Treatment Of Epidemic Typhus PowerPoint PPT Presentations

Epidemic Typhus is an uncommon disease that is caused by bacteria called Rickettsia prowazekii.

Rickettsia, Orientia, Ehrlichia and Coxiella Rickettsia Rocky Mountain spotted fever Rickettsialpox Epidemic and sporadic typhus Oral: Vesicles in the oral cavity - R ...

Virgin Soil Epidemics and Demographic Collapse in Latin America Virgin Land/Virgin Soil? Epistemology and Epidemics Epistemological explanations central in ...

Theme 5 Bodies and the body politic: life, death and organ transplantation Tissues and treatments: organ transplantation HI269 Week 18

fever,relapsing fever, typhoid and hepatitis A and E. ... Typhoid. Typhus (Epidemic louse borne) Viral Hemorrhagic fever ... Prevention and Control of Typhoid fever ...

Treatment of acute attack or clinical cure. Prevention of relapse or radical cure ... infections cause fatal heart damage. Treatment. Early Nifurtimox. Chronic ...

Medicine in the Renaissance Topics Contemporary view of health and illness Illnesses, epidemics, infectious diseases Learned Medicine Knowledge of Anatomy and ...

Accounted for 70% of deaths in birthing mothers. Typhus ... ampicillin. Escherichia coli. 12,000. ceftazidime. Pseudomonas aeruginosa. 26,000. vancomycin ...

Chikungunya Fever Dr.Madhusudan.S DIAGNOSIS TREATMENT PROGNOSIS Clinical Diagnosis Chikungunya fever is suspected when a child, presents with fever, rash and ...

Why Pollute Our City with Plastics & PET Bottles? We can help avoid WATER BORNE DISEASES Gastro enteritis, Cholera,Typhoid,Leptospirosis, Hepatitis A & E Save our city from another disaster from Water Borne Diseases,avoid plastics and PET bottles, while you provide relief work with a safe disinfected potable water using NOBLE CHLOR - ONSITE POTABLE CHLORINATED WATER TREATMENT SYSTEMS.

WWI and WWII - 100,000 people affected. Ricketts identifies causative agent of Rocky Mountain ... R. japonica Oriental spotted fever Japan. Typhus group: ...

Treatment of all clostridial infections is wide surgical debridement and ... ALL YOU CAN EAT?? I'M THERE! ... Untreated BA can be fatal ...

Acute Flaccid Paralysis AIDS Amoebiasis Anthrax BotulismBrucellosis ... The Culex tarsalis mosquito is the vector in: (a) Malaria (b) Typhus ...

Malaria: Malaria in the US: Protozoal Diseases: Leishmania: vector is a ... compounds used in treatments. Leishmania: HELMINTHIC Diseases: Schistosoma: ...

Part III: Infectious Disease Epidemiology. Epidemics & Their Control ... Following a bite from a skunk in an area where rabies is endemic, the physician should: ...

Overall description of the country (geographic position, population, etc. ... against the spread of tuberculosis, typhoid fever, typhus, malaria and cholera. ...

Workshop to Establish the Santiago Center for Geographic Medicine ... Ventricular and atrial enlargement. Ventricular aneurysms. Treatment. 8 aminoquinolines ...

Diagnosis: stool culture, blood culture. Treatment: TMP/SMX, cipro, azithro. Hepatitis A ... Stool cx -, blood cx -, transaminitis. Diarrhea, fever, itchy eyes ...

Title: West Nile virus Author: JMITCHEL Last modified by: JMITCHEL Created Date: 3/14/2005 11:25:57 PM Document presentation format: On-screen Show

Rickettsia, Ehrlichia, and Borrelia Douglas Brust, MD, PhD Columbia University dgb6@columbia.edu Differential Diagnosis Bacteria Viruses Fungi Parasites TB ...

Diseases of Cardiovacular and Lymphatic Systems

Begins on trunk and spreads to extremities (centrifugal spread) ... Her husband also developed a febrile illness 3 days after her illness started ...

Obligate parasites of animals and humans and characteristically located ... Rickettsiae are pleomorphic obligate intracellular coccobacilli, short rods(o. ...

Orientia It is garm negative bacilli adapted to intracellular parasitism Transmitted by arthropod vectors There is only one human pathogen: causes scrub ...

Chlamydia, Rickettsia, and Mycoplasma Infections kkelly@mednet.ucla.edu 206-5562

... Weil-Felix reaction( : Detect anti-rickettsial antibodies in a patients serum by agglutination of the proteus organisms.

