Communicable Diseases Part II Flashcards
An acute bacterial infection of the intestine characterized by diarrhea, fever, tenesmus and in severe cases bloody mucoid stools.
BACILLARY DYSENTERY
Systemic infection characterized by continued fever, malaise, anorexia, slow pulse, involvement of lymphoid tissue, Splenomegaly, rose spots on trunks and diarrhea
Typhoid
A form of hepatitis occurring either poradically or in epidemics and caused by virus introduced by fecal contaminated water or food.
HEPATITIS A (Infectious hepatitis, Epidemic hepatitis, Catarrhal jaundice)
Young people especially school children are most frequently affected.
Hepatitis A
A syndrome of characteristic symptoms predominantly neurologic which occur within a minute or several hours after ingestion of poisonous shellfish.
PARALYTIC SHELLFISH POISONING
Single-celled organism called Dinoflagellates:
it is commonly referred as Plankton.
PARALYTIC SHELLFISH POISONING
The organism that causes red tide in the seas around Manila bay, Samar, Bataan and Zambales is the Pyromidium bahamense var. compressum.
PARALYTIC SHELLFISH POISONING
It is a World wide zoonotic disease.
Leptospirosis
It is an occupational disease affecting veterinarians, miners, farmers, sewer, workers, abattoir workers, etc.
Leptospirosis
Treatment for Leptospirosis
Penicillin
Tetracycline
Erythromycin
An acute viral encephalomyelitis caused by the Rabies virus, a rhabdovirus of the genus Lyssavirus.
Rabies
Approximately amount of Filipinos die of
rabies every year.
300-600
The patient must be given antibiotics and anti-tetanus immunization.
Prevention for Rabies
A communicable disease of the skin characterized by eruptive lesions produced by the burrowing of the female parasite into the skin.
Scabies
An acute bacterial disease usually affecting the skin but which may vary rarely involves the oropharynx.
Anthrax
Cutaneous infection is by contact with tissues of animals (cattle, sheep, goats, horses, pigs) dying of the disease.
Mode of transmission — Anthrax
The disease is usually sporadic (cases occur alone or may affect household members with intimate contact)
Meningococcemia
It is recognized both as emerging and re emerging viral infection and is described as a unvarying disease caused by a varying virus.
“Bird flue” or Avian Influenza
It is a newly recognized form of atypical pneumonia that had been described in patient in Asia, North America and Europe.
SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome)
Public health concern in many endemic areas ( 45 out of 78 provinces are endemic)
Filariasis
Chronic parasitic infection caused by nematode parasites.
Filariasis
The disease is transmitted to a person through bites from an infected female mosquito.
Mode of transmission — Filariasis
Inflammation of the “lymph nodes”
Lymphadenitis
Inflammation of “lymph vessels” in some cases, the male genitalia is affected.
Lymphangitis
Continue to be a major Public health concern having an annual parasite incidence of 5.1 per 1000 population.
Malaria
Immediate source is a vector mosquito, the
“Aedes aegypti” or the common household
mosquito.
DENGUE HEMORRHAGIC FEVER (H-Fever)
Their complications belong to the top five categories for which adults seek health care in the developing countries.
Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI)
Bacterial STI — Causative agent
Neisseria gonorrheae
Syphilis — Causative agent
Treponema pallidum
Chlamydia — Causative agent
Chlamydia trachomatis
The first case of AIDS in the Philippines was
reported in what year?
1984
Mode of Transmission: Sexual intercourse, also transmitted through blood and during birth.
Hepatitis B
