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
Bacterial Infections Categorized by Histology and Species
- Listeria spp
- Corynebacterium spp (Diphtheroids)
- Bacillus spp
- Erysipelothrix spp
Gram-Negative cocci and coccobacilli, Aerobics
Glucose Fermenting and Oxidase Positive
Glucose Fermenting and Oxidase Negative
- Enterobacteriaceae
- Lactose non-fermenting
- Lactose fermenting
Glucose Non-Fermenting
No Growth on MacConkey Agar
- Bartonella henselae
- Bordetella spp
- Brucella
- Campylobacter spp
- Capnocytophaga spp
- Francisella spp
- Haemophilus spp
- Helicobacter spp
- Legionella spp
- Streptobacillus moniliformis
- Gram-positive cocci
- Gram-positive rods
- Gram-negative rods
- Rickettsia conorii
- Rickettsia akari
- Rickettsia rickettsii
- Rickettsia prowazekii
- Rickettsia typhi
- Rickettsia parkeri
- Rickettsia africae
- Coxiella burnetii
- Orientia tutsugamushi
- Mycobacterium tuberculosis (TB)
- Mycobacterium bovis
- Mycobacterium leprae (Leprosy)
- Non-TB Mycobacterium (NTM)