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Cards In This Set
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Positive Weil felix test means what?
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Rocky Mountain spotted fever
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What causes rocky mountain spotted fever?
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Gram - coccobacillus by infection of dog tick
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What are the symptms of Rocky mountain spotted fever?
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Fever and hemorhagic rash
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What type of virus is cytomeglovirus?
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Ds DNA Herpes virus 5
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What are the symptoms of CMV?
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Mononucleosis, death in utero, birth defects,
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What causes these fevers?
Yellow fever
Ebola Fever
Lassa Fever
Dengue Fever
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Aedes mosquito
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rodent
Aedes mosquito
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What is the scientiic name for malaria? and what causes it?
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Plasmodium vivax. caused by a protozoa obigat intracellular parasite. bit of a female anopheles mosquito
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What is the treatment for plasmodium vivax?
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Primaquine and chloroquine
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What is chagas disease? and what causes it?
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Disease caused by protozoan hemoflagulate transmitted by bite of kissing bug (reduviid bug)
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What is another name for chagas?
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Tripanosoma cruzii
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What are the defense mechansms of the upper respiratory tract?
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Secretory IgA, mucosal cell turnover, and normal flora strep
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What are the defense mechanims of the lower respiritory tract?
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Mucociliary escalator, no normal flora
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What is catalase - and sensitive to bacitracin?
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Strep. pyogenes
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Corynebacterium diptheriae is caused by what shape bacteria?
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Club shaped gram+ rod
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What causes grey leather like pseudo membranes on the glottis?
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Diptheria
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