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| inflammatory response caused by the spread of bacteria or their toxin from a focus of infection. |
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| sepsis that involves proliferation of pathogens in the blood. |
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| an infection associated inflammatory mediators being released into the blood, although the source of the etiology is not necessarily in the blood |
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| fever and chills, rapid heart rate or respiratory rates, drop in blood pressure, organ faliure, elevated white blood cell count, release of iron from RBCs by microbial action cn stimulate iron growth |
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| red streaks up the appendages indicative of inflamed lymph vessels, often associated with sepsis of septicemia. |
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| can lead to severe sepsis, characterized by decreased blood pressure. endotoxin causes the symptoms. when the blood pressure cannot be controlled it is the septic shock. |
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| most common bacterial zoonosis. 500,000 new human cases a year. middle east is endemic region. also common to Mediterranean and SE European region, latin american and caribbean. |
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| goats and sheep- most common and most dangerous to humans |
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| brucella bactera characteristics |
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| small, aerobic gram negative coccoid rod shaped bacterium. |
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| by inhalation, ingestion or break in skin. highly infectious, dangerous to handl and easily aerosolized and highly transmissible. |
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| malaise, night sweats, muscle aches and fever that spikes each evening (undulant fever); incubation period is 1-3 weeks. |
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| bubonic plague transmission |
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| a disease of rodents, transmittied by the bite of a flea. when rodents die, fleas feed on closest available mammal. man is an accidental host of the bubonic plague |
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| plague bacteria characteristics |
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| plague; gram negative facultative bacterium |
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| swollen lymph nodes, usually in groin or under arms, extremely painful. the skin becomes darkened and black due to hemorrhaging. |
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| pneumonic plague symptoms |
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| respiratory transmission; once human is final stages of plague, follow a septicemic stage that itself is often fatal. pink frothy blood comes out of the noes and mouth when coughing |
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| most common tickborne disease in US. first appeared in 1975 as a cluster of disease cases in young adults. 1983 a spirochete later was identified as etioogical agent (borrelia burgdorferi) |
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| reservoir of lyme disease |
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| field mice are most important; deer also for maintaining the disease, though less likely to harbor the ticks most likely to carry disease |
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| rash at bite site and expands; flu like symptoms in 2-3 weks as rash fades. |
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| second phase of lyme disease |
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| if not treated. heart involvemtn, irregular heartbeat, chronic neurological symptoms, incapacitation, facial paralysis, meningitis, encephalitis |
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| third phase of lyme disease |
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| months or years after infection, arthritis in some patients, similar long term effects as syphilis |
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| signs and symptoms of malaria |
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| chills fever vomiting and headache at intervals of 2-3 days |
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| by mosquitoes. agent is one of four species of plasmodium |
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| P. vivax, P. ovale, P. malariae and P. falciparum |
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| benign malaria; widely distributed due to fact that it can develop at lower temps in mosquito- most prevalent form of disease |
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| relatively benign, restricted geographically |
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| most dangerous form; left untreated mortality 50%. children most susceptible to death; high degree of RBC cell lysis, thus anemia is significant. |
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| mosquito control and mosquito netting |
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