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Listeriosis Summary - Listeria Monocytogenes
Pathogen: Listeria Monocytogenes - Gram-positive rod, Aerobic, facultative anaerobe, motile, beta-hemolytic, Non-spore-forming
Risk
Monocytogenes - Gram-positive ... • Pregnancy ... culture (Invasive disease ... diagnosis #management #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 ... • Pregnancy ... culture (Invasive disease ... diagnosis #management #infectiousdiseases ... #treatment #microbiology
Tuberculosis Testing

LATENT TB
• LTBI is diagnosed when an asymptomatic patient has a positive TST or IGRA
patient has a positive ... intermediate risk of disease ... immunocompromised (e.g., AIDS ... • The positive ... #InfectiousDiseases
Invasive Aspergillus (IA) - Diagnosis and Management
Aspergillus is ubiquitous in nature. Most invasive infections are caused
, Advanced HIV/AIDS ... AspGM can be also positive ... this morphology Treatment ... vori Infectious Diseases ... #fungal #infectiousdiseases
CNS Infection in HIV / AIDS - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Principles of HIV-Associated CNS Opportunistic Infections:
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Infection in HIV / AIDS ... Antimicrobial treatment ... Demyelinating disease ... and <25% culture positive ... opportunistic #InfectiousDiseases
Diagnostic Criteria for Sweet Syndrome (Acute Febrile Neutrophilic Dermatosis)
Major criteria 
 1. Abrupt onset of tender
inflammatory disease ... , or pregnancy or ... Excellent response to treatment ... rate >20 mm/h; positive ... C-reactive protein
Mycoses

HISTOPLASMOSIS
• Inhalation of conidia → Yeast → travel to lymph nodes → spread in body
• Bird
extrapulmonary disease ... or meningitic disease ... yeast • At risk: AIDS ... infection have positive ... ) #Mycoses #InfectiousDiseases