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What is E. coli?
This is the most common organism to cause UTIs.
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What is the urethra?
Urethritis is infection in this part of the urinary tract.
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What is urinating after sex?
A behavior that can reduce the risk of UTI.
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What is uncomplicated?
44 yo F with UTI in April that was resistant to numerous antibiotics, presents with frequency, funny smell to urine for 3 days.
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What is smallpox?
This highly infectious disease was declared in 1979 to have been completely eradicated.
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What is via vaginal colonization?
This is the most common route by which bacteria access the urinary system.
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What is the bladder?
Cystitis is infection in this part of the urinary tract.
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What is shorter urethras?
The reason that women are more likely to have UTIs.
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What is complicated?
25 yo F with type 1 diabetes, presents with painful urination for 2 days.
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What is the stethoscope?
This piece of doctor’s equipment was invented by the French physician René Théophile Hyacinthe Laënnec in 1819.
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What is...?
One of the two common organisms to cause urethritis.
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What is the kidney?
Pyelonephritis is infection in this part of the urinary tract.
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What is urine culture?
This test can help you determine if the bacteria is resistant to any antibiotics.
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What is uncomplicated?
Healthy 33 yo F presents with painful urination for 6 days.
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Who is Thomas Frieden?
This current director of the CDC was Commissioner of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene from 2002-2009.
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What is...?
One of the two common organisms to cause urethritis.
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What is the bladder?
Suprapubic tenderness is a sign of infection in this part of the body?
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What is...?
One of two findings on urinalysis that are most suggestive of UTI.
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What is (probably) complicated, given that she may be pregnant?
19 yo sexually active F (LMP 3 months ago) presents with frequency, urgency, lower abdominal pain, fever for 5 days.
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What are Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia?
The name of any of the three countries hardest hit by the current Ebola epidemic.
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What is Staphylococcus saprophyticus?
This organism is common in sexually active young women.
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What is the kidney?
CVA tenderness is a sign of infection in this part of the body?
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What is...?
One of two findings on urinalysis that are most suggestive of UTI.
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What is complicated?
21 yo M with painful urination, frequency, fever, nausea, vomiting and flank pain for 5 days.
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Who is Theodor Escherich?
E coli was named for this German pediatrician who discovered it.
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