Serious & Notifiable Infections — Flashcards

_____ is a bacterial infection associated with tick bites

What is the management for severe P. falciparum malaria? _____

Haematogenous osteomyelitis in children from bacterial seeding from the blood stream to the _____ of a long bone

What is the management of Lyme disease with CNS involvement? _____

HSV-2 remains latent in the _____ ganglion

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

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