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50 Diseases Study List for Final
Question | Answer |
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AIDS | Human Immunodeficiency Virus |
AIDS | Unprotected sex; Infected blood; Contaminated needle; Mother to child |
AIDS | Avoid risky behavior that |
AIDS | Combinations of three classes drugs |
AIDS | Lack of energy, weight loss fevers, & sweats, skin rash, short term memory |
"African Sleeping Sickness | Trypanosoma (Protozoa) |
"African Sleeping Sickness | Tsete Fly (Vector) |
"African Sleeping Sickness | Avoiding insect bites |
"African Sleeping Sickness | 2 stages: Pentamidine & Suramin; Melarsoprol & Eflornithine |
"African Sleeping Sickness | Personality change, Weight loss, Irritability, Loss of concentration, Progressive confusion, Slurred speech, Seizures, Difficulty walking and talking,Sleeping for long periods of the day, Insomnia |
Amoebiasis | Entamoeba histolytica |
Amoebiasis | "Vehicle transmission (contaminated food or |
Amoebiasis | Personal hygiene, protective, Clothing. |
Amoebiasis | "Replace fluids and electrolytes; Metronidazole; Iodoquinol |
Amoebiasis | "Appendicitis like pain; Blood in |
Anaphylaxis | Histamine, Leukotrienes, |
Anaphylaxis | Food, Wasps, & Bee stings |
Anaphylaxis | Avoid know allergen, Pretreatment with Corticosteroids & Antihistamines |
Anaphylaxis | CPR if needed, Carry |
Anaphylaxis | Severe itching of eyes or face |
Anthrax | Bacillus anthracis |
Anthrax | Air-borne spores; skin contact ;contaminated meat consumption; contact with animal products |
Anthrax | Vaccinate livestock; Vaccinate humans with a series of 6 shot over 18 months |
Anthrax | Ciprofloxacin;doxyxyxline; |
Anthrax | Papule, bloody diarrea |
Ascariasis | Ingestion of food contaminated with fecal matter containing Ascaris eggs |
Ascariasis | Don't use toilet facilites; Wash hands; Protection of food from dirt and soil |
Ascariasis | Mebendazole, Piperazine; Albendazole; Pyrantel; Thiabendazole; Corticosteroids |
Ascariasis | Peritoniis; Inflammation enlargement of the liver or spleen; Toxcity; Pneumonia |
Ascariasis | Round Worm |
Bacterial Meningitis | Niesseria meningiditis |
Bacterial Meningitis | Airborne droplets |
Bacterial Meningitis | Aggressive therapy with pencicillin; cephalosporins |
Bacterial Meningitis | Fever; Headache; Stiff Neck; Nausea; Vomiting; Rash that does not fade away when pressed |
Blastomycosis | North American blastomycosis |
Blastomycosis | Blastomyces dermatitidis |
Blastomycosis | Amphotericin B |
Blastomycosis | Cutaneous ulcers; Extensive abscess formation and tissue destruction |
Blastomycosis | Soil in Mississippi Valley |
Blastomycosis | Stay away from Mississippi Valley |
Botulism | Clostridium botulinum |
Botulism | Foodborne intoxication |
Botulism | Antitoxin |
Botulism | Proper can foods; Infants should not have honey |
Bacterial Meningitis | Respiratory tract |
Bacterial Meningitis | Capsular vaccine against A, C, Y, W-135 |
Chickenpox | Varicella-zoster (Herpesvirus |
Chickenpox | Repiratory droplets; Fomites; Contact |
Chickenpox | Vaccinations |
Chickenpox | Symptomatic treatment only: Acyclovir for immunocompromised patients; preexposure vaccine |
Chickenpox | Vesicles/lesions in most cases confined to face, throat, and lower back; Complication: Reye's Sydrome |
Cholera | Vibrio cholerae |
Cholera | Fecally-contaminated food and drink |
Cholera | High standards in sanitation; Oral vaccines |
Cholera | Doxycyclin; Rehydration. |
Cholera | "Rice Water Stools" 12 or 20 liters (3 to 5 gal.) of fluids daily; secrete water and electolytes, especially potassium; Violent vomiting; Low blood pressure; shock; Kidney failure; Death |
Cryptococcosis | Cryptococcus neoformans |
Cryptococcosis | Inhaling soil contaminated with spores; Contamination is done by pigeons or chickens droppings |
Cryptococcosis | No Prevention |
Cryptococcosis | AmphotericinB; flucytosine |
Cryptococcosis | Respiratory distress, with primary lesion; meningitis, with intense frontal headache, seizures |
Diphtheria | Corynebacterium diptheriae |
Diphtheria | Respiratory droplets; Contact |
Diphtheria | Immunization (DTaP vaccine) |
Diphtheria | Antitoxin with penicilin and erythromycin |
Diphtheria | Sore throat; Fever; Respiratory obstruction leads to suffocation; Swollen "bull" neck; Temporary facial and neck paralysis |