Infectious Disease — Flashcards

Hand, foot, and mouth disease, caused by the Coxackie A virus, can manifest as herpangina (multiple small vesicles) in the _____ pharynx

What is the most common bacterial infection in febrile infants? _____

Child tugging at a painful ear for the last day; low-grade fever, erythema, bulging membrane, loss of light reflex; immobile tympanic membrane on pneumatic insufflation? _____

Hint: Diagnosis and treatment?

< 2 yo in the winter with initial URI symptoms (fever, stuffy nose) followed by wheezing and cough is suggestive of _____

Hint: diagnosis

Infant pneumonia with "staccato cough" = _____

Hint: bacteria

What is the most effective way to prevent the spread of viral diarrhea? _____

What is the next step in management of a child after a febrile seizure with no neurologic abnormalities? _____

What is the treatment of croup (laryngotracheobronchitis)? Mild croup → _____ Moderate croup (stridor at rest) → _____

Hint: two

Child with over a week of rhinorrhea, initially seemed to improve but now worsening; purulent discharge bilaterally, febrile, facial tenderness? _____ _____

Hint: Diagnosis?

_____ is a viral respiratory infection caused by parainfluenzavirus that involves a seal-like barking cough