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प्रश्न
Give the symptoms of typhoid fever and draw a labelled diagram of its causal organism.
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उत्तर
- Characteristic symptom is slowly progressing fever as high as 40°C or 104° F, profuse sweating and gastroenteritis.
- Headache, general weakness is common among the patients.
- Abdominal pain with either constipation or diarrhoea.
- Leukopenia, eosinopenia and relative lymphocytosis is observed.
- Bradycardia (slow heart rate) in 1st week of infection.
- In some cases, in the 2nd week, a rash of flat, rose coloured spots called “rose spots” appear on the front of the chest.
- Ulceration of intestine, lesion of intestinal mucosa and haemorrhage, delusion and confusion are also possible in 3rd week.
Salmonella typhi
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Name the causative organism and preventive measures for Typhoid
Match the items given in Column A with the appropriate item of Column B:
| Column A | Column B |
| Degenerative diseases | Vector |
| Diabetes | Filaria |
| AIDS | Viral disease |
| Cholera | Rheumatic heart disease |
| Influenza | Bacterial disease |
| Mosquito | Insulin |
| Elephantiasis | HIV virus |
| - | Entamoeba histolytica |
Tobacco chewing causes
Pick out the odd one.
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The disease that is generally treated by the use of bcnzyl penicillin, ampicillin and chloramphenicol is ____________.
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i. Symptoms of malaria begin to appear 7 to 15 days after the bite of an infective mosquito.
ii. Initial symptoms of malaria are fever, headache and chills.
All are true for malaria, EXCEPT
Which one of the following diseases is not transmitted by mosquitoes?
Many skin diseases are caused by ______.
