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Create a table of the following Nervous System and Eye Diseases  :

1) Primary Amebic Meningoencephalopathy

2) Variant Creutzfeldt - Jakob disease

3) Trachoma

4) Cryptococcal meningitis

5) African sleeping sickness

6) Leprosy

7) Encephalitis

8) Rabies

9) Tetanus

10) Poliomyelitis

11) Botulism

Create columns as shown below:

Name of Disease Causative Agent(s) Common Mode of Transmission Pathogenesis and Virulence factors Epidemiology Prevention and Treatment

Explanation / Answer

protein CT135

and plasmid

Africa, Asia, Central and South America, Australia

Tsetse fly

Leprosy

vaccination

medication non-steroidal antiinfammatory, analgesics

Name of the disease Causative agent mode of transmission pathogenesis and virulence factors Epidemiology Prevention and Treatment 1 PAM Naegleria fowleri from water through nasal opening trophozoits Australia, U.S miltefosine for treatment of free-living ameba infections 2 Jakob disease prions infectious proteins misforlding of prions few cases reported in US each year there is no treatment 3 Trachoma Chlamydia trachomatis by direct or indirect contact with infected person

protein CT135

and plasmid

Africa, Asia, Central and South America, Australia

use of azithromycin 4 Cryptococcal meningitis Cryptococcus neoformans and C. gatti, fungi person to person polysaccharide capsule; shed products of the organism; melanin production; mannitol secretion; superoxide dismutase worldwide antifungal drugs 5 African sleeping sickness Trypanosoma brucei spread by

Tsetse fly

various surface proteins east africa eflornithine is drug 6

Leprosy

Mycobacterium laprae person to person by nasal secretions directly affect dendritic cells 138 countries worldwide WHO developed multidrug therapy 7 Encephalitis mainly viral hepes simples virus inflamation western countries depending upon the causative agent, drugs are available 8 Rabies Rabies virus in the saliva of infected animals biting G protein, glycoprotein, asian and african countries immunisation or vaccination 9 tetanus Clostridium tetani Clostridium tetani spores are deposited in a wound neurotoxin interferes with nerves that control muscle movement worldwide tetanus immunoglobulin (TIG) 10 Poliomyelitis polio virus contanct with infected person immunoglobulin like binding proteins world wide

vaccination

medication non-steroidal antiinfammatory, analgesics

11 Botulism Clostridium botulinum touching infected botulinum toxin world wide hospitalisation/ use of antibiotics