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| Onchocelrciais / river blindness |
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vector= worm by the bite of a black fly
SXS = itch, skin lesions, muscle pain, weakness, blindness
RX = Mectizan spray |
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| can cause neuronopathies and injuries to the PNS specifically dorsal root ganglia and autonomic root ganglia |
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Navajo Flu (New Mexico)
Vector = dear mouse
SXS = respiratory disease with flu-like syndrome(HRS) |
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Protozoa
Vector = Water
SXS = watery diarrhea, n/v/, fever
resistant to chlorine |
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Bacteria = Borrelia Burgdorferi
Vector = tick (ixodes) from mice
SXS = headache, muscle ache, fever, chills, swollen lymph, skin rash erythema migrans. Stage II= arthralgia, bell's palsy, dysrythmia, conjunctivitis. Stage III = arthritis and memory changes with dementia.
transmission during the nymph stage
RX: doxy, amoxicillin and erythromycin |
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Virus = Filoviridae
SXS = 4-16 days after injection pt will have flu-like symptoms followed by rash , bleeding and kidney and liver failure. |
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Types A & B responsible for resp infection , n-spike and H- spike
SXS = fever, cough, muscle pain, fatigue |
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Virus
4 different distinct serotypes
Vector = Misquito (Aedes Aegypti)
SXS = flu-like , headache, pain, n/v, with ease of fever pt develop leaky capillaries and go into shock. |
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| Irreversibly binds axon terminal preventing the release of acetylcholine (different from tetrodotoxin which blocks sodium channels) |
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contain low mw proteins that affect ion transport along the axon, which impairs action potential.
- tachycardia
- respiratory distress |
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negative after 5 days.
Boster test after 1 week
Quanteferon test = gold standard blood test
3 sputum tests to determine if TB is invective
>5 positive if immuno supressed, HIV, TB, fibrotic chest xray
> 10 Positive if healthcare worker, Medical condition, Diabetes, steroids, CKD
>15 for the general public |
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| Compare rickettsiae & chamydia to virus and bacteria |
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| both obligate intracellular parasites; suseptable to antibiotics |
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| lipopolysacride cell wall component = endotoxin |
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| is an infectious disease transmitted under natural conditions from vertibrate animals to humans |
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| corresponds to endemic and pandemic |
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| virus transmtted by anthropod |
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| presence of HBsAG , HCV antibody, HIV antibody |
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| Presence of antibodies to HBsAg |
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| past infection with presence of antibody and hep b immunoglobulin |
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| USPHS recomendations for post- exposure prophylaxis Of HBV vaccinated healthcare worker |
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known responders need no treatment.
unknown responders are given dose of HBIG and vacination or two doses of HBIG. |
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| Paramixovirus that affects the eyes of portly handlers, lab tech, vets. |
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| Human ORF or ORF viral disease / echthyma contagiosum |
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| Pox virus in deer , sheep , goat which causes a solitary red or violet skin lesion or multiple skin leasons. Erythemia muliforme is a reported complication |
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Rickettsia Prowazekii
vector = louse
SXS: fever |
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Coxiella burnetii
vector: cattle, sheep, goat and wild animals
SXS; fever followed by disease of the liver, lungs, brain,
workers: slaughterhouse workers |
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Rickettsia Rickettsii
vector; ticks from dogs and rodents
SXS; fever and rash
workers: forest workers, farmers, ranchers |
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Chlamydia Psittaci
vector: bird dropings
Workers:zoo keepers handeling bird droopings |
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Bacillus Anthracis , spore, gr+, rod
SXS: escar (wool sorters diseas) , lung disease
Vector: bio agent or
Workers: vets, handel hides, hair , bone, wool. |
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Brucellosis Abortus, grm - cocobacilli
Vector: mamals contaminated milk
SXS; gradual onset fever (undulent fever) chills, headach, myalhia, arthralgia, LAD, chronic hepatitis, GI infections, joint inflamation
CDC class B bio agent
Workers: slaughterhouse, farmers, dairy workers, vets |
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Ehrlichieae family of rickettsiacease
vector= tick
SXS; malase, fever, headache, vomit, anoexia, which may progress to a fatal outcome.
Workers: outdoor |
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Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae
SXS; skin disease along with septicemia and endocarditis.
Workers: fishermen, fish processors, meat and poultry workers. |
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| Leptospirosis / Weil Disease / hemmoragic jaundice |
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Cuased by the spirochetal bacterium Leptospira interrogans
vector: water or feces
SXS; affects the liver, kidney, brain,
Workers: feild workers, slaughter house, fishermen |
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Yersinia Pestis
Vector: flees
Workers: zoo, lab
Class A bioagent |
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| Listeria Monocytogenes / Listeriosis |
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MONo = cns affect.
Workers: Vets only |
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Step suis Type II: groupo R beta-hem
SXS; flu like syndrome with early hearing loss
Workers: pig farmers/ raw pork |
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SXS: rigid paralysis
Worker: soil exposure |
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| healthcare workers or dairy -cattle workers (M. bovis) |
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Francisella Tularensis
Vector: mammal blood or urine, secretions
SXS: skin and systemic affects
Workers: hunters, farmers, foresters. trappers, vets.
Class A bio agent |
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Fungus
location: Midwest and Southeast soil
vector; dog , trnsmitted via bite
SXS: chronic pneumonia and skin ulceration, wart-like lesions, and nodules, chronic osteomyelitis
Workers; farmers, plant-nursery workers, construction workers. |
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| Coccidioidomycosis / valley fever |
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Southwest soil (cali- texas)
SXS; pulmonary nodules and skin lesion (erythemia nodosum) Nodules may become systemic and go to the bone and meninges. Fatal
Workers; construction, migrant workers, healthcare workers |
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Vector : soil contaminated with bird or bat droppings.
SXS: mild resp symptoms to disseminated , to chronic systemic disease, to chronic pulmonary histoplasmosis for which its cavitary lesions resemble TB.
Workers; construction workers, bird handlers. |
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Vector : rose scratch
SXS: skin ulceration and nodules with spread to lymph node nodules.
Workers; gardeners |
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Necator Americanus
vector: water to skin exposure
SXS: enter lungs and lymph
workers: farmers, sewer workers |
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Tapeworm
Vector: dog feces . Exposure by injestion
SXS: hydatid cysts.
Workers: vets, children |
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hydration, Tylenol, anti-seizure
RX: Amp, gent , rifampin, vanco , ceftriaxone, genbtimcin |
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| Antibiotic treatment for Chlamydia and Gonorrhea |
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Ceftriaxone 250 mg IM injection plus azithromycin 1 g PO dose
or Doxy 100mg BID for 7 days. |
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