Name: James Gilbert 

Theme: GI Infections

 

OPTION LIST

 

A	Campylobacter jejuni	I	Hepatitis C
B	Cryptosporidium	J	Listeria
C	C.botulinum	K	Norovirus
D	C.difficile	L	Rotavirus
E	E.coli	M	S.aureus
F	H.pylori	N	Schistosoma
G	Hepatitis A	O	Salmonella spps
H	Hepatitis B	P	V.cholerae

 

 

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

 

1. A 23 year old geography student eats some mysterious meat he found in his flat’s kitchen. About a day later he has abdominal pain, vomiting and bloody diarrhoea. A stool culture identifies a Gram negative rod which turns MacConkey agar red.

 

 

2. A 30 year old engineer tries some of his grandmother’s canned peaches. The next morning his colleagues struggle to understand him and call an ambulance when his breathing becomes laboured.

 

 

3. A couple of days after disembarking from a cruise ship, a 60 year old former rock singer develops forceful vomiting & diarrhoea. In hospital, a single-stranded RNA virus is identified via PCR.

 

 

4. A 21 year old Spanish medical student eats a chicken. Over the next few days she develops a fever and diarrhoea. She cultures her own stool and finds a Gram negative helical bacterium.

 

 

5. An ex-Olympic swimmer and recent heroin enthusiast starts to feel unwell around a week after training in his local outdoor pool. He comes to the doctor when his diarrhoea persists for a third week.

 

 

 

ANSWERS

1. E

2. C

3. K

4. A

5. B