Infectious Diseases: Symptoms
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SunshineBomb on April 30, 2012
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Tuberculosis | Chronic cough, fever, fatigue, malaise, weight loss, blood-tinged sputum, diff. breathing |
| Leprosy | Tuberculoid leprosy discoloration of skin, loss of sensation. Lepromatous leprosy Skin nodules; progressive destruction of facial features, digits, other body parts. |
| Diphtheria | Sore throat, swollen glands, grey membrane on throat, difficulty breathing, nasal discharge, fever, chills, malaise |
| Common Cold | Congestion, sneezing, runny nose, cough, sore throat, malaise |
| Influenza | Fever, headache, myalgia, pharyngeal pain, malaise, congestion, dry cough |
| Pertussis | cold-like symptoms, violent coughs that cause vomiting, red/blue face, extreme fatigue, "whooping" sound during breathing |
| Gonorrhea | males: urethritis females: 50%-80% of women asymptomatic, cervicitis infants: conjunctivitis |
| Chlamydia | males: 25% asymptomatic, urethritis females: 85% of women asymptomatic, cervicitis or urethritis infants: conjunctivitis, trachoma |
| staph aureus skin infections | Pimple to baseball sized, pus filled, red, swollen, painful lesion and fever |
| Scalded Skin Syndrome | Red, peeling skin |
| Impetigo | Small flat red patches pus filled vesicles rupture crust over |
| staph food poisoning | N&V, cramps, diarrhea; onset is 4-6 hours, recovery is 24 hours. |
| toxic shock syndrome | Sudden onset of fever, chills, vomiting, diarrhea, dark red rash, hypotension, confusion. |
| Tetanus | Progressive spastic paralysis (lockjaw, back spasms, severe muscle contractions). (known in infants as neonatal tetanus) |
| Botulism | Progressive flaccid paralysis, weak, dizzy, blurred vision, GI tract involvement. (known in infants as floppy baby syndrome) |
| salmonellosis | incubation: 8hrs-2days Diarrhea, N&V, fever, headache, pain, 1-2 weeks |
| e. coli | incubation: 1-3 days Bloody diarrhea, fatal hemorrhagic colitis, hemolytic uremic syndrome |
| campylobacter diarrhea | incubation: 2-5 days bloody diarrhea |
| cholera | incubation: 2-3 days Severe diarrhea, dehydration, hypovolemic shock |
| syphilis | Primary- chanere (small, painless, red, hard lesions) Secondary- localsystemicwidespread rash (palms and soles of feet too), flu like symptoms Tertiary- latentgummas (rubbery, swollen lesions), neurological and cardiac symptoms infants: Congenital Syphilis - miscarriage, stillbirth, birth defects (notched teeth, saber shins, mental retardation), rash. |
| lyme disease | Primary- bite and bulls eye rash, flu like symtoms Secondary- neurological or cardiac symptoms, hyperactivity, type three or four complement activation Tertiary- arthritis (hypersensitivity) |
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