Challenge: What's the initial disease? What antibiotic did he take?Image shown under fair use.
Friday, September 18, 2009
Full Moon on the Quad
A week after "Full Moon on the Quad" a Stanford freshman develops malaise, headache, low grade fever, sore throat, and "swollen glands." He then takes "an antibiotic" that his roommate has and breaks out with this rash:
Challenge: What's the initial disease? What antibiotic did he take?
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Challenge: What's the initial disease? What antibiotic did he take?Image shown under fair use.
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mono + ampicillin/amox = rash
mononucleosis and he took amoxicillin
exactly right!
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Full Moon on the Quad
This patient had acute infectious mononucleosis due to the Ebstein-Barr virus. One of the more common complications is a morbilliform rash after taking ampicillin (or amoxicillin or penicillin).
Sources: UpToDate; missinglink.ucsf.edu.
why full moon on the quad?
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