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30 Cards in this Set
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Meningococcal Meningitis
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Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome is rapid death from endotoxin shock.
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Hemophilus influenzae Meningitis
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Severe mental retardation
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Listeriosis
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Spontaneous abortions or meningitis in baby after birth
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Septicemia
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Treatment with antibiotics can cause great numbers of bacteria to die at once, which will make symptoms worse.
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Glomerulonephritis
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Chronic kidney disease or kidney failure.
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Rheumatic fever
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Sub-acute bacterial endocarditis or heart failure.
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Streptococcus pharyngitis
Scarlet fever |
Otitis media, rheumatic fever, scarlet fever and acute glomerulonephritis.
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Diphtheria
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Toxin damages the heart, nerves and kidneys.
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Otitis media and sinusitis
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Perforated eardrum, encephalitis or meningitis.
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Acute coryza (cold)
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Otitis media
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Pneumococcal pneumonia
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Pleurisy, septicemia, endocarditis and meningitis
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Walking Pneumonia
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Middle ear infection, anemia and heart, CNS and joint involvement.
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Whooping cough
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Pneumonia is a complication of which childhood disease?
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Influenza (Flu)
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Bacterial secondary invaders, Reye’s syndrome and Guillain-Barre syndrome.
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Gastritis
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Peptic ulcers and stomach cancer
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Salmonellosis
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Occasional invasion of blood stream and tissues leading to abscesses, fever, and shock
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Mumps
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Complications more severe in patients past puberty. In males, rapid swelling of the testicles and intense pain followed by atrophy of the testicles and sometimes sterility. In females, ovarian involvement may occur and manifests as pelvic pain. Miscarriage can occur in pregnant females. Serious complications in the elderly include deafness from encephalitis and death.
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Hepatitis B and C Virus Disease
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Complications include cell destruction results from the body's immune system attacking the infected liver cells. cirrhosis (scarring) or liver cancer
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Aflatoxin poisoning
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high doses result in tumors and liver cancer
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St. Anthony’s Fire (Ergot poisoning)
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complications are gangrene of the hands and feet and abortions
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Amebiasis (Amebic dysentery)
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Complication is perforation of intestinal wall leading to peritonitis and death
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Gonorrhea
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Complication: Rare in men due to acute symptoms which require treatment. In Women -Pelvic inflammatory disease, Disseminated gonococcal infection (DGI) - rash, toxemia, arthritis
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Chlamydia
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Complications: Men - can infect testicle leading to sterility. Women - pelvic inflammatory disease damaging the uterine tubes (can occur without symptoms) leading to sterility or tubal pregnancy.
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Tertiary syphilis
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Complication: cardiovascular and nervous system destruction and death.
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Bacterial vaginosis
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Complication: May cause premature births and low-birth-weight infants.
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Chancroid
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Complication: Increases risk of AIDS
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Genital herpes simplex Genital
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Complication: Risk of cervical and anal cancer.
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AIDS
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Complication: death from opportunistic infections
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Arboviral Encephalitis West Nile
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Survivors may suffer from neurological damage (deafness).
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Measles
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Middle ear infections
pneumonia encephalitis subacute sclerosing panencephalitis. |
