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Transmission Flashcards

1
Q

Measles

A

Droplet Contact

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2
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Rubella

A

Droplet Contact

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3
Q

Fifth DIsease

A

Droplet Contact, direct contact

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4
Q

Scarlet Fever

A

Droplet or direct contact

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5
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SSS

A

droplet or direct contact

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6
Q

Chicken Pox

A

Droplet contact or inhalation of lesion fluid

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7
Q

Smallpox

A

Droplet or indirect contact

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8
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Warts

A

Direct, indirect, autoinoculation

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9
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Molluscum Contagiosum

A

direct contact, including sexual contact, and autoinoculation

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10
Q

Leishmaniasis

A

biological vector

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11
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Cutaneous Anthrax

A

direct contact with endospores

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12
Q

Ringworm

A

Direct or indirect contact, or infected soil

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13
Q

Superficial Mycoses

A

Endogenous “normal biota”

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14
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Neonatal Conjunctivitis

A

vertical from mother to child

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15
Q

Bacterial Conjunctivitis

A

direct or indirect contact

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16
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Viral Conjunctivitis

A

direct or indirect contact

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17
Q

Keratitis

A

reactivation of latent virus, primary infections can occur in the eye

18
Q

Acanthamoeba Keratitis

A

free-living amoeba that lives in tap water, freshwater lakes, etc.

19
Q

Meningitis

A

Bacterial and viral
Droplet contact and food for Listeria
Fungal
air, dust, and soil (for coccidioides)

20
Q

Neonatal

A

Vertical (during birth)

21
Q

Meningoncephalitis (fowleri)

A

exposure while swimming in water

22
Q

Meningoencephalitis (acanthamoeba)

A

direct contact

23
Q

Subacute Encephalitis (toxoplasma gondii)

A

meat or fecal-oral

24
Q

Subacute Encephalitis (sclerosing panencephalitis)

A

persistence of measles virus

25
Q

Subacute Encephalitis (prions)

A

direct contact with infected tissue or inherited

through meat, parenteral

26
Q

Acute Encephalitis

A

Bite by infected arthropod

27
Q

Rabies

A

Bite trauma, droplet contact

28
Q

Tetanus

A

parenteral, direct contact

29
Q

Botulism

A

food-borne toxin, wound, injection

30
Q

Malaria

31
Q

HIV and AIDS

A

direct sexual contact, blood-borne, perinatal and via breast milk

32
Q

Acute Endocarditis

A

parenteral

33
Q

sudacute Endocarditis

A

endogenous transfer of normal biota to blood stream

34
Q

Septicemia

A

parenteral, endogenous transfer

35
Q

Plague

A

biological vector (such as rats) droplet contact (pneumonic) and direct contact with body fluids

36
Q

Tularemia

A

bunnies, direct contact with body fluids from infected animals, airborne

37
Q

Lyme disease

38
Q

Yellow Fever

A

Biological vector

39
Q

Dengue Fever

A

ades mosquitos

40
Q

Ebola

A

fruit bats

41
Q

Rocky Mountain Fever

Ch 16, 17, 18 Microbiology (4 decks)

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