Serious & Notifiable Infections — Flashcards

What is the management of genital herpes in a child? _____

Plasmodium _____ is the most severe cause of malaria

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

What are the stages of pertussis? _____ Paroxysmal Convalescent

Hint: ~1 week

What is the investigation for gonorrhoea with persistent infection resistant to treatment? _____

The convalescent stage of pertussis is characterized by _____

Disseminated gonococcal infection presents with the classic triad of _____, tenosynovitis, & migratory polyarthritis

What is the management for pertussis? _____

What is the likely causative organism in a male that presents with dysuria and white / yellow-green purulent discharge? Thayer-Martin agar growth showed gram-ve diplococci _____

Hint: causative organism

What is the management for gonorrhoea? _____