'Relapsing fever' presentation slideshows

Jungle Fever

Jungle Fever. Phillip D. Levy, MD, MPH Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine Wayne State University/Detroit Receiving Hospital. Statement of Disclosure. I have no financial relationships relevant to this presentation. Purpose of This Talk.

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SALMONELLOSIS

SALMONELLOSIS (Salmonella food poisoning, enteric paratyphosis) A common bacterial cause of food-poisoning worldwide. Over 1800 food-poisoning serotypes of salmonella (bacterium) exist. RABIES (Hydrophobia, Lyssa) AGENT:

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Rickettsia

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Tips on the Management of Lyme Disease by Raj Patel, M.D. & Susan McCamish , Herbalist.

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Spirochaetes

Spirochaetes. Presentation Outline. Morphology Organisms Diseases Leptospirosis Lyme disease Syphilis Tests. Spirochete Morphology. Gram negative cell wall often too small to see by light microscopy special stains Spiral morphology distinctive tight coils Motile

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Tips on the Management of Lyme Disease by Raj Patel, M.D. & Susan McCamish , Herbalist.

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Soilborne and Arthropodborne Diseases

Soilborne and Arthropodborne Diseases. Soilborne Diseases. Arthropodborne Diseases. Plague Tularemia Lyme disease Relapsing fever Rickettsial Diseases Rocky Mountain Spotted fever Epidemic Typhus Endemic Typhus. Anthrax Tetanus Gas gangrene Leptospirosis.

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Arthropod Disease

Arthropod Disease . Surbhi Modi, MD, MPH Preventive Medicine Resident Emory University School of Medicine September 20, 2007. OBJECTIVES . Understand the role of arthropods in human disease Recognize arthropods implicated in important human diseases Describe important vector-borne diseases.

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Arthropod Disease

Arthropod Disease . Surbhi Modi, MD, MPH Preventive Medicine Resident Emory University School of Medicine September 20, 2007. OBJECTIVES . Understand the role of arthropods in human disease Recognize arthropods implicated in important human diseases Describe important vector-borne diseases.

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Spiral Organisms

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Borrelia species

Borrelia species. 1. 3-20 x 0.2-0.5 um, more irregular than treponemes 2. Can be stained in appropriate specimens (e.g. blood) using Giemsa 3. Number of axial filaments depends on species (e.g. 12 for B. recurrentis ) 4. Microaerophlic, nutritionally fastidious but grow slowly in vitro

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