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MICROSPORUM
TRICHOPHYTAN EPIDERMORPHYTAN-FUNGUS 1 |
CLASSIFICATION OF FUNGI THAT CAUSES RINGWORM
AKA- TINEA SEEK KERATIN TINEA CAPITIS(SCALP)TINEA CRURIS(GROIN) TINEA UNGUIUM(NAILS)TINEA COPORIS(BODY) |
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LEISHMANIA-PROTOZOA
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CAUSES LEISHMANIASIS-LARGE SKIN LESIONS
TRANSMITTED BY SAN FLY BITING A HOST COMMON IN TROPICAL REGIONS AND AFRICA |
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ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS-HELMINTH
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CAUSES RIVER BLINDNESS
AFRICA,ASIA MILLIONS AFFECTED BLACK FLIES TRANSMIT WORMS INVADE EYES-DESTORYING RETINA,OPTIC NERVES DRUG TREATMENT AVAILIBLE |
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CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS- FUNGUS
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CAUSES MENINGGITIS
BIRD DROPPINGS HAVE HIGH LEVELS ENTERS RESPIRATORY TRACT IN IMMUNE COMPROMISED PEOPLE IT ENTERS THE BLOODSTREM,MENINGES AND BRAIN |
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COCCIDIODES IMMITIS-FUNGUS
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FOUND IN SOIL
TRUE PATHOGEN RATHER THAN OPPORTUNISTIC BEGINS AS A PULMONARY INFECTION SW US MOST DO NOT NEED TX- IMMUNOCOMPROMISED DO |
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NAEGLERIA FOWLERI-PROTOZOA
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MENINGOENCEPHALITIS
SWIMMING IN CONTAMINATED WATER MIGRATES TO BRAIN FROM NASAL PASSAGE RAPID COMA AND DEATH |
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TOXOPLASMA GONDII-PROTOZOA
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ENCEPHALITIS
VERY COMMON PROTOZA CAT FECES ASYMPTOMATIC DANGEROUS TO PREGNANT WOMEN 33% CHANCE OF PASSING IT TO FETUS |
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TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI-PROTOZOA
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AFRICIAN SLEEPING SICKNESS
40,000 NEW CASES A YEAR TRANSMITTED BY TSETSE FLY FEVER, SWOLLEN LYMPH NODES, PAIN ANTIGENIC SHIFT TX IF CAUGHT EARLY |
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PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM-PROTOZA
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MALARIA
MOST VIRULENT FORM TRANSMITTED BY ANOPHELES MOSQUITO MIGRATES TO LIVER-ASEXUALLY DIVIDES HERE |
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PNEUMOCYTIS JIROVECI-FUNGUS
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PCP-PNEUMOCYSTIC PNEUMONIA
CAN BE FOUND IN HEATHLY HUMANS LUNGS A PROBELM IN IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PEOPLE MOST PEOPLE EXPOSED BY 3-4 YEARS OLD |
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HISTOPLASMA CAPSULATUM-FUNGUS
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NORMALLY SUBCLINICAL PULMONARY INFECTION
WILL CONTINUE TO GROW IN MACROPHAGES AND CARRY TO OTHER BODY SITES HARMFUL IN IMMUNOCOMPRISED PEOPLE OHIO VALLEY- MOIST SOIL-80% POP. SHOW PRIOR INFECTION |
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ASPERGILLUS
RHIZOPUS MUCOR- FUNGI 12 |
OPPORTUNISTIC FUNGI
CAUSES RESPIRATORY DISEASE IF INHALED |
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GIARDIA LAMBLIA-PROTOZOA
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GASTRORENTERITISIS- USUALLY NO FEVER
FOUND IN CONTAMINATED WATER BOILING AND IODINE CAN KILL TX AVAILBLE BUT NOT NECESSARY |
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CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM-PROTOZOA
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GASTROENTERITIS
FECAL-ORAL ROUTE MILWAUKEE OUTBREAK USUALLY NO TX |
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CYCLOSPORA-PROTOZOA
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GASTROENTERITIS
FECAL-ORAL ROUTE OUTBREAKS IN CANADA-US COOKING AND FREEZING WILL KILL |
