Infectious Diseases — Flashcards

If a previously healthy patient with CAP has not received any antibiotics in the past _____ months, a course of macrolide or doxycycline is given

Common infectious causes of orchitis in older adults include _____ and Pseudomonas

Babesiosis can cause _____, which results in hemoglobinuria and jaundice

Stage _____ HIV is characterized by recurrent bacterial infections. CD4+ count drops to < 350

In _____, Leptospira interrogans travels through the blood, causing dysfunction in the kidneys and liver

Nocardia can present with _____-like symptoms and cavitary lesions in the lungs

_____ and Colitis are GI complications that are often seen alongside CMV Retinitis in immunosuppressed patients.

Individuals who are _____ will have a herpes zoster (shingles) rash that crosses midline and should be tested for HIV

_____ due to Legionella pneumophila is characterized by a lobar* pneumonia

Klebsiella can be remembered by its "three A's"; _____, aspiration and abscesses