Microorganisms!

By: Katelyn Brown and Shelby Hutto

- Body system affected: The nervous system - Signs and Symptoms: Severe pain, muscle weakness, skin stiffness, loss of fingers and toes, possibly vision loss, and enlarged nerves.

- Reservoirs: Highest ratio of cases in the United States. -Transmission: Respiratory and involves prolonged exposure in childhood. - Incubation: About five years.

Mycobacterium leprae
- Prevention: No particular

Leprosy

- Treatment: Vaccines such

as dapsone, rifampin, and Clofazimine.

prevention but you can choose to get examinations for leprosy every five years. - Geographical distribution: The most cases are found in South-East Asia. - Epidemiology: 250,000 cases being detected every year.

-Body systems affected: The bone marrow and lymphatic system. -Susceptibility: Inherited predisposition. - Signs/symptoms: Swollen lymph nodes, fever, night sweats, frequent infections, feeling weak or tired, bleeding or bruising easily, pain in joints and bones.

-Transmission: It cannot be
transmitted. -Vectors: Retroviral. - There is no incubation period.

Geotrichum candidum
-There are no protective/ prevention measures. - Epidemiology: About 245,000 people in the United States are affected with some form of leukemia.

Leukemia

-Treatment: chemotherapy, targeted therapy, biological therapy, radiation therapy, and stem cell transplant. - Vaccines: Dendritic cell vaccine is being devloped and are experimental.

-Body System Affected: Liver. - Symptoms: Diarrhea, abdominal pain, fever, enlarged liver, and weight loss.

-Transmission: Can be transmitted through certain foods. Mainly vegetables. - Reservoirs: Sheep, goats and cattle are considered the predominant animal reservoirs. - Incubation: 2 weeks and can live up to 20 years in their human hosts.

-Protective/ Prevention measures: For humans, do not eat raw vegetables. In livestock, limit the access of livestock to potential areas of infection. - Geographic Distribution: Fascioliasis has the widest geographic spread of any emerging vectorborne zoonotic disease and affects more than 51 countries worldwide. - Epidemiology: 2 million cases worldwide.

Fluke Fascioliasis

-Treatment: A single oral dose of triclabendazole. -Vaccines: No current vaccines available.

-Body systems affected:

Heart and nervous system. -Everyone is susceptible. -Signs/ Symptoms: Lack of energy, headache, fever, chills, swollen lymph nodes, fainting, rapid heartbeat, poor memory, pink eye, skin rashes, numbness and tingling in hands and feet, and swelling.

- Transmission: Through the bite of an infected black-legged tick. -Vectors: Hard-bodied ticks of are the main vectors. - Incubation: 7 to 14 days.

-Protection: Stay away from tick invested areas and frequently check for ticks. - Geographical distribution: Worldwide. -Epidemiology: Most common vector-borne infection in the United States. More than 12,800 cases reported.

Babesia Microti - Treatment: On Lyme Disease

Antibiotics for 2 to 4 weeks. - Vaccines: None.

-Signs/ Symptoms: severe headache, muscle pain, chills, fever, confusion, and a rash that appears first on the wrists and ankles. - Susceptibility: Everyone, but most common in children. - Body system affected: Respiratory system. -Prevention: Minimize exposure to ticks and fleas. - Geographic distribution: Worldwide. - Epidemiology: 1 Million cases annually.

-Transmission: lice, ticks, and fleas, to carry the organisms between animals and people or from one person to another. - Vectors/ Reservoirs : Dogs, ticks, cats, and mites. - Incubation: 2 to 6 weeks.

R australis Rickettsia

-Treatment: Use antibiotics. The standard treatment regimen consists of 200 mg of doxycycline daily for 314 days. - Vaccine: Typhus vaccine.

-Susceptibility: Everyone, but mostly occurs in children under the age of 10. - Signs and symptoms: fever, headache, vomiting, oral ulcer, fatigue, and loss of appetite.

-Transmission: direct contact with the mucus, saliva, or feces of an infected person. - Incubation: 3 to 6 days.

Coxsackie A
-Prevention: No particular way except having good health habits is helpful. - It occurs worldwide. Most cases are found in the summer. - Epidemiology: Southeast Asia has the most reported cases.
Hand foot and mouth disease

-Treatment: Therapy for HFM is directed toward symptomatic relief of fever and sore throat. Antibiotics are not indicated. - A vaccine is currently being experimented.