Vector-carrier Transmissible Diseases

Question 1

A disease of domestic or wild animals but can be passed to humans by contaminate water and sometimes causes severe kidney and liver disease

Answer 1

Leptospirosis

Question 2

Causative agent: Leptospirosis

Answer 2

Leptospirosis interrogans

Question 2

Mode of transmission: Leptospirosis

Answer 2

Rat’s urine through open wounds

Skin and mucous membrane of the eyes and mouth

Indigestion during contact with contaminated soil and water

Question 2

Signs and Symptoms

Influenza like symptoms
Fever, chills, fatigue, muscle pain, headache, swollen lymph glands

Red eyes without discharge, nausea and vomiting, abdominal pain, cough

Answer 2

Leptospirosis

Question 2

Signs and Symptoms

Weil’s disease
Sore throat, enlarged spleen, dysrhythmias, enlarged liver with jaundice

Dark urine - pass significantly less than 30cc/hr, icteric sclera

Kidney or liver failure or meningitis

Answer 2

Leptospirosis

Question 3

Management: Leptospirosis

Answer 3

Avoid taking baths in contaminated water, use boots during flood

Medications
Doxycycline - QID 7 days
Amoxicillin
Cefuroxime
Erythromycin

Question 4

Medical management for severe cases of Leptospirosis

Answer 4

IV Penicillin G

Question 5

A specific infectious disease produced by anyone of the four protozoan parasites

Answer 5

Malaria

Question 6

Causative agent: Malaria

Answer 6

Plasmodium vivax
Plasmodium falcifarum
Plasmodium malariae
Plasmodium ovale

Question 7

Mode of transmission: Malaria

Answer 7

Bite from a female anopheles mosquito

Injection/transfusion of blood from an infected person

Use of contaminated needles and syringes

Question 8

Signs and Symptoms

Chills, shaking, skin with gooseflesh
Fever rises at the end of chills

Headache, nausea and vomiting, diaphoresis

Pallor, weakness

Answer 8

Malaria

Question 9

Signs and Symptoms

after 2 weeks
Splenomegaly, scanty with highly colored urine

Albuminuria, diarrhea, nosebleed

Answer 9

Malaria

Question 10

Management: Malaria

Answer 10

Chemoprophylaxis
Use of insecticide
Construction of bioponds

Cutting of vegetation overhanging along stream banks

Oplan kitikiti

Question 11

Severe illness characterized by abnormal vascular permeability, hypovolemia, and abnormal blood clotting

Answer 11

Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever

Question 12

Causative agents: Dengue

Answer 12

Flavivirus
Dengue virus 1, 2, 3, 4
Chikungunya virus

Question 13

Signs and Symptoms
1-4 days

Abrupt fever, abdominal pain, headache, flushing accompanied by vomiting

Conjunctival infection, epistaxis

Answer 13

Dengue

Question 14

Signs and Symptoms
4-7 days (toxic hemorrhagic stage)

Lowered BP, severe abdominal pain, vomiting, frequent bleeding from GIT (hematemesis, melena, hematochezia)

Unstable BP (fatal), positive tourniquet test that turned negative

Convalescence

Answer 14

Dengue

Question 15

Management: Dengue

Answer 15

Health education
Observe the signs and symptoms of shock

Question 16

Management: Dengue
Health education

Answer 16

Bedrest: hemorrhagic
Ice bag over abdomen: melena

Question 17

Management: Dengue
Observe the signs and symptoms of shock

Answer 17

Cold clammy skin
Perfused diaphoresis
Thready and rapid pulse
Low BP