Why is mononucleosis a disease primarily of college-age Americans?

Q: What is Trypanosomiasis?

A: The disease is a condition or illness or sickness of the living animal or plant body or of one of…

Q: What causes Bakanae disease?

A: Fungi are known to cause diseases in plants, animals, and humans. Pathogenic fungi damage plants and…

Q: Can a person with the PKU disease also have AKU?

A: Gene is the unit of heredity that is transferred from a parent to offsprings. Mutation in a single…

Q: In the United States, where is Lyme disease most prevalent?

A: Introduction  Lyme disease is commonly caused by bacterium Borrelia. It is an infectious disease…

Q: Why is Lyme disease considered a re-emerging disease?

A: INTRODUCTION Lyme disease is an infectious disease caused by Borrelia bacteria, which are spread by…

Q: Most U.S cases of tularemia occur in the late spring and summer months, and a few cases occur in…

A: Tularemia is a zoonotic infection brought about by the gram-negative coccobacillus Francisella…

Q: A child is diagnosed with rubella. Another child is diagnosed with rubeola. What are the differences…

A: Vaccination helps to prevent the transmission of communicable disease and reduces the incidence of…

Q: What is ancylostomiasis?

A: Hookworms are blood-feeding, intestinal, and parasitic worms. It causes various kinds of infection.…

Q: How can we prevent sepsis?

A: Sepsis is a potentially life-threatening condition caused by the body's response to an infection.…

Q: What does Neisseria gonorrhoeae do to the body?

A: N. gonorrhoeae and N. meningitides are the two significant pathogens of the genus Neisseria. N.…

Q: What is Salmonella typhi?

A: Organisms are earlier classified into two main categories known as prokaryotes and eukaryotes.…

Q: What is Herpes Zoster and what disease does it cause?

A: The viruses that belong to the family of herpesviridae are referred to as herpesviruses. They…

Q: What are the most characteristic symptoms of diphtheria and why was this disease so deadly prior to…

A: Corynebacterium diphtheria, a bacterium is the causative organism of the deadly disease diphtheria.…

Q: Is leishmaniasis a virus or bacteria?

A: The disease is a condition or illness or sickness of the living animal or plant body or of one of…

Q: Why are there so many deaths from influenza when it is generally a mild disease?

A: Influenza or more commonly known as flu is caused mostly by the Influenza A virus. The symptoms of…

Q: Why Leishmaniasis is called black fever?

A: kala azar [hindi: black + illness] is illness caused by the infection of a parasite called…

Q: How can one tell that acne involves an infection?

A: Microbe or microorganism is a microscopic organism. Microorganisms are divided into six main types,…

Q: How is Bordetella pertussis spread?

A: Pertussis is also referred to as whooping cough, which is caused by bacteria, Bordetella pertussis.…

Wound infections

A wound is damaged or breaks in the surface of the skin. The wound is divided into two types, they are acute wound that includes minor cuts, laceration, bites, etc, and chronic wounds that can become slow to heal including ulcers on the legs and feet. Redness, pain, and swelling are signs of a wound.