High Yield Warm-up Questions: Infectious Diseases, Part B GENERAL PRINCIPLES SET 7: INFECTIOUS DISEASES, PART B List the mode of transmission for the following: • T.cruzii: • Toxoplasma: • Giardia lamblia: • Taenia solium tapeworm: • Taenia solium cysticercosis: List the differential for a 30-year-old female with malodourous vaginal discharge How would you differentiate between them? Compare and contrast Plasmodium falciparum with Babesia microti in terms of geography, diagnostic forms in RBC’s and mode of transmission List the major genome types for all viruses 1 High Yield Warm-up Questions: Infectious Diseases, Part B List the live viral vaccines What types of patients would these vaccines be contraindicated in? A 12-year-old male presents to the pediatrician with an asynchronous vesicular rash on his trunk and extremities Vaccination history is incomplete Discuss: • Causative agent: • Mode of transmission: • Site of latency: • Reactivation: Draw the influenza virus and label the following: • Genome (nucleic acid, segmented or non) • Structure • Glycoproteins List viruses that can cause hepatocellular carcinoma Compare them based on genome type and acute and chronic disease A 3rd year resident was just diagnosed with HBV from a needle stick in the ER Discuss the diagnosis of this infection via serology Differentiate between acute, chronic, chronic active and immune High Yield Warm-up Questions: Infectious Diseases, Part B 10 The addition of clavulanic acid to drugs such as amoxicillin or ticarcillin provides what advantage in treatment of certain bacterial infections? 11 Increased production of PABA or alteration of dihydropteroate synthase confers resistance to what group of antibiotics? 12 A patient is started on an antibiotic and cautioned that they may experience a metallic taste in their mouth due to the drug and should avoid alcohol while on the drug Identify the drug 13 Which antifungal drug prevents the formation of dTMP? 14 Patients infected with influenza A virus are most likely to be treated by a drug with what viral target? 15 Resistance to acyclovir is most often associated with decrease or loss of what enzyme? These question sets are intended to be completed before viewing the High Yield course lectures Video explanations can be found on the Warm-up Questions page within the online High Yield course For further review of the topics covered in this set, refer to the following lectures: Infectious Diseases: • Parasitology • DNA Viruses • RNA Viruses • Antibacterials • Other Antibiotics 3 ... to be treated by a drug with what viral target? 15 Resistance to acyclovir is most often associated with decrease or loss of what enzyme? These question sets are intended to be completed before...High Yield Warm-up Questions: Infectious Diseases, Part B List the live viral vaccines What types of patients would these vaccines be contraindicated in? A 12-year-old male presents... explanations can be found on the Warm-up Questions page within the online High Yield course For further review of the topics covered in this set, refer to the following lectures: Infectious Diseases: