HSS 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Mycobacterium, Hospital-Acquired Infection, Reverse-Transcriptase Inhibitor

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: HSS 1100
• Professor: William Yan

Document Summary

Mumps: childhood disease, bilateral inflammation of parotid glands, many inapparent infections. Rare complications can be meningitis, orchitis, ovaritis causing sterility: highly contagious, spread by saliva or respiratory excretions. Incubation is 18-21 days where person is asymptomatic: mmr vaccine. Infectious mononucleosis (epstein barr virus: belongs to herpes virus, mild disease in children and young adults, transmission by salive, fever, sore throat, lethargy, atypical lymphocytes, hepatosplenomegaly, latent virus. Chronic disease or asymptomatic shredding: diagnosis with blood, novaccine. Cytomegalovirus: herpes family but usually asymptomatic, pregnant women at risk for neonatal infections, transplant patients at risk with disseminated infection causing transplant rejection, aids patients are frequently infected, diagnosis by isolation from urine/blood/organs. Serology screening: treatments with antivirals, prevention (for immunocompromised) Malaise, fatigue, nausea, loss of appetite and jaundice. Hep a and b are most common: c, e, g are less common. Hep a mainly affects children and young adults: causes small epidemics, transmission by fecal oral route.