Camplyobacter

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Camplyobacter
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What are common skin warts?

• Bacterial infection caused by exposure to
• Animals (birds, livestock, etc.)
• Unpasteurized milk
• Feces of those infected

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Signs and symptoms

• Dome- shaped growth inside the skin that may
  become a raised area with small bumps within it.
• Usually painless, but may be painful when they
  occur on the feet.
• Often found on the hands and around or under the
  fingernails.
• Black dots may appear in the warts.

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Incubation and contagious periods

• Incubation period is unknown, but estimated to be
  around 3 months to several years.
• Contagious period is unknown, but probably as
  long as the wart is visible

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How are they spread?

• Through close person-to- person contact.

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How to control them

• Wash hands after touching the warts.
• Do not use towels used by the infected child or
  caregiver/teacher

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How to control them (continued)

• Scratching the warts may cause further bacterial
  infection or spread of virus to other sites
• The body may make antibodies to the virus that
  causes the wart so that the wart spontaniously
  resolves.
• Alternatives may be used.Tissue-distructive
  treatments such as medicated tape and liquid
  nitrogen mat activate the bodys immune response
  to the virus that causes the wart and hastens the
  resolution of the warts. However the treated
  warts may return and often require re-treatment.
• Although warts are a viral infection, they are
  very mildly contagious and most often are spread
  to other parts of the affected childs body,
  rather than the other children Warts do not need
  to be covered like shingles or other oozing
  sores. Treatment is a personal choice and not an
  infection control issue for a group care setting.
  

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What are the roles of the caregiver/teacher and
the family?

• Practice careful and frequent hand washing after
  contact with the childs warts.
• Do not let children pick at their warts because
  this may cause an opening in the skin promoting
  bacterial infection.

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Exclusion?

• There is no need for exclusion from a group
  setting.

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Comments

• Many people have warts at sometime in their
  lives.
• Immunocompromised children, including those with
  HIV infection, may have more severe and
  widespread lesions.

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Other forms of HPV

• HPV also known as genital warts (different from
  skin warts) is one of the most common sexually
  transmitted infections in both men and women that
  usually goes away by itself. An HPV infection
  rarely leads to cervical cancer.

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Who can get HPV?

• Any one who is or has been sexually active.
• Have multiple sexual partners at any time, or
  your partner has had multiple sex partners.
• If you became sexually active at an early age.

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Key points to remember

• Almost all women will have HPV at some point, but
  very few will develop cervical cancer. The immune
  system of most women will usually suppress or get
  rid of HPV. Only HPV infections that do not go
  away over many years can lead to cervical cancer
• HPV causes about 90 of all cases of cervical
  cancer.

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Prevention

• One way to prevent contracting HPV is to get a
  vaccine called Gardasil
• One way to prevent cervical cancer is to have
  regular pap smears to catch any changes in the
  cells on your cervix that may become cancer.
  Early detection is vital to staying healthy.

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When to prevent?

• Young girls and women from ages 9-35 who do not
  have HPV should be vaccinated.
• Young women 18 or older or young women who are
  sexually active should have regular pap smears.

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Pictures

• Genital warts on the cervix
• Genital warts on the penis

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statistics

• The U.S. population in 2000 was 275 million.2 70
  million Americans had a viral, incurable STD4 ---
  45 million with herpes5 and 25 million with HPV4
  --- or about one out of every four
  Americans.More women die each year from
  HPV/cervical cancer than from HIV/AIDS.8