M. tuberculosis and non-tuberculous mycobacteria US Medical PG Flashcards - Medical Study Cards
Master M. tuberculosis and non-tuberculous mycobacteria with OnCourse flashcards. These spaced repetition flashcards are designed for medical students preparing for NEET PG, USMLE Step 1, USMLE Step 2, MBBS exams, and other medical licensing examinations.
M. tuberculosis and non-tuberculous mycobacteria Flashcard Deck - 10 Cards
Flashcard 1: Mycobacteria tuberculosis primarily resides and proliferates in _____ (cell type)
Answer: macrophages
Flashcard 2: Mycobacterium _____ causes cervical lymphadenitis in children
Answer: scrofulaceum
Flashcard 3: What is the gram stain of Mycoplasma pneumoniae?_____
Answer: None (no cell wall)
Flashcard 4: _____ requires selective media such as Middlebrook medium and rapid automated broth cultures.
Answer: M. tuberculosis
Flashcard 5: Mycoplasma pneumoniae
Answer:
Extra: Eaton's agar atypical "walking" pneumonia macrolide or flouroquinolone
Flashcard 6: What are the key associations to remember for cold agglutinin?
Answer: IgM, Mycoplasma, Mononucleosis (EBV)
Flashcard 7: Mycoplasmal pneumonia
Answer: Mycoplasma pneumoniae
Extra: pneumonia with insidious onset, headache, nonproductive cough, diffuse interstitial infiltrate lung X-ray: diffuse interstitial inflitrate macrolide or flouroquinolone <30 y/o, military recruits and prisoners
Flashcard 8: What factor explains Mycoplasma's inability to Gram stain?
Answer: no cell wall!
Flashcard 9: Nocardia spp.
Answer: +
Extra: branching filaments resembling fungi aerobe acid fast pneumonia in immunocompromised, cutaneous infections of trauma in immunocompetent sulfonamides
Flashcard 10: tuberculoid leprosy
Answer: Mycobacterium leprae
Extra: few hairless skin plaques 6 months of dapsone and rifampin
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