Disease | Symptoms |
Trench Fever | mouth exposure, 2 weeks for symptoms, sudden fever, dizziness, weight loss, skin rash, muscle and bone pain |
Cat-scratch disease | red bumps on skin, fatigue, discomfort, swelling of lymph nodes near lesion |
Rabies | bite from wild animal, dizziness, fatigue, delirium, nausea, muscle spasms |
Chagas Disease | mild symptoms: body ache, fever, headache, swelling around eye, pain in abdomen |
Scarlet Fever | bright red rash, sore throat, high fever, enlarged neck lymph nodes |
Tetanus | recent puncture wound, fever, high blood pressure, episodes of shortness of breath, muscle spasms |
Botulism | recent consumption of expanded canned food, difficulty swallowing or speaking, facial weakness, failed vision, nausea |
Leprosy | pain in joints, blisters, ulcers, nervous system failure |
African Sleeping Sickness | weight loss, pain in joints, increased sleepiness, fever, confusion, swollen lymph nodes |
Lyme disease | recent tick bite, swelling and stiffness of joints, bull's eye rash
Field mice- animal reservoir |
Typhus | early flu like symptoms, rash on trunk spreads to extremities
Human body louse- carrier |
Bubonic/black plague | cough with blood, very large lymph nodes in armpit, groin, or neck, fever, chills, delirium |
Typhoid fever | bloating, constipation, growing fever, rash with small red dots |
Yellow fever | common in central america, yellowing skin/eyes, bleeding, nausea, jaundice |
Tularemia | recent exposure to dead animals, skin ulcer at site of abrasion, enlarged regional lymph nodes |
Septic shock | confusion, rapid breathing and heartbeat, low BP, high white blood cell count |
Viral hemorrhagic fever | red eyes, internal bleeding, red spots, expelling blood |
Legionnaire's disease | recent exposure to lots of standing water, pain in chest, fever/chills, confusion |
Cutaneous anthrax | papule then vesicles, ulcerated area is covered by black scar |
Brucellosis | Undulant fever |
Gastrointestinal anthrax | nausea, abdominal pain, bloody diarrhea |
Pulmonary anthrax | mild fever, coughing, chest pain |
Gas gangrene | tissues swell due to gases produced |
Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever | sudden onset of fever and headache, rash, abdominal pain, red eyes |
Haemophilus influenza | mircoscopic examination of cerebrospinal fluid reveals gram negative rods |
Cruetzfeldt-Jakob disease | after receiving a corneal transplant, a woman developed dementia and loss of motor function, became a comatose and died, negative cultures, serological tests were negative |
Pseudomonas aeruginosa | scrapings of rash show gram negative rods |
Neisseria meningitdes | patient in coma had fever, headache, stiff neck, rash did not fade, violent vomiting, gram + diplococci |
Sporothrix schenkii | gardener with large ulcers on hands and wrists, bacterial cultures and serological tests are negative, ulcers fade with KI |
Candida albicans | whitish overgrowth of oral cavity |
Naegleria fowleri | 8-yr-old in coma, severe headaches, swimming in stagnant pond, negative bacterial cultrues |
Francisella tularensis | skin ulcer on leg at same site of cut, recently hiked south table and saw lots of dead rabbits, groin lymph nodes enlarged |