monocytogenes - Gram-positive ... • CNS infection ... available • Blood culture ... ) • CSF (CNS Infection ... infectiousdiseases #treatment #microbiology
Listeriosis Summary - Listeria Monocytogenes
Pathogen: Listeria Monocytogenes - Gram-positive rod, Aerobic, facultative anaerobe, motile, beta-hemolytic, Non-spore-forming
Risk
Monocytogenes - Gram-positive ... • CNS infection ... available • Blood culture ... ) • CSF (CNS Infection ... infectiousdiseases #treatment #microbiology
Blood culture contaminants
Grouped by gram negative vs gram positive vs other as well as never/maybe/probably
Some additional
Blood culture contaminants ... negative vs gram positive ... febrilepodcast] #ID #Infectious ... Diseases #Infections ... #Microbiology #
Algorithm for the Evaluation of Acute Diarrhea (< 7 days)
Are the following present?
   1.
Evaluation of Acute ... Routine stool culture ... HIV infection or ... while awaiting culture ... positive 2.
Fusarium on Culture and Microscopy
Collecting a sample for culture from the eye is never fun, but
Fusarium on Culture ... never fun, but a positive ... fungal culture ... Eye infections are ... Microscopy #clinical #microbiology
A retrospective cohort study of blood culture results and microbiology laboratory charges for pediatric cases of
study of blood culture ... results and microbiology ... skin/soft tissue infection ... deemed to be true positives ... Repeat cultures.
Endocarditis Summary

Who?
Infectious:
• Pre-existing valvular disease
• Prosthetic valve
• Congenital heart disease
• IV substance use
• IV catheter
• Recent
Infectious: • Pre-existing ... devices (CIED) Non-Infectious ... Hypercoagulable (APLAS) Microbiology ... are positive in ... (+): Acute:
13 Dangerous Causes of Headache:
 - subarachnoid hemorrhage: family history, PCKD, known berry aneurysm, sudden and
recent head/face infection ... head in dependent position ... or at work) - acute ... preeclampsia: late pregnancy ... Killers #Lethal #Fatal
Disseminated Gonococcal Infection - Diagnosis and Management Summary

Bacteremic spread of the Gram-negative diplococci Neisseria gonorrhoeae. History
Disseminated Gonococcal Infection ... symptomatic genital infection ... sets of blood cultures ... afebrile • Acute ... Diagnosis #Management #Microbiology