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Selected Communicable Disease Flashcards

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A highly contagious bacterial infection, usually affecting the lungs but can also affect other organs of the body like brain, kidney, intestine, and bones.

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Tuberculosis

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Causative Agent of tuberculosis that also known as the Koch’s bacillus [discovered by Robert Koch]

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Mycobacterium tuberculosis

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Considered as the world’s deadliest disease and remains as a major public health problem in the Philippines

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Tuberculosis

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Give Treatments for tuberculosis

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  • Isoniazid
  • Rifampacin
  • Pyrazinamide
  • Ethambutol
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What is MDR-TB?

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Multi-drug resistant-Tuberculosis

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What is XDR-TB?

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Extremely drug resistant-Tuberculosis

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Systemic infection characterized by continued fever, malaise, anorexia, slow pulse, involvement of lymphoid tissue, splenomegaly, rose spots [rashes] on trunks and diarrhea

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Typhoid Fever

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Causative agent of Typhoid Fever

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Salmonella typhi

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Source of Infection of Typhoid Fever

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Feces and urine of infected person

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Mode of Transmission of Typhoid Fever

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Direct or indirect contact with patient or carrier

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Diagnosis for Typhoid Fever

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Stool culture and serological tests

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An acute infectious disease of the lungs usually caused by the pneumococcus resulting in the consolidation of one or more lobes of either one or both lungs

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Pneumonia

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Causative agents of Pneumonia

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  • Majority of cases due to Streptococcus pneumoniae (Diplococcus pneumoniae)
  • Occasionally Klebsiella pneumoniae
  • Lobar pneumonia
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Weil’s disease, mud fever, trench fever, flood fever, spiroketal jaundice, Japanese seven days

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Leptospirosis

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It is a worldwide zoonotic disease

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Leptospirosis

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Causative Agent of Leptospirosis

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Leptospirosis interrogans

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Treatment for Leptospirosis

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  • Penicillin and other B-lactam antibiotics
  • Tetracycline
  • Erythromycin
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Also known as STI

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Gonorrhea

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Causative Agent of Gonorrhea

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Neisseria gonorrhoear

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Treatment for Gonorrhea

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Cefraixone - for uncomplicated cases
spectinomycin - if resistant

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An acute highly communicable infection characterized by fever, rashes, and symptoms referable to upper respiratory tract

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Measles

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Causative Agentof Measles

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Measles virus (Morbillivirus under Family Paramycoviridae) (RNA virus)

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Mode of Transmission of Measles

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By droplet spread or direct contact with infected persons

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Highly communicable disease characterized by abrupt onset with fever which last 1 to 6 days, chilly sensations or chills, aches or pain in the back and limbs with prostrations.

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Influenza

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Causative Agent of Influenza

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Influenza Virus A, B, C under Family Orthomyxoviridae (RNA virus)

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Mode of Transmissio of Influenza

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By direct contact, through droplet infection

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form of hepatitis occurring either sporadically or in endemics and caused by virus by fecally contaminated water or food

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Hepatitis A

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Causative Agent of Hepatitis A

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Hepatitis A Virus (HAV) (Under Family Picomaviridae) (RNA Virus)

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Is an acute viral encephalomyelitis caused by the rabies virus, a rhabdovirus of the genus Lyssavirus (RNA virus)

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Rabies (Hydrophobia, lyssa)

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Mode of Transmission for Rabies

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Usually by bites of rabies animal whose saliva has the virus

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Etiologic agents for dengue hemorrhagic fever (H-Fever)

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Dengue Virus Types 1, 2, 3, and 4 (flavivirus, and RNA virus)

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Mode of Transmission for Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever (H-Fever)

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Through bite of infected female mosquito

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Diagnostic Test for Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever (H-Fever)

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  • Tourniquet test (Rumpel Leads Test)
  • Platelet count
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Causative Agent of Hepatitis B

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Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) under Family Hepadnaviridae (DNA Virus)

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Mode of Transmission of Hepatitis B

