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| Name 5 Vector Borne Diseases |
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1.) Tularemia
2.) Lyme Disease
3.) Reckettsial Disease
4.) Plague/Black Death/Bubonic Plague
5.) Arthropod Borne (Mosquito) |
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| Ticks, deer, flea *rabbit, lice |
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| S/s of tularemia depend on _______ |
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| If tularemia enters via skin, s/s = |
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swollen, painful node
ulcer @ site |
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| If tularemia enters anywhere else besides skin, s/s = |
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| fever, headache, malaise, pain in lymph nodes |
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| Tularemia is invasive and will spread through the ________ causing _____, ______, and/or _______ |
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lymph system
Septicemia, pneumonia, abscesses |
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| Why is pneumonia dangerous considering Tularemia? |
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| Transmission can change to respiratory = person to person |
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| ID 50 of tularemia is 10 -50, which means what? |
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| What are the 2 strains of tularemia? |
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Jellison Type A; N. American, more virulent
Jellison Type B; everywhere else, less virulent |
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| ________ is the major emerging infectious vector borne disease. |
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| What is the Lyme disease pathogen? |
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| The deer tick needs to feed off its host for ___ - ____ hours for transmission. |
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| What are the 3 phases s/s of Lyme's disease? |
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1.) expanding rash @ bite site (bull's eye), flu-like symptoms
2.) pain & swelling in joints, neurological change (bell's palsy, menigitis), multiple rash sites
3.) chronic above, hearing, vision, migranes |
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| How do you treat early onset Lyme disease? |
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| Amoxicillan (long term 1 month) |
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| What 3 diseases are caused by Rickettsia? |
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Definition
Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
Epidemic Typhous
Endemic Typhous |
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| How does Rickettsia infect the body? |
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| Infect endothelial cells of vascular system, blocking small blood vessels and capillaries = necrosis = rash |
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| What is the pathogen of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever? |
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| What are s/s of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever? |
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| What is treatment for Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever? |
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| Tetracycline, Chloramphenical |
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| What is pathogen for Epidemic Typhous? |
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| What is vector for Epidemic Typhous? |
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| What are s/s of Epidemic Typhous? |
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Prolonged and high fever (104 F) 2+weeks
rash |
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| What is pathogen for endemic typhous? |
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| What is vector for endemic typhous? Reservoir? |
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| What are s/s of endemic typhous? |
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| mild fever, persistent headache, rash (self limiting) |
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| What is the pathogen for Plague? |
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| How does Plague affect the body? (2 ways) |
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1.) LYMPH SYSTEM causing hemorrhagic nodes called buboes
2.) BLOODSTREAM: meningitis, pneumonia, then respiratory (fatal) |
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| What are the 3 Arthropod borne diseases? |
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| St. Louis Encephalitis, West Nile Virus, Dengue |
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| What is the pathogen on arthropod borne diseases? |
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| What are the general s/s of Flavivirus/Arthropod Borne diseases? |
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| encephalitis, chills, fever, headache... if progresses, confusion, coma, worse headache, neck stiffness |
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| ____________ most common of Flavivirus, vector mosquito, affects humans and sentinel animals (chix in rural areas), mortality rate 5-30% (highest in elderly). |
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| Which enchephalitis (flavivirus) is more severe.... WEE or EEE? |
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| __________ 80% asymptomatic, has potential to be a serious disease. 20% rash, headache, fever, nausea, vomiting. < 1% serious symptoms. |
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| Besides a mosquito, how else can the West Nile Virus be transmitted? |
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| Blood transfusions, organ transplant, exposure in lab |
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| _______ is a traveling virus, not big in US. 5% mortality rate. Sudden onset of fever, severe headache, myalgia, arthalgia, hemorrhagic shock. |
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| _____________ s/s fever (2-7 days), N/V, abdominal pain, headache, severe hemorrhaging, bruise easily, bleeding from nose, gums, internal bleeding |
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