HLTB21H3 Final: HLTB21 final exam study sheet.docx
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Greenhouse gases: carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, hydrocarbons/hydrofluorocarbons (hfcs), perfluorocarbons (pfcs), sulfur hexafluoride (sf6) Drug-resistance bacteria: shigella dysenteriae, n. gonorrheae and haemophilus influenzae. Toxic shock syndrome: women who used tampons. Malaria: plasmodium falciparum, vivax, ovale, malariae (transmitted by female. No vaccine, only prophylactic drugs: quinine, chloroquine and artemisinin derivatives and preventative measures (bed nets, screens, activity timing, insecticides, reducing water sources) Clostridium difficile infection: a bacterium that causes mild to severe diarrhea and intestinal conditions like colitis (colon inflammation); in feces; infection via contact to mouth. Tuberculosis: mycobacterium (only 5-10% of those infected will develop active tb) Xdr-tb: extensively drug-resistant tb - resists treatment by two of the first-line drugs (isoniazid, rifampicin) and resistance to any of the fluoroquinolones, and any one of the three injectable second-line drugs (amikacin, capreomycin, kanamycin) Schistosomiasis: parasitic infection (through skin contact) with free-swimming larval stage (cercarier) of trematodes that develop in freshwater smails. Mdr-tb, dr- malaria, vancomycine-resistant s. aureus, human monkey pox.