MICP MIDTERM

• Tetanus is caused by Clostridium tetani
• Tetanus, also known as lockjaw
• Trismus is most common form of generalized tetanus
• Opisthotonos tetanus is a muscle spamsm cause them to ache their backs
• Anthrax can cause severe illness in both people and animals
• Pulmonary Anthrax or Koch's disease is most dangerous form of anthrax
• Endospores have high probability of entering bloodstream
• When exposed to bacteria or Pulmonary Anthrax, 3 doses of vaccines was needed
• for pregnant exposed to bacteria, 5 doses
• Gonorrhea is a STD caused by Neisseria gonorrhoeae bacterium
• N. Gonorrhoeae is found on mucous membranes of the genital tract
• Neisseria gonorrhoeae is gram-negative diplococcus that has flagella at one end
• Conjunctivitis also called pink-eye
• Lymphogranuloma Venereum is a lesion in genitalia with a small and painless lesion
• Syphilis is systemic venereal disease, starts as sore but painless
• Mumps also called parotitis
• vaccine responsible for mumps is DPT
• Ritter's disease is for newborns and young children
• Ritter is a suddent onset of perioral eryhtema long lasts within 2 days
• C. perfringens is for GI tract long lasts for 24 hours
• Clostridium botulinum caused by ingestion of unpasteurized honey and canned foods
• Flaccid paralysis is loss of muscle in infants, also called floppy baby
• Leprosy also called Hansens disease
• Leprosy is chronic infectious caused by M. leprae
• Patchy is sensory loss of lepromatous form
• Polio is a life threatening disease caused by poliovirus
• Polio can infect a persons spinal cord causing paralysis
• Bulbar poliomyelitis affects the respiratory center
• Non-paralytic poliomyelitis manifest back pains and stiff neck
• Salk vaccine is an inactivated polio vaccines
• Sabin vaccines is common vaccine that is costless and longer immunity
• Fecal is for oral
• Category I of rabies is touching or feeding animals
• Category II minor scratches or abrasions without bleeding
• Category III of rabies, contamination of mucous membrane or multiple transdermal bites
• Hepatitis is inflammation of liver
• Hepatitis A spreads when a person ingests for or water that is contaminated with faeces of an infected person
• Hepatitis B is when blood or semen or body fluids enters the body of uninfected person
• Hepatitis G is related to GB virus C
• Hepatitis G is transmitted by blood or drugs associated with high risk of parenteral exposure to blood