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MMR vaccine

Measles, mumps, rubella

HIB vaccine

Haemophilus influenza B

DTP vaccine

Cpenybacterium Diphtheriae

Where are microorganisms?

Everywhere, ubiquitous

Eukaryotes

Are humans

Prokaryotes

Are bacteria

Antibiotics

Target cell wall. Kill bacteria and bacterial infections but not hosts or viruses.

What kills viruses

Vaccines

What do vaccines do

Allow person to develop antibodies for future attacks

Active vs. Passive immunity

Acquired through having disease. Acquired through breastfeeding or antibody injection

Opportunist

Cause disease if exposed to right environment

Nosocomial disease

Acquired in health care facility. Opportunist or airborne

TORCH disease

Toxoplasmosis, other (syphilis & gonorrhea), rubella, cytomegalovirus, herpes

Toxoplasmosis causative agent

Taxoplasma gondii

Syphilis causative agent

Treponema pallidum

Gonorrhea causative agent

Neisseria gonorrheae

Rubella causative agent

Togavirus

Cytomegalovirus

Herpesvirus

Herpes causative agent

Herpesvirus

Toxoplasmosis symptoms

Brain damage, liver disease, retinal lesions, miscarriage and stillbirth, tiny heads

Syphilis symptoms

Chancre and lesions in gentitals, rectum, lips, breasts, pharynx, and hands.

Gonorrhea symptoms

Men: thick discharge, painful urination, sterility. Women: discharge, painful urination, abdominal & urinary pain, infertility, PID. Cause eye diseases at birth

Rubella symptoms

Fever, rash (flat pink), cold symptoms, birth defects before 6 months, stillbirth & heart defects.

Cytomegalovirus symptoms

CNS damage, mental retardation, blindness, death in immunocompromised, other fetal defects

Herpes

Spontaneous abortion, mental retardation, blindness, deafness, burning blisters, death in immunocompromised

Herpes treatment

Acyclovir and zovivax cure symptoms

Cytomegalovirus treatment

Glanciclovir

Gonorrhea treatment

Cephalosporin or ceftriaxone

Syphilis treatment

Symptoms often dissappear without treatment

Yellow fever causative agent

Flavivirus from female mosquito

Yellow fever symptoms

Fever, jaundice, delerium, bloody gums, bloody stool, death

Bubonic plague symptoms

Inflammation, pain, Buboes on armpit and groin

Bubonic plague causative agent

Yersina pestis in Rat flea

Lyme disease causative agent

Borrelia burgdorferi from deer tick

Lyme disease symptoms

Bulls eye lesion, arthritic joints, irregular heartbeat, fever, headache, nausea, alzheimers symptoms

Malaria causative agent

Plasmodium falciparum

Staphylococcal skin disease causative agent

S. Aureus

Staphylococcal skin disease symptoms

Pimples, abcesses, boils, carbuncles

Staphylococcal skin disease transmission

Skin, fomites, nasal droplets

TSS causative agent

S. Aureus

TSS symptoms

Fever, vomiting, diarrhea, sore throat, muscle aches, peeling rash

TSS transmission

Tampons, birth, therapeutic abortion

Impetigo symptoms

Itchy rash, skin sores, pus-filled blisters

Impetigo causative agent

Staphylococcus aureus & Staphylococcus pyogenes

Impetigo transmission

Skin contact and fomites, highly contagious