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PHC 4032 Chapter 12 Questions And Answers Latest Update
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- PHC 4032
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PHC 4032 Chapter 12 Questions And Answers Latest Update
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PHC 4032 Chapter 12 Questions And Answers
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Fomites ANS✔✔ inanimate objects that serve as reservoirs for microbes e.g.
contaminated medical equipment
Airborne Bacterial Diseases ANS✔✔ Respiratory tract infections transmitted
by air droplets or by fomites
Humidity and temperature allow bacteria to remain viable for extended
periods of time
Generally respond well to antibiotic therapy
Some vaccines available
Upper vs. lower respiratory tract
TB Sanatorium ANS✔✔ -established during 1800s to treat tuberculosis
patients
Pertussis (whooping cough) ANS✔✔ -URTI
-highly infectious and potentially lethal infectious disease caused by the
Gram - coccobacillus-shaped bacterium known as Bordetella pertussis
-threat to infants and children younger than 4 years of age
, Solution 2024/2025
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-children are primary reservoir
-spreads by talking, coughing, sneezing, and laughing
-bind to epithelial cells that line the URTI and secret exotoxins that cause
damage to the cilia lining causing airways to swell
-buildup of mucus, paroxysms, persistent cough
-between 1940-1945 rampant
Acellular (aP) ANS✔✔ - in 1991, pertussis component consisting of
B.pertussis was modified to the use of killed bacterial cells to minimize side
effects
DTaP (diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis) ANS✔✔ - aP is usually used in
conjunction with this vaccine
Amish Community ANS✔✔ - pertussis outbreak in Kent County, Delaware
between September 2004 and February 2005
- 345 cases primarily preschool-aged children
Streptococcal Infections ANS✔✔ - are large group of Gram + cocci arranged
in long chains of bacteria
- Streptococcus pyogenes
- infections range from generally mild to variety of life-threatening
conditions
- bacteria inside the nose and throat are transmitted by respiratory droplets
from infected persons or by contact with wounds and sores on the skin
Strep throat ANS✔✔ - streptococcal pharyngitis or tonsillitis
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