OUR LADY OF FATIMA UNIVERSITY

COMMUNICBLE DISEASE NURSING

PILAPIL, ARLENE MAE B.
DISEASE ANOTHER ETIOLOGIC AGENT IP MOT MANIFESTATIONS PATHOGNOMONIC DIAGNOSTICS TREATMENT/
NAME SIGN MANAGEMENT
AMOEBIASIS AMOEBIC ENTAMOEBA 3-4 1.FECAL-ORAL ACUTE: “ANCHOVY-SAUCE” STOOL EXAM 1.METRONIDAZOLE
DYSENTERY HYSTOLYTICA WEEKS 2.DIRECT 11.DIARRHEA WITH SUPTUM (HEPATIC BLOOD EXAM 2.TETRACYCLINE
CONTACT PERIODS OF TYPE) PROCTOSCOPY 3.AMPICILLIN
2.SEXUAL CONSTIPATION SIGMOIDOSCOPY 4.STREPTOMYCIN
CONTACT ACCOMPANIED BY 5.CHLORAMPHENICOL
3.UNCOOKED TENESMUS 6.FLUID&E
LEAFY VEGE 2.FOUL-SMELLING REPLACEMENT
4.CONTAINATED STOOLS
FOOD/DRINKS 3.TENDERNESS IN RIGHT
ILIAC REGION
CHRONIC
1.DYSENTERY SUCCEDED
BY CONSTIPATION
2.TENESMUS
ACCOMP.BY DESIRE TO
DEFACATE
3.ANOREXIA
4.SEMISOLID STOOLS
BACILLARY SHIGELLOSIS SHIGELLA 3-5 DAYS 1.INGESTION OF 1.FEVER FECALYSIS 1.AMPICILLIN
DYSENTERY BLOODY FLUX FLEXNERI CONTAMINATED 2.TENESMUS,HEADACHE ISOLATION OF THE 2.TETRACYCLINE
(COMMON IN THE FOOD,WATER OR 3.COLICKY/CRAMPING CAUSATIVE ORGANISM 3.COTRIMOXAZOLE
PHIL) MILK ABDOMINAL PAIN PERIPHERAL BLOOD 4.IV-NORMAL SALINE
2.TRANSMITTED 4.DIARRHEA WITH EXAM WITH ELECTROLYTES
SHIGELLE BY FLIES BLOODY-MUCOID BLOOD CULTURE 3.LOW RESIDUE DIET
DYSENTERY 3.FECAL-ORAL STOOLS SHEETS OF 4.ANTI DIARHEAL
-MOST 5.RAPID DHN POLYMORPHONEUCLEA DRUGS-CONTRA
INFECTIOUS R LEUKOCYTES
-GRAM (-)
BOTULISM CLOSTRIDIUM 1.INGESTION OF 1.FLACCID PARALYSIS 1.SUPPORTIVE
BOTULISM INADEQUATELY 2.GENERALIZED 2.FOODBORNE- EMETICS
COOKED WEAKNESS AND GASTRIC LAVAGE
CONTAMINATED CLASSIC: 3.WOUND BOTULISM-
FOOD -DOUBLE VISION, EXPLORATION AND
(FOODBORNE) DROOPING EYELIDS DEBRIDEMENT OF THE
2.WOUND -SLURRED SPEECH SITE
BOTULISM -(INFANTS)
3.INFANT LETHARGIC,FEED
BOTULISM POORLY, CONSTIPATED
-WEAK CRY AND POOR
MUSCLE TONE
-(FOODBORNE) SX:18-36
HOURS AFTER EATING
CONTAMINATED FOOD
-PARALYTIC ILEUS WITH
SEVERE CONSTIPATION
 OUR LADY OF FATIMA UNIVERSITY
COMMUNICBLE DISEASE NURSING
PILAPIL, ARLENE MAE B.

