Mycoplasma pneumoniae — Flashcards

Flashcard 1: _____ infection is a cause of atypical pneumonia with high fever (Q fever)

Answer: Coxiella burnetii

Flashcard 2: _____ is the most common cause of atypical pneumonia in young adults

Answer: Mycoplasma pneumoniae

Flashcard 3: What culture is used to grow Mycoplasma pneumoniae?_____

Answer: Eaton agar

Flashcard 4: How is Mycoplasma pneumoniae transmitted?_____

Answer: Inhalation of droplets

Flashcard 5: Mycoplasma pneumoniae

Answer:

Extra: Eaton's agaratypical "walking" pneumoniamacrolide or flouroquinolone

Flashcard 6: What are the key associations to remember for cold agglutinin?

Answer: IgM, Mycoplasma, Mononucleosis (EBV)

Flashcard 7: Mycoplasmal pneumonia

Answer: Mycoplasma pneumoniae

Extra: pneumonia with insidious onset, headache, nonproductive cough, diffuse interstitial infiltratelung X-ray: diffuse interstitial inflitratemacrolide or flouroquinolone<30 y/o, military recruits and prisoners

Flashcard 8: What factor explains Mycoplasma's inability to Gram stain?

Answer: no cell wall!

Flashcard 9: Nocardia spp.

Answer: +

Extra: branching filaments resembling fungiaerobeacid fastpneumonia in immunocompromised, cutaneous infections of trauma in immunocompetentsulfonamides

Flashcard 10: tuberculoid leprosy

Answer: Mycobacterium leprae

Extra: few hairless skin plaques6 months of dapsone and rifampin