Malaria Pathogen: _____ Symptoms: High fevers, night sweats and weakness without

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Malaria Pathogen: _____ Symptoms: High fevers, night sweats and weakness without relief. Pathogen ultimately targets red blood cells for consumption. Method of Transmission: Mosquito Kingdom: _____ Cytomegalo Pathogen: Symptoms: Sometimes remembered as the pee-pee-poo-poo disease because its prevalence in young children causing no real symptoms. In patient with suppressed immune systems we are concerned that this herpes virus can cause blindness. In the unborn child, it can cause severe brain damage. Method of Transmission: Urine._ Kingdom: _____ Thrush (Candidiasis) pathogen: _____ Symptoms: Painful tongue infection, white bumps. Patients under a lot of stress, taking antibiotics for too long, dirty baby bottles or have a suppressed immune system. Kingdom: _____ Diphtheria Pathogen: _____ Symptoms: Grey leathery infection at the back of the throat can cut off air supply by growing overnight. Used to be the No1 killer of children in USA. _____ Kingdom: _____ Shape: _____ Gram +/- _____ Pertussis (Whooping cough) Pathogen: _____ Symptoms: Prolonged, deep sounding cough lasting for weeks. Bacteria infects the ciliated cells along the trachea damaging them to maintain its infection. Kingdom: _____ Shape: _____ Gram +/- _____

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1. Malaria:

Pathogen: Plasmodium vivax

Kingdom: Protista

2. Cytomegalo:

Pathogen: Cytomegalovirus (CMV)

Kingdom: Viral (Virus) kingdom

3. Thrush (Candidiasis):

Pathogen: Candida albicans

Kingdom: Fungi

4. Diptheria:

Pathogen: Corynebacterium diphtheriae

Kingdom: Monera

Shape: Highly pleomorphic with no particular arrangement

Gram +/-: Gram + (Positive)

5. Pertussis (Whooping cough):

Pathogen: Bordetella pertussis

Kingdom: Monera

Shape: rod-shaped, coccoid, or ovoid

Gram +/-: Gram - (negative)

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