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ABIM Internal Medicine Board Review exam 2023 with 100% correct answers
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ABIM Internal Medicine Board ReviewBacterial meningitis - treatment in beta-lactam allergic patients - correct answerMoxifloxacin
+ Bactrim
Brain abscess - treatment - correct answerCephalosporin + Flagyl
Encephalitis, choreoathetosis, psychiatric symptoms, seizures, autonomic instability - correct answerAutoimmune encephalitis
Check anti-NMDA receptor antibody
Organism - sepsis, cellulitis, hemorrhagic bullae, saltwater fish or shellfish, cirrhotic - correct
answerVibrio vulnificus
Organism - chronic nodular infection, fish tanks - correct answerMycobacterium marinum
Organism - sepsis following dog bite, asplenic patient - correct answerCapnocytophaga canimorsus
Organism - symmetric, pink-to-brown patches with thin scale in intertriginous areas - correct
answerCorynebacterium minutissimum causing erythrasma
Treat with topical erythromycin, clarithromycin or clindamycin
Organism - ecthyma gangrenosum in neutropenic patient - correct answerPseudomonas
Organism - farm animal exposure, flu-like symptoms, atypical pneumonia - correct answerCoxiella burnetti (Q fever)
Organism - bird exposure, flu-like symptoms, atypical pneumonia - correct answerChlamydophila psittaci
Organism - Ohio and Mississippi River Valleys, exposure to bird or bat droppings, patchy pneumonia, small narrow-based yeast - correct answerHistoplasma
Treat with itraconazole for mild disease
Treat with amphotericin for severe disease
Organism - Southwest US, pneumonia (may be cavitary), may have erythema nodosum, ↑eosinophils - correct answerCoccidioides Treat with itraconazole for mild disease
Treat with amphotericin for severe disease
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