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Scalded Skin Syndrome (SSSS)

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Staphylococcal aneures

  • s/s: boils, skin infxn, osteomyelitltis
  • toxic shock syndrome impetigo
  • cause = fomite
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Baccillus anthracis

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Inhalational Anthrax

  • cold/flu symptom, fever, difficulty breathing
  • cause = inhaled endospore
  • terrorism
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Clostridium botulinum

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Botulism

  • s/s Intoxication causes muscle flacci; Death can result from asphyxiation – cannot inhale
  • caused = contaminated food
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Clostridium tetani

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Tetanus

  • s/s = severe muscular contraction; lockjaw
  • caused = “rusty nail”
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Clostridium perfringens

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Gas Gangrene

  • s/s = necrosis of wounded area.
  • two causes:
    1) contaminated food/water
    2) Trauma
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Mycobacterium

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Tuberculosis
*  three types 
     1 - Primary: Ghon Complex caseous necrosis 
     2 - Secondary
     3 - Disseminating TB
*  TB in spine = Pott's Disease
*  Caused by respiratory drops
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Streptococcus Pyrogenes (Group A)

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Rheumatic Fever

  • s/s: Joint
  • Streptococcus anginosusinflammation, change in neuromuscular movements
  • at risk= kids 5 - 15
  • Devo after 1-5 wks of infxn with Scarlet Fever OR Strept throat
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Endocarditis

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Caused by

  • Streptococcus sanguis – MC cause of mouth infxn
  • Streptococcus mutans – MC cause of cavities
  • Streptococcus bovis – associated with colon CA
  • Staphylococcus pneumoniae
  • Streptococcus pneumoniae
  • Streptococcus pyogenes
  • Staphylococcus aureus
  • Escherichia coli
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Neisseria gonorrhoeae

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Gonorrhea aka “Claps”

  • s/s/
    • Men: extremely painful urination and pus-filled discharge (urethritis);
      • Women: often asymptomatic
  • 19x more likely in female
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Meningitis - college kids

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Neisseria meningitidis

  • s/s = severe meningeal inflammation, high fever, purple spotted rash;
  • caused = resp drop
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Meningitis - adults

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Streptococcus pneumoniae

  • s/s = severe meningeal inflammation, high fever
  • caused = resp drop
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Meningitis - kids

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Haemophilus influenzae b

  • s/s = severe meningeal inflammation, high fever
  • caused = resp drop
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Meningitis - Elderly, Babies, Pregnancy

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Listeria monocytogenes

  • s/s = severe meningeal inflammation, high fever
  • caused = contaminated food
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Meningitis - Premature and infants

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Streptococcus agalactiae

  • s/s = severe meningeal inflammation, high fever
  • caused = passe on during birth
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Shigella

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Bacillary dysentery

  • bacterial gastroenteritis
  • s/s = abdominal pn, purulent bloody stool
  • caused = fly vector
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Yersinia Pestis

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Bubonic Plague

  • s/s = swollen painful lymph nodes called “buboes”, subcutaneous hemorrhaging, death of tissues
  • caused = FLEAS on rats
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Campylobacter jejuni

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Campylobacter Diarrhea

  • Bloody and frequent diarrhea
  • Most common cause of bacterial gastroenteritis in the US
  • caused = contaminated food (poultry)
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Bordetella pertussis

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Whooping Cough

four phases: incubation, catarrhal, paroxysmal, convalescent

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Brucella melitensis

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Brucellosis (aka Undulant Fever)

  • Fluctuating fever (spikes every afternoon), chills, sweating, headache, myalgia, weight loss
  • Contaminated Dairy
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Francisella tularensis

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Tularemia (aka Rabbit Fever)
*  ascending lymphangitis  
* s/s = depend on what form you have.
caused = tick or infected animal
*  bioterrorism
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Legionella pneumophila

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1 - Legionnaires’ Disease
* s/s = Severe pneumonia with high fever, possible nausea/vomiting

2 - Pontiac Fever
* s/s/ = flu like symptoms

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Salmonella enterica

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Salmonellosis: Salmonella food poisoning

  • 2nd MC cause of Gastroenteritits
  • caused = eggs, poultry
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Klebsiella pneumoniae

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Pneumonia symptoms combined with a thick, bloody sputum

* RED CURRANT JELLY SPUTUM

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Vibrio cholerae

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Explosive watery diarrhea and vomiting; “RICE-WATER STOOL”

* COMMA SHAPED

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