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What is a vector???
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Carrier In this case the arthropod
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What is agent and description and vector for bubonic plague???
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G - bacillus called yersinia pestis
rat flea blood disease |
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what is Sylvatic plague??
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bubonic plague in southwestern U.S.
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bipolar staining???
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safety pin look---Bacillus stains heavily at poles
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characteristics of disease are???bubonic plague
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bacteria multiply in blood and collect at lymph nodes(armpit neck and groin)Hemorrages the node cause swelling (buboes)dark purpleish skin hemorrages
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What percent of untreated bubonic plague die???
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50 %
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Transmission of bubonic plague is from___???
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people to person
flea bite |
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What is pneumonic plague??
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person to person by air droplets infects lungs death common within 48 hours,bubonic plague, 100% mortality
symptoms include coughing sneezing,fluid accumulation |
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How to treat the plague???
How many cases |
Tetracycline or streptomycin 24 cases per year
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Agent of disease called tularemia and characteristics???
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francisella tularensis --Small gram negative rod with bipolar staining
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Where is Tularemia from ???
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wide variety of animals rabbits rodents
ticks are vector |
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Symptoms of tularemia are___???
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skin lesion from bite
eye lesion from bacillus in eye can get in lungs |
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treatment for tularemia is???
How many cases??? |
tetracycline or streptomycin few people die of this
200 cases annually but hard to diagnose |
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What is agent and description of lyme disease and vector
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Borrelia burgdorferi
spirochette carried by small deer tick |
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lyme disease symptoms are___???`
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erytheme(red) chronicum(persistant) migrans(expanding)
incubation is 6 to8 weeks begins small flat raised lesion, then rash increases in circular pattern over next weeks(resembles bullseye)fever aches and pains 1/3 people do not get rash fluelike symp. |
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stages of lyme disease are????
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early localized-treat effective with peicillin and tetracycline
some enter second stage (early disseminated) Weeks later arthritis and damage to cardiovascular system |
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What is agent ,description,andvector for Epidemic typhos????
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Rickettsia prowazeckii
rickettsia head and body lice |
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characteristics of epedemic typhus
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fever 104 degrees
maculopapular rash (trunk to extremities) delerium for days |
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treatment of epedemic typhus
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tetracyclin and chloramphenicol
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mortality rate of epedemic typhus??
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75 % fromdamage to blood vessels and heart
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Diagnosis of epedemic typhus is___???
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lice
symptoms Weil- Felix AB test |
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What is the agent for rocky mountain spotted fever and vector and agent description???
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rickettsia rickettsii
ticks |
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More symptoms of rocky mountain spotted fever
treatments How to diagnose |
last 2 weeks 75% mortality
untreated get better in 2 weeks or die treatment --tetracyclin or chloramphenical Diagnose with Weil- Felix AB test |
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How many rocky cases per year???
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600
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agent of endemic typhus and vector
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rickettsia typhi
flea fromcat or mouse |
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Symptoms of endemic typhus???
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mild fever
persistant headache maculopapular rash recovery without drug theropy |
