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39 Cards in this Set
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Transmission: Airborn
Examples |
diptheria, phemonia, TB
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Transmission: Airborn
Target site? |
Airborne
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Transmission: Arthropod-Borne
What does it rarely cause? |
epidemics
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Transmission: Arthropod-Borne
What are examples of old ones? |
Bubonic Plague, Typhoid Fever
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Transmission: Arthropod-Borne
New |
Lyme disease, rickets
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Transmission: Direct Contact
Area |
Skin, muc membrane, underlying tissues
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Transmission:Direct contact
anthrax, leprosy |
examples
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Transmission: Direct contact
some can even be _____- through body |
disseminated
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Transmission: Food/ water -Borne
What do pathogens enter, what do they do there? |
GI tract, multiply
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Transmission: other examples
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Sepsis/Septic Shock and Dental infections
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Airborne Disease: Dipthera
Cause |
Gram +
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Airborne Disease: Dipthera
Syptoms |
mucus pus from nasal
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Airborne Disease: Dipthera
Diagnosis |
presence of pseudomembrane
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Airborne Disease: Dipthera
Pseudomem: what is it caused by? |
destruction of epithelial cells
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Airborne Disease: Dipthera
How to treat? |
Penecillin
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Arthropod-bourne disease: Epidemic (Louse-borne) Typhus
Cause |
gram - spiral
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Arthropod-bourne disease: Epidemic (Louse-borne) Typhus
symptoms |
rash on trunk
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Arthropod-bourne disease: Epidemic (Louse-borne) Typhus
Course |
-bac infects insect guts, insects shit it out
-insects shit on skin, ppl scratch, feces breaks skin barier |
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Arthropod-bourne disease: Epidemic (Louse-borne) Typhus
Spreads via? |
bloodstrean
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Arthropod-bourne disease: Epidemic (Louse-borne) Typhus
Treatment |
chloraphenicol, tetracycline
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Arthropod-bourne disease: Epidemic (Louse-borne) Typhus
Treatment |
chloraphenicol, tetracycline
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Direct Contact Disease: Leprosy
Causative agent |
myobacterium
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Direct Contact Disease: Leprosy
Where is it found? |
tropical
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Direct Contact Disease: Leprosy
diagnosis |
acid fast staining
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Direct Contact Disease: Leprosy
Course |
sheds microbes with skin
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Food/Water-bourne disease: Bacillary Dystenery
Cause |
shigella (gram + rods)
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Food/Water-bourne disease: Bacillary Dystenery
What age group does it occur most in? |
4 year olds
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Food/Water-bourne disease: Bacillary Dystenery
4 f's transfer |
Finger, foods, fecal, flies
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What is the human plague caused by?
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Yersnia Pestis
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Human plague:
carried by _____ and ____ |
mammas and fleas
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How many forms of plague are there?
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2
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Human Plague: Bubonic and Septicemic
What is the carrier? |
flea
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Human Plague: Bubonic and Septicemic
first step |
- bite, injects infectious material
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Human Plague: Bubonic and Septicemic
2nd step |
moves from bite to lymph
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Human Plague: Bubonic and Septicemic
3rd step |
from lymph to bloodstream
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Human Plague: Pneumonic
What is the difference with the yernis pestis here? |
it is airborn
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Human Plague
Which is more deadly |
Pneumonic
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Human Plague: Pneumonic
How is it spread? |
to lungs/ infected by droplet transmission
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How can human plague be treated?
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Streptomycin, chloramphenicol, tetracycline
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