Infectious Disease — Flashcards

What is a complication of roseola? _____

Bronchiolitis presents with _____ rather than stridor

Hint: PE finding

Indications for neuroimaging in a child with headache: - history of _____ - presence of numbness, tingling, or focal neurologic signs - history of headache that causes awakening from sleep - history of increasing headache frequency

What is the likely diagnosis in a child that presents with scattered petechiae with isolated thrombocytopenia and enlarged platelets following a viral infection? _____

What CXR finding is characteristic of epiglottitis? _____

3 yo recent immigrant acutely ill; sitting up and leaning forward, drooling, toxic appearing: _____

Hint: Diagnosis and next step?

Measles virus (rubeola) is characterized by a prodrome of cough, coryza, conjunctivitis, and koplik spots, followed by a maculopapular rash that spreads in a(n) _____ pattern

Unilateral, purulent rhinorrhea in a young child is often due to a(n) _____

Likely organism in a child with rapid-onset high fever, gastroenteritis and mucoid-bloody diarrhea +/- seizures = _____

Hint: organism

- Catarrhal: vague non-specific infectious → rhinorrhea and low-grade fever - Paroxysmal: coughing spells interspersed with inspiratory "whoop" - Resolution _____

Hint: Diagnosis?