Luke Shared "Micro-Not in Sketchy" - 13 Picmonics
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Micro-Not in Sketchy
Whipple's Disease
- Tropheryma Whipplei
- Gram-Positive
- Middle-aged, Caucasian men and Farmers
- Malabsorption
- Mesenteric Nodes
- Arthralgias
- Cardiac Symptoms
- Neurologic Symptoms
- PAS-positive Foamy Macrophages
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Bacteroides Fragilis
- Characteristics
- Gram-Negative
- Anaerobe
- Normal Colonic Flora
- Produces Vitamin K
- Produces Gas in Tissue
- Foul-Smelling
- Signs and Symptoms
- Gastrointestinal Abscess
- Treatment
- Penicillin-Resistant
- Clindamycin
- Metronidazole
2 mins
Moraxella catarrhalis
- Characteristics
- Gram-Negative
- Diplococci
- Oxidase-positive
- Catalase-positive
- Associated Infections
- Otitis Media
- Sinusitis
- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
- Bronchitis
- Laryngitis
2 mins
Haemophilus ducreyi
- Characteristics
- Gram-Negative
- Coccobacillus
- Pleomorphic
- Parallel Short Chains
- School of Fish Appearance on Gram Stain
- Signs and Symptoms
- Chancroid
- Painful Genital Ulcer
- Buboes
- Treatment
- Azithromycin
- Ceftriaxone
2 mins
Syphilis TORCH
- Signs and Symptoms
- Nonspecific TORCH Symptoms
- Often Results in Stillbirth
- Hydrops Fetalis
- Saber Shins
- Notched Teeth
- Saddle Nose
- Blindness
- Deafness
- Hepatitis
3 mins
Ehrlichia (ehrlichiosis) & Anaplasma (anaplasmosis)
- Obligate, Intracellular GNR
- White Tail Deer
- Thrombocytopenia, Leukopenia
- Cytoplasmic Morulae
- Ehrlichiosis: Monocytes | Lone Star Tick
- Anaplasmosis: Granulocytes | Ixodes tick
- Tx: Doxycycline
Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae
- Gram positive
- Bacillus
- Capsule
- Facultative anaerobe
- Turkeys
- Cellulitis
- Penicillin
Aeromonas
- Gram Negative Rod
- Facultative anaerobe
- A. hydrophila, A. veronii
- Diarrhea: Cryptitis, Architectural distortion
- Wound Infections (medicinal leeches) e.g. Necrotizing Fasciitis
- Systemic Disease in Immunocompromised
- Tx: Fluoroquinolones, TMP/SMX
- Freshwater, Brackish Water exposure
Bartonella Quintana / Bacilliformis
- Trench Fever Disease
- Lice
- Homeless Patients
- Doxycycline
- Sandfly
- Peru and Ecuador
- Anemia
- Angiomatosis
Burkholderia
- Soil
- Opportunistic
- B. cepacia Complex
- affects CF & CGD pts.
- causes Catheter-associated UTIs
- Tx: TMP/SMX
- B. pseudomallei
- Pulmonary Melioidosis that resembles TB
- Tx: Ceftazidime
- B. mallei (Glanders)
- Tx: Tetracyclines
Endocarditis
- Nonbacterial Thrombotic Endocarditis
- Nonbacterial Thrombotic Endocarditis
- Hypercoagulable State and Malignancy
- Sterile Vegetations along Lines of Closure
- Mitral Regurgitation
- Libman-Sacks Endocarditis
- Libman-Sacks endocarditis
- Associated with SLE
- Sterile vegetations along surface and undersurface of mitral
- Mitral Regurgitation
- HACEK Endocarditis
- Haemophilus influenzae
- Actinomyces Israelii
- Cardiobacterium
- Eikenella
- Kingella
- Endocarditis with negative blood cultures
Relapsing Fever
- Borrelia
- Spirochete
- Doxycycline
- Borrelia hermsii
- Borrelia hermsii
- Tick
- Borrelia recurrentis
- Borrelia recurrentis
- Lice
Streptococcus Bovis
- Characteristics
- Group D Streptococci
- Catalase-Negative
- Gram Positive Cocci
- Does Not Grow in 6.5% NaCl
- Grows in Bile
- Clinical Features
- Endocarditis
- Bacteremia Associated with Liver Disease
- Bacteremia Associated with Colon Cancer
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