PB HLTH 162A Study Guide - Final Guide: Bcg Vaccine, Genital Wart, Gram Staining

• School: Berkeley
• Department: Public Health
• Course: PB HLTH 162A
• Professor: Buehring Gertrude

Document Summary

Avoid endemic areas, n 95 masks (keep bac. out) outbreaks w/ earthquake, mining, archaelogical digs direct smear of material from csf or blood, elisa test for serum a/b, pcr. Prophylactic antimicrobials (prevention for non immune woman); sulfonomides, pyrimethamine (inhibit folic acid) avoid cats (or indoor only), hygienic food prep, caution with kitty litter, avoid raw/undercooked meat. Invasion cats, other felines rodents: rat, chipmunk, squirrel, prairie dog; flea is biological vector asymptomatic mostly, influenza like, fever, weakness, encephalitis fever, headache, weakness, painful lymph nodes, chest pain, bloody/watery mucous gram statin, direct smear with a/b, rapid dipstick tests being developed. Rabies rabies virus (helical, enveloped, rna virus) warm blooded, i. e. dog, fox, bat, mongoose, raccoon, skunk saliva > animal bites; also exposure to bat feces, organ transplant. Invasion, multiplies in tissue around bite, travel to peripheral nerves to brain, salivary glands weakness, pan, itchy at bite, muscle paralysis, agitation, coma, death, drool serology, pcr, autopsy (negri bodies in brain)