VRSA/VISA
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Vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
Vancomycin intermediate saph aureus
First noted in 2002
Emerging healthcare threat
As of October 2010, all isolates susceptible to other FDA-approved drugs
,Campylobacter jejuni
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Motile gram-negative curved rod with polar flagella
Causes infectious diarrhea with abdominal pain and fever
Found in poultry, beef, and pork
Can cause bloody stool
Responsible for 40% of Guillain-Barré cases
Measles
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High fever
3 C's: Cough, Coryza, Conjunctivitis
Descending rash
Koplik spots in mouth
Complications: pneumonia, encephalitis, deafness, intellectual disability
Pulmonary tuberculosis (TB)
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, Disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis in lungs
S/sx: formation of tubercles, inflammation, and necrotizing caseous lesions
(caseous necrosis)
Active form = infectious; in other parts of body (kidney or spine) = usually
not infectious
Airborne precautions
Pertussis (whooping cough)
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Airborne bacterial infection
Affects mostly children younger than 6
S/sx: fever, "whoop" sound on inspiration after a coughing attack
Highly contagious through droplet
Droplet precautions until 5 days of ABX therapy
VRE (vancomycin-resistant enterococcus)
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Strain of bacterium enterococcus resistant to vancomycin
Infections occur when bacteria enter bloodstream, urinary tract, or surgical
wounds
Cholera
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Vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
Vancomycin intermediate saph aureus
First noted in 2002
Emerging healthcare threat
As of October 2010, all isolates susceptible to other FDA-approved drugs
,Campylobacter jejuni
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Motile gram-negative curved rod with polar flagella
Causes infectious diarrhea with abdominal pain and fever
Found in poultry, beef, and pork
Can cause bloody stool
Responsible for 40% of Guillain-Barré cases
Measles
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High fever
3 C's: Cough, Coryza, Conjunctivitis
Descending rash
Koplik spots in mouth
Complications: pneumonia, encephalitis, deafness, intellectual disability
Pulmonary tuberculosis (TB)
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, Disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis in lungs
S/sx: formation of tubercles, inflammation, and necrotizing caseous lesions
(caseous necrosis)
Active form = infectious; in other parts of body (kidney or spine) = usually
not infectious
Airborne precautions
Pertussis (whooping cough)
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Airborne bacterial infection
Affects mostly children younger than 6
S/sx: fever, "whoop" sound on inspiration after a coughing attack
Highly contagious through droplet
Droplet precautions until 5 days of ABX therapy
VRE (vancomycin-resistant enterococcus)
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Strain of bacterium enterococcus resistant to vancomycin
Infections occur when bacteria enter bloodstream, urinary tract, or surgical
wounds
Cholera
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