CANDIDIASIS MONILIASIS CANDIDA 1.SKIN IS SCALY, VAGINAL MUCOSA- STOOL CULTURE 1.NYSTATIN-ORAL
CANDIDOSIS ALBICANS ERHTHYMATOUS AND WHITE OR YELLOW GRAM STAINING OF THE THRUSH
PAPULAR RASH DISCHARGE WITH SKIN, VAGINAL 2.CLITRIMAZOLE,
2.NAILS ARE RED AND PRURITUS AND LOCAL DISCHARGE OR FLUCONAZOLE,
SWOLLEN; OCCASIONAL EXCORIATION; WHITE SCRAPINGS KETOCONAZOLE
PURULENT DISCHARGE OR GRAY RAISED
3.THRUSH PATCHES ON VAGINAL
WALLS WITH LOCAL
INFLAMM.
CHANCROID SOFT CHANCRE HAEMOPHILUS 3-5 DAYS SEXUAL 1.SMALL LESIONS GRAM STAIN/ULCER 1.AZITHROMYCIN
(PAINFUL) SOFT SORE DISCREYI CONTACT APPEAR AT THE GROIN EXUDATE 2.ERYTHROMYCIN
SULCUS MOLE (GRAM -) OR INNER THIGH BIOPSY 3.CEFTRAXONE
M-PENIS DARKFILED EXAM/
F-VULVA, VAGINA, SEROLOGIC TEST
CERVIX
2.MAY ERUPT ON THE
LIPS, TONGUE, BREAST,
NAVEL
3.PAPULE RAPIDLY
ULCERATES, BECOMING
PAINFUL, SOFT AND
MALODOROUS; BLEED
EASILY AND PRODUCE
PUS
4.INGUINAL ADENITIS
5.HEALING STAGE-
PHIMOSIS
CHICKENPOX VARICELLA HERPESVIRUS 10-21 DAYS 1.DIRECT 1.MILD FEVER AND “CELESTIAL MAP” COMPLEMENT 1.ACYCLOVIR
VARICELLAE CONTACT MALAISE FIXATION TEST 2. ORAL ANTIHISTAMINE
2.INDIRECT ELECTRON 3.CALAMINE LOTION
CONTACT- MICROSCOPIC EXAM OF 4.SALICYLATES
LINENS AND ERUPTIVE VESICULAR FLUID 5.ANTIPYRETICS
FOMITES -RASH STARTS ON THE
3.AIRBORNE TRUNK
-RED PAPULES THAT
BECOMES MILKY AND
PUS LIKE WITHIN 14
DAYS
-VESICULAR LESION ARE
VERY PRURITIC
STAGES:
MACULE
PAPULE
VESICLE
PUSTULES
 OUR LADY OF FATIMA UNIVERSITY
COMMUNICBLE DISEASE NURSING
PILAPIL, ARLENE MAE B.
CRUST

CHOLERA EL TOR VIBRIO CHOLERAE 1-3 DAYS 1.ORAL ROUTE 1.ACUTE, PROFUSE, “WASHERWOMANS RECTAL SWAB 1.IV: RAPID INFUSION OF
VIBRIO COMA FROM WATERY DIARRHEA HANDS” DARKFIELD/ PHASE ALKALINE SALINE
CONTAMINATED WITHOUT TENESMUS MICROSCOPY 2.ORAL THERAPY
WATER, MILK 2.VOMITTING “RICE WATER-LIKE” STOOL EXAM -ORESOL
AND OTHER 3.POOR TISSUE TURGOR STOOLS -HYDRITES
FOODS AND SUNKEN EYES -MONITOR I&O
3.SKIN IS COLD 2. ANTIBIOTICS
4. IMPERCETPIBLE -TETRACYCLINE
RADIAL PULSES; -FURAZOLIDONE
UNOBTAINABLE BP -CHLORAMPHENICOL
5.APHONIA -COTRIMOXAZOLE
6.RR: RAPID AND DEEP

DENGUE FEVER BREAKBONE ARBOVIRUSES 7-10 DAYS 1.BITE OF DENGUE FEVER HERMAN’S SIGN 1.TOURNEQUET TEST- NO EFFECTIVE ANTIVIRAL
FEVER FLAVIVIRUS INFECTED PRODROMAL -GENERAL FLUSHING SCREENING TEST THERAPY
HEMORRHAGIC MOSQUITO -MALAISE and ANOREXIA OF THE SKIN 2.PLATELET COUNT- 1.ANALGESICS
FEVER (AEDES AEGYPTI- -N&V CONFIRMATORY 2.IV INFUSION
INFECTIOUS 2 HOURS AFTER -FEVER (NON 3.HEMOCONCENTRATIO 3.BT
THROMBOCYT SUNRISE AND 2 REMITTING) AND CHILLS N 4.O2 THERAPY
OPENIC HOURS BEFORE -RASH: PROMINENT ON 4.OCCULT BLOOD 5.SEDATIVES
PURPURA SUNSET) EXTREMITIES 5.HEMOGLOBIN
-STAGNANT -PETECHIAE: APPEARS DETERMINATION
WATER THE NEAR END OF THE
-LIMITED, LOW FEBRILE PERIOD
FLYING DHF
-FINE WHITE -FEVER
DOTS AT THE -HYPOVOLEMIC SHOCK
BASE OF THE -HEMORHAGIC
WINGS DIATHESIS
-HEPATOMEGALY
DIPHTHERIA CORYNEBACTERIU 2-5 DAYS 1.CONTACT ONSET: INSIDIOUS PSEUDOMEMBRANE 1.NOSE AND THROAT 1.PENCILLIN- RESPI
M DIPHTHERIAE WITH THE 1.FATIGUE ,MALAISE, SWAB DIPTHERIA
PATIENT OR SLIGHT SORE THROAT 2.VIRULENCE TEST 2.ANTITOXIN
CARRIER OR AND ELEVATED TEMP 3.SCHICK TEST 3.SKIN TESTING
ARTICLES 2.EXUDATES: GRAYISH IN 4.MOLONY TEST 4.ERYTHROMYCIN
SOILEDWITH APPEARANCE 5.LOEFFLER TEST 5.SUPPORTIVE THERAPY
DISCHARGES OF 3.SEVERE: ENTIRE NECK -SMALL, FREQUENT
INFECTED BECOMES FEEDING
PERSON SWOLLEN”BULL’S NECK” -DRINK FRIUTS RICH IN
VIT C
-ICE COLLAR
-DECREASE
PROTEIN,INCREASE
 OUR LADY OF FATIMA UNIVERSITY
COMMUNICBLE DISEASE NURSING
PILAPIL, ARLENE MAE B.
CARBS
-BED REST
-EMERGENCY
TRACHEOSTOMY
-EPI AT BED SIDE
6.ANTIBIOTICS
-RIFAMPIN
-CLINDAMYCIN
ENCEPHALITIS BRAIN FEVER ARBOVIRUS 5-15 DAYS 1.BITE OF 1.FEVER, HEADACHE, NUCHAL RIGIDITY 1.CSF ANALYSIS SYMPTOMATIC AND
MOSQUITO DIZZINESS, VOMITING, KERNIG’S SIGN 2.SEROLOGIC TEST SUPPORTIVE
-MOSQUITO APATHY BRUDZINSKI 3.ELISA -QUIET, WELL-
BECOMES 2.CHILLS, SORE THROAT, 4.POLYMERASE CHAI VENTILATED ROOM
INFECTED BY CONJUNCTIVITIS, REACTION -ORAL HYGIENE
BITING AN ARTHRALGIA, MYALGIA,
INFECTED BIRD ABDOMINAL PAIN
-INFECTION OF 3.NUCHAL RIGIDITY
MAN: END OF ATAXIA
CYCLE TREMORS
MENTAL CONFUSION
STUPOR

