The Nurse’s Role In Preventing Nosocomial Infections
The hospital is known as the place where patients seek refuge in times of sickness. Patients seek the help of healthcare professionals in the hopes of recovering from diseases and...
Category: Communicable Diseases
Getting to Know MERS-CoV
What’s Hot: MERS-CoV Lydia is panicking. She was trying to relax by watching late-night news after a long day at work. However, instead of relaxing her, the news somewhat gave...
CDC’s Safety Guidelines for Outpatient Settings 2011
Due to the huge increase of outpatient clinics, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has released a guide and checklist specifically for healthcare providers in outpatient care settings...
Hepatitis D – Delta Hepatitis
Hepatitis D is a defective RNA that appears to replicate only with the hepatitis B virus. It requires HbsAg to replicate. It occurs along with Hepatitis B or may superinfect...
Hepatitis C
Hepatitis C (HCV) was formerly called non-A, non-B hepatitis and is an RNA virus. It is not related to any virus that cause hepatitis. Usual mode of transmission is through...
Staphylococcal Food Poisoning
Staphylococcal food poisoning is caused by staphylococcal enterotoxin produced by some strains of Staphylococcal aureus, a gram positive bacteria.It can cause a wide variety of diseases such as bacteremia, pneumonia,...
Erythema Infectiosum (Fifth Disease)
Definition Erythema infectiosum or the “Fifth Disease” is an infectious disorder that affects children aging 2-12 years of age. The term “fifth disease” was based on the classification system for...
Chlamydial Infection
Is a common sexual transmitted disease that occurs in women and men, particularly in adolescents and young adults. Women are asymptomatic or present with cervicitis. Men are commonly asymptomatic but...
What is Scabies
A communicable disease of the skin caused by Sarcopte Scabiei and characterized by the eruptive lesions produced from the burrowing of the parasite into the skin. Etiologic Agent The mite...
Anthrax
Is a serious infection caused by the gram-positive, spore-forming bacteria, Bacillus anthracis. In industrialized nations, infection in human was all but nonexistent until the threat of bioterrorism became apparent in...
