Infectious Disease
Objectives
Treat a patient with tuberculous meningitis.
Diagnose central nervous system toxoplasmosis.
Manage nonresponse to antimicrobial therapy in a patient with ventilator-associated pneumonia.
Treat vancomycin-intermediate, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia.
Manage a patient receiving ethambutol for treatment of tuberculosis.
Diagnose Rocky Mountain spotted fever.
Treat hospital-acquired diarrhea with an antimotility medication.
Diagnose immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome caused by disseminated Mycobacterium avium complex infection.
Treat a patient with Coccidioides immitis meningitis.
Evaluate for neurosyphilis with cerebrospinal fluid analysis.
Determine treatment duration for a patient with active pulmonary tuberculosis.
Manage immunizations in a patient after transplantation.
Interpret tuberculin skin test results in a person with recent exposure to tuberculosis.
Treat a patient with necrotizing fasciitis with empiric antimicrobial therapy.
Evaluate pyelonephritis not responding to appropriate therapy.
Treat nonoccupational exposure to HIV.
Manage encephalitis.
Diagnose late complement component deficiency.
Treat a patient with a brain abscess resulting from dental sepsis with intravenous penicillin and metronidazole.
Manage potential bioterrorism-related anthrax exposure.
Treat asymptomatic bacteriuria in a pregnant woman.
Manage a false-positive HIV test result.
Treat a nonimmune immunocompromised adult exposed to varicella infection.
Diagnose a superficial incisional surgical site infection.
Treat a patient with bacterial meningitis with the appropriate empiric antimicrobial regimen.
Treat cervicitis with ceftriaxone and azithromycin.
Diagnose West Nile neuroinvasive disease.
Prevent catheter-associated urinary tract infection.
Manage a central line–associated fungal bloodstream infection.
Treat secondary syphilis with benzathine penicillin.
Diagnose cytomegalovirus infection after transplantation.
Manage osteomyelitis of the foot in a patient with type 2 diabetes mellitus.
Diagnose dengue fever.
Evaluate a patient with nonresponsive community-acquired pneumonia using chest CT.
Manage vertebral osteomyelitis by determining microbiologic cause for appropriate treatment.
Manage immunizations in a patient with HIV infection.
Prevent spread of infection of disseminated varicella-zoster virus.
Manage mild travelers' diarrhea.
Identify criteria for establishing that a patient with tuberculosis is noncontagious.
Manage conversion from an intravenous to an oral antimicrobial agent.
Manage a reactive tuberculin skin test in an immunosuppressed patient.
Diagnose a primary genital herpes simplex virus infection.
Identify preferred screening for Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection in a patient who is unlikely to return for follow-up.
Treat a patient with HIV infection with opportunistic infection prophylaxis.
Manage opportunistic infection prophylaxis in a patient who has undergone solid organ transplantation.
Prevent hepatitis A in a traveler to South Asia.
Treat a patient with a second recurrence of Clostridium difficile infection.
Treat a patient with community-acquired pneumonia who has reached clinical stability by switching to oral antibiotic therapy.
Diagnose a traveler with coccidioidomycosis.
Manage Enterococcus faecalis bacteremia.
Diagnose invasive Aspergillus infection.
Treat a patient with a dog bite.
Diagnose recurrent herpes simplex virus type 2 genital infection.
Treat mild nontyphoidal Salmonella gastroenteritis.
Treat a patient with acute, uncomplicated prostatitis.
Manage potential influenza exposure in a person who has not had an annual influenza vaccination.
Diagnose herpes simplex encephalitis.
Treat a patient with bacterial meningitis caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae.
Treat a patient with multidrug-resistant ventilator-associated pneumonia with empiric antibiotic therapy.
Manage HIV infection accompanied by serum creatinine elevation.
Treat a severe case of Clostridium difficile infection.
Diagnose sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
Diagnose a patient with smallpox.
Identify acute HIV infection as a cause of aseptic meningitis.
Diagnose acute osteomyelitis with imaging studies.
Diagnose Mycobacterium fortuitum skin infection.
Provide empiric antimicrobial therapy with meropenem and vancomycin for a patient with nosocomial bacterial meningitis.
Manage initiation of treatment for a patient with newly diagnosed HIV infection.
Manage asymptomatic candiduria.
Monitor a patient receiving outpatient parenteral nafcillin therapy.
Treat a patient with potential drug-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae community-acquired pneumonia with appropriate antibiotic therapy.
Diagnose a tick-borne coinfection.
Manage cystitis in an older woman.
Treat suspected methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus cellulitis and bacteremia in a patient who is intolerant of vancomycin.
Treat urethritis due to Chlamydia trachomatis with azithromycin.
Treat a patient with acute, uncomplicated pyelonephritis.
Diagnose chronic osteomyelitis with histopathologic and microbiologic studies.
Interpret results of serologic testing for Lyme disease.
Diagnose Vibrio gastroenteritis.
Manage selective IgA deficiency.
Treat a patient with early localized Lyme disease.
Identify the most common complication of Escherichia coli O157:H7 dysentery.
Manage an asymptomatic patient who has babesiosis.
Treat a hospitalized patient with pelvic inflammatory disease with antibiotics.
Treat critically ill patients with oral antimicrobial agents.
Diagnose acute HIV-1 infection.
Manage Campylobacter gastroenteritis.
Manage cryptococcal infection in an otherwise healthy patient.
Diagnose typhoid fever.
Recognize the clinical presentation of anti–N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor (NMDAR) encephalitis.
Evaluate severe community-acquired pneumonia with sputum cultures.
Treat a patient with HIV/AIDS and disseminated Mycobacterium avium complex infection.
Manage community-acquired pneumonia with empiric antibiotic therapy.
Treat a patient with catheter-associated urinary tract infection.
Diagnose Vibrio vulnificus–associated necrotizing fasciitis.
Diagnose Middle East respiratory syndrome.
Manage central line–associated Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infection.
Manage infection control practices for a patient suspected of having tuberculosis.
Treat a patient with a furuncle without antibiotic therapy.
Treat a patient with appropriate antibiotic therapy who is admitted to the hospital with community-acquired pneumonia with suspected Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection.
Provide preexposure prophylaxis for HIV to a person at ongoing risk.
Manage a patient with prolonged fever of unknown origin.
Diagnose postinfluenza community-acquired pneumonia caused by Staphylococcus aureus.
Manage recurrent urinary tract infection with low-dose antimicrobial prophylaxis.
Diagnose late complement component deficiency.
Treat a patient with a dog bite.
Treat a patient with appropriate antibiotic therapy who is admitted to the hospital with community-acquired pneumonia with suspected Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection.
Diagnose postinfluenza community-acquired pneumonia caused by Staphylococcus aureus.
Diagnose acute progressive disseminated histoplasmosis.