bacterial infection of the bloodstream (systemic infection)

infection of the lymphatic system

transient bacteria in the bloodstream

diagnosis of septicemia includes

Sepsis is the body's response to septicemia

Every hour you delay antibiotic therapy in septic shocks patients, chance of death increases

Correct chain of events leading to sepsis and septic shock

affects the endocardium and heart valves

Causative agent(s) for acute endocarditis

Signs/symptoms of this endocarditis include high fever, fast heart rate, fatigue, and signs of infections at other sites:

Causative agent(s) for subacute endocarditis:

Underlying heart valve disease

Treatment for this endocarditis includes surgery, likely a valve replacement:

Streptococcal infections cannot affect the cardiovascular systems

Causative agent(s) for Puerperal fever (childbed fever)

Causative agent(s) of Neonatal sepsis

Causative agent(s) of Rheumatic fever:

Inflammatory response to the throat infection and primarily affects the joints and heart

The worms that cause schistosomiasis are found in the United States

Major effects in Schistosoma are due to snail eggs in the:

Schistosoma is transmitted by

In filariasis, larvae infect the

Filariasis is transmitted by

Filariasis is caused by

Causative agent of the Plague ("The Black Death"):

Yersinia pestis

Bacteria localize in lymph nodes, painful and substantial swelling, transmitted through the bite of an infected flea or exposure to infected material through a break in the skin, dark splotches on skin from bleeding:

Bacilli spread to the bloodstream, high fever, diarrhea, abdominal pain, can lead to meningitis and nearly 100% fatal if untreated:

transmitted from person to person (from coughing), buboes are not present

Tularemia is transmitted via

Tularemia (Rabbit fever) treatment:

Disease(s) caused by spirochetes:

Causative agent of lyme disease:

Symptoms of lyme disease

This stage of lyme disease involves a slowly expanding red rash (erythema migrans) at the bite site, resembles a bull's-eye, accompanied by flu like symptoms:

This stage of lyme disease begins weeks to months later and bacteria disseminated to the skin, heart, and nervous system:

This stage of lyme disease occurs months to years later and involves chronic arthritis with swelling in the larger joints:

Treatment includes 10 days of doxycycline

Treatment includes 28 days of doxycycline

Causative agent(s) of Endemic relapsing fever

Causative agent of Louseborne (epidemic) relapsing fever

Endemic relapsing fever is transmitted via

Louseborne (epidemic) relapsing fever is transmitted via

Symptoms of relapsing fever

Treatment of relapsing fever without CNS involvement:

Treatment of relapsing fever with CNS involvement:

Causative agent of Brucellosis:

Causative agent of Rocky Mountain spotted fever (RMSF) or Spotted Fever Rickettsiosis (SFR)

Brucella species are

This disease has a specific fever pattern of sweats in the day, chills at night:

Infection can occur through eyes, abrasions, or consumption of contaminated dairy products and has a 2-10 week incubation:

The bacteria of this disease are transported to the spleen and lymph glands:

This disease can cause chronic infection in one organ or systemically, complications include endocarditis:

Treatment for Brucellosis:

Rickettsiae

RMSF or SFR is transmitted via

HME is transmitted via

HGA is transmitted via

Symptoms of RMSF/SFR include:

Clinical presentation of HME includes:

Leukocytes are infected and a lowering of white blood cell count (leukopenia) is seen in this disease:

Doxycycline is the treatment

What would distinguish from RMSF and ehrlichiosis

Treatment is available for infectious mononucleosis (mono)

Individuals with preexisting cardiovascular disease are at increased risk for morbid and mortal complications due to COVID-19.

Largest member of herpesviridae

The virus may pass into the fetus of a pregnant woman, causing mental impairment

Member of TORCH microbes that cross the placenta to cause severe congenital defects

Spread by contact with saliva

Causative agent of infectious mononucleosis (mono)

Causative agent of Burkitt lymphoma

Tumor of the jaw prevalent in Africa

Complications of mono include:

Passed from person to person via mosquitoes:

Dengue virus occurs in 3 types

Recovery from one type of Dengue Virus does not confer immunity to other types

Two vaccines are available, but no therapeutic drugs

Treatment is more supportive (control blood pressure), no antiviral for this:

Transmitted via rodents that carry virus, human infected via contact with urine or droppings

Hemorrhagic viruses:

Ribavirin is an effective treatment; to decrease mortality, implement treatment early

Members of the _____ produce severe hemorrhagic lesions of the tissues

Appears to be zoonotic, with fruit bats as a possible reservoir. Transmission can occur with contact with blood or secretions from and infected person or contaminated objects:

Who is most susceptible to malaria?

Species of Plasmodium that cause malaria:

Malaria death can occur due to:

Treatment drug of choice is doxycycline

Also known as typhus fever

Also known as Mexican typhus or murine typhus

Causative agent of Endemic typhus

Causative agent of Epidemic typhus:

Causative agent of Chagas disease

Causative agent of Human African sleeping sickness

Causative agent of Babesiosis

Malaria like disease that is transmitted by ticks, where parasites invade RBCs:

Trypanosomiasis is the name for 2 diseases caused by species of Trypanosoma and those 2 diseases are:

Transmitted by tsetse fly, chancre forms at the bite site, and parasites invade the bloodstream and then central nervous system

Treatment of malaria

Transmitted by reduviid bug (insect) and damages intestinal tract and cardiac nerve (sudden heart failure)

Transmitted by feces of body lice that flourish when sanitation and hygiene is poor

Transmitted by oriental rat fleas

Brill-Zinsser disease appears to be a relapse (years later) of:

Transmitted by one of two species of mosquito