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Rickettsiae: the typhus fever group 

Typhus group Rickettsiae have non-tick vectors. 

 - IDagram
@ID_agram

#Rickettsiae #typhus #fever
fever #species #diagnosis ... treatment #vectors #grouping
Salter-Harris Classification
Salter-Harris Fractures involve the physis and cartilaginous epiphyseal plate near the ends of the long
bones in still growing ... mnemonic SALTR #Diagnosis
Rapidly Growing Mycobacterial Infections

 • Mycobacterium abscessus - Is the most pathogenic and the most likely
Rapidly Growing ... TheIDtrivia #Rapidly #Growing ... Mycobacterium #diagnosis
Lymphomas and Lymphoproliferative Disorders - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Hodgkin Lymphoma ~40% - Characteristic For Reed-Sternberg (RS) Cells
- Differential Diagnosis ... Low Grade - Slow growing ... Intermediate - Faster growing ... pathophysiology #Hematology #Diagnosis
Lyme Disease Pearls

Epidemiology: Ixodes scapularis carrying borrelia 
have spread and are now found in 
growing areas
now found in growing ... old is fine #Diagnosis
Rickettsiae: Spotted Fever group

R. rickettsii 
R. parkeri 
R. philipii / Rickettsia 364D
R. africae 
R. australis 
R.
#SpottedFever #grouping ... #Species #SFG #Diagnosis
Janeway Lesions in Endocarditis seen on Physical Exam 

Dr Supradip Ghosh
@dr_supradip

36 year old male with history
Blood cultures growing ... could have been diagnosed
Capnocytophaga
Pathogen: Capnocytophaga
 • 9 species, C. canimorsus responsible for the majority of infections
 • Gram-negative rod,
anaerobe, SIow growing ... Cholecystitis Diagnosis ... infectiousdiseases #diagnosis
Esophageal Atresia and Tracheoesophageal Fistula- An infant had an apneic episode at birth and received positive-pressure
fistula, type C, was diagnosed ... the infant was growing
Evaluation of a child with a first urinary tract infection.

Why important? 
 - Up to half
may damage the growing ... Pediatrics #Assessment #Diagnosis