A 45 year old women from California presented with fever, arthritis, pneumonia, and skin lesion over the anterior legs.
Skin scrapings treated with PAS stain revealed this Image from CDC public domain - Dr. Gary Caroll
What is the treatment of choice
a- ampicillin
b- flucanazole
c- tetracycline
e- TMP-SMX
f- cephalosporin
e?? This question drove me up the wall, lol. There are only a few organisms that are Acid fast and can stain with PAS. I was thinking Nocardia psuedoTB but I have no idea...
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