ID Board Review/Bacterial Diseases

4 right Bacterial diseases is the highest yield topic in the ABIM ID Certification Exam, accounting for 27% of the test.https://www.abim.org/Media/mucpauyz/infectious-disease.pdf Test questions will focus on evaluating physicians' abilities to make diagnoses, ordering and interpreting tests, and selecting appropriate treatments. Each chapter will touch upon Etiology, Pathology, Clinical Presentation(s), Diagnostic Criteria, and Management/Treatment for each disease. Bacterial Infections Categorized by Syndromes/Locations Cardiovascular Infections Neurologic Infections Head and Neck Infections Respiratory Infections Gastrointestinal Infections Ophthalmologic Infections Genitourinary Infections Dermatologic Infections Musculoskeletal Infections Bacterial Infections Categorized by Histology and Species Gram-positive cocci (GPC) Staphylococcus aureus Streptococcus spp Enterococcus spp Gram-positive rods (GPR) Listeria spp Listeria monocytogenes Corynebacterium spp (Diphtheroids) Corynebacterium diphtheraie Bacillus spp Erysipelothrix spp Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae Gram-Negative cocci and coccobacilli, Aerobics Neisseria spp Neisseria gonorrheae Neisseria meningitidis Moraxella catarrhalis Haemophilus Spp Gram-negative Rods (GNR) Glucose Fermenting and Oxidase Positive Pasteurella spp Vibrio Spp Aeromonas spp Glucose Fermenting and Oxidase Negative Enterobacteriaceae Lactose non-fermenting Salmonella spp Shigella Yersinia spp Lactose fermenting Escherichia coli Citrobacter spp Klebsiella spp Serratia spp Glucose Non-Fermenting Pseudomonas spp Stenotrophomonas maltophilia Acinetobacter baumannii Burkholderia cepacia No Growth on MacConkey Agar Bartonella henselae Bordetella spp Brucella Campylobacter spp Capnocytophaga spp Francisella spp Haemophilus spp Helicobacter spp Legionella spp Streptobacillus moniliformis Anaerobes Gram-positive cocci Gram-positive rods Clostridioides difficile Clostridium perfringens Gram-negative rods Klebsiella spp Bacteroides spp Prevotella spp Actinomycetes Nocardia Actinomyces Spirochetes Treponema spp Borrelia spp Leptospira Mycoplasma Mycoplasma pneumoniae Mycoplasma genitalium Tropheryma whipplei Chlamydia Chlamydia trachomatis Chlamydia pneumoniae Chlamydia psittaci Rickettsia Rickettsia conorii Rickettsia akari Rickettsia rickettsii Rickettsia prowazekii Rickettsia typhi Rickettsia parkeri Rickettsia africae Coxiella burnetii Orientia tutsugamushi Ehrlichia Ehrlichia chaffeensis Ehrlichia ewingii Anaplasma phagocytophilum Mycobacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis (TB) Mycobacterium bovis Mycobacterium leprae (Leprosy) Non-TB Mycobacterium (NTM) Alternative Organizational Systems /Encapsulated Organisms/ /HACEK Organisms/