Immunization and Treatment for Pneumonia correct answers Vaccine based on polysaccharide.
Protects against 90% of infections
Treated with antibiotics
Immunization and Treatment for Tuberculosis correct answers BCG Vaccine
Antibiotics for 6-9 months
DOTS
What conditions may lead a person to develop Pneumonia and Rheumatic fever correct answers
Typically someone who isn't very healthy and recently has a GAS disease
Staining reaction of TB correct answers Acid-fast stain
Diagnosis for TB correct answers TB skin test - PPD injected into skin which will detect
memory T cells.
Next they do a chest x-ray to identify the TB.
Complications that can come from the influenza correct answers Can develop guillain barre
syndrome and Reye's syndrome
Immunization for Influenza correct answers Vaccine that has strains of the predicted outbreak
potential viruses
Diseases caused by Hantavirus correct answers Hantavirus Pulmonary syndrome (USA)
Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal syndrome (Asia)
How is Hantavirus transmitted correct answers Inhalation of aerosolized virus in rodent
droppings
Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome symptoms correct answers Initially flulike then leads to
capillary leak syndrome
40-50% mortality
Relationship between chickenpox and herpes zoster correct answers Caused by the same virus
and both diseases produce blistery splotches
Relationship between mumps and orchitis correct answers Orchitis develops after mumps in
males. Usually older than 50 and causes swelling in the testicles.
Relationship between influenza, chickenpox, and reye's syndrome correct answers Reye's
syndrome develops after someone had chickenpox or the flu
How is chickenpox transmitted? correct answers Droplets or contacts
Is chickenpox communicable? correct answers It is one of the most communicable diseases
Complications involving chickenpox correct answers Reye's syndrome, pneumonia, encephalitis,
and bacterial infections on skin
Measles correct answers Transmitted by droplets
Vaccine is an attenuated virus
Can cause a fatal degenerative brain disorder
German Measles correct answers Transmitted by droplets or contact
Can cause birth defects
Strep Throat symptoms and treatment correct answers High fever, swollen lymph nodes, bright
red pharynx tissue
Treated with antibiotics
Scarlet Fever symptoms correct answers Strep throat symptoms along with a rash
Erysipelas Symptoms correct answers Red well defined skin eruptions
Pneumonia symptoms and treatment correct answers high fever, sharp chest pains, difficulty
breathing, rust colored sputum
Treated with antibiotics. Vaccine available with capsules of many strains
Tuberculosis symptoms and treatment correct answers Cough, chest pains, high fever, blood in
sputum.
Antibiotics for 6-9 months. DOTS. Vaccine BCG
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