Nervous System Infections

Question 1

Meningococcal meningitis

Answer 1

Neisseria meningitides (B)
Rash that doesn't fade when touched, death within a few hours

Question 2

Hib meningitis

Answer 2

Haemophilis influenza (B)

Question 3

Pneumococcal meningitis

Answer 3

Streptococcus pneumonia (B)

Question 4

Listeriosis

Answer 4

Listeria monocytogenes (B)
Flu like symptoms, can lead to miscarriage or stillborn babies when infecting the pregnant

Question 5

Tetanus

Answer 5

Clostridium tetani (B)
Muscles cannot relax

Question 6

Botulism

Answer 6

Clostridium botulinum (B)
Flaccid paralysis for 1-10 days, death due to respiratory or cardiac failure

Question 7

Tuberculoid leprosy

Answer 7

Mycobacterium leprae (B)
Loss of skin sensation

Question 8

Lepromatous leprosy

Answer 8

Mycobacterium leprae (B)
Disfiguring nodules all over the body

Question 9

Poliomyelitis

Answer 9

Poliovirus

Paralysis of respiratory muscles and extremities

Question 10

Rabies

Answer 10

Rabies virus

Hydrophobia, foaming at the mouth

Question 11

Arboviral encephalitis

Answer 11

West Nile Virus***
Chills, headache, fever, mental confusion, coma, permanent neurological problems, polio-like symptoms, fatal encephalitis

Question 12

Trypanosomiasis (African sleeping sickness)

Answer 12

Trypanosome brucei (P)
Deterioration of CNS

Question 13

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease/Mad cow disease

Answer 13

Prions

Psychiatric and behavioral symptoms, spongiform degeneration of brain