Infectious Disease of Chapter 2 and 5 DiseaseInfectious Agent Signs & Other elev
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Infectious Disease of Chapter 2 and 5 DiseaseInfectious Agent Signs & Other elevance to BACTERIAL Syphilis Athletes foot Filariasis Herpes simplex Herpes virus 1 and Most of us are infected as babies Ebola Ebola and Marburg Typhoid fever SalmoneWa enferica Tick vector Rocky Mountain Spotted fever Yellow fever vector Bubonic plague Yersinia pestis Can convert t Malaria Plasmodium Lyme disease Borelia burgdorfeni A sprocheate MRSA Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus ureus and Periodontal Porphyromonas ofExplanation / Answer
Primary stage - a single sore presents itself at the site of transmission 21 days laterland remains theretfor 6 weeks.
Secondary stage - mucous membrane lesion and rashes.
Latent stage - all signs and symptoms disappear.
Tertiary stage - serious damage to body.
Diseases Infectious agent Reservoirs Transmission Signs and Symptoms Therapy Other information Relevance to chapter Syphillis Treponema pallidium Humans Through sexual contact; through placenta to embryoPrimary stage - a single sore presents itself at the site of transmission 21 days laterland remains theretfor 6 weeks.
Secondary stage - mucous membrane lesion and rashes.
Latent stage - all signs and symptoms disappear.
Tertiary stage - serious damage to body.
Penicillin or Ceftriaxone injection. This disease was discovered in 15th century in Europe Athlete's foot fungus Trichophyton rubrum Humans Skin contact with fungi Infection occurs between toes and fingers. At first the skin becomes white and soft, then cracks and peels. Filaria Wuchereria brancofti Humans Spread by blood feeding black flies and mosquitoes Fever, inguinal or axillary lymphadenopathy Single doze of albendazol and ivermectin Also called elephantiasis Opportunistic pneumonia fungal Pneumocytitis jerovecii Humans the fungus infects the weak person through air through tiny droplets from nose or mouth of an infected person Different antibiotics the fungus finds an opportunity Herpes simplex Herpes virus 1&2 Humans and animals by oral to oral contact with herpes virus and then to genitalia Blistering sores, pain during urination and itching near genitals Non curable Most of us are infected as babies. Ebola Ebola and Marburg virus Bats through close and direct contact with infected bodily fluids Fever, headache, muscle pain and chill Intravenous fluid and balancing electrolytes Typhoid fever Salmonelle enterica Typhimurium Humans through contaminated food and water High fever, headache, chill Treatment with antibiotics Listeriosis Listeria monocystogene Soil and water through food, raw meat, unpasteurized milk fever, muscle ache, nausea, diarrhea treatment with antibiotics Rocky mountain spotted fever Rickettsia rickettsii Ticks, infected humans, deer, raccoon through bite of an infected tick Fever, nausea, severe headache antibiotic treatment Tick vector Yellow fever Flavivirus Monkeys through bite of an infected Aeded mosquito Headache, muscle ache, chill, fever non curable Mosquito vector Bubonic plague Yersinia pestis Rats through bite of an infected flea, Xenopsylla swollenslymph nodes, fever, headache strong antibiotic treatment Can convert into pneumonic plague Malaria Plasmodium falciparum Humans through bite of female Anopheles mosquito high fever, chill at some interval Quinine based therapy Mosquito vector Lyme disease Borelia burgdoferi Squirrels through bite of infected ticks flu like symptoms antibiotic treatment MRSA Staphyllococcus aureus Humans by direct contact with the infected person wound infection, pneumonia, respiratory infection, UTI treatment with antibiotics Hospital acquired and community acqired Periodontal disease Porphyromonas gingivalis Periodontal microbiota Through inflammatory disease Bad breathe, swollen gums, bleeding gums Professional cleaning of teeth One of many organisms