Communicable Disease illnesses that can be passed from one person to another caused by GERMS, resulting to infection Germs

that cause diseases: BACTERIA tiny, one-celled organisms that grow anywhere o resident bacteria  Intestine bacteria VIRUSES - infectious agents that replicate only inside the living cells of an organism - most common cause of communicable diseases RICKETTSIAS - Kind of bacteria present as cocci, rods or thread-like - cannot live in artificial nutrient environments - grow in tissue or embryo cultures FUNGI (mushrooms, yeast) - simple life forms that cannot make their own food - live in hair, nails and skin PROTOZOA - simple, animal-like organisms - some protozoa are human parasites - cause disease such as malaria Common Communicable Diseases Colds (viral upper respiratory tract infection) - a self-limited contagious illness - spread by direct contact or by inhaling the airborne virus o rhinovirus  most implicated virus Pneumonia lung infection that caused by different types of microorganisms diagnosed using chest X-ray can be treated with antibiotics o pleural effusion  a fluid collection around the inflamed lung

Influenza/Flu caused by influenza viruses, that affects birds and mammals Mononucleosis unusual proliferation of lymphocytes in the blood due to an infection with the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) Hepatitis inflammation of the liver caused by alcohol or drug use o 2 main types  Hepatitis A y acute infectious disease of the liver y caused by the hepatitis A virus (HAV), RNA virus  Hepatitis B y spreads through blood, semen, vaginal fluids, and other body fluids Malaria mosquito-borne infectious disease of humans caused by eukaryotic protists of the genus Plasmodium Cholera infection of the small intestine that is caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholera AIDS (Acquired immune deficiency syndrome) disease of the human immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) progressively reduces the effectiveness of the immune system leaves individuals susceptible to opportunistic infections and tumors o post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP)  antiretroviral treatment