Tropical Medicine — Flashcards

_____ is a helminth that can result in megaloblastic anemia due to B12 (cobalamin) deficiency

ARDS criteria: - Respiratory failure within _____ of insult - Bilateral opacities on chest imaging - Decreased PaO2/FiO2 ratio - Symptoms not fully explained by HF or fluid overload

Opportunistic infections with _____ are seen with Hyper-IgM syndrome, most commonly caused by a defective CD40L

Hint: what bug

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

In patients with cerebral toxoplasmosis, ART should ideally be started within _____ weeks of initiating anti-toxoplasma therapy.

Treatment of Tularemia includes _____ and gentamicin

Prophylactic platelet transfusion in Dengue is limited to patients with severe thrombocytopenia _____/mm3

A patient of dengue hemorrhagic fever can be discharged if there is absence of fever for at least _____ hours without the use of antipyretic drugs

The foul-smelling diarrhea seen in a _____ infection is due to steatorrhea* (fatty diarrhea)

Hint: what parasite's