Who wants a box of chocolates when you can have a petri dish of bacteria?
PMN filled with Neisseria gonorrhoeae => Gram- diplococci, glucose fermenter, non maltose fermenter, oxidase positive.
Very inflammatory response: exudate with high number of PMN. TX with ceftriaxone and always ALWAYS test for Chlamydia trachomatis (since is more common and exudate is similar)
How to tell them apart?
N. gonorrhoeae’s exudate is more purulent than C. trachomatis.
N. gonorrhoeae’s exudate is “greenish-yellowish” but C. trachomatis’s is whiter.
N. gonorrhoeae is always inside a PMN while C. trachomatis is not
Grows in Thayer-Martin medium (chocolote agar + antibiotics, is a selective medium)
Gram+, anaerobe, spore forming, motile, rod.
Neurotoxin: Tetanus Toxin blocks glycine and GABA and produces a SPASTIC PARALYSIS.
TETANUS
Opisthotonus
Risus Sardonicus
Severe mucle spasm
Elementary body of Chlamydia trachomatis in a conjunctival scrapping in a patient with trachoma: Trachoma is the MCC of preventive global blindness
Side effects of drugs commonly given to the elderly
For sleep aid do not give barbituates or diphenhydramine (1st gen antihistamine). Instead, give Ramelteon.
Recurrente infections with catalase positive organisms in Chronic Granulomatose Disease (CGD)
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how am i always so behind in my work ??
(i do know the answer to this, it’s called procrastination lmao)
Simplified version of Dopamine’s dose-dependent MAJOR effects:
low doses - activates D1 receptors (Gs) - vasodilates renal blood vessels*
med.doses - activates B1 receptors (Gs) - increases heart rate/contractility etc..
high doses - activates A1 (Gq) - vasoconstricts,
*increased renal perfusion, GFR, also vasodilates mesenteric and coronary vessels
source: http://reference.medscape.com/drug/intropin-dopamine-342435
12.3.17
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