Serious & Notifiable Infections — Flashcards

If there is still a strong suspicion of Lyme disease in patients with a -ve antibody ELISA test who have been symptomatic for ≥12 weeks → _____

Rarely, lyme disease can cause serious complications such as: Neurological: _____, Meningitis, Radiculopathy Rheumatological: Inflammatory arthritis Cardiac:: Heart block, Pericarditis

What is the initial management of osteomyelitis with signs of sepsis? _____

How is Lyme disease diagnosed in patients WITHOUT erythema migrans? _____ followed by an Immunoblot test if positive or equivocal

Anopheles mosquito injects _____ into the bloodstream, which invade hepatocytes, mature into schizonts, and rupture/release merozoites into the blood stream

P. _____ & P. ovale form dormant hypnozoites, which can reactivate weeks-to-years later

Plasmodium _____ is the most severe cause of malaria

Malaria is most common in _____

Hint: region

The incubation period of malaria is _____-30 days, consider alternative diagnosis if < time

In malaria, RBCs rupture as part of the Plasmodium life cycle, resulting in _____ and cyclical fever