Concise Common Diseases Table
Concise Common Diseases Table
Concise Common Diseases Table
Common Cold Viral Rhinoviruses – picorna Droplets from sneezes/ Within 16 hours of No vaccine
(Common URI virus & corona virus cough of infected exposure Stay away from
Obstructive Others (not important) – person Fatigue infected people and
Lung Disease) Influenza viruses Fomites Feeling chilled, places where they live
(Misnomer)/ Adenovirus sneezing, headache – Soap – Handwash –
Nasopharyngitis/ Human Parainfluenza Frequency - runny nose and With mechanical
Acute viral virus Children – 12/year cough action of hand rubbing
rhinopharyngitis/ Human respiratory Adults – 6/year Nasal congestion - drying
Acute coryza/ suncytial virus Sore throat, hoarseness Alcohol based
Rhinitis acuta Enteroviruses Conjunctivitis (pink sanitizers – very little
catarrhalis Metapneumoviruses eye) protection from URI
Muscle ache, loss of in children
appetite Anti-histamines for
Lasts upto 7-10 days or decongestion
upto 3 weeks
Ringworm/ Fungal Dermatophytes – Fungi Feed on keratin – Appearance of dry, Avoid sharing clothes,
Dermatophytosis Fungus skin, hair, nails scaly enlarged raised sports equipments,
(Name is Microsporum Fungi thrive on skin – red rings – skin, scalp, towels, sheets
misnomer, not Trichophyton warm & moist – or on nails Wash clothes in hot
caused by Epidermophyton outsides of hair shafts Onychomycosis – water with fungicidal
worms) or in their interiors Nails get discoloured, soap
Pets – In skin and on thicken and finally Avoid walking bare
surface of hair crumble and fall off foot –use protective
Athlete’s foot – footwear, in locker
Lesions on skin of rooms and sandals at
feet – intense itching the beach
Moisture and heat in
skin folds - Groin (Jock
itch) and between toes
-favour
Some more bacterial diseases – Tuberculosis (Mycobacterium tuberculosis), Dysentery (Shigella, Campylobacter), Plague/ Black death (Yersinia
pestis), Diphtheria (Corynebacterium diphtheria), Leprosy/ Hansen’s disease (Mycobacterium leprae)
Some other diseases – (other than Chp. Biological Classification, Reproductive Health) Babesiosis (Babesia microti – protozoan – tick vector),
Blastomycosis (Fungal), Dengue (Virus - Dengue, Vector- Aedes aegyptii mosquito), Chikunguniya (Virus - Chikunguniya, Vector- Aedes aegyptii
mosquito), Leishmania (protozoan, vector- sandfly), Sleeping sickness (Trypanosoma – protozoan, vector – tsetse fly), Encelphalitis/ Meningitis
(Bacterial), Trichinellosis (Trichinella spiralis/ porkworm – ovoviviparous nematode)