CVS, Lymphatics, and CNS Flashcards | Knowt (2024)

MOT: Vector (mosquito)

Reservoir: human

Treatment: vaccine

Signs/symptoms: paroxysms of fever/chills, RBC ruptures

MOT: Vector (ticks)

Reservoir: animal (rodents)

Treatment: antibiotics

Signs/symptoms: unusual sweating, dark urine, overall flu-like symptoms, mood changes

MOT: Vehicle (food)

Reservoir: Animals (farm)

Treatment: antibiotics

Signs/symptoms: high fever each evening, long incubation period, heavy sweating, malaise, fever

MOT: Vector (sandfly)

Reservoir: Animal (small mammals)

Treatment: Amphotericin B

Signs/symptoms: papule at sight of bite, malaria-like, months to years to develop

MOT: Vector (reduviid bug)

Reservoir: Animal (rodents, opossums, armadillos)

Treatment: Metronidazole

Signs/symptoms: damage to heart and nerves, general malaise (acute), localized nodule on eyelids or side of face)

MOT: vector (rat flea)

Reservoir: animal (small rodents)

Treatment: antibiotics (vaccine)

Signs/symptoms: dark blue areas, enlarged lymph nodes that may secrete black fluid, spasms by attack on nervous system)

MOT: direct contact, droplet, vector (biological)

Reservoir: animal (squirrels, deer)

Treatment: antibiotics

Signs/symptoms: enters through skin abrasion, ulcer forms, general malaise, face and eyes redden/become inflammed

MOT: Vector (ticks)

Reservoir: Animal (rodents)

Treatment: bacteria

Signs/symptoms: high fever, jaundice, rose colored spots, successive relapses are possible but less severe

MOT: Vector (tick)

Reservoir: Animal (small mammals)

Treatment: Antibiotics

Signs/symptoms: measles like rash but on soles and palms (usually until day 6 or later), high fever, headache, body aches, nausea

MOT: Vector (louse)

Reservoir: Animal (rodents)

Treatment: Antibiotics

Signs/symptoms: transmitted by louse feces in bite wound, high and prolonged fever, rash of small spots by hemorrhaging, high mortality rates if untreated

MOT: Vector (flea)

Reservoir: Animal (flea)

Treatment: Antibiotics

Signs/symptoms: fever, rash, clinically indistinguishable from epidemic typhus

MOT: Vector (ticks)

Reservoir: Animal (field mice)

Treatment: Antibiotics

Signs/symptoms: bull eye’s rash, irregular heartbeat and meningitis, arthritis and possible chronic form or paralysis

MOT: non-transmissible

Reservoir: Immune reactions to streptococcal infections

Treatment: Antibiotics

Signs/symptoms: arthritis, fever, heart valve damage, rare rash,

MOT: Vector (rat bite)

Reservoir: Animals (rats)

Treatment: Antibiotics

Signs/symptoms: sepsis, fever, headache, muscle aches, inflammation at bite causing swollen lymph nodes

MOT: Direct contact (cat bite or petting cat)

Reservoir: Animal (domestic cats)

Treatment: Antibiotics

Signs/symptoms: prolonged fever, mono like, enlarged spleen, papule at infection site for 3-10 days

MOT: Saliva

Reservoir: Human

Treatment: None

Signs/symptoms: white patches in red throat, all around malaise, chronic fatigue, swelling of lymph nodes and abdominal pain from enlarged spleen

MOT: Direct contact (sexually, blood, tissue transplant)

Reservoir: Human

Treatment: Acyclovir

Signs/symptoms: mostly asymptomatic, can cause mental retardation or hearing loss, can cause life threatening pneumonia

MOT: Vector (mosquito)

Reservoir: Human

Treatment: Vaccine

Signs/symptoms: jaundice, fever, headache, nausea, vomitting, yellow eyes, endemic in tropical areas

MOT: Vector (mosquito)

Reservoir: Human

Treatment: None

Signs/symptoms: break bone fever, muscle and joint pain, fever, possible rash

MOT: Vector (mosquito)

Reservoir: Human

Treatment: None (supportive medicines)

Signs/symptoms: fever, joint pain, severe and crippling in wrists, fingers, ankles, persistence, rash and blisters, redness in eyes and light itchiness

MOT: direct contact or food vehicle, cut or bodily fluids

Reservoir: Animal (bats)

Treatment: Vaccine

Signs/symptoms: fever, headache, body chills, weakness, lack of appetite, internal bleeding, virus slowly leaks vessels, can be contagious is virus is in blood

MOT: Droplet (aerosol)

Reservoir: Animal (field mice)

Treatment: None

Signs/symptoms: fatigue, fever, muscle aches in large muscle groups, possible abdominal, respiratory, or kidney problems

MOT: Direct Contact

Reservoir: Human (nasopharynx)

Treatment: Antibiotics

Signs/symptoms: childbirth fever, infection starts from childbirth or abortion, possible sepsis

MOT: Vector (mechanical) (catherization)

Reservoir: Human

Treatment: Antibiotics

Signs/symptoms: fever, chills, laryngitis, inflammatory response, accelerated breathing/heartrate, severe sepsis or septic shock

MOT: Focal Infection

Reservoir: Human (nasopharynx)

Treatment: Antibiotics

Signs/symptoms: fever, general weakness, heart murmur, bacteria can lodge and can be fatal)

MOT: direct contact, droplet (aerosol)

Reservoir: Animal (large grazing animals)

