Cardiovascular & systemic diseases

Question 1

Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever

Answer 1

Ebola virus, spread person to person, up to 90% of human victims die, cat A bioterrorism threat, BSL-4

Question 2

Marburg hemorrhagic fever

Answer 2

Marburg virus, spread person to person, up to 90% of human victims die, cat A bioterrorism threat, BSL-4

Question 3

Malaria

Answer 3

Plasmodium falciform (most serious) black water fever, P. vivax(most commonly diagnosed), P. ovale, P. malariae; mosiquto vector

Question 4

Toxoplasmosis

Answer 4

Toxoplasma gondii; inhalation or ingestion, pregnant women should not clean litter boxes

Question 5

Chaga’s disease

Answer 5

Trypanosome cruzi; chagomas and pseudocysts, true bug (triatoma) vector aka “kissing bugs”

Question 6

Lymphatic filariasis

Answer 6

Wuchereria bancrofti; a symptomatic for years results in elephantiasis, Nematoda with a mosiquto vector

Question 7

Infectious mononucleosis

Answer 7

HHV-4/EBV; sore throat, swollen lymph nodes, fatigue, enlargement of spleen(50%), salvia, aka “kissing disease”

Question 8

Cytomegalovirus infection

Answer 8

HHV-5/cytomegalovirus; bodily secretion and close contact, mc opportunistic infection in AIDs patients ( mono like symptoms)

Question 9

Yellow fever

Answer 9

Yellow fever virus; 1st stage: fever, 2nd stage: jaundice, 3rd stage: black vomit, mosiquto vector, arbovirus, BSL-3

Question 10

Dengue fever

Answer 10

Dengue virus (1, 2, 3, 4); aka break-bone fever, 1st phase: fever, edema, head and muscle pain, 2nd phase: return of fever and rash, Aedes mosquito vector, arbovirus, 80% are asymptomatic

Question 11

Dengue hemorrhagic fever

Answer 11

Dengue virus (1, 2, 3, 4); internal bleeding, Aedes mosiquto vector, arbovirus, 80% are asymptomatic, possible death

Question 12

Brucelosis

Answer 12

Brucellosis mediate sis; Fluctuating fever (spikes every afternoon); aka undulant fever, Bactria gram (-), contaminated dairy or animal parts, sheep and goats

Question 13

Tularemia

Answer 13

Francisella tularensis, aka rabbit fever, skin lesions, bacteria gram (-), tick vector, with infected animal, cat A bioterrostist threat

Question 14

Plague (bubonic)

Answer 14

Yersinia pest is, buboes, bacteria game(-), flea bite vector and contact with infected rodent, aka Black Death, cat A bioterrostist threat

Question 15

Plague (Pneumonic)

Answer 15

Yersinia pestis, pulmonary distress within a day of infection, bacteria gram (-), person to person, cat A bioterrostist threat

Question 16

Lyme disease

Answer 16

Borrelia burgdorferi, 75% “bullseye rash” erythema migrans, bacteria gram (-), tick vector, one of the most reported vector-Bourne diseases in the U.S.

Question 17

Relapsing fever

Answer 17

Borrelia recurrentis (human body louse), various Borrelia (soft ticks), recurring episodes of septicemia and fever, bacteria gram (-), human Bourne louse, louse-bourne relapsing fever

Question 18

Septicemia

Answer 18

petechiae, osteomyeltits, opportunistic or nosocomial infections; direct inoculation of bacteria into the blood

Question 19

Endocarditis

Answer 19

inflammation of heart valves, bacteria (gram +), streptococcus sanguis (mouth infections), Streptococcus mutans (one of the MC causes of cavities), Streptococcus anginosus (deep tissue abcesses with pus, osteomyelitis), Strptococcus bovis (colon cancer), Streptococcus pneumoniae, Streptococcus pyogenes, Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli (bacteria (Gram -)

Question 20

Rheumatic Fever/Heart Disease

Answer 20

Streptococcus pyogenes, Bacteria (Gram +), occurs 1-5 weeks following infection, 5-15 years old are most at risk