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Sexual intercourse, also transmitted through blood and during birth

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Mode of Transmission of Hepatitis B

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Sexual intercourse, also transmitted through blood and during birth

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Also known as Bilhariasis or snail fever has a long been one of the important tropical disease on our country

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Scistosomiasis

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It is caused by blood fluke that is transmitted by a tiny snail called ___

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Oncomelania hupensis quadrasi

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Causative Agent of Scistosomiasis

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Schistosoma jabonicum

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Treatment for Scistosomiasis

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  • Praziquantel
  • Alternatively drugs are Oxamniquine for S. mansoni and Metrifonate for S. heamatobium
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It is chronic parasitic infection, which greatly reduces human productivity and quality of life

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Paragonimiasis/Pulmonary Distomiasis

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It is frequently encountered in communities where eating of fresh or inadequately cooked crabs is practice

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Paragonimiasis/Pulmonary Distomiasis

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Causative Agent of Paragonimiasis/Pulmonary Distomiasis

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Paragonimus westermani (lung fluke)

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What is called for First Intermediate Host (IH) – fresh water snail (for Paragonimiasis/Pulmonary Distomiasis)

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Antemelania aspirate

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What is called for Second IH – small, fresh water crab (for Paragonimiasis/Pulmonary Distomiasis)

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  • Sundathelpusa philippina
  • Varona litterata
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Diagnosis for Paragonimiasis/Pulmonary Distomiasis

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Diagnosis for Paragonimiasis/Pulmonary Distomiasis

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  • Sputum collection
  • Serological test like complement fixation test
  • Cerebral paragonimiasis – eosinophilia in CSF
48
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It is common with children

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Soil Transmitted Heminthiasis (STH)

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Causative Agent of Soil Transmitted Heminthiasis (STH)

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  • Ascaris lumbricoides (Giant intestinal roundworm)
  • Trichuris trichiura (Whipworm)
  • Hookworm
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What is old worlds hookworm

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Ancylostoma duodenale

51
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What is New world hookworm

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Necator americanus

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Treatment for Soil Transmitted Heminthiasis (STH)

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  • Piperazine citrate
  • Pyrantel pamoate,
  • Mebendazole
  • Albendazole
  • Levimazole
53
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Enlargement of feet

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Filariasis (Elephantiasis)

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Causative Agent of Filariasis (Elephantiasis)

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Wuchereria bancrofti, Brugia malayi

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No clinical signs and symptoms of the disease

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Asymptomatic Stage

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inflammation of the lymph nodes

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Lymphadenitis

57
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inflammation of lymph vessels

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Lymphangitis

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Developed 10-15 years from the onset of first attack

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Chronic Stage

59
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swelling of the scrotum

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Hydrocoele

60
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swelling of the upper and lower extremities

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Lymphedema

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Treatment for Filariasis (Elephantiasis)

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Diethylcarbamazine (DEC)

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Continues to be a major public health concern having an annual parasite incidence of 5.1 per 1000 population

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Malaria

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Causative Agents of Malaria

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  • Plasmodium falciparum
  • Plasmodium malariae
  • Plasmodium vivax
  • Plasmodium ovale
  • Plasmodim knowlesi
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Mode of Transmission for Malaria

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Through the bite of an infected female mosquito

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Laboratory Examinations for Malaria

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  • Thick and thin blood smear
  • Para Sight F Test
  • Serological Test
66
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dipstick test for simple and rapid diagnosis of Plasmodium falciparum

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Para Sight F Test

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Treatment for Malaria

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  • Chloroquine
  • Pyrimethamine/Sulfadoxine combination may be used in areas with high levels of resistance to chloroquin
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Type of tuberculosis that affect the lungs

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Pulmonary tuberculosis

69
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Type of tuberculosis that spreading all over the body]

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Extrapulmonary tuberculosis

70
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In the Philippines, TB ranks tenth (10th) in the leading cause of morbidity (2020)
- (T or F)

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True

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Mode of Transmission for Tuberculosis

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Inhalation of infective droplets present in the air

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