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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 ... diagnosis #management #infectiousdiseases
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 ... diagnosis #management #infectiousdiseases
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.
Mycoses

HISTOPLASMOSIS
• Inhalation of conidia → Yeast → travel to lymph nodes → spread in body
• Bird
presents with acute ... pulmonary symptoms • Rheumatologic ... to 12 weeks for acute ... have positive blood ... ) #Mycoses #InfectiousDiseases
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
CPPD vs Gout

== CPPD == 

Think About CPPD When:
 • Self-limited synovitis after surgery/trauma (> 65
• Weakly positively ... • Gram stain, culture ... diagnose concomitant infection ... Gram stain and culture ... Gout #Comparison #rheumatology
Endocarditis - Overview and Differential Diagnosis Framework

Who?
Infectious:
• Pre-existing valvular disease
• Prosthetic valve
• Congenital heart disease
• IV
Infectious: • Pre-existing ... devices (CIED) Non-Infectious ... are positive in ... Positive: • Acute ... Diagnosis #cardiology #infectiousdiseases
Diagnostic Criteria for Sweet Syndrome (Acute Febrile Neutrophilic Dermatosis)
Major criteria 
 1. Abrupt onset of tender
Sweet Syndrome (Acute ... inflammatory disease, or pregnancy ... gastrointestinal tract infection ... rate >20 mm/h; positive ... Sweet #Syndrome #Acute
Pseudogout Summary - Calcium Pyrophosphate Deposition Disease (CPPD)

Pathophysiology:
Pyrophosphate produced by chondrocytes likely precipitates with calcium to
Acute CPP Crystal ... shaped • Weakly positively ... • Gram stain, culture ... diagnose concomitant infection ... Deposition #Disease #Rheumatology