Lesson 19 Flashcards
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Another term for poliomyelitis
Infantile Paralysis
Heine-Medin Disease
An infectious disease characterised by changes in the CNS mag result in pathologic reflexes, muscle spasms, and paresis
Poliomyelitis
Anterior horn involvement
Anterior poliomyelitis
Slight or partial paralysis
Paresis
It is a disease of lower motor neurons
Poliomyelitis
Causative agent of poliomyelitis
Legio debilitans
Incubation period of poliomyelitis
7-21 days
Who are more prone to poliomyelitis??
men or women
Men
____ of the patients with poliomyelitis are under ___ years old
60% ; 10 yrs old
Types of Poliomyelitis
The abortive
Non-paralytic
Paralytic
This type of poliomyelitis does not invade the CNS
The abortive
The abortive poliomyelitis recovers within
72 hours
This type of poliomyelitis has all signs of abortive type
Non-paralytic
This type of poliomyelitis has pain in the neck, back, arms, legs, and abdomen
Non-paralytic
CSF test to detect elevated levels of protein
Pandy’s Test
This type of poliomyelitis has signs of abortive and non-paralytic
Paralytic
When supine, patients shoulders are lifted, head falls backward
Hoyne’s signs
Test for paralytic poliomyelitis
Kernigs and Brudzinski’s Test
What are the other names of rabies
Hydrophobia
Lyssa
Three stains of polio virus
Brunhilde
Lansing
Leon
An acute viral infection communicated to a man through saliva of infected animal
Rabies / Hydrophobia / Lyssa
Etiologic agents of rabies
Rhabdovirus
What is the incubation of rabies
10 days to 15 years in human
Clinical manifestation of rabies
Prodomal (Invasion) Phase
Excitement (Neurological) Phase
Terminal / Paralytic Phase
