Use the following choices to answer questions 1 through 4:
a. ehrlichiosis
b. Lyme disease
c. septic shock
d. toxoplasmosis
e. viral hemorrhagic fever


A patient presents with mental confusion, rapid breathing and heart rate, and low blood pressure. What is your diagnosis?

Use the following choices to answer questions 1 through 4:

a. ehrlichiosis

b. Lyme disease

c. septic shock

d. toxoplasmosis

e. viral hemorrhagic fever

A patient presents with a history of fever and headache. Bacterial cultures of blood, CSF, and stool are negative. What is your diagnosis?

Nineteen workers in a slaughterhouse developed fever and chills, with the fever spiking to

40°C each evening. The most likely method of transmission of this disease is

a. a vector.

b. the respiratory route.

c. a puncture wound.

d. an animal bite.

e. water.

Use the following choices to answer questions 1 through 4:

a. ehrlichiosis

b. Lyme disease

c. septic shock

d. toxoplasmosis

e. viral hemorrhagic fever

A patient was hospitalized because of continuing fever and progression of symptoms including headache, fatigue, and back pain. Tests for antibodies to B. burgdorferi were negative. What is your diagnosis?

Use the following choices to answer questions 1 through 4:

a. ehrlichiosis

b. Lyme disease

c. septic shock

d. toxoplasmosis

e. viral hemorrhagic fever

A patient complained of headache. A CT (computed tomography) scan revealed cysts of varying size in the patient’s brain. What is your diagnosis?

A patient has a red circular rash on his arm and fever, malaise, and joint pain. The most appropriate treatment is

a. antibiotics.

b. chloroquine.

c. anti-inflammatory drugs.

d. antimony.

e. no treatment.

Which of the following is not a tickborne disease?

a. babesiosis

b. ehrlichiosis

c. Lyme disease

d. relapsing fever

e. tularemia

Use the following choices to answer questions 7 and 8:

a. brucellosis

b. malaria

relapsing fever

d. Rocky Mountain spotted fever

e. Ebola

The patient’s fever spikes each evening. Oxidase-positive, gram-negative coccobacilli were isolated from a lesion on his arm. What is your diagnosis?

Use the following choices to answer questions 7 and 8:

a. brucellosis

b. malaria

relapsing fever

d. Rocky Mountain spotted fever

e. Ebola

The patient was hospitalized with fever and headache. Spirochetes were observed in her blood. What is your diagnosis?