CLASSIFICATION

CAUSATIVE ORGANISM

DISEASE

PROFILES/ SYMPTOMS

TREATMENT

G+ Rods

Clostridium

spore forming

Clostridium botulinum

Clostridium pertringens

Clostridium tetani

Clostridium perfringens

BOTULISM

TETANUS

GAS

GANGRENE

hrs.-days

GIT, EYE, RESP, I

Trivial wound

10 days incubation

tetany 1° lockjaw

           2° resp. tract

swelling or traumatized

wound-H₂ and CO₂

1° tissue death ­­

adelirium

Performed Ab control

128° press cook

antitoxin

H₂ O₂ at wound

Prevent DPT series

Excision of tissue

Hyperbaric treatment

Corynebacterium

Corynebacterium diptheria

DIPTHERIA

Psuedomemb-throat

Kidney, heart fail

-antitoxin

Penicillin

Enterobacteriophage

“the enterics”

G- rods

Salmonella typhi

Salmonella paratyphi

Salmonella spp.

Shigella sonneri

Shigella dysentery

(most severe)

Yersinis pestis

Yersinia entercloitica

Typhoid fever

Paratyphoid

Fever

GASTROENTERITIS

SALMONELLOSIS

DYSENTERY

BUBONIC PLAGUE

Point source outbreak

FW-like symptoms

Pyers patches (imm syst)

Diarrhea, vomit

GI, NAUSEA

DIARRHEA

ONSET 18-36hrs., self limiting

Overcrowded cond, epidemic

Severe diarrheah, Dehyd. I

Colitis

BUBOES-enlarge in lymph

Nodes

Point source contamination

GI headache, self limiting

Ampicillin

Chlorodamphenicol

No treatment

(­ u-mutation rate)

force fluids

Streptomycin

Tetra

Self-limiting