Pathology EMQ template.

Name: Ankit Chawla

Theme: CNS Infection & Meningitis

 

OPTION LIST

 

A	Cryptococcus neoformans	I	Treponema pallidum
B	Herpes simplex 2	J	Group B streptococcus
C	Mycobacterium tuberculosis	K	Streptococcus pneumoniae
D	Listeria monocytogenes	L	Borrelia burgdorferi
E	Leptospira interrogans	M	Escherichia coli
F	Neisseria meningitidis	N	West Nile virus
G	Coxsackie A virus	O
H	Streptococcus millerei	P

 

 

For each scenario below, choose the most appropriate answer from the list above. Each option may be used once, more than once or not at all.

 

1. 24 year old woman presents with an increasingly severe headache and vomiting. She has a petechial rash.

 

 

2. A 1 week old baby boy presents with fever, irritability and poor feeding. The mother had an episode of flu like illness during pregnancy following consumption of some questionable food. CSF microscopy of the boy shows Gram positive bacilli.

 

 

3. A 5 year old boy presents with headache and fever. He presented to his GP last week with a painful vesicular rash on the hands and feet with some lesions in the mouth.

 

 

4. A 40 year old alcoholic man presents with headache, photophobia and fever. He recently was prescribed antibiotics for an ear infection.

 

 

5. A 33 year old woman presents with fever, headache and lethargy. She has also had a cough for the past 4 weeks since returning from holiday in India.

 

 

 

ANSWERS

1. F

2. D

3. G

4. K

5. C