Travel Related Infections

Question 1

What are the infections that would happen when you come back for less then 21 days

Answer 1

Malaria
Dengue (caused by the mosquitoes)
Typhoid fever (Salmonella typhi bacteria)
Yellow fever
Leptospirosis (when walking through the fresh water contaminated with animal urine)

Question 2

What infections would happen when you come back after 21 days

Answer 2

Malaria
Acute HIV
Hepatitis (ABCDE)
tuberculosis

Question 3

What causes the typhoid fever

Answer 3

Salmonella typhi

Question 4

What infections would lead to the neurological issues

Answer 4

Meningoccoccal meningitis
Rabies
Malaria

Question 5

What a bacteria come from the food and water

Answer 5

Enteric fever
Hep. a
Bacterial gastroenteritis

Question 6

What are the types of E.coli

Answer 6

Enteropathogenic - watery diarrhoea for long (infants)
Enterohaemorragic - bloody diarrhoea
Enteroinvasive - bloody diarrhoea
Enteroaggregative - persistent diarrhoea in HIV positive children and adults

Question 7

What diseases are viral haemorrhagic fever

Answer 7

Ebola (fruit bats)
Decrease the platelet count and so would lead to bleeding in the body
This can then cause the coma, delirium and seizures

Question 8

What type of bacteria would the brucella species be

Answer 8

Gram negative coco bacilli
(Come from drinking the unpasteurised milk
Blood culture and the pcr to identify

Question 9

What bacteria would cause the enteric fever

Answer 9

Salmonella typhi (Gram negative bacilli)
Do a stool culture and a marrow aspirate (microbe can be present here)

Question 10

What are the vaccines for the salmonella infections

Answer 10

Polysaccharide vaccine
Live attenuated oral vaccine

Question 11

What is the life cycle of malaria

Answer 11

Sporozoites (in the salvia) go to the liver - schizonts (that carry the merozoites)
Schizonts burst and would release the merozoites
Merozoites (asexual repro - trophozoite) or (sexual repro - gametocytes)
Gametocytes taken by the mosquitoes
Ookinete
Oocyst
Sporozoites

Question 12

What can be seen when doing a blood culture for malaria

Answer 12

The trophozoites
(Would form a ring in the red blood cells)

Question 13

Why would those with malaria be asymptomatic for about a week

Answer 13

Would need the life cycle of the bacteria to begin before the symptoms would be shown

Question 14

What antibiotics would be used to treat the plasmodium falciparum

Answer 14

Artesunate
Quinine and doxycycline

Question 15

What medial would be used to treat the plasmodium vivax

Answer 15

Chloroquine and primaquine
If remains would be able to use the additional primaquine

Question 16

What is a clinical feature of the dengue fever (from mosquitoes)

Answer 16

Fever and Rash

Question 17

What is schistomiasis

Answer 17

Parasite that would come from snails in fresh water

Question 18

What type of bacteria would salmonella typhi be

Answer 18

Gram negative bacilli

Question 19

What type of virus is ebola

Answer 19

Haemorrhagic virus
So would have the bleeding under the skin

Question 20

What are the types of antigens on the E.coli

Answer 20

O - on the cell wall
H - on the flagella
K -on the polysaccharide capsule

Question 21

What would you have if u go infected with dengue fever

Answer 21

Thrombocytopenia
Leukocytopenia
The fever and the rash
Symptoms would appear 4 to 7 days after the bite
They would remain for 3 to-10 days after

Question 22

What is typhus fever

Answer 22

Comes from rickettsia
Intracellular parasites

Question 23

Where would p.falciparum come From

Answer 23

Africa

Question 24

Where would p.vivax come from

Answer 24

Asia

Question 25

What is legionnaires pneumonia

Answer 25

Lung infection that would be caused by the legionnaires bacteria