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MOA if azoles

Inhibit cytochrome p450, prevent ergosterol synthesis

Spectrum of fluconazole

Candida, cryptococcus, coccidiodomycosis

Candida resistant to fluconazole

Maybe: glabrata, guilliermondii, rugosa


Always R: krusei

Spectrum of itraconazole

Histo, blasto, aspergillus, Candida, coccidio, cryptococcus

Spectrum of voriconazole

Aspergillus, Candida, scedosporium, fusarium, cryptococcus, histo, blasto, coccidio


Does not cover mucor

Spectrum of posaconazole

Candida (including krusei), crypto, histo, blasto, coccidio, aspergillus


Also covers mucor

Isavuconazole spectrum

Aspergillus and mucormycosis


Candida, crypto, histo, blasto, coccidio

Echinocandin MOA

Beta 1,3 glucan synthase inhibition - prevent cell wall growth

Echinocandin spectrum

Good for Candida and aspergillus (fungistatic- use as add on or ppx)


Sometimes parapsilosis and guilliermondii are R


Not for crypto, histo, blasto, coccidio

Amphotericin MOA

Binds to ergosterol, causes depolarization

Spectrum of amphotericin

Most Candida (except lusitaniae), crypto, blasto, coccidio, histo, most aspergillus (except terreus), and mucor

What anti fungal to use in pregnancy

Amphotericin

Flucytosine MOA

Pyrimidine analog, block dna synthesis

Spectrum of 5FC

Crypto meningitis


Difficult to treat Candida

Vaccination for hepb in dialysis patients to

Check HbsAb annually and boost if becomes negative

When to give tetanus immune globulin

Less than 3 vaccinations with dirty wound (clean wound only needs td)

Types of extended spectrum beta lactamases

TEM, SHV, CTX-M

Antifungals with good cns penetration

Fluc, vori, ampho, 5FC

M184v

R lamivudine and emtricitabine, enhances activity of zdv and tdf

K65r

R all nrti except zdv

Gpc clusters, catalase +, coagulase neg

Cons, micro coccus, kocuria

Gpc in pairs and chains, catalase neg, pyr+, alpha or gamma hemolysis

Enterococcus

GPC in pairs/chains, catalase neg, pyr +, beta hemolytic

Strep pyogenes

Gpc in pairs and chains, catalase neg. pyr neg, alpha hemolytic

Strep pneumoniae

Gpc long chains catalase neg, alpha or gamma hemolysis

Step viridans

Gpc long chains catalase neg, beta hemolytic

Groups B, C, F, G strep

Double quotidian fever (q12 hrs) consider

Adult stills, visceral leishmaniasis, gonococcal endocarditis, rarely malaria

Q fever transmission routes

Sheep, goats, cattle, body fluids, infected milk, ticks

Treatment of coxiella burnetti endocarditis

Doxy plus hydroxychloroquine plus valve removal

Clinical syndrome of Q fever

Influenza like illness, painless hepatitis, atypical pneumonia,, prolonged fuo, endocarditis

Ddx fuo returning traveler

Malaria, typhoid fever, acute hiv, kala-azar (leishmaniasis), amebic liver abscess, Tb, brucellosis, meloidosis

Ddx asymmetric polyarthritis

Dgi, relapsing polychondritis, rheumatic fever, reiters syndrome, psoriatic arthritis, ibd, behcets, whipples disease

Treatment of dgi

Ctx 1g plus azithro x 5-7 days

Treatment gonococcal conjunctivitis

Ctx 1 g plus azithro

Outpatient treatment of PID

Ctx 250mg x1, doxy bid x14 days, +\- flagyl 500mg bid x14 days

NTM that can cause disseminated disease

Mac, kansasii, abscessus, chelonae, haemophilum

Ddx pharyngitis

GAS, arcanobacterium, acute hiv, secondary syphilis, gonorrhea, herpes, adenovirus (w/conjunctivitis), HFMD (coxsackievirus), tularemia, fusobacterium

Anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis associated with

Ovarian teratoma in 50%

Skin lesions like mulluscum in a rice farmer from Thailand or India

Talaromyces

Looks like cns toxo in a patient from Brazil or Chile

Consider Chagoma

HACEK

Haemophilus parainfluenzae


Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans and aphrophilus


Cardiobacterium hominis


Eikenella corrodens


Kingella kingae

Treatment strep endocarditis

Pcn mic <\= 0.12: pcn or ctx x4w or pcn or ctx plus gent x2 weeks


Pcn mic >0.12 and <0.5: pcn or ctx x4 weeks plus gent for 2 weeks


Pcn mic >0.5: amp plus gent x 6 weeks

Treatment nutritionally variant strep endocarditis (abiotropha or granulicatella)

Pcn or amp x4 weeks plus gent x2-4 weeks

Treatment of staph aureus IE prosthetic valve

Mssa: naf/oxa +rifampin x6weeks + gent x2 weeks


Mrsa: vanc + rifampin x6weeks + gent x2 weeks

Ddx saddle nose

Lepromatous leprosy, syphilis, leishmaniasis, relapsing polychondritis, gpa

Q151m

R to all nrti except tenofovir

Bacterial diarrhea transmitted person to person

Salmonella typhi and shigellosis

Recent bird exposure, low wbc, horders spots (like rose spots but on the face), headache, splenomegaly

Psittacosis

NTM hospital associated outbreaks

Chelonae, fotuitum, abscessus

Weils syndrome

Leptospirosis causing renal failure and pulmonary hemorrhage