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C. Tetani causes |
Tetanus |
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prevention of Tetanus is |
TDAP vaccine |
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usually enters a host through a wound to the skin, then it replicates. High risk individuals are people exposed to soil or animal feces |
C. tetani |
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candida albicans causes |
yeast |
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overgrowth of a type of yeast called |
candida albicans |
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Entamoeba histolytica causes |
Amoebic dysentery |
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amoebic dysentery |
ingest food and water that has been contaminated with feces |
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taenia solium is better known as |
pork tapeworm |
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how do you get taenia solium (pork takeworm) |
fecal to oral contamination for transfer of eggs |
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Herper virus HSV-I causes |
cold sores and fever blisters |
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about what percent of the population has HSV-I goes dormant and brought back out by stress |
90% |
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bacillus anthracis causes |
anthrax |
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anthrax is spread through |
spores |
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what does giardia lamblia causes |
giardia |
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giardia transfer how |
fecal to oral contamination |
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salmonella typhimurium causes |
salmonellosis |
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salmonellosis is spread by |
reusing the raw chicken knife on your fresh veggies (food poisining) |
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streptoccus pneumoniae causes |
pneumonia and ear infection |
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how is pneumonia spread |
aerosols |
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vibrio cholera causes |
cholera |
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how is cholera spread by |
fecal to oral contamination of water |
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neisseria gonorrhoeae causes |
Gonorrhea |
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how is transfer gonorrhea |
sexual contact |
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listera monocytogenes causes |
listeriosis |
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how is listeriosis transfer |
found in deli meats and cheese, cells have a rocket tail |
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mycoplasma pneumonia causes |
atypical pneumonia or walking pneumonia |
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Trypanosoma cruzi causes |
Trypnosomasis or chigas disease |
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how is trypnosomasis or chigas disease is transferred |
vector transmission by the kissing bug |
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rickettsia rickettsii causes |
rocky mountain spotted fever |
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how is rocky mountain spotted fever transmission |
by a tick |
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cryptococcus neoformans causes |
tb-like disease |
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Borrelia burgdorferi casues |
lime disease |
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Mycobacterium tuberculosis causes |
TB |
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how is TB transfer |
inhalation, airborne, human to human |
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Influenzavirus causes |
flu |
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chlamydia trachomatis causes |
gential and eye infection (STD) |
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Gastrointestinal infections causes |
infection in the guts |
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You can get it after close contact with animals, or it can result from consuming food or water that has been contaminated with bacteria (or the toxic substances they produce). |
gastrointestinal |
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staphylococcus aureus causes |
staph infection and toxic shock syndrome |
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enterococcus faecalis VRE causes |
UTI and blood skin infection |
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salmonella typhi causes |
typhoid fever |
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typhoid fever |
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what are the two endospores |
clostridium and bacillus |
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what is an endotoxin |
are part of the outer membrane of the cell wall of Gram-negative bacteria. |
