Treponema pallidum US Medical PG Flashcards - Medical Study Cards
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Treponema pallidum Flashcard Deck - 10 Cards
Flashcard 1: Which cause of sterile urethritis does not gram stain well?_____
Answer: Chlamydia trachomatis
Flashcard 2: Which stain is used to best visualize Chlamydia?_____
Answer: Giemsa stain
Flashcard 3: What is the vector for Endemic Typhus (Rickettsia typhi)?_____
Answer: Fleas
Flashcard 4: Which stain is best used to visualize Rickettsiae?_____
Answer: Giemsa
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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