FILARIASIS ELEPHANTIASIS WUCHERERIA 8-16 MOS 1.PERSON TO 1.ON-AND-OFF CHILLS 1.CIRCULATING .IVERMECTIN
BANCROFTI PERSON BY HA FILARIAL ANTIGEN ALBENDAZOLE
MOSQUITO FEVER THAT LASTS BET -FINGER-PRICK BLOOD DIETHYLCARBAMAZINE
BITES 3MOS DROPLET -START AT LOW DOSES
2.SWELLING, REDNESS 2.SURGERY TO REMOVE
AND PAIN IN THE ARMS, SURPLUS TSE AND TO
LEGS OR SCROTUM DRAIN THE FLUID
AROUND THE DAMAGED
LYMPHATIC
VESSEL3.ELEVATE THE
LEGS;ELASTIC BANDAGES
3.dec-FORTIFIED SALT
4.CHEMICAL CONTROL
OF MOSQUITO
GERMAN RUBELLA RUBELLA VIRUS 14-21 DAYS 1.DIRECT PRODROMAL FORCHHEIMER’S SPOT SYMPTOMATIC
MEASLES 3-DAY MEASLES CONTACT 1.LOW GRADE FEVER
2.AIR DROPLET 2.HEADACHE
3.TRANSPLACEN 3.MALAISE
TAL 4.MILD CORYZA
TRANSMISSION 5.CONJUNCTIVITS
ERUPTIVE
1.FORCHHEIMER’S SPOT
2.TESTICULAR PAIN
GONORRHEA CLAP NEISSERIA 3-5 DAYS 1.CONTACT FEMALES FEMALES 1.CEFTRIAXONE
FLORES GONORRHOEAE WITH EXUDATES 1.BURNING SENSATION CULTURE SPECIMEN 2.DOXYCYCLINE
BLANCAS 2.TRANSPLACEN AND FREQUENT 3.AQUEOUS PROCAINE
 OUR LADY OF FATIMA UNIVERSITY
COMMUNICBLE DISEASE NURSING
PILAPIL, ARLENE MAE B.
GLEET TAL URINATION MALES PENICILLIN
3.DIRECT 2.YELLOWISH PURULENT -GRAM STAIN 4.STANDARD
CONTACT WITH VAGINAL DISCHARGE PRECAUTIONS
VAGINAL 3.PAIN ON URINATION
SECRETIONS 4.ERETHRITIS, CERVICITIS
4.SEXUAL MALES
CONTACT 1.DYSURIA WITH
5.FOMITES PURULENT DISCHARGE
2.RECTAL INFECTION
3.PROSTATITIS
4.PELVIC PAIN AND
FEVER
HERPES ZOSTER SHINGLES VARICELLA- 13-17 DAYS 1.DIRECT 1.ERYTHEMATOUS BASE GASSERIAN SKIN RASH SYMPTOMATIC
ACUTE ZOSTER VIRUS CONTACT OF THE SKIN LESION GANGLIONITIS TISSUE CULTURE ANTIVIRAL
POSTERIOR 2.INDIRECT 2.PAIN OF VARYING -5TH CRANIAL NERVE IS TECHNIQUE ANALGESICS
GANGLIONITIS CONTACT INTENSITY AFFECTED SMEAR OF VESICLE ANTI INFLAM
3.FEVER, MALAISE, FLUID
ANOREXIA RAMSEY- HUNT
4.REGIONAL LYMPH SYNDROME
NODES -CRANIAL NERVE 7

