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Altered Mental Status - Differential Diagnosis
 • Neurologic: Stroke, Cerebral hypoxia, Cerebral hemorrhage, Seizure, Trauma, TBI,
Seizure, Trauma, TBI ... Thyroid disease • Infectious ... Recreational drugs, Toxic ingestions
Summary of Infections in which Steroids play a role in treatment
 • TB meningitis
 • TB
Summary of Infections ... treatment • TB ... meningitis • TB ... (IRIS) (not an infection ... #Indications #infections
Tuberculosis Testing

LATENT TB
• LTBI is diagnosed when an asymptomatic patient has a positive TST or IGRA
Testing LATENT TB ... developing active infection ... • Tuberculosis infection ... • Recent viral infections ... Extrapulmonary infection
Tuberculosis Overview

10 million new M. tuberculosis infections/year
Facultative intracellular rod-shaped bacteria
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) accounts for 4.6% of
. tuberculosis infections ... for 4.6% of new infections ... mycobacterial infection ... NTM) • Fungal infection ... reactivation of a latent infection
IDSA - Prophylaxis to Prevent First Episode of Opportunistic Disease in HIV-AIDS
 • Pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP)
(TB) • Disseminated ... A and B virus infection ... A virus (HAV) infection ... B virus (HBV) infection ... Opportunistic #Infections
IDSA Aspergillosis Treatment
 • Invasive pulmonary aspergillosis (IPA)
 • CNS aspergillosis
 • Cardiac Aspergillus infection
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Cardiac Aspergillus infection ... • Aspergillus infections ... of eye Infectious
Cavitary Lung Disease - Differential Diagnosis and Workup Algorithm
Acute / Subacute:
 • Acute Infections: Lung abscess,
Subacute: • Acute Infections ... Emboli, Fungal Infection ... ): • Chronic Infections ... : TB, NTB, Fungal
IDSA - Prophylaxis to Prevent First Episode of Opportunistic Disease in HIV-AIDS
 • Pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP)
(TB) • Disseminated ... A and B virus infection ... A virus (HAV) infection ... B virus (HBV) infection ... Opportunistic #Infections
Tuberculosis Overview

10 million new M. tuberculosis infections/year
Facultative intracellular rod-shaped bacteria
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) accounts for 4.6% of
. tuberculosis infections ... for 4.6% of new infections ... mycobacterial infection ... NTM) • Fungal infection ... reactivation of a latent infection
Bugs and infections 
#Food-poisoning #Viral-infection #bacterial-infection
Bugs and infections ... Food-poisoning #Viral-infection ... #bacterial-infection