Sexually Transmitted Disease? What are the Common Sexually transmitted diseases? What are the Cause of Each Sexually Transmitted Diseases? What are the signs/symptoms and Diagnosis? What is the complications? What is the Effect of sexually transmitted disease? \ S exually transmitted infection is a broader term than sexually transmitted disease. An infection is a colonization by a parasitic species, which may not cause any adverse effects. In a disease, the infection leads
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improvements in the quality of human life as a result of the potential it has to reduce the high and sometimes unaffordable costs of treatments for a wide range of illnesses such as stroke, heart attack, diabetes, Parkinson’s Disease, spinal cord injury, and Alzheimer’s Disease. Since stem cell research is in the infant stage, there is still uncertainty regarding its potential, therefore, any estimates regarding financial impact are really just educated projections. It would not be presumptuous
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Hepatitis C (HCV) is highly prevalent within the Veteran population. HCV is a major public health concern because of the debilitating effects associated with the virus. HCV results in increased mortality and morbidity rates resulting from the acute and chronic effects of the virus. The most common transmission of HCV occurs through injection drug use, injuries resulting from needle sticks and the lack of infection control in healthcare facilities. The transmission of HCV can also occur through sexual contact
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Definition of Carrier Transmission People who Harbor the disease but don’t have symptoms. Let’s talk about Carrier Transmission. Did you know that a Blood test can determine if a person is a carrier or is in an infectious state? Hepatitis for instance is a virus and 20 -30% of carriers have evidence of chronic hepatitis. The smallest form of microorganisms that is capable of causing disease. Hepatitis can only happen within a human host it is also difficult to kill and can be mutated and change genetic
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Periodontitis Periodontitis is an inflammatory disease of the supporting tissues of the teeth initiated by specific microorganisms or groups of specific microorganisms, resulting in progressive destruction of the attachment apparatus of the teeth including periodontal ligament , cementum and alveolar bone with periodontal pocket formation “ pathological deepening of the gingival sulcus”, and recession of the gingival tissue(1) . The clinical feature that distinguishes periodontitis from gingivitis
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Validation of the dried blood spots in monitoring toxoplasmosis Toxoplasma gondii is an obligate intracellular parasite belonging to the phylum Apicomplexa and it has a vast worldwide distribution. Cats are the definitive host of T. gondii, and all other hosts in which only asexual reproduction can occur are defined as intermediate hosts. Humans are known to be infected by many routes: a) Ingestion of Toxoplasma tissue cyst or pseudocysts with raw or partly cooked meat or during hand-to-mouth contact
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and Inflammatory Bowel Disease are two disorders that affects the gastrointestinal tract. Ulcerative colitis and Crohn disease are the two well-known Inflammatory Bowel Diseases. At present, the pathophysiology of the two inflammatory bowel diseases will be discussed. “Ulcerative colitis is a chronic inflammatory disease that causes ulceration of the colonic mucosa, most commonly in the rectum and sigmoid colon” Huether & Mccance (2017). Individuals affected with this disease suffer from pain that
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to a certain disorder, but that environmental stress | | |factors must impinge in order for the potential risk to manifest itself. | |Personality Factors | A chronic, inflexible, maladaptive pattern of perceiving, thinking, and behaving that seriously| | |impairs an individual's ability to function in social or other settings.
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Tuberculosis Epidemiology and Chain of Infection Communicable diseases occurring throughout worldwide communities raise public health challenges and demand the attention of health agencies on a global scale. Disease control is a complex issue which requires intervention on the environmental and behavioral level by health agencies and caregivers including public health nurses. Providing primary, secondary, and tertiary methods of prevention are necessary in the interruption of the chain
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