INFLUENZA LA GRIPPE RNA-CONTAINING 24-48 1.AIRBORNE 1.CHILLY SENSATION, BLOOD EXAM 1.STAY AT HOME
MYXOVIRUS HOURS 2.DIRECT HYPERPYREXIA, CORYZA SWABS 2.DRINK PLENTY OF
CONTACT COMPLEMENT FLUIDS
FIXATION TEST 3.PARACETAMOL
HEMO-
AGGLUTINATION TEST

LEPROSY HANSENS’S DSE MYCOBACTERIUM 5 ½ MOS RESPI DROPLETS NEURAL INVOLVEMENT -IDENTIFICATION OF 1.SULFONE THERAPY
HANSENOSIS LEPRAE TO 8 YRS -EARLIEST SIGN S/SX 2.MULTIPLE DRUG
INOCULATION -CLAWHAND -TISSUE THERAPHY THERAPY
THROUGH THE -TISSUE SMEAR -RIFAMPIN
SKIN BREAK -BLOOD TEST -CLOFAZIMINE
-DAPSONE
LEPTOSPIROSIS WEIL’S DSE LEPTOSPIRA 6=15 DAYS 1.INGESTION/ SEPTIC STAGE 1. BUN AND CREA 1.AETIOTROPIC DRUGS
CANICOLA INTERROGANS CONTACT WITH -FEBRILE 2.ELISA -PENICILLIN
FEVER THE SKIN OF -RESPI DISTRESS 3.LIVER FUNCTION TEST -DOXYCYCLINE
HEMORHAGIC INFECTED URINE IMMUNE STAGE 4.LEPTOSPIRA ANTIGEN- -AMPICILLIN
JAUNDICE -WITH OR WITHOUT ANTIGEN TEST -AMOXICILLIN
MUD FEVER JAUNDICE 5.LEPTOSPIRA 2.PERITONEAL DIALYSIS
SWINE HERD ORGANS AFFECTED: ANTIBODY TEST 3.F&E&BT
DSE EYES LIVER 4.DARKEN THE PATIENT’S
KIDNEYS ROOM
MUSCLES 5.CLOSE SURVEILLANCE
6.ORAL FLUID INTAKE
MALARIA AGUE 1.PLASMODIUM 12DAYS- 1.BITE OF AN 1.PAROXYMS WITH DARK RED URINE 1.MALARIAL SMEAR- 1.ANTI MALARIAL
FALCIPARUM FALCIPARU INFECTED SHAKING FEVER FILM OF BLOOD IS -ARTEMETER-
 OUR LADY OF FATIMA UNIVERSITY
COMMUNICBLE DISEASE NURSING
PILAPIL, ARLENE MAE B.
(FATAL) M FEMALE 2.REMITENT FEVER PLACED ON A SLIDE, LUMEFANTINE DRUG
2.P.VIVAX 14DAYS- ANOPHELES 3.PROFUSING SWEAT STAINED AND (BETTER TX FOR
(BENIGN) VIVAX AND MOSQUITO 4.MYALGIA EXAMINED MALARIA)
3.P. MALARIAE OVALE 2.PARENTERALLY 5.SPLEENOMEGALY MICROSCOPICALLY -CHLOROQUINE
(QUARTAN) 30DAYS- (BT) 6. ORTHOSTATIC -QUININE
MALARIAE 3.CONTAMINATE HYPOTENSION 2.RAPID DIAGNOSTIC -SULFADOXINE
D NEEDLES- TEST- CAN BE (FALCIPARUM)
RARE CONDUCTED OUTSIDE -PRIMAQUINE (VIVAX&
THE LAB AND IN THE OVALE)
FIELD. GIVES RESULTS 2.ERYTHROCYTE
WITHIN 10 TO 15 EXCHANGE
MIN.DONE TO DETECT TRANSFUSION
MALARIAL PARASITE 3. MONITORING
ANTIGEN IN THE BLOOD -I&O
-BILIRUBIN, CREA
MEASLES RUBEOLA PARAMYXOVIRIDA 10-12-20 1.DIRECT PRE ERUPTIVE KOPLIK’S SPOTS 1.NOSE AND THROAT 1.ANTI VIRAL
MORBILLI E DAYS CONTACT WITH -CATARRHAL SYMPTOMS -MUCOSA OF THE SWAB -ISOPRINOSINE
DROPLETS -RESPIRATORY INNER CHEEK 2.UA 2.ANTIBIOTICS
2.INDIRECT- SYMPTOMS -APPEARS 2 DAYS 3.BLOOD EXAM 3.SUPPORTIVE THERAPY
FOMITES/ -ENANTHEM SIGN BEFORE THE RASH 4.COMPLEMENT 3.QUIET, WELL
ARTICLES (KOPLIKS, STIMSONS FIXATION/ VENTILATE
FRESHLY LINE) HEMOGGLUTININ TEST 4.SKIN CARE
CONTAMINATED 5.EYE CARE
WITH RESPI ERUPTIVE 6ORAL AND NASAL
SECRETIONS -MACULO PAPULAR HYGIENE
RASH(4TH DAY)
-RASH FULLY DEV (END
OF 2ND DAY)
-FEVER

