Leprosy Mike Wallis Leprosy or Hansen’s disease‚ is a chronic‚ infectious disease that mainly affects the skin‚ mucous membranes‚ and nerves. A rod shaped bacillus named Mycobacterium leprea‚ causes the virus. Mycobacterium leprea is very similar to the bacillus that causes tuberculosis. The reason Leprosy is also known as Hansen’s disease‚ is because it was first identified in 1874 by a Norwegian physician named Gerhard Henrik Armeur Hansen. Leprosy appears in both the Old and New Testaments
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Once known as “The White Plague”‚ tuberculosis existed as a massively feared infection with mysterious patient-frightening treatments that established itself as one of the most important issues during the Victorian era. Typically confined in sanatoriums during the early 1800’s‚ patients usually received little help or treatment and therefore died quickly yet painfully. For years‚ few options existed as the only possibilities involved either years in bed or the surgical removal of lung tissues. While
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Protocol for the care of patients with tuberculosis Policy Profile Policy Reference: Version: Author: Executive sponsor: Target audience: Date issued: Review date: Consultation Key individuals and committees consulted during drafting Clin.2.0 Appendix D Clinical care protocol 26 3.0 Juliana Kotey‚ Senior Infection Control Nurse Director of Infection Prevention and Control All Trust Staff 16 October 2012 September 2015 Infection Control Committee Infectious Diseases Doctor/Matron Health Protection Unit
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Basis of Disease – 9th Edition Pg. 370-377 Mycobacteria Bacteria in the genus Mycobacterium are slender‚ aerobic rods that grow in straight or branching chains. Mycobacteria have a unique waxy cell wall composed of unusual glycolipids and lipids including mycolic acid‚ which makes them acid-fast‚ meaning they will retain stains even on treatment with a mixture of acid and alcohol. They are weakly gram positive. Tuberculosis Tuberculosis is a serious chronic pulmonary and systemic disease caused most
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Tuberculosis Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease caused by a germ (bacterium) called Mycobacterium tuberculosis. This germ primarily affects the lungs and may infect anyone at any age. In the United States‚ the number of TB cases steadily decreased until 1986 when an increase was noted; TB has continued to rise since. Today‚ ten million individuals are infected in the U.S.‚ as evidenced by positive skin tests‚ with approximately 26‚000 new cases of active disease each year. The increase
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Tuberculosis Trends in the United States Introduction to Health and Disease/HCS245 August 9‚ 2010 Tuberculosis Trends in the United States In an article entitled Trends in Tuberculosis---United States‚ 2007 published by the Center for Disease Control‚ reports that tuberculosis in the United States for 2007was the lowest recorded since the tracking of the disease started in 1953. However‚ despite the measures that have already been taken to control tuberculosis‚ the rate
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Include the following in your assignment: Description of the communicable disease (causes‚ symptoms‚ mode of transmission‚ complications‚ treatment) and the demographic of interest (mortality‚ morbidity‚ incidence‚ and prevalence). Describe the determinants of health and explain how those factors contribute to the development of this disease. Discuss the epidemiologic triangle as it relates to the communicable disease you have selected. Include the host factors‚ agent factors (presence or absence)
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10:30-12:50 4/1/2012 Reflection Paper I decided to do my project on pulmonary tuberculosis because a disease that can be transmissible from human to human through a simple talk‚ sneeze‚ or cough seemed to interest me. Also‚ as I was growing up‚ the TB test I was given during my physicals scared me to death because I didn’t know what the nurses were putting into my arm until now. Doing this project made me realize what tuberculosis really was and that it was a bacteria that kept mutating to stay resistant
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iv 1. INTRODUCTION 1 2. EPIDEMIOLOGY OF SMALL RUMINANT TUBERCULOSIS 3 2.1. Global distribution of small ruminant tuberculosis 3 2.2. Risk factors 3 2.2.1 Agent factors 3 2.2.2 Management and Ecological Factors 4 2.2.3 Host factors 5 2.3 Transmission 6 3. STATUS OF SMALL RUMINANT TUBERCULOSIS IN ETHIOPIA 7 4. ZOONOTIC IMPORTANCE OF SMALL RUMINANT TUBERCULOSIS 9 4.1. Zoonotic significance 9 4.2. Risk factors of zoonotic tuberculosis from small ruminants 10 4.3. Reverse zoonosis 11 5. CONCLUSION
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The Differences and Similarities of Pneumonia and Tuberculosis Pneumonia and tuberculosis have been plaguing the citizens of the world for centuries causing millions of deaths. This occurred until the creation and use of antibiotics become more widely available. These two respiratory infections have many differences‚ which include their etiology‚ incidence and prevalence‚ and many similarities in their objective and subject indicators‚ medical interventions‚ course‚ rehabilitation and effects
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