Mycoplasma pneumoniae US Medical PG Flashcards - Medical Study Cards
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Mycoplasma pneumoniae Flashcard Deck - 10 Cards
Flashcard 1: _____ infection is a cause of atypical pneumonia with high fever (Q fever)
Answer: Coxiella burnetii
Flashcard 2: _____ is the most common cause of atypical pneumonia in young adults
Answer: Mycoplasma pneumoniae
Flashcard 3: What culture is used to grow Mycoplasma pneumoniae?_____
Answer: Eaton agar
Flashcard 4: How is Mycoplasma pneumoniae transmitted?_____
Answer: Inhalation of droplets
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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