Lyme Disease
- Transmitted by Ticks (Vector-borne)
- Flu-like Symptoms
- Bulls Eye Rash (Erythema Migrans)
- Joint Pain and Stiffness
- Facial Paralysis
- Antibiotics
- Prevention
Borrelia burgdorferi
- Lyme Disease
- Spirochete
- Dark-field Microscopy
- Giemsa Stain
- Silver Stain
- White-footed Mouse
- Ixodes Tick
- Babesia
- Anaplasmosis
- Flu-like Symptoms
- Erythema Migrans
- Bulls Eye Rash
- Bilateral Bell's Palsy
- Conduction Defects
- Arthropathy
- Doxycycline
- Ceftriaxone
Rabies Virus
- Enveloped
- RNA Virus
- SS Negative Linear
- Helical
- Bullet-Shaped Envelope
- Binds to Acetylcholine Receptor
- Retrograde Fashion
- Migrates to Saliva
- Negri Bodies
- Cytoplasmic Inclusions in Neurons
- Purkinje Cells of Cerebellum
Rabies Symptoms and Animals
- Bats, Skunks, and Raccoons (Inside United States)
- Dog Bites (Outside United States)
- Fever
- Agitation
- Paralysis
- Hydrophobia
- Photophobia
- Fatal If Not Treated
Brucella
- Gram-Negative
- Coccobacillus
- Unpasteurized milk
- Goat cheese
- Inside macrophages
- Lymphadenopathy
- Granulomas
- Undulating fever
- Doxycycline
- Gentamicin
Yellow Fever Virus
- Flavivirus
- RNA Virus
- Enveloped
- Icosahedral
- SS Positive Linear
- Transmitted By Aedes Mosquitos
- Monkey or Human Reservoir
- High fever
- Jaundice
- Black vomitus
Trypanosoma cruzi
- Protozoa
- Triatomine Bug
- Kissing bug
- Painless bite
- Predominantly in South America
- Chagas disease
- Romana's sign
- Dilated Cardiomyopathy
- Megacolon
- Megaesophagus
- Blood smear
- Nifurtimox
- Benznidazole
Babesia
- Protozoa
- Ixodes Tick
- Same vector as Borrelia
- Northeastern US
- Asplenia
- Fever
- Hemolytic Anemia
- Blood Smear
- Maltese Cross
- Atovaquone
- Azithromycin
Francisella tularensis
- Contact with Infected Animals
- Dermacentor Wood Tick
- Deer Fly
- Gram-Negative
- Coccobacilli
- Facultative Intracellular
- Charcoal Yeast Agar with Cysteine and Iron
- Ulceration
- Fever
- Painful Lymphadenopathy
- Caseating Granulomas
- Streptomycin
Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
- Rickettsia rickettsii
- Dermacentor Wood Tick
- Endemic to East Coast
- Fever
- Headache
- Rash Starts on Wrist and Ankle
- Rash migrates towards the trunk
- Thrombocytopenia
- Hyponatremia
- Elevated liver enzymes
Rickettsia
- Need CoA and NAD
- Rocky Mountain spotted fever
- Typhus
- Ehrlichiosis
- Q fever
- Arthropod vector
- Fever
- Headache
- Rash
- Weil-Felix reaction
- Treatment doxycycline
Trypanosoma Brucei
- Protozoa
- Trypanosoma Gambiense
- Trypanosoma Rhodesiense
- Tsetse Fly
- Painful Bite
- African Sleeping Sickness
- Recurring Fever
- Capacity for Antigenic Variation
- Enlarged Lymph Nodes
- Encephalitis
- Suramin for Blood-Borne Disease
- Melarsoprol for CNS Penetration
Bartonella henselae
- Gram-Negative
- Pleomorphic
- Bacillus
- Cat Scratch Fever
- Lymphadenopathy
- Bacillary Angiomatosis
- Patients with AIDS
- Mimics Kaposi Sarcoma
- Benign
- Reactive Arthritis
- Non-Caseating Granuloma
Mycobacterium leprae
- Acid-Fast
- Aerobic
- Likes Cool Temperature
- Diagnosis by Skin Biopsy or PCR
- Th2 Response
- Leonine Facies
- TH1 Response
- Hypoesthetic Skin Plaques
- Granulomatous Response
- Dapsone
- Rifampin
- Clofazimine
Ehrlichiosis
- Intracellular Gram-Negative Rod
- Lone Star Tick
- Deer Reservoir
- Fever
- Flu-like Symptoms
- Rash is Rare
- Antibody Testing
- Pancytopenia
- Monocytes with Cytoplasmic Morulae
- Doxycycline
- Tetracycline
Leptospirosis and Weil's Disease
- Tropical Regions
- Water Contaminated with Animal Urine
- Leptospira interrogans
- Spirochete
- Hooked Shaped Ends
- Flu-like Symptoms
- Conjunctival Suffusion
- Photophobia
- Liver and Kidney Dysfunction
- Jaundice
- Hemorrhage
- Anemia
Anaplasmosis
- Ixodes Tick
- Deer and Mice Reservoirs
- Flu-Like Symptoms
- Fever
- Rash is Rare
- Granulocytes with Cytoplasmic Morulae
- Antibody Testing
- Pancytopenia
- Doxycycline
- Rifampin