HUMAN DISEASES
I. BACTERIAL DISEASES
TUBERCULOSIS
- mycobacterium tuberculosis, infection in lungs that causes high fever.
- BCG (bacillus – calmette-guerin) vaccine
DIPHTHERIA
- Mainly from 2-5 yrs, corynebacterium diphtheria.
- using DPT vaccine (Diphtheria, whooping cough and tetanus)
WHOOPING COUGH or Pertussis
- Bacillus Pertussis
- Use of DPT Vaccine
CHOLERA
- Vibrio comma
DIARRHOEA
- Pathogens responsible for these diseases are Escherichia coli, Shigella sp., Campylobacteria and Salmonella
LEPROSY or Hansen’s disease - rod –shaped bacterium Mycobacterium leprae.
TETANUS
- clostridiumtetani. Disease of the C.N.S. (also called lock-jaw)
- ATS (Anti-tetanus serum) is prescribed
PNEUMONIA
- Streptococcus penumoniae
TYPHOID
- Caused by Salmonella typhi which is found in the intestine of humans.
- Vaccine TAB (Typhoid Para A & B)
PLAGUE
- Plague is primarily a disease of rat. It is caused by rod shaped bacterium Pasteurella/ Yersineapestis
ANTHRAX
- Bacillus anthracis
- It is most common in agricultural regions where it occurs in animals, but it can also occur in humans.
GONORRHOEA
- Neisseria gonorrhoeae. It is transmitted through sexual contace (It is an infection of the mucous membrane of the urinogenital tract)
- It may result in female sterility.
SYPHILIS
- Sexual disease caused by a bacteria, TreponemaPilludum, transmitted through sexual contacts.
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