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TUBERCULOSIS
"TB"
"Consumption"
- Microbe: Mycobacterium tuberculosis
- Enters body: Respiratory Inhalation droplets
- Symptoms: Fluid in lungs, pneumonia like symptoms, lesions in lungs and on body
- Vector: none
- Treatment: Isoniazid and Rifapin
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Diphtheria
- Microbe: Corynebacterium diphtheria
- Enters body: Respiratory Inhalation droplets
- Symptoms: Blocks airway, suffocation, damage to heart, kidneys, and CNS
- Vector: none
- Treatment: Antitoxins and antibiotics (erythromycin and clindamycin)
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Pertussis
"Whooping Cough"
- Microbe: Bordetella pertussis
- Enters body: Respiratory Inhalation droplets
- Symptoms: Mucus, fever, vomiting, sneezing, dry cough, mucus strings
- Vector: none
- Treatment: Antitoxin and Erythromycin
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Streptococcus pharyngitis
"Strep Throat"
- Microbe: Streptococcus pyogenes
- Enters body: Respiratory Inhalation droplets, Contaminated food/water
- Symptoms: Sore throat, inflammation, adenoid/lymph node swelling, HA, chills, fever, no cough
- Vector: Family pets
- Treatment: Penicillin and other ATBs
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Bacterial Pneumonia
- Microbe: Streptococcus pneumoniae
- Enters body: Respiratory Inh. droplets, chemicals, aspiration
- Symptoms: Inflammation of lung tissue, pleurisy, cold symptoms, chills, fever
- Vector: none
- Treatment: Penicillin
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Primary Atypical Pneumonia
“Walking pneumonia”
- Microbe: Mycoplasma pneumoniae
- Enters body: Respiratory Inhalation droplets
- Symptoms: Fever, malaise, cough, chest pain
- Vector: none
- Treatment: Azithromycin, fluoroquinolone
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Legionnaires’ disease
- Microbe: Legionella pneumophila
- Enters body: Organisms grow in soil/ water become airborn and inhaled
- Symptoms: Fever, chills, HA, diarrhea, vomiting, fluid in lungs, chest and ABD pain
- Vector: Intracellular parasitic of amoebas
- Treatment: Azithromycin, fluoroquinolone, Erythromycin
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