CONVALESCENCE
-FADING OF THE RASH
-APPETITE RESTORATION
MENINGITIS CEREBROSPINA NEISSERIA 1-10 DAYS 1.RESPIRAORY WATERHOUSE- 1.CSF ANALYSIS 1.ANTIBIOTIC AND
L FEVER MENINGITIDES DROPLETS FRIDERRICHSEN 2.GRAM STAINING SUPPRORTIVE THERAPY
2.DIRECT SYNDROME 3.SMEAR AND BLOOD 2.ORAL ANTIBIOTICS
INVASION >COMBI OF CULTURE -AMPICILLIN
THROUGH OTITIS MININGOCOCCEMIA 4.SMEAR FROM -CEFTRAIXONE
MEDIA AND ADRENAL PETECHIAE -AMINOGLYCOSIDES
3.SKULL MEDULLARY 5.URINE CULTURE 4.DIGITALIS-
FRACTURE, HEMORRHAGE ARRYTHMIAS
PENETRATING >PETECHIAE THAT 5.MANNITOL
HEAD WOUND, BECOMES PURPURIC 6.ANTICONVULSANT/
LUMBAR AND ECHYMTIC SPOTS SEDATIVE
PUNCTURE >FATAL; OCCURS IN 7.ACETAMINOPHEN
FULMINANT TYPE 8.ASSESS NEURO SIGNS
OFTEN
 OUR LADY OF FATIMA UNIVERSITY
COMMUNICBLE DISEASE NURSING
PILAPIL, ARLENE MAE B.
MENINGEAL 9WOF:DETERIORATION
IRRITATION: 10.MONITORING
1.NUCHAL RIGIDITY -FLUID BALANCE
2.BRUDZINSKI’S SIGN 11.ASEPTIC TECH.
3.KERNIG’S SIGN
4.EXAGGERATED AND
SYMMETRICAL DTR
MUMPS INFECTIOUS PARAMYXOVIRUS 14-25 DAYS DROPLET SUDDEN HA, EARACHE, 1.COMPLIMENT 1.ANTI VIRAL
PAOTITIS LOSS OF APPETITE, FIXATION TEST 2.HOT OR COLD PACK
EPIDEMIC FEVER, SWELLING OF 2.HEMOAGGLUTINATIO 3.SINGLE OCCUPANCY
PAROTITIS PAROTID GLANDS N INHIBITION TEST ROOM
3.NEUTRALIZATION 4.USE MASK AND WAH
ORCHITIS- TEST HANDS REGULARLY
COMPLICATION 4.VIRAL CULTURE 5.ORAL CARE AND
5.SERUM AMYLASE HYGIENE
OOPHORITIS- PAIN AND DETERMINATION 6.BED REST
TENDERNESS OF THE 7.SOFT AND SEMI SOLID
ABDOMEN FOODS

MENINGOENCEPHALITIS-
COMMON
COMPLICATION
PEDICULOSIS PHTHIRIASIS PEDECULOSIS HEAD LICE
CAPITIS (HEAD -DUSTING THE SCALP 1%
LICE) MALATHION POWDER
-GAMMA BENZENE
PEDICULOSIS HEXACHLORIDE
CORPORIS (BODY SHAMPOO
LICE) BODY LICE
-DRY CLEAN/ BOIL THE
PHTHIRUS PUBIS CLOTHING
(CRAB LICE) -BODY HYGIENE
CRAB LICE
-KWELL/ GAMENE
CREAM OR LOTION
PERTUSSIS WHOOPING BORDETELLA 3-21 DAYS 1.DIRECT CATARRHAL 1.NASOPHARYNGEAL 1.SUPPORTIVE
COUGH PERTUSSIS CONTACT AND -HIGHLY CONTAGIOUS SWABS 2.ANTIBIOTIC
DROPLET -MUCOID RHINORIA, 2.SPUTUM CULTURE -AMPICILLIN
2.SOILED LINENS SNEEZING, 3.CBC -ERYTHROMYCIN
LACRIMATION, DRY 4.BORDET GENGAO 3.SMALL FREQUENT
BRONCHIAL COUGH FEEDING
-COUGH AT NIGHT 4.isolation and medical
-LASTS FOR 1-2 WEEKS asepsis
5.suction equipments
PAROXYSMAL 6.warm baths
-7TH TO 14TH DAY
-SPASMODIC COUGH
 OUR LADY OF FATIMA UNIVERSITY
COMMUNICBLE DISEASE NURSING
PILAPIL, ARLENE MAE B.
AND RECURRENT
-LOUD, CROWING
INSPIRATORY WHOOP,
CHOKING ON MUCUS
THAT CAUSES VOMITING
-COUGHING MAY
INDUCE NOSEBLEEDING
-LASTS FOR 6WKS

