All right, welcome. My name is Divine. This is episode 586 of the Divine Intervention Podcast. In today's

podcast, we're going to be examining some quick and dirty microbiology associations for the

USMLA exams, quick and dirty microbiology associations for the USMLA exams. So let's go ahead and get started.

Again, this podcast is going to be a pretty high-yield podcast.

I think it's going to help you a lot on your tests.

So, and again, this is not going to be in any particular order.

Things are going to be kind of thrown all over the place.

But again, it's really going to help you if you keep these things in mind.

There's going to be many questions you're going to get right just from paying attention to this podcast.

So what if they give you a question about a person?

And this person, you're told that the person has a history of some kind of a prosthetic valve.

And the person recently had a dental procedure when they went to a foreign country.

And then now, for the past two weeks, they've been having fevers, they've been short of breath,

they've been having some mild chest pain, they've been having night sweats.

And they tell you that their ESR and CRPs elevated.

And they are telling you that you're hearing like increased sounds around where the person had the previous prosthetic valve.

I'd really hope in this case you're thinking of this person having some kind of

some kind of endocratitis right and they're having this endocratitis because they've recently had a dental procedure and now they've gotten in trouble.

So remember that typically if you're talking about just infectious endocratitis overall,

the most common cause is generally going to be staph aureus.

But sometimes you can get endocratitis from dental procedures, especially things like strep mutants, for example.

Strip mutants can certainly put you in trouble.

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