NURS 245 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Viral Hemorrhagic Fever, Marburg Virus, Rheumatic Fever
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Definition: an infection that uses the blood stream or lymphatics to spread throughout the entire body. Transient bacteremia: temporary presence of bacteria in blood due to dental extraction, wounds, bites, damage to mucosa membranes-usually goes away quick treatment. Septicemia: overwhelming invasion of bacteria into blood stream with fever and chills-doesn"t go away much more serious situation. Toxemia: presence of exotoxins of bacteria in blood stream originating from-toxins produced by bacteria are in the blood stream: 1. septicemia infections in other organ systems with exotoxins entering into blood stream. 3. a) b) c) rheumatic fever: strep infection of respiratory tract tetanus: clostridium infection of wounds botulism: clostridium food poisoning. Biological warfare-potential to be used in biological warfare. Recin-(toxin from castor beans, not infection, causes toxemia) Starts salivary glands usually parotid, enters blood stream. Macular papular rash appears all at once, dense on face and extremities (chicken pox gradual and all chest and trunck)