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ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA- PROTOZOA
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INTESTINAL WALL DESTRUTION- ENZYMATIC
PERFORATIONS CAN RESULT TRANSMITTED BY FOOD AND DRINK CONTAINING CYSTS 100,00 DEATHS A YEAR |
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TRICHINELLA- HELMINTHS
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CAUSES TRICHONOSIS
ASYMPTOMATIC TO LIFE THREATING EATING PORK WOTH CYST EMBEDDED LARVA PENETRATE INTESTINE, FORM CYST IN SKELETAL MUSCLES |
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ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES-HELMINTHS
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MOST COMMON WORM INFECTION
CONTAMMINATED FOOD AND WATER PENERATE INTESTIONAL WALL AND ENTERS LYMPH AND CIR, SYSTEMS CAN GROW 18 INCHES LONG |
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TRICHURIS TRICHIURA- HELMINTH
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LOCALIZED HEMORRHAGE OF BOWELS, CAN CAUSE RECTAL PROLAPSE
AKA- WHIPWORM |
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SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI- HELMINTH
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BLOOD FLUKE
CHRONIC INFECTION- ENLARGED LIVER AND SPLEEN OR BLADDER OBSTRUTION HUMANS TRANSMIT BY DEFECATING OR URINATING IN WATER |
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CANDIDA ALBICANS- FUNGI
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OPPORTUNISTIC YEAST INFECTION
PART OF NORMAL FLORA WHITE VAGINAL DISCHARGE CAN GO SYSTEMIC IN THOSE IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PEOPLE ORAL THRUSH- INFANTS |
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TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS- PROTOZOA
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ASYMPTOMATIC IN 50% OF FEMALES
MAY CAUSE SYMPTOMS IN SOME EASILY TRANSMITTED BY SEX |
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CHICKENPOX
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TRANSMITTED BY REPIRATORY ROUTE
SHINGLES- LATENT VIRUSE IN NERVE CELLS VARICELLA VIRUS RASH BEGINS ON FACE AND SCALP MOVES DOWNWARD |
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SMALLPOX
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VARIOLA VIRUS
RASH BEGINS IN THE MOUTH, SEVERE ABDOMINAL PAIN, RASH WITHIN 24HRS ON ENTIRE BODY LESIONS FILL WITH FLUID. ERADIACATED BY VACCINE TRANSMITTED- RESPIRATORY |
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MEASLES VIRUS
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ORAL LESIONS-KOPLIK SPOTS
CONTAGIOUS-REPIRARTORY DROPLETS 1 MILLION CHILDERN DIE WORLDWIDE CAN LEAD TO SECONDARY INFECTIONS- EAR INFECTIONS, PNEMONIA MMR VACCINE |
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RUBELLA VIRUS
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USUALLY MILD INFECTION AND RASH
RESPIRARTORY ROUTE OF TRANSMISSION MAY BE ASYMPTOMATIC- SLIGHT FEVER, AND RASH CAN AFFECT FETUS IN FIRST TRIMESTER- MOST SERIOUS FORM OF DISEASE |
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PAPILLOMAVIRUS
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WARTS
SEVERAL HPV SPREAD BY DIRECT CONTACT- VACCINE AVAILBLE IF CAUGHT PRIOR TO EXPOSURE |
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ROSEOLA
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CAUSED BY STRAIN OF HUMAN HERPES VIRUS
RASH-VERY HIGH FEVER |
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HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS
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COLD SORES WHEN MUCOSAL CELLS ARE AFFECTED
ORAL & RESPIRATORY ROUTE |
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RABIES
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RHABDOVIRUS
USUALLY FATAL ENCPHALITIS TRANSMITTED BY BITES-SCRATCHES ATTACKS NERVES,BRAIN- SEIZURES,TWITCHES,AGITATION, DISORIENTATION, HYDROPHOBIA POSTEXSPOSURE TREATMENT INVOLVES INTRAMUSCLAR INJECTIONS OF HUMAN RABIES IMMUNE GLOBULIN |
