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Trypanosomiasis

Introduction Human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) or African sleeping sickness is a serious infection caused by a…
Lyme disease

Introduction Lyme disease is an infection caused by the spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi, which enters the host…
Leptospirosis

Introduction -Leptospirosis is a waterborne zoonosis of worldwide distribution, caused by spirochetes of the genus Leptospira…
Rat-bite fever

Introduction Rat-bite fever consists of two similar febrile zoonoses caused by the treponeme Spirillum minus (Asia),…
Relapsing fever

Introduction Relapsing fever is a bacterial infection caused by the spiral-shaped Borrelia species (excluding Borrelia burgdorferi,…
Congenital syphilis

Congenital syphilis is a transplacental fetal infection with T.pallidum Symptoms & Signs: Early symptoms (within 2…
Neurosyphilis

Neurosyphilis, infection of the CNS by T.pallidum can occur at any stage of infection Symptoms &…
Tertiary Syphilis

-About one-third of patients with untreated latent syphilis progress to tertiary syphilis Manifestations: Gummas: granulomatous, erosive,…
Latent Syphilis

Latent syphilis is defined as the asymptomatic period more than 1 year after primary infection with…
Syphilis

Primary Syphilis Introduction Syphilis is a sexually transmitted, systemic disease caused by the spirochete Treponema pallidum …
Tuberculous meningitis

-Tuberculous meningitis occurs in persons of all ages -After primary infection in the lungs, blood-borne bacilli…
Herpes: Best Meds
Tuberculosis

Tuberculosis is a bacterial infection caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis -M.tuberculosis is an obligate intracellular bacteria that…
Staphylococcus infections
Plague

-Yersinia pestis is a nonmotile, non-spore forming, bipolar staining Gram-negative bacillus -Plague is a systemic zoonosis…
Typhoid Fever

Salmonellosis Typhoid fever -Typhoid fever is caused by Salmonella typhi -Salmonella is a facultative gram-negative rod…
Moraxella catarrhalis

Introduction -Moraxella catarrhalis are gram-negative cocci that pair as kidney-shaped diplococci and thus morphologically similar to…
Haemophilus influenza

Haemophilus influenzae are pleomorphic, oxidase positive, gram-negative coccobacilli rods that commonly colonize and infect the human…
Diphtheria

Diphtheria is an acute toxin-mediated infection of the upper respiratory tract or skin caused by toxin-producing…
Influenza

Influenza is an acute respiratory illness caused by influenza A or B viruses -Transmission occurs primarily…
Ebola virus disease

-Ebola virus is a single-stranded, nonsegmented, negative-polarity RNA virus -It causes Ebola hemorrhagic fever (EHF) -the…
Zika infection

Zika disease is caused by a flavivirus originally described in monkeys in the Zika Forest of…