CONVALESCENT
-GRADUAL DECREASE IN
THE PAROXYMS OF
COUGHING
-VOMITING CESSATION
Pneumonia Streptococcus 1-3 days 1.droplet Prune Juice/ Rusty 1.Lobar pneumonia 1.gentamycin- for gram
pneumonia With infection Sputum- Lobar -malar paleness (-) and (+) bacteria
s. aureus sudden 2.indirect Pneumonia/ -flushed face 2.macrolides, nafcillin/
h. influenzae onset of Pneumococcal -dilated pupils oxacillin- streptococcus
klebsiella shaking -high grade fever 3.aminoglycosides/
pneumonia chills, Greenish To Whitish -tachypnea cephalosporins-
rapidly Sputum- Viral -low pulse klebsiella
rising fever Pneumonia -rusty colored pupils 4.pneumocystis carinii-
and 2. chest xray cotri/ pentamidine
stabbing Red, Gelatinous- 3.sputum analysis, 5.pen G- DOC
chest pains Klebsiella smear and culture 5.supportive measures
3.blood serologic exam 6.high caloric diet and
Mucoid Sputum- adequate fluid intake
Mycoplasmal 7.bronchodilators-
aminophylline
Poliomyelitis Infantile Legio debilitans 7-21 days 1.direct contact Abortive 1.ISOLATION OF THE 1.ANALGESICS
paralysis for 2.person to -doesn’t invade cns VIRUS FROM THROAT 2.MIST HEAT
Heine- medin paralytic person -ha and sore throat WASHINGS/ SWAB APPLICATION
disease cases transmission -FEVER 2.STOOL CULTURE 3.BED REST
3.flies and -VOMITING 3.CSF ANALYSIS 4.REHAB
contaminated -LOW LUMBAR PAIN 5.ENTERIC ISOLATION
water, food, 6.CHECK BP REG
utensils NON PARALYTIC 7.WATCH FOR FECAL
-SIGNS OF ABORTIVE IMPACTION
-SPASMS OF THE
MUSCLES OF THE
HAMSTRING
-PAIN IN NECK,
BACK,ARMS, LEGS,
ABDOMEN
-(+) PANDY’S TEST
MENINGEAL IRRITATION
PARALYTIC
 OUR LADY OF FATIMA UNIVERSITY
COMMUNICBLE DISEASE NURSING
PILAPIL, ARLENE MAE B.
-POSITIVE(+) HOYNE’S
SIGN
-+ PARALYSIS
-LESS TENDON REFLEXES
- + KERNIG’S AND
BRUDZINSKI
- WEAKNESS OF THE
MUSCLES
-HYPERSENSITIVITY TO
TOUCH

RABIES LYSSA RHABDOVIRUS 1WK TO 7 1.BITING OF PRODROMAL 1.VIRULENCE 1.THOROUGHLY WASH

HYDROPHOBIA ½ MOS IN INFECTIVE DOG -FEVER, ANOREXIA, ISOLATION THE WOUNDS
DOGS MALAISE, RESTLESSNESS 2.FLOURESCENT RABIES 2.CHECK PATIENT’S
-PAIN AT THE SITE ANTIBODY IMMUNIZATION
10-15 DAYS -SENSITIVE TO LIGHT, 3.PRESENCE OF NEGIR 3.GIVE TETANUS TOXOID
IN SOUND AND TEMP BODIES AND SERUM
HUMANS 4.ANTI RABIES VACCINE
EXCITEMENT/
NEUROLOGICAL
-EXCITATION AND
APPREHENSION
-DELIRIUM WITH
NUCHAL RIGIDITY
-AEROPHOBIA

