ID

Question 1

Malignancies associated with EBV infection

Answer 1

• Burkitt’s lymphoma
• Hodgkin’s lymphoma
• Nasopharyngeal carcinoma
• HIV-associated central nervous system lymphomas

Question 2

Causes of infectious mononucleosis syndrome

Answer 2

• Epstein-Barr virus
• Cytomegalovirus
• Human herpesvirus-6 or 7
• HIV-1 primary infection
• Toxoplasmosis

Question 3

Conditions where it’s unsafe to breastfeed

Answer 3

• HIV
• Ebola
• Dengue
• Brucella
• Untreated Tuberculosis (TB)

Question 4

T-cell defects occur in the following

Answer 4

• HIV/AIDS
• 22q11.2 deletion (DiGeorge) syndrome
• Hodgkin lymphoma if T-cell derived
• T-cell variant of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL)
• Prolonged corticosteroid use
• Solid organ transplantation (because of immunosuppressant treatment)

Question 5

Gram positive rods (bacilli)

Answer 5

ABCD L

• Actinomyces
• Bacillus anthracis (anthrax)
• Clostridium
• Diphtheria: Corynebacterium diphtheriae
• Listeria monocytogenes

Also: Nocardia spp.

Question 6

Gram negative cocci

Answer 6

• Neisseria meningitidis
• Neisseria gonorrhea
• Moraxella catarrhalis

Question 7

Coagulase negative staphylococci

Answer 7

• S. epidermidis
• S. saprophyticus