Fungal diseases display a variety of clinical symptoms. Which of the following diseases most closely resembles the PRIMARY Histoplasmosis infection phase?

What antibiotic agent would be appropriate for treating an anaerobic lung abscess infection?

Ms. Que, which of the following drugs would be a first line drug to treat the infective organism?

In guinea pigs, short hair, S, is dominant to long hair, s. Parent 1 is heterozygous dominant for short hair and parent 2 is homozygous recessive for long hair  With the aid of a Punnett square, indicate the genotypes of the parents, and of the offspring, including their chances of having an offspring with short hair and offspring with long hair. 

Which of the following is the first-line drug to treat Pneumocystis carinii (jeroveci)?

BONUS: Caution should be used when administering oral or injectible forms of anti-fungal drugs if the patient is also taking ____________________.

BONUS: A patient who has had a recent pulmonary infection has been sent by his physician to undergo a complete pulmonary function test (PFT). He states he is still coughing small amount of sputum and has not reached his full exertional capacity. Which of the following PFT findings would be expected if he still had some residual infection? I. increased FEV1 II. increased FVC III. decreased DLCO IV. decreased IC

Leonard Bean, is a 43 year old male who lives in west Texas arid region presents in the ED with rapidly spreading multilobar consolidation. He cools his home with a “swamp-cooling” air conditioner. This is typical for what type of pneumonia?

What type of severe lung infection may result in the development of lung abscesses are common and frequently the causative organism in the immunocompromised and elederly patient?

Your patient’s lung infection is caused by Klebsiella. What would be appropriate to treat it?