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POLIOVIRUS
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POLIOMYELITIS- ATTACKS SPINAL CORD
LESS THAN 1% CAUSES PARALYSIS TRANSMITTED BY CONTAMINATED WATER BY FECAL MATTER SALK VACCINE IS AVAILBLE SABIN VACCINE- ORAL |
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ARBOVIRUSES
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TRANSMITTED BY ARTHROPOD VECTORS( MOSQUITOS,SAND FLIES,FLEAS, TICKS, LICE)
MAY RESULT IN ENCPHELITIS WEST NILE, ST. LOUIS, EASTERN EQUINE NO EFFECTIVE TX- MORE IMP. TO CONTROL ARTHROPODS |
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EPSTEIN-BARR VIRUS
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MONONUCLEOSIS- SORE THROAT, HIGH FEVER,MALAISE
INGESTION OF SALIVA FROM INFECTED PERSON BURKITTS LYMPHOMA AND NASELPHARYNGEAL CANGER |
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CYTOMEGALOVIRUS(CMV)
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PRODUCES "GIANT CELLS"- FORM OF HERPES VIRUS
LATENT IN HOST CELL MAY BE PRESENT IN IMMUNOCOMPROMISED CAN CAUSE FETAL/NEWBORN PROBELMS |
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HEMORRHAGIC FEVERS
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EBOLA VIRUS-YELLOW FEVER- DENGUE FEVER
EXTREME FEVER, SOMETIMES INTERNAL BLEEDING EBOLA-25-100% MORTALITY |
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RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS
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MOST COMMON CAUSE OF PNEUMONIA IN INFANTS
MOST PEOPLE EXPOSED BY AGE 2 |
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INFLUENZAVIRUS
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CAUSES THE FLU, SORE THROAT- EXTREME FATIGUE
H(HEMAGGLUTININ) AND N( NEURAMINIDASE) OFTEN RESULTS IN SECONDARY BACTERIAL INFECTION THAT MAY CAUSE DEATH |
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HANTAVIRUS
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1993 SEVERAL CASES REPORTED IN SW
33% MORALITY DUST CONTAMINATED WITH URINE, FECES, SALIVA OR RODENTS HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, RENAL SYSTEM AFFECTED |
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RHINOVIRUSES
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50% OF COMMON COLDS
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SARS( SEVERE ACUTE REPIRATORY SYNDROME)
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2003 WHO GLOBAL WARNING
DIRECT OR DROPLET TRANSMISSION 9% MORTALITY |
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MUMPS VIRUS
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ENTERS TROUGH RESPIRATORY TRACT
INFLAMMATION OF PARATID GLANDS, CAN AFFECT TESTIS VACCINE(MMR) AVAILABLE |
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ROTAVIRUS
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VIRAL GASTROENTERITIS
1 MILLION CASES A YEAR IN US FECAL- ORAL ROUTE YOUNG INFANTS MOST AT RISK |
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HEPATITIS(715-718)
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HEPATITIS A VIRUSE- 50% ARE SUBCLINICAL- CONTAMINATED FOOD OR WATER, SPREADS TO LIVER
HEP. B- SERIOUS, TRANSMITTED THROUGH SYRINGES,SALIVA,BREAST MILK , SEMEN HEP. C- TRAMSMITTED FROM BLOOD- CAUSES CHRONIC HEPATITIS- SILENT EPIDEMIC- 4 MILLION US VARIABLE SYMPTOMS |
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HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 2
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GENITAL HERPES- LESION, ETC
NEONATAL HERPES |
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HUMAN PAPILLOMARVIRUS ( HPV)
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GENITAL WARTS- MAY OR MAY NOT BE PRESENT
CERVICAL CANCER- GARDASIL DIFFERENT FORMS, MOST PEOPLE INFECTED |
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HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS( HIV)
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ASYMPTOMATIC
LEADS TO AIDS |
