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    Communicable Disease Nursing Epidemiology: Parade of Diseases

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    This document discusses several communicable diseases that affect the central nervous system, including tetanus, meningitis, meningococcemia, encephalitis, rabies, and poliomyelitis. For each disease, key information is provided such as the etiologic agent, incubation period, mode of transmission, signs and symptoms, and diagnostic tests. Management strategies like prophylaxis and treatment with antibiotics are also mentioned. The document provides an overview of important epidemiological patterns like sporadic, endemic, epidemic, and pandemic outbreaks as well as herd immunity.

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    This document discusses several communicable diseases that affect the central nervous system, including tetanus, meningitis, meningococcemia, encephalitis, rabies, and poliomyelitis. For each disease, key information is provided such as the etiologic agent, incubation period, mode of transmission, signs and symptoms, and diagnostic tests. Management strategies like prophylaxis and treatment with antibiotics are also mentioned. The document provides an overview of important epidemiological patterns like sporadic, endemic, epidemic, and pandemic outbreaks as well as herd immunity.

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    This document discusses several communicable diseases that affect the central nervous system, including tetanus, meningitis, meningococcemia, encephalitis, rabies, and poliomyelitis. For each disease, key information is provided such as the etiologic agent, incubation period, mode of transmission, signs and symptoms, and diagnostic tests. Management strategies like prophylaxis and treatment with antibiotics are also mentioned. The document provides an overview of important epidemiological patterns like sporadic, endemic, epidemic, and pandemic outbreaks as well as herd immunity.

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    Communicable Disease Nursing Epidemiology: Parade of Diseases

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    This document discusses several communicable diseases that affect the central nervous system, including tetanus, meningitis, meningococcemia, encephalitis, rabies, and poliomyelitis. For each disease, key information is provided such as the etiologic agent, incubation period, mode of transmission, signs and symptoms, and diagnostic tests. Management strategies like prophylaxis and treatment with antibiotics are also mentioned. The document provides an overview of important epidemiological patterns like sporadic, endemic, epidemic, and pandemic outbreaks as well as herd immunity.

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    Communicable Disease Nursing

    Epidemiology

    Patterns

    1. Sporadic- on & off Parade of Diseases


    2. Endemic – always present but with low number
    Central Nervous System
    of susceptible/s
    3. Epidemic – outbreak Tetanus (Lockjaw)
    4. Pandemic – worldwide
    5. Herd immunity - form of indirect protection - Clostridium tetani
    from infectious disease - I.P: 30 days
    - MOT: Skin/Mucus Membrane
    - Pathogenesis: Produces tetanospasmin &
    tetanolysin
    - S/sx: Trismus, Risus sardonicus, opisthotonos,
    respiratory spasm & Paralysis
    - DX test: Spatula test; culture

    Meningitis (Cerebrospinal Fever)

    - E.a: Pulmonary pathogens; Neisseria Meningitis


    - I.P: 2-10 days
    - MOT: Droplet
    - S/SXs: Brudzinski’s sign, Kernig’s sign,
    Opisthotonos, Nuchal Rigidity

    Meningococcemia (Spotted Fever)

    - I.P: 3-4 days


    - S/sx: Spiking fever, Ecchymotic hemorrhage,
    Waterhouse – Friedrichsen syndrome
    - Dx test: Lumbar puncture, blood culture, CT
    scan

    Management:

    - P&C: Prophylaxis: Rifampicin, Sulfonamides


    - N.C: Meds – Aqueous Pen G, Broad Spectrum
    Cephalosporin, Chloramphenicol

    Encephalitis (Brain Fever)

    - E.a: Japanese Encephalitis Virus


    - I.P: 5-14 days
    - MOT/Pathogenesis

    Rabies (Hydrophobia; Lyssa; La Rage)

    - E.a: Rhabdovirus
    - I.P: Humans 2-8 weeks, Dogs 10-14 days
    - MOT: Bite of an infected Animal (Canine or
    Sylvatic)
    - Pathogenesis:

    Poliomyelitis (Heine-Medin Dse; Infantile Paralysis)

    - E.a: Legio debilitants


    o Brunhilde
    o Lansing
    o Leon
    - I.P: 7-21 days
    - MOT: Fecal-oral route
    - Affection: Spinal, bulbar, Bulbo-spinal paralysis
    - Dx Test: Lumbar Puncture – (+) Pandy’s Test
    o Stool exam
    o Electromyelography

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