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Infections Review Crossword
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Whooping cough
4.
Streptococcal sore throat followed by centripetal rash for a few days
which heals by desquamation.
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Transmitted by cats and leads to a generalized lymphadenopathy
10.
Presents with hydrophobia, aerophobia + convulsions / paralysis
12.
Self limited dysentery with lesions similar to ulcerative colitis.
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Viral infection. Umbulication of vesicles is almost pathognomonic.
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Diagnosed by Widal test.
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Malignant pustule
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Viral infection. Rash is composed of similar lesions, centrifugal
& do not coalesce.
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Viral infection. Koplik’s spots in buccal mucosa (almost pathognomonic).
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Human immunodeficiency virus
24.
Virus which causes two diseases 2 diseases: chicken pox and herpes
zoster
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Caused by Leptospira icterohemorrhagica and is water borne. Presents
with jaundice and haemorrhage and renal failure.
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Viral infection transmitted by mosquitoes and leading to jaundice,
haemorrhage, renal failure.
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Undulant fever
5.
It's a wound infection accompanied by local inflammation followed
by neurotoxin which could lead to ophisthotonus
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2 stages 1. preerythrocytic (liver) and 2. erythrocytic. Sporozoites,
merozoites, trophozoites (ring form).
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Post infectious Arthritis, urethritis, conjunctivitis.
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Caused by rickettsial infection. Diagnosed by Weil-Felix test.
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Causes 4 types of infection 1. Bubonic, 2. Pneumonic, 3. Stepticemic,
4. Cutaneous. Transmitted by rats.
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A bacterial disease that can present in 4 different sites: Nasal,
pharyngeal, laryngeal, cutaneous and causes a characteristic pseudomembrane.
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Caused by borellia species (spirochetes).
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Bacterial infection that causes 3 diseases: bacillary dysentery, traveler's
diarrhoea, reiter’s syndrome
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Cysts & trophozoites, leads to steatorrhoea, traveller’s diarrhoea
19.
Streptococcal subcutaneous infection which is more superficial than
cellulites and hence well demarcated may present with bullae.
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