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    CA 1 Exercise CHN Part 2

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    CA 1 Exercise CHN Part 2

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    The document contains two tables. Table A lists various diseases and their causative agents, filling in missing data in the table. Table B describes characteristic signs and symptoms of several diseases such as scarlet fever, dysentery, cholera, leptospirosis, mumps, malaria, meningitis, tetanus, measles, and chicken pox. For each disease, it lists pathognomonic or distinctive signs that can help identify the specific disease.

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    The document contains two tables. Table A lists various diseases and their causative agents, filling in missing data in the table. Table B describes characteristic signs and symptoms of several diseases such as scarlet fever, dysentery, cholera, leptospirosis, mumps, malaria, meningitis, tetanus, measles, and chicken pox. For each disease, it lists pathognomonic or distinctive signs that can help identify the specific disease.

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    CA 1 Exercise CHN Part 2

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    Karl Kiw-is
    The document contains two tables. Table A lists various diseases and their causative agents, filling in missing data in the table. Table B describes characteristic signs and symptoms of several diseases such as scarlet fever, dysentery, cholera, leptospirosis, mumps, malaria, meningitis, tetanus, measles, and chicken pox. For each disease, it lists pathognomonic or distinctive signs that can help identify the specific disease.

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    A.
    DISEASE OTHER NAME CAUSATIVE AGENT
    SHINGLES 1.herpes zoster 2. Varicella-zoster virus
    MALARIA 3. Plasmodium vivax 4. Plasmodium parasite
    TETANUS 5. Lockjaw 6. Clostridium tetani
    PERTUSSIS 7. Whooping cough 8. Bordetella pertussis
    POLIOMYELITIS 9. Infantile paralysis 10. Poliovirus
    RUBELLA 11. German measles 12. Rubella virus
    RABIES 13. Lyssa 14. Lyssaviruses
    VARICELLA 15. Chickenpox 16. Varicella-zoster virus (VZV)
    HEPATITIS A 17. Infectious hepatitis 18. Picornavirus
    LEPTOSPIROSIS 19. Weir's disease 20. Leptospira

    B.
    DISEASE PATHOGNOMONIC SIGNS
    Scarlet fever  Very red, sore throat.
     Fever (101 °F or higher)
     Whitish coating on the tongue early in the illness.
     “Strawberry” (red and bumpy) tongue.
     Red skin rash that has sandpaper feel.
     Bright red skin in the creases of the underarm, elbow, and groin (the area where your stomach meets
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    your thighs)
     Swollen glands in the neck.
    Dysentery  a slight stomach-ache
     cramping
     diarrhea
    Cholera  profuse watery diarrhea, sometimes described as “rice-water stools”
     vomiting.
     thirst.
     leg cramps.
     restlessness or irritability.
    Leptospirosis  High fever.
     Headache.
     Chills.
     Muscle aches.
     Vomiting.
     Jaundice (yellow skin and eyes)
     Red eyes.
     Abdominal pain.
     Diarrhea
     Rash

    Mumps  Fever
     Headache
     Muscle aches
     Tiredness
     Loss of appetite
    Malaria  Fever
     Sweats

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     Chills
     Headaches
     Malaise
     Muscles aches
     Nausea
     Vomiting
    Meningitis Sudden fever
    Severe headache
    Nausea or vomiting
    Double vision
    Drowsiness
    Sensitivity to bright light
    Stiff neck
    Tetanus  Rismus
     Hypertonicity
     Skeletal muscle spasms
     Irritability
     Restlessness
     Difficulty swallowing
     Neck stiffness
     Rigidity of thoracic and abdominal muscles
    Measles (Rubeola)  Pathognomonic Koplik spots appear during the prodrome, before the onset of rash, usually on the oral
    mucosa opposite the 1st and 2nd upper molars
    Chicken Pox  Macular eruption may be accompanied by an evanescent flush. Within a few hours, lesions progress to
    papules and then characteristic, sometimes pathognomonic teardrop vesicles, often intensely itchy, on

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    red bases. The lesions become pustular and then crust.

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