Term
| Chicken Pox (Varicella-Zoster) |
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Definition
Transmission: Airborne, direct contact
Systemic Manifestations: fever, malaise, headache, abdominal pain
Skin: Clear, fluid filled vesicles all over the body |
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Term
| Diptheria (Corynebacterium Diphtheriae) |
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Definition
Transmission: Contact with nasal/eye discharge
Systemic Manifestations: fever, anorexia, rhinorrhea, cough, stridor
Skin: Tonsils, pharynx covered in thick bluish white patch |
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Definition
Transmission: Airborne, droplet contact
Systemic manifestations:high fever, conjunctivitis, cough, anorexia, malaise
Skin: kopek spots on buccal mucosa-red blotchy, maculopapular rash (face, trunk, limbs) |
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Definition
Transmission:Contact with respiratory secretions
Systemic manifestations: Malaise, fever, pain w/chewing, paraotid gland swelling
Skin: none specific |
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Term
| Pertussis (Whooping Cough) (Bordetella pertussis) |
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Definition
Transmission: Respiratory droplets-direct contact with secretions
Systemic manifestations: runny nose, fever, mild cough that becomes more severe at night, infants do not manifest the whooping sound.
Skin: none specific |
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Term
| Poliomyelitis (Poliovirus) |
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Definition
Transmission: Fecal-oral, possibly respiratory
Systemic manifestations: May be mild or severe-CNS symptoms, respiratory weakness, paralysis
Skin: non specific |
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Term
| Roseola (Exanthem subitum, Sixth Disease, Herpesvirus type6) |
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Definition
Transmission: Possibly respiratory secretions of healthy individuals
Systemic manifestations: High fever for 3-8 days otherwise not symptoms
Skin: Pale pink, maculopapular rash /9trunk, face, neck, limbs) |
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Term
| Rubella (German Measles, RNA virus) |
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Definition
Transmission: Troplet or direct contact
Systemic Manifestations: low grade fever, headache, malaise, anorexia
Skin: pink, non confluent, maculopapular rash |
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Term
| Tetanus (Clostridium tetani or tetanus bacillus) |
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Definition
Transmission: via wounds in the skin
Systemic manifestations: neck or jaw stiffness, facial spasms, prolonged muscle contraction
skin: none specific |
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Term
| Tetanus (Clostridium tetani or tetanus bacillus) |
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Definition
Transmission: via wounds in the skin
Systemic manifestations: neck or jaw stiffness, facial spasms, prolonged muscle contraction
skin: none specific |
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Term
| Lyme Disease (Borrelia Burgdorferi, a spirochete) |
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Definition
Transmission: tick bite (infected spirochete transmitted when tick draws blood
Systemic manifestations: malaise, headache, mild fever, joint aches
Skin: red, "bulls eye" rash around tick bite |
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Term
| Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever (Rickettsia rickettsii) |
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Definition
Transmission: Infected ticks
Systemic manifestations: may be mild (malaise, fever, to sever (encephalitis, shock0
Skin: maculopapular rash (extremities, then trunk) |
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