DIAGNOSIS

Tuberculosis

OTHER NAME

CAUSATIVE AGENT
Mycobacterium tuberculi

LABORATORY PROCEDURES
PPD test Chest Xray Direct Sputum Smear Microscopy

PATHOGNOMONIC SIGN(S)
Cough of 2 weeks or more Fever (usually PM) Chest or back pain Hemoptysis Significant weight loss SOB, sweating, fatigue, malaise Change in skin color reddish or white Loss of sensation on the skin lesion Diarrhea Bloody stools Enlargement of abdomen Spleenomegaly Anemia Inflamed liver Lymphadenitis Lymphangitis Elephantiasis Lymphedema

TREATMENT
MDT/FDC: RIPES or HRZES

Leprosy

Mycobacterium leprae

Slit Skin Smear Test Leprim Test

(R-DDS) or (R-DDS-C)

Schistosomiasis

Bilhariasis or snail fever

Schistosoma: Japonicum Masoni Haematobium Oncomelanaia quadrasi Nematodes: Wuchereria bancrofti Brugia malayi Brugia timori Aedes poecilius (night) Plasmodium: Falciparum Vivax Ovale Malariae Female Anopheles Dengue Virus: 1 2 3

Filariasis

Human Lymphatic Filariasis

Nocturnal Blood Examination Immunochromatographic Test

Praziquantel (all) Oxamniquine (S.M) Metrifonate (S.H.)

Diethylcarbamazine Citrate or Hetrazan

Malaria

Microscopic Method

Recurrent chills Anemia Profuse sweating Anemia

Chloroquine Sulfadoxine Pyrimethamine Quinine Tetracycline Quinidine Self-limiting

Dengue

Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever

Tourniquet Test (Rumpel High grade fever Leads Test) Bleeding signs

 4 Chikungunya virus Aedes aegypti Filterable virus of measles

Measles

Rubeola

Chicken Pox Mumps

Varicella Epidemic Parotitis

Human (alpha) herpes virus 3 (varicella-zoster virus) Mumps virus (Paramyxomviridae)

Diptheria

Pertussis

Whooping Cough

Tetanus Neonatorum Influenza Flu

Corynebacterium diphtheria (Klebs-Loeffler bacillus) Haemophilus pertussis or Bordet Gengou Bacillus or Bordetella pertussis or pertussis bacillus Clostridium tetani Influenza virus: A B C Pneumoccocus: Diploccocus pneumonia Pneumoccocus of Friedlander Vibrio El Tor Chest percussion DULL Chest Xray

Coryza Koplik spots Mobilliform rashes Slight fever Macula-papular vesicles Painful swelling in front of ear, angle of jaws and down the neck Fever Loss of appetite Malaise Orchitis (in some boys) Pseudomembrane

Whooping cough

Pneumonia

Cholera

El Tor

Stool exam

Muscular contractions (tetani) Abrupt onset of fever Chills Back and limb pains Coryza Sore throat Cough Chest indrawing Rusty sputum Productive cough Fast respiration High fever Profuse, colorless diarrhea Vomiting

Antibiotics: Amoxicillin Erythromycin Azithromycin Oresol

Typhoid fever Dysentery Shigellosis Bacillary Dysentery

Soil Transmitted Helminthiases

Salmonella typhosa Typhoid bacillus Shflesneri Shboy-dii Sn-connei Sh-dysenterae Ascaris lumbricoides Trichuris trichiuria Hookworm Ancylostoma duodenale Necator americanus Paragonimus: Westermani Siamenses

Stool exam Stool exam

Severe dehydration Systemic infection Bloody and mucoid stool

Antibiotics

Stool exam

Paragonimiasis

Sputum examination eggs in brown spots Lumbar puncture eosinophilia in CSF (cerebral type)

Anemia Malnutrition Stunted growth (height and body size) Decreased physical activity Impaired mental development and school performance Cough of long duration Praziquantel (Biltrizide) Hemoptysis Bithionol Chest or back pain Jaundice with pruritus and urticaria Bilirubinemia with claycolored stools Influenza Lymphadenopathy Numbness of face (mouth) Tingling sensation -> paresthesia -> paralysis Ataxia Dysphagia Fever Headache Myalgia

Hepatitis A

Infectious Hepatitis Epidemic Hepatitis Catarrhal jaundice

Hepatitis A virus

Self-limiting

Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning

Red Tide Poisoning

Dinoflagellates (plankton) Pyromidium bahamense var compressum CBC Lumbar puncture Urine test

Induce vomiting Pure coconut milk Sodium bicarbonate solution Penicillin and other related B-lactam antibiotics Tetracycline Erythromycin

Leptospirosis

Wells disease Mud fever Trench fever Flood fever Spiroketal jaundice Japanese Seven Days fever

Leptospira interrogans

Rabies

Hydrophobia Lyssa

Rhabdovirus: Rabies virus

Scabies

Sarcoptes scabiei

Microscopic examination

Sense of apprehension Sensory change near site of animal bite Spasms of muscles or deglutition on attempts to swallow Paralysis Delirium Convulsions Itching Secondary dermatitis

Antibiotics Anti-tetanus immunization

Benzyl benzoate emulsion (Burroughs, Welcome) Kwell ointment

Anthrax

Malignant pustule Malignant edemia Woolsorter disease Ragpicker disease

Bacillus anthracis