with disease and cannot transmit the disease. Symptoms and diagnosis Common symptoms of active lung TB are cough with sputum and blood at times‚ chest pains‚ weakness‚ weight loss‚ fever and night sweats. CHOLERA : Cholera is an acute intestinal infection caused by ingestion of food or water contaminated with the bacterium Vibrio cholerae. It has a short incubation period‚ from less than one day to five days‚ and produces an enterotoxin that causes a copious‚ painless‚ watery diarrhoea that can quickly
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Infectious Disease – an illness due to specific infections agents or its toxic products that arises through transmission from an infected person‚ animal ‚or reservoir to a susceptible host‚ either directly or indirectly through an intermediate plant or animal host . Parasitic disease – A ameba in infection caused by a parasitic. An organism that lives inside or on a host. Zoonotic disease – an infection or infectious agent transmissible under normal conditions from vertebrate animals to humans
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health? ‘The state of complete physical‚ mental and social well-being’ To sustain a healthy lifestyle person needs: •A balanced and varied diet Take exercise Proper shelter Enough sleep Good hygiene will reduce the likelihood of infection What is disease? Disease is a disorder or malfunction of the mind or body‚ which leads to a departure from good health. Can be a disorder of a specific tissue or organ due to a single cause. E.g. malaria. May have many causes. Often referred
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has a rapid onset‚ rapid course‚ and can be accompanied by pain or discomfort 2) Circumscribed- abscess is localized 3) Pus- a collection of dead white blood cells that result from the body defense mechanisms involved in fighting the infection * 3 types of periodontal abscesses 4) Gingival- an abscess of the periodontium that is limited to the gingival margin area. Occurs in a healthy mouth when some foreign object is forced into a healthy gingival sulcus 5) Periodontal
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Nathan Riley SCB 260 Prof: Olga Calderon‚ PhD 20 January 2016 Syphilis Syphilis is a systemic infectious disease that is the result of sexual or congenital transmission of a bacterium known as Treponema pallidum (Sutton‚ 2013). This bacteria‚ in spite of creating a strong immune response‚ is able to thrive and spread in the human host for many decades. Syphilis has been called “the great pretender‚” as its symptoms can look much like those of other infectious diseases and in the past‚ has been
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Harmful Habits & Infectious Disease Prevention Managing health and wellness is largely dependent upon our knowledge of controllable and uncontrollable risk factors that exist amongst people and within our environment. Our overall ability to maximize our level of wellness revolves around the choices made on a daily basis including our actions and our diets. In order to take our health seriously‚ we must learn to come to terms with the harmful effects of our decisions as well as the occasion of factors
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Tuberculosis‚ is a chronic or acute contagious disease caused by a bacterial infection. TB is the leading cause of death from a single infectious disease‚ accounting for over a quarter of avoidable deaths among adults. It can affect several organs of the human body‚ including the brain‚ the kidneys and the bones‚ but it predominately manifests itself in the lungs where it is called "Pulmonary Tuberculosis". According to the WHO‚ TB infection is currently spreading at the rate of one person per second. It kills
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Also known as Valley fever is an infection that is caused by the fungi Coccidioides. The fungus grows in soil found in the southwestern part of the United States as well as Mexico and Central/South America. Those living in these designated areas can contract this disease by inhaling the fungal spores in the air. This is considered a self limiting respiratory infection so most individuals that are infected present with mild to no symptoms at all. A patient with this disease can present with the following
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hospital infections occurs because of this challenge (1). According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report‚ carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) are one of the three main antibiotic resistance threats. (2). Enterobacteriaceae are Gram-negative bacilli which cause a wide range of infections including septicemia‚ pneumonia‚ urinary tract infection‚ meningitis and abscess in the different organs (3‚4). Different antibiotics are used to treat infections caused by
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The term pneumonia is applied to many pulmonary infections which are most often caused by bacteria. Pneumonia caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae is the most common and is referred to as typical pneumonia. Atypical pneumonia is caused by other microorganisms such as fungi‚ protozoa‚ and viruses. The difference between them were discovered in 1883 by Friedlander and Talamon. Streptococcus pneumoniae was first discovered by Pasteur who isolated it from saliva in a person who had rabies in 1881. Depending
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