Conjunctivitis

Chlamydia: The Silent Killer Javier Martin Waukesha County Technical College Section 11274 Instructor: Dr. Tracy Neher April 30, 2017 Chlamydia: The Silent Killer A sexually transmitted infection that affects approximately 3 million Americans per year with a yearly cost of 2.1 billion dollars for treatment and prevention is caused by the bacterial pathogen Chlamydia trachomatis. Known as the silent disease for its ability to conceal itself in the body, chlamydia…

A “virus” is defined as: “an infective agent that typically consists of a nucleic acid molecule in a protein coat, is too small to be seen by a light microscope, and is able to multiply only within the living cells of a host” (Document B). Originating from Uganda, the Zika virus was first discovered in 1947 in an infected money in the Zika forest, where its name originates. The Zika virus is a typical one-stranded RNA virus with nucleotide sequences relating it to other African and Asian virus…

why a ban should be put in place. Simply put, having pregnant women go to such events, would not only put themselves at risk, but their future offspring as well. This has been prevalent through symptoms such as : " fever, rash, joint pains or conjunctivitis"(Connor 2016) among pregnant women. While those symptoms may not seem extreme, the virus has also been linked to microcephaly, a disorder "where the brain of the developing foetus fails to grow normally", which in turn causes deformities to…

The Zika infection usually been linked with asymptomatic or slight illnesses. The symptoms for Zika, when they transpire, consist of a slight fever, maculopapular rash, a headache, myalgia, arthralgia, and non-purulent conjunctivitis. In an occurrence in France in 2013 and 2014 neuro logical and auto-immune difficulties presented itself for the first time. Content Origin The Zika virus itself is a mosquito-borne, positive-sense, and a one-stranded RNA virus. Zika belongs to…

cause it to fail. Thus the development of a genetic test does not appear possible today; An allergic component can be more frequently found in asthmatics. Or patients themselves have been victims of allergy (allergic rhinitis, eczema, allergic conjunctivitis.) Or members of their families were. A crisis can occur because of many factors. The elements can trigger an asthma attack are many and vary from person to person but to one person over time. Among the main triggers are: - Allergens:…

Today’s modern technology in medicine has an upper hand over the medicine back in the gruesome times during the existence of the Bubonic Plague. What is a disease? A disease is well known to be detrimental to your health and deadly. A disease like the Bubonic Plague can wipe out a portion of a society. People during this grotesque disease tried to eat nutritional food and to stay hygienic to prevent getting the plague. Other diseases were also a threat like dysentery, Gangrenous, gonorrhea, and…

Dermatology Clinic: Questions and Answers Case 1 1. What is your diagnosis? This patient exhibits signs and symptoms of iatrogenic Cushing syndrome with steroid acne due to corticosteroid withdrawal. 2. What factors may have contributed to the disease? The chronic treatment with high doses of prednisone contributed to the patient’s Cushing syndrome. However, steroid withdrawal may have caused her recent skin flare around her trunk and extremities. 3. What is the treatment of choice for this…

The genus chlamydia is made of three species called C. psittaci, C. pneumoniae, and C. trachomatis. Today we will be focusing on C. trachomatis. It stains gram negative which means it has a thin cell wall and it is bacillus or rod shaped. C. trachomatis is also an obligate intracellular organism which means it cannot exist without a host cell. This leads us into our next segment on how C. trachomatis affects us as human beings. To many of us we know C. trachomatis as chlamydia, which is…

undercooked meat form an infected animal. Oropharyngeal tularemia has syndromes such as, severe pharyngitis, fever, oral ulcers and cervical lymphadenitis. If infected through the conjunctiva, oculoglandular tularemia is present with “cases of conjunctivitis, conjunctiva inflammation and edema are typical seen and corneal ulcers may occur,”…

This can lead to people not even knowing if they’ve been infected. They could have it and easily pass it along to others by having sex, or a mother can pass it along to its fetus. The symptoms that Zika does show are “fever, rash, joint pain, or conjunctivitis” (CDC 2016). These symptoms can be easily thought of as being something else. It can be confused with allergies or a cold or normal everyday illnesses. With this information, it can be seen that Zika isn’t a deadly virus, it’s a pretty…