Tropical

Question 1

Dengue presentation

Answer 1

bone pains everywhere

Dengue F- 7 letters therefore incubation is 7 days

mosquito bites (Aedes aegypti mosquito)

Question 2

Malaria presentation

Answer 2

swinging fevers
GI symptoms such as N+V and pain
Resp- cough
Neuro- headache
Haem- thrombocytopaenia

Question 3

Yellow fever presentation

Answer 3

jaundice and bleeding

incubation 2-14 days

usually flu like symptoms followed by remission then jaundice, haematemesis and oligura

councilman bodies in hepatocytes

Question 4

most common vs most dangerous malaria

Answer 4

most dangerous- plasmodium falciparum

most common- plasmodium vivax (benign)

Question 5

live attenuated vaccines

Answer 5

bcg
mmr
oral polio
typhoid and yelllow fever
intranasal flu

Question 6

sewage or floods? spot diagnosis

Answer 6

leptospirosis

Question 7

Amoebiasis - incubation, symptoms and complications

Answer 7

long period of dysentery after a long incubation period

can cause liver abcsess