... MD. QSNICH. RICKETTSIOSES. Bacteriology. Definition of Rickettsiaceae family ... (or not) with arthropods and necessitating (or not) eukaryotic cells from growth ...

history of exposure in an area where Chagas disease is known to occur swollen red area at site of previous insect bite enlarged lymph nodes swelling of one eye ...

Title: No Slide Title Author: Eugene P. Mayer Last modified by: Jeffrey Patton Created Date: 9/2/1998 9:09:34 PM Document presentation format: On-screen Show

Infectious Disease General Consideration Synopsis Infectious disease ( lemology, communicable disease) is: A clinical medicine A part of internal medicine To study ...

epidemiology morbidity vs mortality suveillance of disease occurrence reporting system from individual doctors to county, state and federal public health officials ...

Public Health What is Public Health? http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/learning/bitesize/standard/history/1830_1930/public_health_rev1.shtml The filthy overcrowded ...

Title: Slide 1 Author: Prof. Ghenghesh Last modified by: Prof. Ghenghesh Created Date: 3/13/2003 9:38:00 PM Document presentation format: On-screen Show

Dengue Professor.Shivaprasad Dengue The word dengue is derived from African word denga: meaning fever with hemorrhage . Is caused by virus transmitted of bites of ...

... especially during the European wars (Napolean at Waterloo, WW1 and WW2) ... Like R. prowazeki, B. quintana was transmitted by lice during WW1. ...

Pediculus humanus capitis (head louse) P. humanus humanus ... Pubic lice found on the head or eyelashes of children are ... similar to head lice. 1 ...

Burial of fly larvae in tissue ... Healthy or necrotic tissue. mandibular hooks aided by proteolytic enzymes. Gastrointestinal ...

The intentional or threatened use of microorganisms or biological toxins to kill ... 1346 Tartar siege of Kaffa (Feodossa) catapult plague victims over walls (662y) ...

LIFE CYCLE

To be aware of this condition during the outbreaks of many fevers like DF,CKG Fever, Leptospirosis & other viral fevers with secondary infections.

... to cure the spirit and nourish the entire body Holistic medicine- stress treating the entire patient, mind, body, soul Hippocrates ... OF THE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM ...

Primary: Provide medical and preventive medicine support to deployed US ... Secondary: Provide information and recommendations to Local National Health Care ...

Infectious Disease Issues in Natural Disasters Christian Sandrock, M.D. UC Davis School of Medicine Overview Discuss the role of infectious diseases in natural ...

Miscellaneous Bacterial Agents of Disease Chapter 21 * * Chlamydia obligate intracellular parasites small gram-negative cell wall C. pneumoniae causes an atypical ...

... host Can occur through direct physical contact or direct personal contact such as touching contaminated ... of her own role in spreading ...

Refugee Health Care: Top 10 Priorities in Emergency Intervention COL David Crudo Pacific Regional Medical Command Tripler Army Medical Center Hawaii

Epidemiology of Typhoid fever

Selected CDs of Public Health Concern. Part 2- Mounting a Global Response ... entrance of newer players in DAH such as Gates foundation, Bilaterals, multilaterals. ...

Vector-Borne Diseases-an overview-Nur Nabilah Binti Ahmad Puzi Nur Farah Deelah Binti Abdullah What Is It? vector - insect / any living carrier - transmits an ...

Bissell, RA J Emerg Med 1983 1 (1):59-66. DOMINICAN REPUBLIC 1979 ... Most common cause of infectious illness after Midwest floods over past 20 years ...

Lyme Disease. Figure ... The disease is transmitted by the ingestion of saliva from ... measures for plague, Lyme disease, and Rocky Mountain Spotted ...

Science, Medicine, and the Concept of Health The Theoretical and Professional Development of Physical Education in the United States, 1885-1930

... of the homeopathic remedy Lathyrus sativa ... Homeopathic Lathyrus Sativa ... 'Homeopathic doctors rose to the challenge of the most appalling Influenza ...

live in the oral cavity, intestinal tract, & perigenital regions of humans ... segment of small intestine near colon; adhere, burrow through mucus and multiply ...

... as well as serological tests. When making a diagnosis of Lyme disease, ... Lyme Disease Ixodes ('hard ticks') Erythema Chronicum Migrans (ECM) ...

... causes leptospirosis, a zoonosis Bacteria shed in urine; infection occurs by contact with contaminated urine; targets kidneys, liver, brain, ...