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Adjuvant therapies in critical care: steroids to treat infectious diseases
 - Severe Community Acquired Pneumonia
Adjuvant therapies in critical ... diseases - Severe ... Corticosteroids #Adjuvant #InfectiousDiseases ... #Infections #Pharmacology ... #Management #Treatment
Chagas Disease (American trypanosomiasis) - Diagnosis and Management Summary
Acute Chagas Disease (8-12 weeks):
 • Mild: Malaise,
Chagas Disease ( ... Disease (8-12 weeks ... • Treatment: ... useful for chronic infection ... #Microbiology #InfectiousDiseases
IDSA Recommendations for Preventing and Treating Chagas Disease (American Trypanosomiasis) in HIV-AIDS
Preventing Clinical Disease
Indication:  Individuals
HIV-AIDS Preventing Clinical ... Chagas Disease ... and preventing clinical ... opportunistic #infections ... #HIVAIDS #pharmacology
Chagas Disease (American trypanosomiasis) - Diagnosis and Management Summary
Acute Chagas Disease (8-12 weeks):
 • Mild: Malaise,
Chagas Disease ( ... Disease (8-12 weeks ... • Treatment: ... useful for chronic infection ... #Microbiology #InfectiousDiseases
Secondary Syphilis Rash
Secondary syphilis is the most contagious of all the stages of this disease, and
with or without treatment ... , but without treatment ... , the infection ... Rash #Diagnosis #Clinical ... #Photo #Dermatology
Mycoses

HISTOPLASMOSIS
• Inhalation of conidia → Yeast → travel to lymph nodes → spread in body
• Bird
duration is 6 to 12 ... has five major clinical ... extrapulmonary disease ... fungal stain of clinical ... ) #Mycoses #InfectiousDiseases
CNS Infection in HIV / AIDS - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Principles of HIV-Associated CNS Opportunistic Infections:
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should be based on clinical ... Antimicrobial treatment ... Demyelinating disease ... vomiting, visual changes ... opportunistic #InfectiousDiseases
Cutaneous larva migrans skin Rash
25 F recent Caribbean vacation, walked barefoot on sand and now with
Diagnosis is clinical ... No treatment is ... one-time dose of 12 ... Diseases Fellowship ... #clinical #photo
SAPHO Syndrome Summary

What?
SAPHO syndrome is a rare chronic inflammatory disorder of bone, joint, and skin characterized
Rheumatic pain Clinical ... Sclerotic bone changes ... causes such as infectious ... and lower jaw Treatment ... osteoarticular and skin disease
Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR) Diagnosis and Management Summary

WHAT?
 • Polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) is a common systemic inflammatory
CLINICAL: • Physical ... headaches, visual changes ... hypothyroidism, infection ... TREATMENT: • The ... mainstay of treatment