Variant Creutzfeldt-JAkob Disease

CJD: Lose vision and hearing

BSE: neurological disorder that affects the brain
vCJD: transmission of diseased cattle tissue (mad cow disease)
only four patient in the US with this disease.
sCJD: essential hypertension
fCJD: genetic mutation
iCJD: transmitted by contaminated equipment

No treatment once you get it you die

Transmission by consumption, blood transfusion or blood
transplantation of infected tissue.

Lyme Disease

Transmitted by ticks
Difficult to treat if no rash shown, but its mostly determined
through a blood test
Only 10% of the cases get reported

2/23/15

Meningitis

An infections that affect the meninges

Pathogen enters on blood stream up to the brain
Viral: less severe but more common for people to recover 100%
Fungal: rare but generally occurs in people who are
immunocompromised
Bacterial: most common but not treated right away, can be a
permanent damage to the brain, can lead to death

2/25/15

Impetigo
-warm weather and human weather
- broken skin how it starts
- rare to use oral medication
3/2/15

West Nile Virus

-consider a minor risk for humans
- mosquitos (vectors)
- no treatment only vaccine for horses
- started in Uganda
- it was non pathogenic to pathogenic
- becoming a bigger problem
- birds carry the disease when in search of water

Onchocerciasis
-The river blindness disease also known as Robles Disease
-day biting insect (vector)
-multiple bites before infection occurs
- eye and skin lesion
- 90 %in Africa
-no vaccine but surgery can be taken when their appear to be bumps in
the skin

3/4/15

M
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severe bacteria destroys soft tissue

produce exotoxins which sends toxins ahead of it itself to prevent
the tissue
need to do surgery
high imputation when having a big blister

septic shock a combination of an infection and immune system

goes to far where you end up killing yourself
99.9% diagnosis is if it looks like it (to see what antibiotics to
give) and gram stain (use only to see if your using the right
antibiotics)

UTI
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caused when microbes pass the bodies defense

caused by E. coli (gram negative)
woman get more UTI than men because men have the urethra
longer
drink a lot of water

3/11/15

Swine Flu
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reassortment: many virus combined into one big one; like the
bird flu and human flu combined and made the swine flue
first official cases reported in California
young children were show high mortality
what infected surface: foam mites

Poliomyelitis
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subclinical polio: of to itself and shows no symptoms

non paralytic polio:
paralytic polio:

- two days last with cold

- Afghanistan is considered as the polio hotspot

Cat Scratch Disease

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cat, human, and than dog infection

in order to treat this is to drain the lymph node

3/23/15

Baylisacaris
-accidental host for humans
-no geographic cluster
-endospores
-45 million eggs a day
-Clorox

Helicobacter Pylori
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bacteria only grew in primates

can be infected with it and not have a disease
unclean water and food
test: occult blood a test that reacts to the hemoglobin

Leprosy:
4/6/15
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tuberculosis is similar to leprosy

slow growing genus
1940s Promin is known as a pro drug which is administered but
does nothing, drug goes to liver and has to be metabolize
1950s Dapsone

4/8/17
Streptococcal
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slide 2: beta hemologis is the worst

can be divided in groups or beta hemologis
simple squamous epithelium
last three symptoms
if not treated u get dramatic or a scarlet fever
85-90% sensitive (rapid strep test)
throat culture used to confirm the rapid strep test results

Measles
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mickey slide: 2nd bullet point

Gas Gangrene
4/13/15

fever occurs because of the infection

since liver gets damage you get jaundice
sepsis : spreads infection throughout the body

Yellow fever
4/13/15
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