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Travel History - Clues to Infectious Disease Diagnosis in a Traveler 
 • Where did you
Disease Diagnosis ... association • How long ... → Leptospirosis ... Rabies, cat scratch fever ... Blood transfusion
Fever in the Returning Traveler - History
Exposure History:
 • Street foods / Local water: entenc fever,
• Arthropod bites ... toxoplasmosis • Blood ... tattoos, piercings, injections ... schistosomiasis, leptospirosis ... #History #diagnosis
Bilateral B-Lines in case of Pneumonia on Lung POCUS

Young healthy pt with fever/dyspnea. POCUS lung exam
healthy pt with fever ... immunosuppression, travel ... /lung sliding: Pulmonary ... interstitial diffuse infections ... NOT definitively diagnose
Lung Abscess - Diagnosis and Management Summary

Lung Abscess Etiology:
 • Necrosis of lung parenchyma by a
Lung Abscess - Diagnosis ... polymicrobial infection ... anemia • Sputum/Blood ... cultures • CXR ... #Abscess #pulmonary
Approach to Eosinophilic Lung Diseases
 • Acute Eosinophilic Pneumonia (< 1 wk) - ~30yo, M; Recent
, CNS, skin • Infectious ... Fungal, parasites; Travel ... #Diseases #pulmonary ... #differential #diagnosis ... #comparison #table
Tuberculosis Overview

10 million new M. tuberculosis infections/year
Facultative intracellular rod-shaped bacteria
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) accounts for 4.6% of
Active TB: • Fever ... Tuberculosis Diagnosis ... and Culture • CXR ... disease • Check CXR ... #Management #Treatment
Tuberculosis Overview

10 million new M. tuberculosis infections/year
Facultative intracellular rod-shaped bacteria
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) accounts for 4.6% of
Active TB: • Fever ... Tuberculosis Diagnosis ... and Culture • CXR ... disease • Check CXR ... #Management #Treatment
Endocarditis checklist
Initial evaluation
 • Peripheral blood cultures (three sets at three different sites)
 • Additional culture
any indwelling line ... endocarditis w/ septic pulmonary ... • Persistent fever ... #criticalcare #diagnosis ... #management
Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia (COP)

Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia Overview:
 • Idiopathic form of organizing pneumonia
 • formerly BOOP
cough, dyspnea, fever ... - Imaging: • CXR ... • Pneumonia: blood ... #ILD #diagnosis ... #management
Bronchiectasis - Summary

What?
• Bronchiectasis is derived from the Greek words bronckos meaning airway and ectasis meaning
run-down or tired • Fevers ... in the adjacent lung ... of the affected lung ... parenchyma Diagnosis ... abnormal in adults • Blood