Coxiella burnetii — Flashcards

Flashcard 1: Rickettsia spp. is _____ and thus cannot make its own ATP

Answer: obligate intracellular

Flashcard 2: _____ infection is a cause of atypical pneumonia with high fever (Q fever)

Answer: Coxiella burnetii

Flashcard 3: _____ is a Rickettsial disease that can be obtained via aerosolized spores released from tick feces or cattle placenta.

Answer: Q Fever

Flashcard 4: What is the rapid test for diagnosing Legionnaires' disease (Legionella pneumophila)?_____

Answer: **PCR**, Urine antigen test

Flashcard 5: _____ is the most common cause of atypical pneumonia in young adults

Answer: Mycoplasma pneumoniae

Flashcard 6: _____ requires selective media such as Middlebrook medium and rapid automated broth cultures.

Answer: M. tuberculosis

Flashcard 7: What is the most common cause of pneumonia in individuals living in close quarters?_____

Answer: Mycoplasma pneumoniae

Flashcard 8: Mycoplasma pneumoniae

Answer:

Extra: Eaton's agaratypical "walking" pneumoniamacrolide or flouroquinolone

Flashcard 9: What are the key associations to remember for cold agglutinin?

Answer: IgM, Mycoplasma, Mononucleosis (EBV)

Flashcard 10: Mycoplasmal pneumonia

Answer: Mycoplasma pneumoniae

Extra: pneumonia with insidious onset, headache, nonproductive cough, diffuse interstitial infiltratelung X-ray: diffuse interstitial inflitratemacrolide or flouroquinolone<30 y/o, military recruits and prisoners