Treatment: Antibiotics

Signs/symptoms: papule, bloody diarrhea, edema, lethal toxin with three possible forms, bioterrorism

MOT: direct contact (puncture wound)

Reservoir: Non-living

Treatment: Surgical Removal

Signs/symptoms: tissue death at infection site, complication of improperly performed abortion

MOT: Unknown

Reservoir: Unknown

Treatment: Surgery

Signs/symptoms: fast growing cancerous in jaw, can come from mono, repeated episodes of viremia, cancer/malaria in immunosuoressed/AIDS patients

MOT: Vehicle (food)

Reservoir: Animal (domestic cat)

Treatment: Metronidazole

Signs/symptoms: foodborne illness, flu-like response, torch infection comes from cat feces/undercooked meats from cattle

MOT: Direct Contact

Reservoir: Human

Treatment: Sanitation

Signs/symptoms: inflammation and tissue damage at site of granulomas, rash or itchy skin, more flu-like symptoms can begin within 1-2 months of infection, possibly asymptomatic at early phase of infection

MOT: Droplet (aerosol) (endogenous infection)

Reservoir: Human

Treatment: Antibiotics (vaccine)

Signs/symptoms: occurs in young children, neurological sequalae, deafness, motor deficits, mental retardation

MOT: direct contact and droplet (aerosol)

Reservoir: Human

Treatment: Antibiotics (vaccine)

Signs/symptoms: severe headache, muscle and tone stiffness, cold hands and feet, nausea, vomiting, photophobia, phonophobia, begins as throat infection with red and purple rash

MOT: Droplet (aerosol)

Reservoir: Human

Treatment: antibiotics (vaccine)

Signs/symptoms: neck and joint pain, vomiting, rash headache, common in infants and young children

MOT: Droplet (aerosol

Reservoir: Human

Treatment: Antibiotics

Signs/symptoms: fever, headache, stiff neck, nausea, vomiting, most common cause of sepsis and meningitis in newborns

MOT: Vehicle (food)

Reservoir: Animal (wild and domestic) and Non-living (food and soil)

Treatment: Antibiotics

Signs/symptoms: fever, headache, nausea, diarrhea, muscle aches, convulsions, avoid certain foods for pregnant women, causes mild-flu-like disease

MOT: Droplet (aerosol) ad Vehicle (soil and bird droppings)

Reservoir: Non-living (soil)

Treatment: Amphotericin B

Signs/symptoms: Severe headache that can come over weeks, fever usually absent in early stages, neck stiffness, abnormal gut, cranial nerve palsies, papilledema, confusions, convulsions, and coma

MOT: Vehicle (water),

Reservoir: Non-living (water)

Treatment: Amphotericin B

Signs/symptoms: infects nasal mucosa from swimming in fresh water, amoeba later proliferates in brain (fatality nearly 100%)

MOT: Vehicle (water)

Reservoir: Non-living (water)

Treatment: Amphotericin B

Signs/symptoms: infections are rare but fatal, enters through nasal sinus or breaks in skin, imflammation, lesions, development of typical neurological symptoms of encephalitis

MOT: Indirect (fomites) or Vehicle (soil)

Reservoir: Non-living (soil)

Treatment: Antibiotics (vaccine)

Signs/symptoms: lockjaw, muscle spasms, stiffness, starts with muscle spasms that spread to neck and throat, causing difficulties swallowing, facial spasms, breathing difficulties, may cause spine arch backward

MOT: Indirect (fomites) or Vehicle (food)

Reservoir: Animal (wild or fish), Non-living (soil and food)

Treatment: Antibiotics (proper canning and avoid honey with infants)

Signs/symptoms: Flaccid paralysis (1-10 days), nausea with no fever, double/blurred vision, respiratory or cardiac failure possible,

MOT: Direct (prolonged) Contact

Reservoir: Animal (armadillo)

Treatment: Antibiotics (vaccine)

Signs/symptoms: Loss of skin sensation, grows in peripheral tissues (nose, toes, fingers, ears), initial symptoms 2-5 years after infection, small, blanched areas of skin

MOT: Vehicle (water)

Reservoir: Non-living (water)

Treatment: Vaccine, mechanical breathing aid

Signs/symptoms: headache, sore throat, stiff neck, paralysis if motor nerves infected, fever, epidemics, infants may contract asymptomatic form

MOT: Direct contact (animal bite) or Droplet (aerosol)

Reservoir: Animal (bats)

Treatment: Vaccines

Signs/symptoms: multiplies in skeletal muscles then brain cells, muscle spasms of mouth and pharynx, hydrophobia

MOT: Vector (biological)

Reservoir: Animal (fly)

Treatment: Vector control

Signs/symptoms: bite develops into red sore (chancre), (Weeks to months later) fever, rash, swelling of face and hands, headaches, fatigue, aching muscles and itchy skin, (Winterbottom’s Sign) weight loss, confusion, personality changes, sleepiness with nighttime sleep disturbance

MOT: Inherited

Reservoir: Animal (cattle) or Non-living (soil)

Treatment: None

Signs/symptoms: fatal infection, trembling mad cows’ disease

MOT: Vector (mosquito)

Reservoir: Animal (birds, rodents, large mammals)

Treatment: None (control mosquitos)

Signs/symptoms: chills, headache, and fever, mental confusion and coma may occur, polio-like paralysis, can be neuroinvasive or non, mostly asymptomatic, mild to severe, neurological damage and fatality increase with age

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