Section 4 Flashcards
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Urinary track infection (UTI)
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- inventions are ascending back to your attached to the urinary track epithelium resulting in an acute inflammatory response
- escherichia coli is the most common microbe
- Women have more UTIs than men because of their short your urethras
- infection causes urgency
- catheterization is a common cause of UTI
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Three phases of acute hepatitis
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- prodrome = fatigue, headache, and low-grade fever for about 2 weeks
- icterus = jaundice, dark urine, clay colored stools; liver is enlarged and tender; last 2 to 6 weeks
- recovery = jaundice subsides; signs and symptoms improve; the liver remains enlarged and tender for an additional 1 to 4 weeks
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Tinea
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- Group of fungal skin diseases transmitted by direct contact
- most forms cause itching (jock itch) - - treated with topical and/oral antifungal agents
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Tinea pedis
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Feet
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Tinea unguium
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Nails
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Tinea calptis
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Scalp
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Tinea cruis
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Groin
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Tinea corporis and tinea versicolor
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Skin
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Bacterial meningitis
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3 slides
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Issues related to infection
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- Overuse of antibiotics and subsequent multiple drug resistant bacteria
- Globalization and rapid spread of harmful pathogens