TERMINAL/ PARALYTIC
-QUIET AND
UNCONSCIOUS
-LOSS OF BOWEL AND
URINARY CONTROL
-SPASMS CEASE
-TACHYCARDIA
-DEATH
RED TIDE A.TAMARENSE INITIAL: TINGLING OF 1.PATIENT IS INDUCED
A.CATANELLA THE LIPS AND TONGUE TO VOMIT
P.BREVIS -HA, DIZZINESS AND 2.CHARCOAL
NAUSEA HEMOPERFUSION-
-AGGRAVATED BY PUMPING THE ARTERIAL
ALCOHOL BLOOD THROUGH AN
CONSUMPTION ACTIVATED CHARCOAL
FILTER TO REMOVE
TOXIN
3.ALKALINE FLUIDS (NA+
HCO3)
4.ARTIFICIAL
 OUR LADY OF FATIMA UNIVERSITY
COMMUNICBLE DISEASE NURSING
PILAPIL, ARLENE MAE B.
RESPIRATION
SEVERE ACUTE SARS 7-10 DAYS 1.DIRECT 1.SUDDEN ONSET OF 1.DIET: HIGH CHON,
RESPIRATORY 2.CONTACT HIGH GRADE FEVER CHO,VIT C,D,E,A,
SYNDROME WITH 2.HA AND OVERALL MINERAL, ZINC
INFECTIOUS FEELING OF 2.CONSULTATION
RESPI DROPLETS DISCOMFORT AND
3.CASUAL AND BODYACHES
SOCIAL CONTACT 3.MILD RESPI
4.CONTAMINATI SYMPTOMS
ONS OF
INANIMATE OBJ
SCABIES SARCOPTES WITHIN 24 1.DIRECT -ITCHING AT NIGHT -DROP OF MINERAL OIL 1.PEDICULICIDE
SCABIEI HOURS OF 2.SLEEPING ON -SECONDARY LESIONS PLACED OVER THE (PERMETHRIN CREAM/
THE INITIAL AN INFESTED LIKE VESICLES, PAPULES, BURROW, FOLLOWED LINDANE LOTION)
CONTACT BED OR PUSTULES, EXCORIATION BY SUPERFICIAL 2.CROTAMITON CREAM
WEARING OF BURROWS AND SCRAPING AND FOR 5 CONSECUTIVE
INFECTED PAPULES EXAMINATION OF NIGHTS
CLOTHING -BACTERIAL EXPRESSED MATERIAL 3.NEOSPORIN
3.MAY BECOME SUPERINFECTION UNDER A LOWER- 4.EURAX AND KWELL
INFECTED/ POWER MICROSCOPE LOTION
REINFECTED 5.ANTIHISTAMINES
4.CONTACT 6.DISINFECTION OF
WITH CLOTHES
DOGS(MANGE), 7.APPLY THE CREAM AT
CATS BEDTIME

SCHISTOSOMIASI BILHARZIASIS S.JAPONICUM 2MOS 1.FECES OF -LOW GRADE FEVER SWIMMER’S ITCH 1.FECALYSIS/ DIRECT 1.PRAZIQUANTEL
S SNAIL FEVER S.MANSONI INFECTED -ABDOMINAL STOOL EXAM 2.FUADIN INJECTION
5.HAEMATOBIUM PERSON DISCOMFORT 2.KATO-KATZ
2.THROUGH SKIN -BLOODY MUCOID TECHNIQUE
PORES STOOLS 3.LIVER AND RECTAL
3. INREMEDIARY -ICTERIC AND JAUNDICE BIOPSY
HOST -PATIENT’S BELLY 4.ELISA
(ONCOMELANIA BECOMES BIG 5.CIRCUMOVAL
QUADRASI) PRECIPITIN TEST-
CONFIRMATORY
SYPHILLIS LUES VENEREAL TREPONEMA 10-90 DAYS 1.DIRECT PRIMARY SYPHILIS 1.DARK FIELD 1.EARLY SYPHILIS- PEN G
MORBUS PALLIDUM TRANSMISSION -ONE OR MORE ILLIMINATION BENZATHINE
GALLICUS 2.INDIRECT CHANCRES THAT ERUPT TEST2.FLOURESCENT 2.ORAL TETRACYCLINE/
3. IN GENITALIA, ANUS, TREPONEMAL DOXYCYCLINE-
CONGENITALLY NIPPLES, TONSILS, ANTIBODY ABSORPTION CONTRAINDICATED IN
EYELIDS TEST PREGNANT
-PAINLESS CHANCRES 3.VDRL SLIDE TEST 3.ABSTENENCE
-DISAPPEARS AFTER 3-6 4.CSF ANALYSIS
WKS
-ASSOC WITH
LYMPHADEMOPATHY
 OUR LADY OF FATIMA UNIVERSITY
COMMUNICBLE DISEASE NURSING
PILAPIL, ARLENE MAE B.
SECONDARY
-RASH CAN BE
MACULAR, PAPULAR,
PUSTULAR, NODULAR
-LESIONS: UNIFORM IN
SIZE
-ALOPECIA MAY OCCUR
-NAILS BECOME BRITTLE
AND PITTED

LATENT
-NO CLINICAL
SYMPTOMS; + IN
SEROLOGIC TEST

LATE
LATE,BENIGN
-BET 1-10 YRS AFTER
INFECTION
-TYPICAL LESION IS
GUMMA (MAY BE
FOUND IN THE BONE)

