MRCP revision

- indolent, slowly progressive infection caused by anaerobic or microaerophilic bacteria - most commonly caused by A.israelii - in vivo gr...

- tick-borne malaria-like illness caused by parasite of genus Babesia - Babesia microti is the cause of babesiosis in northeastern United...

- infection caused by larval stage of Echinococcus granulosus complex (dog tapeworm), which produce unilocular cystic lesion - slowly enla...

- zoonotic infection with an enteropathogenic Yersinia species ( Yersinia enterocolitica or Yersinia pseudotuberculosis ) - presents with ...

- caused by Histoplasma capsulatum , a thermal dimorphic soil fungus - a.k.a Darling's disease (Histoplasma discovered in 1905 by Darli...

- filarial infection caused by Loa loa (African eye worm) - transmitted by Chrysops fly - adult parasites live in subcutaneous tissue - ...

- zoonotic disease caused by spirochetes of genus Leptospira - most important source of transmission to humans are rats, dogs, cattle and p...

- transmitted by Culex mosquitoes - associated with maculopapular rash, headache, ocular pain, sore throat, nausea, vomiting and arthralgia...

- caused by A.fumigatus (most common), A.flavus and A.niger - these fungi are ubiquitous in environment and commonly found on decaying le...

-infection of oligodendrocytes by JC virus (a polyomavirus) - characterised by progressive damage or inflammation of white matter at multi...

American trypanosomiasis (Chagas' disease) - caused by T.cruzi - spread by reduviids (triatomine bugs) - erythematous indurated nodul...

- one of the AIDS defining illness - identified on microscopy by methenamine silver staining which shows a cystic phase of organism or Gie...

- paralytic disease caused by neurotoxins of Clostridium botulinum - due to inhibition of acetylcholine release at neuromuscular junction ...

- occurs in people who have been profoundly immunosuppressed and begin on HAART - as immune system recovers, patient able to mount inflamma...

- caused by Haemophilus ducreyi - painful ulcer with necrotic base and ragged edge - ulcer commonly on prepuce and frenulum in men; vagin...

- human prion disease - prions are glycoproteins which codes for a membrane protein - definitive diagnosis is post mortem neuropathologica...

- a.k.a donovanosis - caused by Klebsiella granulomatis , encapsulated gram negative bacillus - mode of transmission: sexual contact - ch...

- caused by Corynebacterium diphtheriae (Gram positive bacillus) - produces a toxin which affects myocardium, nervous and adrenal tissues ...

- caused by L.b.braziliensis - indurated or ulcerating lesions affecting mucosa or cartilage typically on lips or nose (espundia) - diagno...

- acute schistosomiasis - occurs 6 weeks to 3 months after initial infection especially by S.mansoni and S.japonicum - snail vectors rel...