Fever in Infants and Children — Flashcards

Flashcard 1: The four symptoms (4S) screening for TB in children with HIV includes: 1. Current _____ 2. Fever 3. Weight loss or failure to gain weight 4. History of _____

Answer: 1. Cough 2. Contact with a TB case

Flashcard 2: Pastia lines or _____ sign is pathognomonic for scarlet fever

Answer: Thompson's

Flashcard 3: Isolation of a child with meningitis is recommended until _____ hrs after the initiation of effective therapy.

Answer: 24

Flashcard 4: Palivizumab is used as _____ prophylaxis in premature infants

Answer: RSV pneumonia

Flashcard 5: Scarlet fever can present with a red, swollen, "_____" tongue,pharyngitis, and a diffuse, "sandpaper-like" rash that spares the face

Answer: strawberry

Flashcard 6: The _____ of roseola infection develops after the fever (fever/rash)

Answer: rash

Flashcard 7: HIV progression is _____ in infants and children

Answer: rapid

Flashcard 8: A **fully immunized** child is one who has received all vaccines due by the age of _____.

Answer: 1 year

Extra: A child is 'fully' immunized if they receive all vaccines due by 1 year of age. They are 'completely' immunized if they receive all vaccines due by 2 years of age.

Flashcard 9: _____ is aka 100 days cough

Answer: Pertussis

Extra: Also known as whooping cough. caused by Bordetella pertussis.

Flashcard 10: A rare, late complication of natural measles infection is _____

Answer: subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE)

Extra: The measles vaccine does not cause SSPE; it prevents it by protecting against natural (wild-type) measles infection. SSPE is caused by a persistent, mutated measles virus in the CNS.