Human Health And Disease Flashcards
Everything about typhoid [ Enteric Fever ]
Pathogen- Salmonella typhi
MOT - faecal oral route
→ bacteria enters the small intestine by consuming food or water contaminated with bacteria and then migrates to other organs via blood.
Symptoms and signs
→ sustained high fever ( 39°C to 40°C )
→ weakness
→ stomach pain
→ constipation
→ headache
→ loss of appetite
→ Insevere cases- intestinal perforation and death may occur.
O confirmatory test - widal test
O classic case in medicine - typhoid marry
→ cook by profession → carrier of typhoid bacteria
→ continued to spread infection for years through the food the cook.
Everything about pneumonia.
Pathogen- streptococcus pneumoniae and haemophilus influenza.
MOT -
→ Inhaling droplets aerosols released by infected person.
→ sharing glasses, utensils of infected person.
Signs
→ fever, chills, cough and headache.
Everything about common cold
Pathogen- rhino virus
Mot
→ inhalation of droplets from cough or sneeze of the infected person.
→ transmission through contaminated glasses, door knobs, keyboard, mouse etc.
Signs and symptoms
→ nasals, congestion, running nose.
→ sore throat, horseless, cough, headache, tiredness.
→ infection only in nose and respiratory passage.
Every thing about amoebiasis (amoebic dysentry )
Pathogen- entamoeba histolytica
Found in large intestine of human.
Mot- faeco oral route.
Diagnosis - presence of charcoal Leyden crystal in eosinophils.
Signs and symptoms
→ abdominal pain, constipation, cramps, stools with excessive mucus and blood cuts..
Everything about filariasis (elephantiasis)
Pathogen- wuchereria Bancrofti and wuchereria Malayi
Mot- transmitted by the female culex mosquito (vector)
→ lives in lymphatic system of our body.
Symptoms
Slowly developing chronic inflammation of the organs in which the parasitic lives for many years.
[ usually in lymphatic vessels of lower limb]
Everything about malaria.
Pathogen- plasmodium
Mot- vector female anopheles mosquito.
