PART 4

• Tetanus


  • Clostridium tetani
  • 5-10 days
• Meningitis


  • Neisseria meningitidis (meningoccocus)
  • 2-10 days
• Encephalitis


  • Mosquito borne Japanese encephalitis
  • West Nile Viral - (most common) Chicken pox or measles
  • Protozoa- Acanthamoeba hystolytica
  • Mosquito borne- varied
  • Viral- 5 to 15 days
  • Amebic- 3 to 7 days
• Poliomyelitis


  • Poliovirus (RNA virus) (Family Picornaviridae, Genera enterovirus)
  • 7-14 days
• Rabies


  • Rhabdovirus
  • 10 days - human (or years+)
  • 14 days - animals
• Dengue


  • Dengue virus 1,2,3,4
  • 6-7 days
• Malaria


  • Plasmodium falciparum - most fatal
  • Plasmodium vivax
  • Plasmodium ovale
  • Plasmodium malariae
  • Falciparum (12days)
  • Vivax and ovale (14 days)
  • Malariae (30 days)
• Filariasis


  • Wuchereria bancrofti
  • Brugia malayi
  • B timori
  • 6-12 months
• Diphtheria


  • Corynebacterium diphteriae (gram +)
  • 1-7 days
• Pertussis


  • Bordatella pertussis
  • 7 to 21 days
• Pulmonary Tuberculosis


  • Mycobacterium tuberculosis (acid fast bacilli)
  • 2-4 weeks
• Pneumonia


  • Streptococcus Pneumoniae Pneumococcus, Gram +
  • 24 – 72 hours
• Colds (Coryza)


  • Adenovirus
  • Rhinovirus
  • 1-3 days
• Influenza (La Grippe or Flu)

  • influenza virus A, B, C
  • 24 to 72 hours
• Scarlet Fever (Scarlatina)


  • Group A Beta Hemolytic Streptococcus
  • 1-7 days
• Leprosy (Hansen's disease/ Leonthisasis)


  • Mycobacterium leprae
  • 3 or 4 years
  • Depends on natural resistance
• Lepromatous


  • Mycobacterium leprae and Mycobacterium lepromatosis
  • least 2 years
• Measles


  • paramyxovirus
  • 8-20 days
• German Measles


  • myxovirus
  • 14-21 days
• Varicella Zoster – ( Chicken Pox)

  • Varicella zoter virus
  • 2-3 weeks
• Herpes Zoster (Shingles)


  • varicella zoster virus (VZV)
• Scabies


  • Sarcoptes scabiei
• Hepatitis

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• Typhoid fever


  • Salmonella typhi
• Food Poisoning


  • Clostridium botulinum (gained from food intake)
  • Staphylococcus aureus (enzymes inside our body)
  • 24 hrs
• Dysentery


  • Shigella dysenteriae
  • Vibrio cholera
  • 1-7 days
• Parasitism


  • PROTOZOA
  • Entamoeba histolytica
  • Giardia lamblia
  • HELMINTHS
  • Intestinal Nematodes (Roundworms)
  • Ascaris lumbricoides
  • Necator americanus (hookworm)
  • Stongyloides stercoralis
  • Trichuris trichiura (whipworm)
  • Enterobius vermicularis (pinworm)
  • Plathyhelminthes (flatworm)
  • Trematodes – Shcistosoma (Blood flukes)
  • Cestodes- Tapeworm
  • Taenia solium (pork tapeworm)
  • Taenia saginata (beef tapeworm)
  • Diphyllobotrium latum (fish tapeworm)
• Gonorrhea


  • Neisseria gonorrhoeae (gram -)
  • 2-5 days
• Syphilis


  • Treponema pallidum (Spirochetes=gram -)
• Chlamydia


  • Chlamydia trachomatis (gram -)
  • 2-3 weeks
• AIDS


  • Retrovirus
  • HIV-1
  • HIV-2
  • 6 months to 9 years
• Trichomoniasis


  • Trichomonas vaginalis (protozoa)
  • 4-20 days
• Anthrax disease


  • Bacillus anthracis (gram +)
• SARS


  • Coronavirus
  • 7-10 days