PH: Infectious Diseases

Question 1

What’s the worst way bacteria can enter the body?

Answer 1

Intramuscular (deep laceration). Few pathogens can actually multiply in the bloodstream (hence why it’s not IV)

Question 2

What are ubiquitous organisms?

Answer 2

Organism that are found everywhere in the environment - don’t infect healthy people or cause epidemics. Only multiply when illness/injury introduces them to an ordinarily sterile part of the body

Question 3

Which organisms find a ‘safe-haven’ in the body to ensure survival?

Answer 3

varicella, tubercle, H.pylori, typhoid

Question 4

What chronic disease can infection with HPV cause?

Answer 4

Cervical or anal cancer

Question 5

What chronic disease can infection with EBV cause?

Answer 5

nasopharyngeal cancer, Burkitt’s lymphoma and Hodgkins lymphoma

Question 6

What chronic disease can infection with HTLV cause?

Answer 6

T cell leukaemia

Question 7

What chronic disease can infection with H.Pylori cause?

Answer 7

Stomach/gastric cancer

Question 8

What chronic disease can infection with schistosomiasis cause?

Answer 8

Bladder cancer

Question 9

What chronic disease can infection with HBV/HCV cause?

Answer 9

Liver cancer