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Infectious Disease
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General Infectious Disease
What is your preferred empiric antibiotic escalation for a patient with chorioamnionitis with worsening signs of sepsis on single agent cefoxitin?
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What do you think about chronic suppressive therapy for HSV-2 in a patient with positive antibodies but no prior clinical outbreak?
Do you generally recommend device exchange/removal in patients with gram positive bacteremia in the setting of intra-aortic balloon bump or other mechanical circulatory devices?
Do you continue PJP prophylaxis indefinitely in patients on rituximab maintenance therapy?
Do you repeat post-splenectomy vaccines if they were administered on postoperative day 1 of emergency splenectomy or do you count those doses as valid?
How would you approach a young patient with sickle cell disease without a history of frequent vaso-occlusive crises, admitted with high fever, vague back/flank pain and mild LUQ abdominal tenderness, marked leukocytosis, no respiratory symptoms, and negative chest x-rays and CT abdomen and pelvis with contrast?
How many doses of IM penicillin would you recommend for a patient with biopsy confirmed syphilis proctitis?
Would you ever consider oral doxycycline for treatment of either gram-negative or gram-positive uncomplicated bacteremia?
Do you prescribe empiric antibiotics to patients with CAP who test positive for a respiratory virus?
Do you routinely obtain a TEE or vascular imaging in a patient with non-typhoid salmonella bacteremia without persistent bacteremia?
