Epidemiology of Communicable Diseases

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Respiratory Infections

Essays

1. COVID 19-
   • Define  with examples–
     • Epidemic
     • Endemic
     • Pandemic
   • COVID-19-
     • Epidemiology
     • Clinical Presentation
     • Control and prevention
2. 48yo/F. H/O fever, cough, with expectoration and loss of weight for past 3 months. O/E weight 45kg, anemia +, axillary lymph nodes palpable, crepitations heard on base of left side of chest. 🏡 🏡
   • Diagnosis? 🏡
   • Two important investigations to confirm the diagnosis 🏡
   • Treatment Regimen including drug dosage and duration / Chemoprophylaxis🏡 🏡
   • Epidemiology 🏡
   • How will you prevent and control the disease at the community level? 🏡 🏡
3. 27y/o daily wage labourer . Cough for 3 months. H/O fever, malaise, chills, chest tightness and headache. 🏡 🏡 🏡
   • Diagnosis?
   • Management?
   • Preventive Measures.
4. Tuberculosis-
   • Control Measures

Short Notes

1. Resurgence of Diphtheria
2. Measles/ 12-month-old child brought to OPD with C/O fever, running nose X 6 days, H/O appearance of rash on face 2 days before. O/E child is malnourished, Koplik spots present on buccal mucosa opposite to the first and second lower molars. –
   • Identify the condition
   • Clinical Signs
   • Symptoms
   • Complications
   • Prevention and Control 🏡
3. Swine Flu (H1N1) –
   • Prevention
4. DOTS Strategy in TB Treatment 🏡 🏡
5. DOTS-Plus
6. DOTS Agent
7. DOTS- Directly Observed Treatment Short Course- 🏡 🏡
   • Categories of Treatment 🏡
   • Regimen 🏡
8. Rashes in Chicken Pox
9. Syndromic Approach
10. Actions taken to reduce communicable diseases in India

Intestinal Infections

Essays

1. Hepatitis B-
   • Epidemiology
   • Prevention
   • Control
2. Polio-🏡
   • Strategies for eradiation in India🏡
   • Epidemiology in India

Short Notes

1. Vaccine Associated Paralytic Polio 🏡 🏡
2. Food Poisoning –
   • Steps of Investigation
3. Develop a plan for educating a mother to prepare and administer ORS for a child with diarrhoea
4. Management of Acute Diarrhoeal disease in a 5 year old girl in a PHC setting
5. Describe the history of poliomyelitis in India and the factors that led to the “ Polio-Free” certification of India from the WHO in 2014.
6. Hepatitis B-
   • Modes of Transmission
7. Food Poisoning-
   • Investigation
   • Prevention

Arthropod Borne Infections

Essays

1. Dengue- 🏡 🏡 🏡
   • Describe its epidemiology 🏡 🏡 🏡
   • Clinical Features
   • WHO Classification
   • Grading of severity
   • Management
   • Preventive & Control Measures during Dengue epidemic 🏡
2. Malaria:
   • Explain Management in Detail
   • Epidemiological Indicators
   • National Malaria Control Program
   • Treatment of Falciparum malaria
3. National Vector Borne Disease Control programme-
   • Objectives
   • Strategies
4. Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever-
   • Clinical diagnosis
   • Epidemiology
   • Treatment
   • Outbreak-
     • Preventive and Control Measures

Short Notes

1. Falciparum malaria-
   • Treatment
2. 20/F. C/O: Fever with retro-orbital pain.
   • Diagnosis?
   • Identify the mosquito
   • Features
   • Control and Prevention of the mosquito
3. Dengue –
   • Classification
   • Prevention and Control measures
   • Prepare an integrated vector management plan for control in an urban area
4. Integrated Vector Control 🏡
5. Integrated Vector Management 🏡 🏡 🏡🏡
6. Dengue fever-
   • Prevention
   • Management
   • Epidemiology
7. Filaria Survey
8. Current Strategies of Filaria Control
9. Anti mosquito measures
10. Urban malaria scheme

Zoonoses

Essays

1. Japanese Encephalitis-
   • Describe JE in India
   • Epidemiology
   • Clinical Features
   • Control 🏡
2. Leptospirosis-
   • Epidemiology
   • Preventive measures in an urban slum
3. Rabies- 🏡
   • Epidemiology 🏡
   • Pre-exposure prophylaxis 🏡
   • Post-exposure prophylaxis 🏡 🏡
   • Post exposure prophylaxis in dog bite
4. Rabies- 🏡
   • Epidemiology 🏡
   • Treatment
   • Prevention
   • Anti rabies serum
   • Control Measures
   • 8 site intra dermal regimen of anti-rabies vaccine
   • Categorise bite by rabid animal

Short Notes

1. Classify Zoonoses
2. Control of human rabies

Surface Infections

Essays

1. 30yo/F nurse brought to ART centre following NSI. Source patient is k/c/o HIV/AIDS.
   • Most appropriate course of action for this HCW?
   • Strategies adopted by GOI for control and eradication of such conditions?
2. HIV/AIDS-
   • Epidemiology
   • Clinical Course
   • Preventive Measures

Short Notes

1. Classify Wounds
2. Syndromic Approach in Sexually Transmitted Diseases 🏡
3. Leprosy-
   • Apply levels of prevention
4. Tetanus – Management
5. Tetanus- Prevention of Neonatal Tetanus
6. Leprosy- 🏡
   • Multi Drug Therapy 🏡
   • Elimination in India
7. HIV Infections-
   • Lab Findings
   • Measures for prevention of transmission in Hospital
   • Mother to Child Transmission

Hospital Acquired Infections

Short Notes

1. Hospital Acquired Infections (HAI)-
   • Control Measures
2. Nosocomial Infections
3. Steps involved in prevention of Hospital Acquired Infections (HAI)