ID Board Review/Bacterial Diseases
Bacterial diseases is the highest yield topic in the ABIM ID Certification Exam, accounting for 27% of the test.[1] 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 edit
Bacterial Infections Categorized by Histology and Species edit
Gram-positive cocci (GPC) edit
Gram-positive rods (GPR) edit
- Listeria spp
- Corynebacterium spp (Diphtheroids)
- Bacillus spp
- Erysipelothrix spp
Gram-Negative cocci and coccobacilli, Aerobics edit
Gram-negative Rods (GNR) edit
Glucose Fermenting and Oxidase Positive edit
Glucose Fermenting and Oxidase Negative edit
- Enterobacteriaceae
- Lactose non-fermenting
- Lactose fermenting
Glucose Non-Fermenting edit
No Growth on MacConkey Agar edit
- Bartonella henselae
- Bordetella spp
- Brucella
- Campylobacter spp
- Capnocytophaga spp
- Francisella spp
- Haemophilus spp
- Helicobacter spp
- Legionella spp
- Streptobacillus moniliformis
Anaerobes edit
- Gram-positive cocci
- Gram-positive rods
- Gram-negative rods
Actinomycetes edit
Spirochetes edit
Mycoplasma edit
Tropheryma whipplei edit
Chlamydia edit
Rickettsia edit
- Rickettsia conorii
- Rickettsia akari
- Rickettsia rickettsii
- Rickettsia prowazekii
- Rickettsia typhi
- Rickettsia parkeri
- Rickettsia africae
- Coxiella burnetii
- Orientia tutsugamushi