DAILY G.K DOSE 28 june 2016

Some Human Diseases Caused by Viruses and Bacteria

Disease	Pathogen	Prevention /Vaccine
Chickenpox (Varicella)	Herpes zoster virus
Smallpox	Variola virus	Smallpox vaccine
Salmonellosis	Salmonella enteritidis	RASV vaccine
Pneumonia	Diplococcus pneumonia	PCV-13
Gonorrhea	Neisseria gonorrhoeae	Avoid prostitution
Plague	Pasteurella pestis	Killing of rats and rat fleas, plague vaccine
Typhoid	Salmonella typhi	TAB vaccine  and screening of food and water
Tetanus (Lock jaw)	Clostridium tetani	ATS and DPT vaccines
Leprosy	Mycobacterium leprae
Cholera	Vibrio cholera	Sanitation, boiling of water and cholera vaccine,  ICRL vaccine isolation
Diphtheria	C diptheriae	DPT vaccine
Tuberculosis	M tuberculosis	BCG vaccine
Rabies (Hydrophobia)	Rabies virus	Immunization of dogs
Mumps	Mumps virus	Mumps-vaccine, isolation
Measles (Rubella disease)	Rubella virus	Edomonston B-vaccine
Poliomyelitis	Polio virus	Salk vaccine and Oral Polio vaccine (OPV)

Human Diseases Caused by Fungi

Disease	Fungus
Aspergillosis	Aspergillus flavus, A fumigates, A niger
Blastomycosis	Blastomyces dermatitidis
Candidiasis	Candida albicans
Chromomycosis	Cladosporium corrionii
Coccidiomycosis	Coccidiodes immitis
Cryptococcosis	Lipomyces neoformans
Geotrichosis	Geotrichum candidum
Histoplasmosis	Histoplasma capsulatum
Neuritis	Mucor pusillus
Onychomycosis	Trichophyton purpureum

Important Vaccines Discoverer

Vaccine	Discovered By
Small pox	Edward Jenner (1786)
Cholera	Louis Pasteur (1880)
Diphtheria and Tetanus	Emil Adolf Von Behring and Shibasaburo Kitasato
Tuberculosis	Leon Calmette and Camille Guerin (1992)
Polio	Jonas E Salk (1954)
Oral polio	Albert Bruce Sabin (1995)
Measles	John F Enders (1960)
Rabies	Charles Nicolle (1909)

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