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Exam 4 GI Chart Flashcards

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What type of organism causes a peptic ulcer

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Helibacter pylori

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What type of organism causes cholera (bacterial gastroenteritis)

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Vibrio cholerae

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What type of organism causes Traveler’s diarrhea (bacterial gastroenteritis)

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Escherichia coli (O157:H7)

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What type of organism causes pseudomembranous colitis (bacterial gastroenteritis)

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Clostridium difficile

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What organism causes salmonellosis = salmonella food poisoning (acute bacterial gastroenteritis)

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Salmonella enterica, S. Enteridis, S. Enterica typhimurium

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What organism causes salmonellosis = typhoid fever (enteric fever)

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Salmonella enterica typhi, S. Enterica paratyphi

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What organism causes staphylococcal food poisoning

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Staphylococcus aureus

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What organism causes yersinia food poisoning

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Yersinia enterocolitica

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9
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What organism causes oral herpes

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HHV-1 (sometimes HHV-2)

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What organism causes mumps

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Mumps virus (Rubulavirus)

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What organisms cause viral gastroenteritis

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Norovirus (calicivirus), Astrovirus, Rotavirus

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What organism causes hookworm infections

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Necator americanus, acylostoma duodenale

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What organism causes pinworm infestations

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Enterobius vermicularis

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What relieves and what exacerbates peptic ulcers

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If pain is relieved by food then it is duodenal, if the ulcer is exacerbated by food then it is gastric

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What is special about cholera (bacterial gastroenteritis)

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It is the most common vibrio to infect humans

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What is another name for shigellosis

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Aka bacilary dyssentary

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What toxin is part of shigellosis

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Shiga toxin: in the US S sonnei is 2/3 and s flexxeri is 1/3

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What does traveler’s disease cause

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Most commonly causes GI infection

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What is the most common cause of bacterial gasttroenteritis in the US

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Campylobacter diarrhea

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What does pseudomembranous colitis cause that can be life threatening

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Life threatening peritonitis

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Who is the famous carrieer of typhoid fever

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Typhoid mary

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What is bacillus cereus food posoning also called

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Aka fried rice syndrome

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23
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What disease is associated with the virus latent in the trigeminal ganglis

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Oral herpes

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24
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What disease has almost been eradicated from the industrial world

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Mumps

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What causes 90% of gastroenteritis and what is the disease number one in within the US

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Viral gastroenteritis associated with the norovirus which is the number one cause of foodborne illness in the US

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What disease is the most common cause of infantile gastroenteritis

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Viral gastroenteritis caused by rotavirus

27
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What is hepatitis also known as

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Aka infection hepatitis

28
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Which disease is resistant to common household disinfectants

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Hepatitis A

29
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Which disease has a coinfection and what does it do

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Hepatitis B - confection with hepatits D virus increasing the risk of permanent liver damage

30
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Which hepatitis virus accounts for the most non hep A and non hep B in the US

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Hep C

31
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What is special about hepatitis D

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Needs HBV coinfection, so called satellite virues

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What is another name for hepatitiis E

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Aka enteric hepatitis

33
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What is another name for giardiasis and what is special about it

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Aka beaver fever, it is a common waterborne gastrointestinal disease in the US

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What is another name for cryptosporidiosis

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Aka cryptosporidium enteritis

35
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90% of amebiasis are what

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Ninety percent of cases are luminal amebiasis

36
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What disease is beef tapeworm proglottids

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Tapeworm infection caused by taenia saginata

37
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What disease is associated with pork tapeworm prglottids

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Tapeworm infestations caused by taenia solium

38
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What is another name for a tapeworm cause by diphyllobathrium

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Diphyllobothriasis

39
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What is canine tapeworm

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Tapeworm infestation caused by echinococcus granulosus

40
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What is the most common nematode infection of humans worldwide

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Ascariasis

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What is the second most common nematode affecting humans worldwide

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Hookworm infection

42
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What is the most common parasitic worm in the US

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Pinworm infestations

43
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What is another name for dracunculiasis

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Aka guinea worm disease

44
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What is another name for trichinosis

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Aka trichinellosis and it is NOT common in the US

45
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What disease is associated with rice water stool

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Cholera

46
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Which bacterial enteritis is asssociated with watery disrrhea

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Traveler’s diarrhea

47
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How many times it the bloody and frequent diarrhea in campylobacter diarrhea

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10+/day x7-10

48
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What type of salmonellosis can lead to peritonitis

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Tyhpoid fever

49
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Does clostridial food poisoning have fever or N/v

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No!

50
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Which food poissoning is associated with inflammation of the intestinal tract

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Yersinia food poisoning

51
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What disease causes orchitis and what causes it

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Testicular swelling in boys caused by mumps, also causes perotitis

52
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Which hepatitis is associated with liver cancer

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Hep B, Hep D also plays a role in triggering liver cancer

53
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Which hepatitis is associated with fatality in 20% of pregnant women

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Hep E

54
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What diesease is associated with rotten egg smelling stool

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Giardiasis

55
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What are 3 major symptoms of amebiasis

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Luminal amebiasis that is asymptomatic, invasive amebic dysentery, invasive extraintestinal amebiasis causing necrotic lesions in various organs

56
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What disease is associated with megaloblastic anemia

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Tapeworm infecstations

57
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What type of cysts are associated with tapeworm infestations and where do they form

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Hydatid cysts that can form in any organ but occur primarily in the liver

58
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What diesease is associated with ground itch and what are other symptoms that are chronic

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Hookworm infections causing chronic anemia, iron and protein deficiencies

59
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What disease is associated with intense perianal itching especially at night

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Pinworm infestations that can also decrease appetite

60
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Which disease has characteristic of a worm forming a blister on the skin and where is it most likely locatd

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Dracunculiasis - worm forms a blister generally on the foot

61
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What disease would result in muscle pain and weakness along with facial swelling around the eye

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Trichinosis

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