Infectious Disease Tutorial
 
Introduction

Case1: Vomiting 

Case 2: Cough & fever

Case 3: Bruising 

Case 4: Sore throat

Case 5: Jaundice

Case 6: Flu & fever

Case 7: Diarrhea

Case 8: Black Robe 

Case 9: Back Pain

Catching the beast

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  • Disguise themselves
    • Intracellular pathogens
    • Shed antigens
    • Some bugs coat themselves with host proteins.

  • Capsule surrounding the bug.
    • Antibodies bind at a great distance from organism.
      • When complement goes to work, it causes no damage.
    • Capsule interferes with phagocytosis and bacterial killing.
    • In the case of TB, the cell wall elicits the destructive inflammatory response.

  • Ease of spread:
    • Survivability in droplets.
    • People to people contact.
    • Survival within a cell leading to cell borne transmission (HIV).

So how do you identify and capture the suspect ?                                               Back

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