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MMR vaccine |
Measles, mumps, rubella |
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HIB vaccine |
Haemophilus influenza B |
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DTP vaccine |
Cpenybacterium Diphtheriae |
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Where are microorganisms? |
Everywhere, ubiquitous |
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Eukaryotes |
Are humans |
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Prokaryotes |
Are bacteria |
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Antibiotics |
Target cell wall. Kill bacteria and bacterial infections but not hosts or viruses. |
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What kills viruses |
Vaccines |
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What do vaccines do |
Allow person to develop antibodies for future attacks |
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Active vs. Passive immunity |
Acquired through having disease. Acquired through breastfeeding or antibody injection |
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Opportunist |
Cause disease if exposed to right environment |
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Nosocomial disease |
Acquired in health care facility. Opportunist or airborne |
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TORCH disease |
Toxoplasmosis, other (syphilis & gonorrhea), rubella, cytomegalovirus, herpes |
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Toxoplasmosis causative agent |
Taxoplasma gondii |
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Syphilis causative agent |
Treponema pallidum |
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Gonorrhea causative agent |
Neisseria gonorrheae |
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Rubella causative agent |
Togavirus |
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Cytomegalovirus |
Herpesvirus |
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Herpes causative agent |
Herpesvirus |
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Toxoplasmosis symptoms |
Brain damage, liver disease, retinal lesions, miscarriage and stillbirth, tiny heads |
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Syphilis symptoms |
Chancre and lesions in gentitals, rectum, lips, breasts, pharynx, and hands. |
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Gonorrhea symptoms |
Men: thick discharge, painful urination, sterility. Women: discharge, painful urination, abdominal & urinary pain, infertility, PID. Cause eye diseases at birth |
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Rubella symptoms |
Fever, rash (flat pink), cold symptoms, birth defects before 6 months, stillbirth & heart defects. |
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Cytomegalovirus symptoms |
CNS damage, mental retardation, blindness, death in immunocompromised, other fetal defects |
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Herpes |
Spontaneous abortion, mental retardation, blindness, deafness, burning blisters, death in immunocompromised |
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Herpes treatment |
Acyclovir and zovivax cure symptoms |
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Cytomegalovirus treatment |
Glanciclovir |
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Gonorrhea treatment |
Cephalosporin or ceftriaxone |
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Syphilis treatment |
Symptoms often dissappear without treatment |
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Yellow fever causative agent |
Flavivirus from female mosquito |
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Yellow fever symptoms |
Fever, jaundice, delerium, bloody gums, bloody stool, death |
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Bubonic plague symptoms |
Inflammation, pain, Buboes on armpit and groin |
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Bubonic plague causative agent |
Yersina pestis in Rat flea |
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Lyme disease causative agent |
Borrelia burgdorferi from deer tick |
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Lyme disease symptoms |
Bulls eye lesion, arthritic joints, irregular heartbeat, fever, headache, nausea, alzheimers symptoms |
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Malaria causative agent |
Plasmodium falciparum |
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Staphylococcal skin disease causative agent |
S. Aureus |
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Staphylococcal skin disease symptoms |
Pimples, abcesses, boils, carbuncles |
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Staphylococcal skin disease transmission |
Skin, fomites, nasal droplets |
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TSS causative agent |
S. Aureus |
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TSS symptoms |
Fever, vomiting, diarrhea, sore throat, muscle aches, peeling rash |
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TSS transmission |
Tampons, birth, therapeutic abortion |
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Impetigo symptoms |
Itchy rash, skin sores, pus-filled blisters |
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Impetigo causative agent |
Staphylococcus aureus & Staphylococcus pyogenes |
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Impetigo transmission |
Skin contact and fomites, highly contagious |