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Causes of Culture Negative Abscess - Differential Diagnosis Framework
Consider prior antibiotics as a cause of a
Culture Negative Abscess ... - Differential ... Scedosporium, endemic fungi ... #Differential # ... Diagnosis #InfectiousDiseases
Lung Abscess - Diagnosis and Management Summary

Lung Abscess Etiology:
 • Necrosis of lung parenchyma by a
Summary Lung ... Lung Abscess - Clinical ... Abscess Management ... Prevotella • Fungal ... Abscess Differential
Lesions of the Spinal cord - Spinal Cord Syndromes

Spinal cord lesions can result in permanent neurologic
- Spinal Cord Syndromes ... Spinal stenosis - Abscess ... Brown-Séquard Syndrome ... patients with a long ... #differential #
Waterborne Infections - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Infections that can be acquired from fresh water, brackish water, sea
Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome ... (Mycobacteria abscessus ... Waterborne filamentous fungi ... Blooms (HABs) • Fungi ... mandrillaris • Fungi
Spinal Cord Disorders - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Spinal cord neurological lesion:
Clinical findings:
 • Symptoms and signs below
- Differential ... neurological lesion: Clinical ... TB - Spinal abscess ... hematogenous spread - Fungal ... MCTD, Sjogren syndrome
Concurrent Brain and Lung Lesions
 • Bacteria: Nocardia spp, Strep anginosus, Staph aureus, Klebsiella pneumoniae (hypervirulent),
Concurrent Brain and Lung ... hypervirulent), Lemierre's syndrome ... ) • Fungi: Aspergillus ... Infections #Concurrent #Differential ... Diagnosis #causes #infectiousdiseases
Concurrent Brain and Lung Lesions
 • Bacteria: Nocardia spp, Strep anginosus, Staph aureus, Klebsiella pneumoniae (hypervirulent),
Concurrent Brain and Lung ... hypervirulent), Lemierre's syndrome ... ) • Fungi: Aspergillus ... Infections #Concurrent #Differential ... Diagnosis #causes #infectiousdiseases
Blood Culture-Negative Infective Endocarditis (BCNIE)
Definition: No etiology found after 3 separate blood cultures remain negative for
fastidious bacteria or fungi ... antimicrobials, clinical ... Tropheryma whipplei, Fungi ... antiphospholipid syndrome ... bacteria) and 18S ( fungi
Nontuberculous Mycobacteria (NTM) Infections 

Mycobacterial species other than those belonging to the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex and
Lady Windermere Syndrome ... : • Syndrome of ... Disease: • Clinical ... NTM #Infections #differential ... #diagnosis #infectiousdiseases
Hepatopulmonary Syndrome - Diagnosis and Management Summary
A defect in arterial oxygenation due to a gas exchange
Hepatopulmonary Syndrome ... Summary A defect ... absence of intrinsic lung ... shunt (Type 2) Clinical ... on radioactive lung