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11 Cards in this Set
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Mother with recent food borne meningitis or GI disease producing fetus with rash on legs and trunk, bacterial pneumonia, sepsis, granulomas.
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Listeriosis (Listeria monocytogenes)
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Cow worker with contagious dermatitis
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Listeriosis (Listeria monocytogenes)
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Infant with late-onset bacterial meningitis following contact with person with food borne meningitis or GI disease
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Listeriosis (Listeria monocytogenes)
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Prevention of Listeriosis
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Washing and cooking food
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A preschool child or infanct develops a high fever for a few days. As the the fever disappears, a maculopapular rash involving the trunk and nect appears and lasts about 1 day. At low frequency, neurological signs and splenomegaly may occur, dsDNA virus
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Roseola Infantum (Exanthem Subitum, 4th Disease)
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Etiology of Roseola Infantum
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HHV 6 and sometimes HHV 7
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During the summer, a young child with multiple family members presents with a maculopapular rash involving the trunk and neck, fever and sore throat. Virus with ssRNA could be cultured.
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Enteroviral Rash
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Virus is protean
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Enteroviral Rash
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Etiology of Enteroviral rash
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Coxsackie, Echovirue, Picornaviridae, ssRNA
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Diagnosis of Enteroviral Rash
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Culture of picornavirus
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Therapy of Enteroviral rash
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supportive, specific gamma-globulin in infants.
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