Provide the following information on poliomyelitis: etiology, method of transmission, symptoms, prevention. Why aren’t the Salk and Sabin vaccines considered treatments for poliomyelitis?

Identify the diseases based on the symptoms in the following chart.

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What complications can occur from HSV-1 infections?

A patient exhibits inflammatory skin lesions that itch intensely. Microscopic examination of skin scrapings reveals an eight-legged arthropod. What is your diagnosis? How is the disease treated? What would you conclude if you saw a six-legged arthropod?

Use the following information to answer questions 1 and 2. A 6-year old girl was taken to the physician for evaluation of a slowly growing bump on the back of her head. The bump was a raised, scaling lesion 4 cm in diameter. A fungal culture of material from the lesion was positive for a fungus with numerous conidia.

The girl’s disease was

a. rubella.

b. candidiasis.

c. dermatomycosis.

d. a cold sore.

e. none of the above

Which of the following does not have an animal reservoir or vector?

a. listeriosis

b. cryptococcosis

c. amebic meningoencephalitis

d. rabies

e. African trypanosomiasis

Compare and contrast epidemic typhus, endemic murine typhus, and tickborne typhus.

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