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Opportunistic Infection Monday: Chronic Cough

@KrutiYagnikDO and @johnhannamd Created this case with teaching points for “Opportunistic Mondays” What is the drug of choice for his pneumonia? Patient was noted to have a postitive HSV 2

Resistant Phenotypes of Gram Negative Bacteria

Resistant Phenotypes of Gram Negative Bacteria We have a series of short cases & questions (5) on resistant phenotypes of gram-negative bacteria. There are a four major types of gram-negative

Scedosporium spp.

This is a 50ish yo man with chronic use of steroids who present with this lesion on his forearm ⤵️ Per patient no trauma, it evolve over a period of

HIV: resistance mutations

Let’s start with a case: 49M with 25yr h/o HIV and intermittent compliance establishing care after PCP retired. Most recent regimen was TDF/FTC/EFV; he has been taking this 2-3 times

COVID-19 associated Pulmonary Aspergillosis

Welcome to #IDFungiFriday! This week by: @A_Spallonii @teena_xu Let's get started with a real-world case… 65yoM in Brazil (+) fever, fatigue, myalgias. Dx: COVID-19 pneumonia (mild-mod). Tx: HCQ. 4 wk

Neutropenic fever

72F with CML had persistent fever ~102F, cough. CT chest with focal consolidation in LLL. Sputum cx: Klebsiella pneumoniae. Serum BDG, GM negative. Was on Vanc/Cefepime/LAmB, now narrowed to Cefepime

Schistosomiasis

70M p/w abd pain. Has 5cm mass at hepatic flexure on cscope. Requires ex-lap (due to iatrogenic perf), colonic resection. Path images with incidental finding of eggs 👇 Emigrated fr

Aspiration pneumonia

@AdamRodmanMD observed that Metronidazole was commonly given for aspiration PNA. I suggested a poll and @gbosslet approved. Later, I decided to to add this simple thread If you have a