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Listeriosis Summary - Listeria Monocytogenes
Pathogen: Listeria Monocytogenes - Gram-positive rod, Aerobic, facultative anaerobe, motile, beta-hemolytic, Non-spore-forming
Risk
Invasive disease) • CSF ... (CNS Infection) ... / CT if focal symptoms ... 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
Invasive disease) • CSF ... (CNS Infection) ... / CT if focal symptoms ... diagnosis #management #infectiousdiseases ... #treatment #microbiology
CNS Infection in HIV / AIDS - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Principles of HIV-Associated CNS Opportunistic Infections:
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Antimicrobial treatment ... status, and focal neurologic ... confusion, and focal neurologic ... opportunistic #InfectiousDiseases ... #Neurology
Tularemia - Diagnosis and Management Summary
Francisella tularensis - Aerobic fastidious gram-negative Coccobacillus - Zoonotic Infection
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Coccobacillus - Zoonotic Infection ... eye; unilateral symptoms ... Culture & GS, PCR Treatment ... #infectiousdiseases ... #microbiology
Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS)
Acute autoimmune demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy that presents with rapidly progressive flaccid weakness
Epidemiology:
 • Incidence: 1
to a preceding infection ... surgery, trauma, and bone-marrow ... than one after symptom ... and cauda equina TREATMENT ... diagnosis #management #neurology
Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome (PRES) Overview

Clinico-Radiological Syndrome, characterized by:
 • Headache
 • Seizures
 • Altered mental
may precede the neurologic ... Transplantation including bone ... Neurological symptoms ... Diagnosis: • Infection ... epilepticus Treatment
Nontuberculous Mycobacteria (NTM) Infections 

Mycobacterial species other than those belonging to the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex and
massiliense in CF ... ) - Bone Marrow ... • Clinical (Symptoms ... diagnosis • Microbiologic ... differential #diagnosis #infectiousdiseases
Sporotrichosis - Sporothrix schenckii - Diagnosis and Management Summary
Sources: 
 • Landscaping, Christmas tree farming, Rose
Sporotrichosis - Symptoms ... CSF similar to TB ... schenckii #diagnosis #infectiousdiseases ... #treatment #management ... #microbiology #
Summary of Monkeypox: Current Knowledge as of May 2022
 • What is Monkeypox?
 • Origins of
period (time from infection ... to symptom onset ... vesicles → pustules → scabs ... management #virus #infectiousdiseases ... #microbiology
Mycoses

HISTOPLASMOSIS
• Inhalation of conidia → Yeast → travel to lymph nodes → spread in body
• Bird
by culture or serology ... MC: CNS CSF: • ... India ink prep CSF ... Diagnosis: • Serology ... ) #Mycoses #InfectiousDiseases