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Poliomyelitis
Rabies Arboviral Encephalitis |
What are the viral diseases of the nervous system?
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Poliomyelitis
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What does organism or genus, picornavirus, cause?
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Poliomyelitis
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3 serotypes
Humans only known natural host. Virus remains infectious outside the body in food or water. |
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Poliomyelitis
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Subclinical polio = 90% of cases
Abortive polio = Slight fever, malaise, headache, sore throat, vomiting. Nonparalytic polio = Same symptoms as abortive, with muscle tenderness and spasms. Major polio = Polio that has effected the CNS. Paralytic = 5-7 days after fever -> loss of superficial and deep reflexes, constipation; urine retention -> paralysis: Extent depends on degree of spinal cord damage. |
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Abortive polio
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Slight fever, malaise, headache, sore throat, vomiting.
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Paralytic =
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5-7 days after fever -> loss of superficial and deep reflexes, constipation; urine retention -> paralysis: Extent depends on degree of spinal cord damage.
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Nonparalytic polio
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Same symptoms as abortive, with muscle tenderness and spasms.
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Major polio
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Polio that has effected the CNS.
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Water contaminated with feces containing the virus.
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How is poliomyelitis transmitted?
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neurotropic
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this terms means that it attracts the virus to the nervous system.
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poliovirus
Sabin Poliomyelitis |
The prevention of this disease is to use a vaccine called salk. It contains killed _________. ________ is an oral vaccine which is weakened or attenuated live virus.
What disease is this for? |
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picornavirus
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The organism that causes poliomyelitis is _________.
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Rabies
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What disease is caused by the organism, Rhabdovirus?
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Rhabdovirus
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"bullet shaped"
Can infect most warm blooded animals. What is the genus? |
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Rabies
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Virus enters through wound contaminated with saliva. Urine and blood can be infectious through mucous membranes or eye conjunctiva.
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Rabies
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burning at the bite site, fever, malaise, etc.
prodromal symptoms -> phase of excitation: Agitation, anxiety, aprrehension -> hydrophobia (spasms while trying to swallow, dehydration) -> paralysis, vascular collapse -> coma and death. Name the disease. |
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Arboviral Encephalitis
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Insect born encephalitis
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Encephalitis
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Acute inflammation of the brain.
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Encephalitis
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There are many forms or different names for this disease. SLE, WEE, EEE, CE, WNV.
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Encephalitis
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West Nile Virus is a form of this disease, ____________.
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EEE (Eastern Equine Encephalitis)
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What type of Encephalitis is the most severe? It causes neurological damage, brain damage, and deafness.
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