Communicable Diseases II

Question 1

• An acute bacterial infection of the intestine characterized by diarrhea, fever, tenesmus and in severe cases bloody mucoid stools.
• Severe infections are frequent in infants and in elderly debilitated

Answer 1

BACILLARY DYSENTERY
(Shigellosis)

Question 2

four main groups of shigella

Answer 2

○ Shigella sonnei
○ Shigella boydii
○ Shigella flexneri
○ Shigella dysenteriae

Question 3

• Systemic infection characterized
  by continued fever, malaise,
  anorexia, slow pulse, involvement
  of lymphoid tissue, Splenomegaly,
  rose spots on trunks and diarrhea.
• Many mild typical infections are
  often unrecognized

Answer 3

typhoid

Question 4

causative agent of typhoid

Answer 4

salmonella typhii

Question 5

● A form of hepatitis occurring either sporadically
or in epidemics and caused by virus introduced by
fecal contaminated water or food.
● Young people especially school children are most
frequently affected

Answer 5

HEPATITIS A (Infectious hepatitis, Epidemic
hepatitis, Catarrhal jaundice)

Question 6

• A syndrome of characteristic symptoms predominantly
  neurologic which occur within a minute or several hours
  after ingestion of poisonous shellfish

Answer 6

PARALYTIC SHELLFISH POISONING (PSP 1 Red
tide poisoning)

Question 7

• Single-celled organism called Dinoflagellates:
• it is commonly referred as plankton
• The organism that causes red tide in the seas around
  Manila bay, Samar, Bataan and Zambales is the Pyromidium
  bahamense var. compressum

Answer 7

causative agent of paralytic shellfish poisoning

Question 8

• (Weil’s disease, Mud fever, Trench fever, Flood fever, Spiroketal jaundice, Japanese
  seven days fever)
• It is a World wide zoonotic disease.
• Rat is the main host of the disease although pigs, cattle, rabbits and other wild animals can also serve as reservoir
  hosts.
• It is an occupational disease affecting veterinarians, miners, farmers, sewer, workers, abattoir workers, etc.

Answer 8

LEPTOSPIROSIS

Question 9

• Leptospira interrogans.
• There are about 200 serovars,var
  icterihemmorhage thought to be more
  virulent

Answer 9

causative agent of leptospirosis

Question 10

• Is an acute viral encephalomyelitis caused by the Rabies
  virus, a rhabdovirus of the genus Lyssavirus
• There are two kinds urban or canine rabies is transmitted
  by dogs while sylvatic rabies is a disease of wild
  animals and bats which sometimes spread to dogs, cats,
  and livestock
• Rabies remains a public health problem in the
  Philippines.
• Approximately 300-600 Filipinos die of rabies every year

Answer 10

RABIES
(Hydrophobia,Lyssa)

Question 11

incubation period of rabies

Answer 11

2 to 8 weeks

Question 12

A communicable disease of the skin
characterized by eruptive lesions produced
by the burrowing of the female parasite
into the skin.

Answer 12

scabies