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QR Diseases and Their Causes
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11/20/2011

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Term
Diseases caused by Bacteria
Definition

1. Anthrax 16. Pneumonia

 

2. Blood poisoning 17. Rheumatic fever

 

3. Chlamydia 18. Scarlet fever

 

4. Cholera 19. Scrofula

 

5. Chorea 20. Strep throat

 

6. Croup 21. Syphilis

 

7. Diphtheria 22. Tetanus (lockjaw)

 

8. Dysentery 23. Toxic shock syndrome

 

9. Erysipelas 24. Tuberculosis

 

10. Gonorrhea 25. Tularemia

 

11. Legionnaire's Disease 26. Typhoid fever

 

12. Leprosy 27. Typhus

 

13. Miningitis 28. Whooping cough (pertussis)

 

14. Osteomyelitis 29. Yaws

 

15. Plaque (bubonic, Black Death)

Term
Diseases Caused by viruses
Definition

1. AIDS 13. Influenza (flu)

2. Canine parvo 14. Kawasaki disease

3. Chicken pox 15. Measles (rubella)

4. Common cold 16. Mosaic disease

5. Creutzfeldt-Jakob 17. Mumps

6. Dengue 18. Pneumonia

7. Distemper 19. Poliomyelitis

8. Encephalitis 20. Rabies

9. Epstein-Barr virus (mononucleosis) 21. Shingles

10. Foot-and-Mouth disease 22. Smallpox

11. Hepatitis 23. West Nile Virus

12. Herpes (all forms) 24. Yellow fever

Term
Diseases caused by Protozoans
Definition

1. African sleeping sickness (spread by tsetse fly)

2. Malaria (spread by the anopheles mosquito)

Term
Diseases caused by wroms
Definition

1. Trichinosis (uncooked pork)

2. Elephantiasis

Term
Diseases cause by Fungi
Definition
1. Histoplasmosis
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