Tintinalli Infectious Diseases MCQs
Tintinalli Infectious Diseases multiple choice questions MCQs for ACEM Fellowship
Category Infectious Disease
Antimicrobial Dosing and Kill Characteristics
Dosing is different to non-critically ill patients
Different antimicrobials have different kill characteristics, which can be demonstrated on a concentration vs time graph for antibiotic activity
SARS, MERS and the Coronaviruses
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) are novel coronaviruses that cause severe viral pneumonia in humans
Most coronavirus infections are mild respiratory tract infections
The perfect human pathogen?
With winter comes norovirus. This Q&A post tests your knowledge of what may be the perfect human pathogen.
Fever in a spinal patient
A woman had a spinal injury from a car crash at 2 years of age; she since had spinal surgery and has a baclofen pump. Now she has a fever - what's the cause?
Escaping bugs
A 13-year old female with pyelonephritis is being treated with ceftriaxone. Enterobacter cloacae is cultured. Got a problem with that?
Sick, Shocked and Sunburned?
A 15 year-old female with fever, vomiting, diarrhoea, whole body 'sunburn' and hypotension. It's over to you...
CAP Challenge!
Australia CAP - 'Microbial Mystery' of case-based Q&As focusing on causative organisms and antibiotic selection.
Fulminant pneumococcal pneumonia
A 27 year old female with metastatic ovarian cancer for whom treatment options have been exhausted arrives in the ED in extremis.
Gram Negative Diplococci
21 year-old presenting to the emergency department with fevers and agitation. His lumbar puncture confirms Gram Negative Diplococci
Kaposi Sarcoma
Kaposi Sarcoma: An idiopathic pigmented sarcoma of the skin. Red nodules of varying size develop in the skin initially appearing on the sole of the foot then affecting the hands, progressing to affect the rest of the body.
Moriz Kaposi
Moriz 'Kohn' Kaposi (1837 – 1902) was a Hungarian physician and dermatologist. Provided first, descriptions of systemic lupus erythematosus (1869/1872); Kaposi Sarcoma (1872); xeroderma pigmentosum (1882); lichen ruber moniliformis (1886); and varicelliform eruption (1887)