Serious & Notifiable Infections — Flashcards
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What is the management of persistent lyme disease symptoms (PTLDS) despite 1 full course of antibiotics?\n_____
What is the most likely diagnosis in a patient presenting with a erythematous, oedematous, and warm wound on their thigh. Your observant medical student notices sinus draining tracts. _____
Hint: diagnosis
_____ reaction is a self-limiting reaction characterised by fevers, chills, tachycardia and mild hypotension that occurs soon after starting antibiotic treatment for lyme disease as a result of cytokine release in response to lipoproteins
In Lyme disease, _____ is the preferred treatment for patients with serious cardiac involvement (e.g. high-grade AV block).
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
In malaria, RBCs rupture as part of the Plasmodium life cycle, resulting in _____ and cyclical fever
Malaria is most common in _____
Hint: region
Plasmodium _____ present with milder disease than P. falciparum
Hint: 3
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