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Communicable Diseases: Chicken Pox (Varicella) Cholera (El Tor) Diptheria Gonorrhea (Drips) Meningitis Measles (Rubeola)

This document lists various communicable diseases and their pathognomonic, or distinctive, signs. It provides information on 18 diseases including chicken pox, cholera, diphtheria, gonorrhea, meningitis, measles, German measles, pertussis, tetanus, filariasis, tuberculosis, typhoid fever, syphilis, leprosy, dengue fever, gonorrhea, leptospirosis, mumps, pneumonia, rabies, and malaria. For each disease, it identifies the pathognomonic sign that is distinctive for diagnosis of that illness.

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Communicable Diseases: Chicken Pox (Varicella) Cholera (El Tor) Diptheria Gonorrhea (Drips) Meningitis Measles (Rubeola)

This document lists various communicable diseases and their pathognomonic, or distinctive, signs. It provides information on 18 diseases including chicken pox, cholera, diphtheria, gonorrhea, meningitis, measles, German measles, pertussis, tetanus, filariasis, tuberculosis, typhoid fever, syphilis, leprosy, dengue fever, gonorrhea, leptospirosis, mumps, pneumonia, rabies, and malaria. For each disease, it identifies the pathognomonic sign that is distinctive for diagnosis of that illness.

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COMMUNICABLE

DISEASES
MAM MG
Disease / Pathognomonic
iLLness Sign
Chicken pox Maculo-papular
(Varicella) rash
Cholera (El Rice watery
tor) stools
Diptheria Pseudomembran
e
Gonorrhea Dysuria, Genital
(Drips) discharge
Meningitis Kernig’s &
Brudzinki’s sign
Measles Koplick’s Spot’s
(RubeoLa) (small whitish macules on soft
palate)
German Forscheimer’s
Measles spots (small red macules
(RubeLLa) on soft palate)
Pertussis Paroxysmal cough
(Whooping ending with a
cough) whoop
Tetanus Risus sardonicus
(lock jaw / trismus)
Filariasis Elephantiasis
PTB Hemoptysis
(Koch’s
disease)
Typhoid Rose spot’s
fever
(Enteric
fever)
Syphilis Painless Chancre
on mouth, genital
or anus
Leprosy Early sign: ulcers don’t
heal
(Hansen’s
Late sign: Madarosis/
d’se) Lagopthalmos
Dengue Fever Herman’s sign:
Petechial spots
Gonorrhea thick purulent
discharge
Leptospirosi Orange eyes
s
Meningitis K ernig’s
sign
N ucchal
rigidity
O
pistothonus
B rudzinki’s
sign
Mump Swollen parotid
glands
Pneumonia Greenish-Rusty
sputum
Rabies Hydrophobia
Malaria Fever and chills

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