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any person, arthropod, plant, soil, substance or combination of in which an infectious agent normaly lives, multiplies, or which depends on primarily for survival and where it reproduces itself, in a way that allows transmission to a susceptible host
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Reservior
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an infectious disease occuring suddenly in numbers clearly in excess of normal expectancy
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Epidemic
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The period of develpment of an infectious disease from inoculation to the onset of clinical symptoms
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Incubation
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an animal or plant that harbors nourishes another organism
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Host
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a specific infectious substance which causes disease
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Causative agent
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the initial onset of infectious disease in a particular host population
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Outbreak
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A specific infectious disease that is present or usually present in a population or geographical area at all times
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Endemic
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What are the 5 sections to the Medic CD-ROM
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Environmental health
Infectious diseases Force Health Protection Disease Vector profiles Medical Capabilities |
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What are the 5 sections of Force Health Protections
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Provides a summary of Preventative Practices to prevent the spread of disease including:
Major functions of DZ countermeasure focus FHP Prior to deployment FHP during deployment FHP After deployment FHP Preventive Medicine guide |
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An acute viral upper respitory infection caused by influenza type A, B, or C
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Influenza
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What are the 5 constitutional symptoms
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Fever
Chills Myalgia Prostration Anorexia |
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What is the incubation period of 1-4 days
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Influenza
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what are the lab tests for Influenza?
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CBC
sputum or throat cultures Chest x-ray |
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,what is a rare but severe complication when aspirin is used on children suffering from an influenza/viral infection
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Reyes Syndrome
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An acute systemic paramyxoviral infection affecting the skin.
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RUBEOLA (MEASLES)
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What age group does Rubeola generally strike?
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Under the age of 5
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what is the incubation period of Rubeola?
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10-14 days
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What occurs during the prodrome phase of Rubeola?
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Classic Triad: brassy cough, coryza, and conjunctivitis
(4) Photophobia (5) Enanthem (Koplik’s spots.) White 1 – 2 mm papules appearing on the buccal mucosa approximately 2 days before the exanthemous rash. |
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What happens during the exanthem stage of rubeola?
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An increasing fever that peaks at 105 degrees and will decline over 24 hours. The coinciding rash is an erythematous
maculopapular eruption beginning on the face and behind the ears progresses in down and out pattern blotchy and maculopapular, affecting the entire body including the hands and soles of the feet. |
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What would you find during Labs for Rubeola?
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CBC – Luekopenia
Urinalysis – Proteinuria |
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A mild systemic disease caused by the togavirus.
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RUBELLA (GERMAN MEASLES
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When is the highest rate of complications with rubella?
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The highest risk of complications occur in the first trimester of gestation.
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An acute generalized paramyxoviral disease
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Mumps
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A symptomatic infection caused by the Epstein-Barr Virus.
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Infectious Mononucleosis
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A common and highly contagious viral illness
characterized by a vesicular rash and fever. |
Varicella (chicken pox)
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A DNA virus due to the variola virus. It is a human virus with no known nonhuman reservoirs of disease.
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Variola (Small Pox)
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Group of infectious diseases caused by Arthropod-borne viruses
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Viral Hemmoragic Fever
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A viral flavivirus transmitted by an arthropod bite
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Dengue Fever
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A flavivirus infection of the liver, having systemic manifestations
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Yellow Fever
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A flavivirus encephalitides
Identified in the United States in 1999 Transmitted by the Culex mosquito |
West Nile Virus
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. A viral (rhabdovirus) encephalitis
Primarily transmitted by the infected bite of an animal. |
Rabies
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A symptomatic infection caused by poliovirus
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Poliomyelitis
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An inflammation of the liver most commonly caused by one of six hepatic viruses
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Hepatitis
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a zoonotic disease caused by the bacterial spirochete Leptospira interrogans
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Leptospirosis
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A gastrointestinal disease caused by the genus salmonella
Diarrhea is describe as being the consistency of “pea-soup” |
Salmonellosis
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An acute diarrheal infection.
Transmitted by consumption of contaminated shellfish, water and food containing an infective dose. Stool is liquid gray, turbid, and without fecal odor, blood, or pus. Termed “rice water stool”. Diarrhea of up to 15 liters a day |
Cholera
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a. An illness resulting from neurotoxin produced by clostridium botulinum. Three types of disease can occur foodborne (smoked, canned and vacuum packed), wound (injection drug use), and infant (infected honey ingestion).
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Botulism
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An inflammatory disease of the bowel caused by one of several species of shigella Direct or indirect(fecal-oral)contact is thought to be the most common route of transmission, and person to person
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Shigellosis
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What Causes Shigellosis, and what is the other name?
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(BACILLARY DYSENTERY)
caused by Direct or indirect(fecal-oral)contact is thought to be the most common route of transmission, and person to person flies and contaminated food and water can transmit the disease as well 2) S. sonnei is the most common but least severe isolated species in the United States |
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A specific zoonotic disease involving rodents and their fleas that continues to be a threat world wide due to persistent rodent infestations
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Plague
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B. anthracis is a gram-positive spore-forming aerobic rod.
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Anthrax
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A systemic illness caused by a generalized bacterial infection
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Sepsis
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A febrile gram-negative, obligate(parasite that cannot survive without host), intracellular, bacteria
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TYPHUS
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An acute or chronic systemic febrile illness Caused by rickettsial organism Coxiella. Burnett.
Abdominal pain, may generalize to RUQ |
Q Fever
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A febrile arthropod borne illness Infectious agent is rickettsia rickettsii, an intracellular bacterium
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Rocky Mountain Spotted fever caused by:
Wood tick in the western United States Dog tick in the eastern United States |
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An flagellated parasitic intestinal and/or biliary tract infection
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Giardaisis
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protozoal parasitic infection of the colon
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ambiasis
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A febrile, flu-like illness, caused by the genus Plasmodium
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Malaria
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A blood fluke infection with adult and female worms living within mesenteric or venules of veins of the host
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SCHISTOSOMIASIS (SNAIL FEVER/BILHARZIASIS
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A polymorphic protozoan disease of the skin and mucous membranes caused by the genus leishmania
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LEISHMANIASIS
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A parasitic infection caused by a nematode (round worm)
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ASCARIASIS
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A intestinal round worm disease, whose larvae migrate and become encapsulated in the muscle
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TRICHINOSIS
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A noninvasive infestation of the intestinal tract by a Helminth
World wide dissemination and most prevalent nematode in the US. |
ENTEROBIASIS (PINWORM
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A parasitic infection of the intestine caused by a helminthes
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UNCINARIASIS
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A genus of parasitic flatworms belonging to the class cestode, known to cause disease in man
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TAPEWORM
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An infectious disease caused by a fungus, typically asymptomatic, but with severe complications and potentially poor prognosis
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COCCIDIOMYCOSIS
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A infectious disease caused by a fungus
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Histoplasmosis
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a. the smallest known free-living organisms. Their genome is roughly half the size of that of other bacteria and has been completely characterized for two species, Mycoplasma pneumoniae and M. genitalium.
b. Mycobacterium Tuberculosis (MTB) is a bacillus transmitted by respiratory droplets from the cough of the people who with active TB. |
MYCOPLASMA INFECTIONS (TB & Pneumonia)
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