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Ch 16, 17, 18 Microbiology > Transmission > Flashcards

Transmission Flashcards

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1
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Measles

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Droplet Contact

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Rubella

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Droplet Contact

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Fifth DIsease

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Droplet Contact, direct contact

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Scarlet Fever

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Droplet or direct contact

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SSS

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droplet or direct contact

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Chicken Pox

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Droplet contact or inhalation of lesion fluid

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Smallpox

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Droplet or indirect contact

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Warts

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Direct, indirect, autoinoculation

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Molluscum Contagiosum

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direct contact, including sexual contact, and autoinoculation

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Leishmaniasis

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biological vector

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Cutaneous Anthrax

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direct contact with endospores

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Ringworm

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Direct or indirect contact, or infected soil

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Superficial Mycoses

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Endogenous “normal biota”

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Neonatal Conjunctivitis

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vertical from mother to child

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Bacterial Conjunctivitis

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direct or indirect contact

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Viral Conjunctivitis

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direct or indirect contact

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Keratitis

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reactivation of latent virus, primary infections can occur in the eye

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Acanthamoeba Keratitis

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free-living amoeba that lives in tap water, freshwater lakes, etc.

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Meningitis

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Bacterial and viral
Droplet contact and food for Listeria
Fungal
air, dust, and soil (for coccidioides)

20
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Neonatal

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Vertical (during birth)

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Meningoncephalitis (fowleri)

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exposure while swimming in water

22
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Meningoencephalitis (acanthamoeba)

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direct contact

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Subacute Encephalitis (toxoplasma gondii)

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meat or fecal-oral

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Subacute Encephalitis (sclerosing panencephalitis)

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persistence of measles virus

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Subacute Encephalitis (prions)
direct contact with infected tissue or inherited | through meat, parenteral
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Acute Encephalitis
Bite by infected arthropod
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Rabies
Bite trauma, droplet contact
28
Tetanus
parenteral, direct contact
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Botulism
food-borne toxin, wound, injection
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Malaria
Mosquitos
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HIV and AIDS
direct sexual contact, blood-borne, perinatal and via breast milk
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Acute Endocarditis
parenteral
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sudacute Endocarditis
endogenous transfer of normal biota to blood stream
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Septicemia
parenteral, endogenous transfer
35
Plague
biological vector (such as rats) droplet contact (pneumonic) and direct contact with body fluids
36
Tularemia
bunnies, direct contact with body fluids from infected animals, airborne
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Lyme disease
ticks
38
Yellow Fever
Biological vector
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Dengue Fever
ades mosquitos
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Ebola
fruit bats
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Rocky Mountain Fever
ticks

Ch 16, 17, 18 Microbiology (4 decks)

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