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Organism for bacterial meningitis |
Haemophilus influenza |
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Bacterial meningitis occurs mostly in |
Children 4-6 months |
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How does neisseria meningitis begin? |
Throat infection and rash |
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Prevention for neisseria meningitis? |
Vax against some serotypes |
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Streptococcus pneumoniae most common in? |
Most common in children (1 month-4 months) |
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Prevention for Streptococcus pneumoniae meningitis |
Prevented by vax |
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Pediculosis name common name and organism |
Head lice Pediculus humanus capitus/corporis (head/body) |
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What organism causes the disease scabies? Where does it mostly infect? |
Sarcoptes Mostly hands and feet. Borrows in skin and lays eggs. |
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Trachoma (inclusion conjunctivitis). Organism? leading cause of what? Transmission? |
Organism= chlamydia. Leading cause of blindness. Transmission= fingers, fomites, flies (mechanical vector). |
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Pyogenic |
Puss producing |
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what organism causes the disease Impetigo? How is it transmitted? |
Staph aureus and step. pyogenes. Pustules rupture and infect adjacent area. |
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What does M protein inhibit? |
Phagocytosis |
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Which diseases are caused by staphylococcus aureus? |
-staphylococcal skin infections -scaled skin syndrome -impetigo and impetigo disease of the newborn |
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What organism causes impetigo of the newborn? |
staphylococcus aureus |
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What organism causes pneumococcal pneumonia? |
Streptococcal pneumoniae |
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Tularemia is caused by what organism? What is it transmitted by? |
Franciscella. Ticks. |
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The disease brucellosis'common name? Prevention? |
Undulant fever. Pasteurization. |
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How is gi anthrax transmitted? |
Undercooked meat |
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How is cutaneous anthrax and inhalation anthrax transmitted? |
Through endospores |
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Organism that causes gas gangrene |
Clostridium |
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Sylvantic plague |
Rodent to rodent. Form if bubonic plague |
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Septicemia plague |
Rodent to human. Form if bubonic plague. |
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Pneumonic plague |
Human to human Form if bubonic plague. |
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What organism causes bubonic plague? |
Yersina |
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Bubonic plaque is transmitted by what? |
Fleas |
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Organism that causes Lyme disease. What does the rash look like? What occurs during Lyme disease? |
Borrelia. "Bullseye rash". Destruction of myelin sheath. |
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Organism that causes episemic typhus? What occurs during the disease? |
Rickettsia. Frightful dreams, hallucinations, and delirium. |
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Organism that causes Rocky mountain spotted fever? How is it transmitted? |
Rickattsia. Transmitted by ticks. |
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Papules |
Raised |
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Macules |
Flat |
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Macropapular |
Fused large rash |
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Epstein barr virus is also called |
Human herpes virus 4 |
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What is the most common cause of congenital disease? |
Cytomegalic inclusion disease |
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Characteristics Congenital CMV |
Enlarged liver and spleen. Jaundice and capillary bleeding. |
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Disseminated CMV |
Opportunistic in aids patients |
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Yellow fever is caused by what organism? Transmission? Characteristics? |
flavivirirus. Mosquito. Jaundice. |
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Dengue fever is caused by what organism? Common name? Transmission? |
Dengue virus. Break bone fever. Mosquito. |
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0157 H:7 |
Hemolytic uremic syndrome (renal failure) |
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What organism causes ulcers and stomach cancer? |
Helicobacter pylori |
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What organism causes Mumps? |
Paraxovirus (rubulavirus) |
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Hepatitis A transmission and characteristics? Year? |
Needless, sex, transfusions. Often progresses to cirrosis and chronic hepatitis. Before 1972. |
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Norovirus |
Causes 1/3 of all gastroenteritis outbreaks. |
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Rotovirus |
Viral gastroenteritis in babies. Number one cause worldwide |
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What organism causes tuberculosis? How is it transmitted? Prevention? |
Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Droplet route. Vax=BCG (bacillus of Calmette and Guerin. |
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What organism causes pneumococcal pneumonia? Tranmission? Prevention? |
Streptococcal pneumoniae. Inhalation of resp. secretions. vax=pneomonococcal polysaccharide vaccine. |
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What organism causes group A streptococcal pneumonia? |
Streptococcal pyogenes |
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What organism causes legionellosis? How is it transmitted? |
Legionella. Inhalation of contaminated water. |
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What organism causes haemophilus pneumonia? Complications? |
Haemophilus influenzae. Causes meningitis in children. |
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Atypical pneumonia common name? Organism? What is unique about his organism? |
walking pneumonia. Mycoplasma pneumoniae. Lacks cell wall. |
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Psittacosis (ornithosis) common name? organism? tranmission? |
Parrot fever. Chlamydia. Inhalation of dust from bird droppings. |
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Q fever (query) organism? Transmission? |
Coxiella. Transmitted by ticks, and inhaling contaminated fecal dust from ticks or infected animals. |
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Who does respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) affect? |
More kids than the flu does. |
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What does influenza affect? Organism? |
Affects RNA. orthomyxoviridae |
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Another name for N spikes? What do they do? |
Neuraminidase. Assist in viral budding. |
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Another name for H spikes? What do they do? |
Hemmaagglutination. Binds to host cells "mimins host proteins". |
