HCSV 320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Staphylococcus, Anti-Tetanus Immunoglobulin, Infectious Mononucleosis
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Always preceded by another streptococcal infection, often strep throat: what is pleurisy? inflammation of the pleurae, which impairs their lubricating function and causes pain when breathing. Nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea, descending paralysis, and death from respiratory paralysis. A cook who become a chronic carrier of seven epidemics of typhoid fever in six years. Breaking the wall of the boil can lead to bacteremia (blood poisoning) and deep tissue infections such as osteomyelitis. Systemic antibiotics are not used unless fever, malaise, or secondary complications are present. An antibiotic ointment such as bacittacin is generally prescribed. When membranes surrounding the sprain and spinal cord, or. Syphilis is spread through direct contact with body fluids containing the organism, during sexual or other intimate contact, the major means of transmission. Infection of the fetus occurs through the placental. Organism can be transmitted through blood transfusion from victim in early stages. Syphilis can only exist in moist body fluids.