THE LATE SYPHILIS

-INVOLVES THE LIVER
TETANUS LOCKJAW CLOSTRDIUM 3 DAYS TO 1.PUNCTURED NEONATE RISUS SARDONICUS 1.ADMIN ATS,TAT,OR TIG
TETANI 3 WEEKS WOUNDS -FEEDING AND SUCKING 2.TETANUS TOXOID.5CC
CONTAMINATED DIFFICULTIES IM
TETANUS 3-30DAYS BY DUST, SOIL, -CRY EXCESSIVELY 3.PEN G
NEONATORUM OR ANIMAL -FEVER 4.ADEQUATE AITWAY
EXCRETA -STIFFED JAW 5.CARDIAC MONITORING
-TONIC/ RIGID 6.MAINTAIN IV LINE
MUSCULAR 7.WOUND CARE
CONTRACTIONS, 8.AVOID STIMULANT
SPASMS, OR
CONVULSIONS
-CYANOSIS AND PALLOR
-SEVERE:FLACCIDITY,
EXHAUSTION, DEATH

CHILDREN AND ADULT

-HYPERTONICITY,
HYPERACTIVE DTR,
TACHCARDIA, PROFUSE
SWEATING
-TRISMUS (NECK AND
 OUR LADY OF FATIMA UNIVERSITY
COMMUNICBLE DISEASE NURSING
PILAPIL, ARLENE MAE B.
FACIAL MUSCLE
RIGIDITY)
-RISUS SARDONICUS
(GRINNING EXPRESSION)
-OPISTHOTONUS

TUBERCULOSIS KOCH’S M.TUBERCULOSIS 2-10WEEKS 1.INHALATION INACTIVE TB GHON’S TUBERCLE 1.SPUTUM ANALYSIS R-ORANGE URINE
DISEASE M.AFRICANUM OF ORGANISM -SPUTUM IS NEGATIVE -PARENCHYMA OF THE ( CONFIRMATORY) I-NEURITIS AND HEPA
PHTHISIS DIRECTLY INTO AND NEGATIVE CHEST LUNGS 2.CHEST XRAY P-HYPERURICEMIA
THE LUNGS XRAY RESULT 3.TUBERCULIN TEST E-IMPAIRMENT OF THE
CONSUMPTION 2.COUGHING, -MANTOUX TEST VISION
DISEASE SNEEZING, ACTIVE -TINE TEST S-8TH CRANIAL NERVE
KISSING -POSITIVE TUBERCULINE -HEAF TEST DMAGE
3.CONTAMINATE -PROGRESSIVE CHEST
D EATING OR XRAY DRUG RESISTANT:
EATING -CAPREOMYCIN
UTENSILS -AFTERNOON RISE IN -STREPTOMYCIN
TEMP -CYCLOSPORINE
-NIGHT SWEATING -AMIKACIN
-BODY MALAISE AND -QUINOLONE
WEIGHT LOSS
-DRY AND PRODUCTIVE DOTS- DIRECTLY
COUGH OBSERVED TREATMENT
SHORT COURSE

INCREASE PROTEIN, CAL

SHORT COURSE- 6 TO 0
MOS
LONG TERM-9 TO 12
MOS

TYPHOIOD FEVER SALMONELLA 5-40 DAYS 1.FECAL ORAL ONSET 1.TYPHIDOT- 1.CHLORAMPHENICOL
TYPHOSA/ TYPHI ROUTE -HA, CHILLY SENSATION CONFIRMATORY (DOC)
2.5 F’S AND ACHING ALL OVER 2.ELISA 2.AMPICILLIN
3.INGESTION OF THE BODY 3.WIDAL TEST 3. CO-TRI
CONTAMINATED -FEVER IS HIGHER IN 4.RECTAL SWAB 4.CIPROFLIXACIN
FOOD, WATER, THE MORNING THAN
MILK AFTERNOON
-THE TONGUE FURRED,
SKIN DRY AND HOT,
DISTENDED ABDOMEN
AND TENDER
-ROSE SPOTS APPEAR ON
THE ABDOMINAL WALL
ON THE 7TH TO THE 9TH
DAY
OUR LADY OF FATIMA UNIVERSITY
COMMUNICBLE DISEASE NURSING
PILAPIL, ARLENE MAE B.
TYPHOID STATE
-TONGUE PROTRUDES,
BECOMING DRY AND
BROWN
-SORDES (TEETH AND
LIPS ACCUMULATE A
DIRTY-BROWN
COLLECTION OF DRIED
MUCOUS AND BACTERIA
-SUBSULTUS TENDINUM
(TWITCHING OF THE
TENDONS SET IN,
ESPECIALLY THOSE AT
THE WRIST
-CARPHOLOGIA (PATIENT
MUTTERS DELIRIOUSLY
AND PICKS UP
AIMLESSLY AT
BEDCLOTHES WITH HIS
FINGERS IN
CONTINUOUS FASHION