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#idboardreview A businessman develops diarrhea while traveling to Thailand.The illness progresses to passage of grossly bloody stools. Sick x3d when returns home. +bloody stools, weak, febrile, tachycardic, stool:gull wing shaped GNR. Treatment? #medEd #idmedEd #idtwitter 
Single dose of azithromycin (1 gram). Acute febrile & dysenteric diarrhea in single adult traveling to a developing region is most likely caused by strains of Shigella, #Campylobacter or Salmonella. Campylobacter shown here Ref pic casereports.bmj.com/content/2014/b…
Treatment of choice must be guided by antibiograms of likely organisms in geographic region where pathogen was acquired. In South Asia ciprofloxacin-resistant Campylobacter is most likely cause of febrile dysentery. Tinidazole is useful for giardiasis not Campylobacter diarrhea
#IdBoardReview 20 F pet store worker presents w/ fever, headache, nausea, vomiting, abd pain & bloody diarrhea. They got new puppies last wk. Stool gram stain shown R to macrolide & FQ. Diagnosis? #medEd #idmedEd #IDTwitter
#campylobacter Incubation period is typically 2-5days. Sx: diarrhea (frequently bloody), abdominal pain, fever, nausea, and sometimes vomiting. More severe illness can occur, including bloodstream infection and symptoms mimicking acute appendicitis or ulcerative colitis.
#idboardreview 30 F hiv+ 🐄 🐑 farmer, hx of prosthetic aortic valve, relapsing fever, chills, myalgia for weeks now present w/ fever & back pain. MRI lumbar diskitis. Biopsy small aerophilic curved GNR. Diagnosis? #medEd #idmedEd #IDtwitter
#campylobacter fetus diskitis
#campylobacter fetus
#idboardreview 65 M&F couple present with fever & diarrhea for 2 days. They ate chicken liver pate at a restaurant last week. Diagnosis? #medEd #idmedEd
#campylobacter sp small, curved gram negative rods (S or C shaped or gull wing shaped) cause GI illness lasts from 1-7 days. Diarrhea is generally bloody and is associated with abdominal pain.
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#Inktober2020 day 1 in my #PathogenPortraits series. After years of studying this in cow bums, it had to be #EcoliO157
It causes bloody diarrhoea & if that wasn't bad enough, sometimes kidney failure & death. More info @
nhsinform.scot/illnesses-and-…
#sciart #microbiology
#Inktober2020 day 1 in my #PathogenPortraits series. After years of studying this in cow bums, it had to be #EcoliO157
It causes bloody diarrhoea & if that wasn't bad enough, sometimes kidney failure & death. More info @
nhsinform.scot/illnesses-and-…
#sciart #microbiology
#Inktober2020 day 2 in my #PathogenPortraits series. 'The Clap' (Neisseria gonorrhoeae) b/c who doesn't 💚 green purulent discharge?
It's sexually transmitted but also from mother->newborn during birth to cause blindness.
More info: microbewiki.kenyon.edu/index.php/Neis…
#sciart #microbiology
It's sexually transmitted but also from mother->newborn during birth to cause blindness.
More info: microbewiki.kenyon.edu/index.php/Neis…
#sciart #microbiology
#Inktober2020 day 3 in my #PathogenPortraits series. The very 💛golden💛 #MRSA.
Minds it's own business on your skin, but if it gets inside, methicillin won't do a thing to stop it.
More info at mrsaactionuk.net/MRSA.html #sciart #microbiology
Minds it's own business on your skin, but if it gets inside, methicillin won't do a thing to stop it.
More info at mrsaactionuk.net/MRSA.html #sciart #microbiology
