Disease of the People
The most important reservoir of Leptospirosis.
Rodents/Rats
Spirochetes have this special structure that confers their shape and movement.
Endoflagella/Periplasmic flagella
The solid medium used to culture Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
Lowenstein-Jensen media
This drug should be taken by pregnant women and children <8 years old after wading in floodwater.
Azithromycin
The oldest city in the Philippines
Cebu
This institution was highlighted in a 2018 column from Philippine Star due to outbreak of Leptospirosis.
National Kidney and Transplant Institute
The phase of Leptospirosis where there is an increasing Leptospirosis antibody in the blood.
Leptospiruric phase
This histological finding signifies caseation necrosis due to tuberculosis.
Granuloma
The treatment regimen for Pott's disease
2 months HRZE + 4 months HR
The Philippine Government is divided into these three branches
Executive, Legislative and Judiciary
This program of the DOH aims to efficiently eradicate TB in the Philippines by allowing patients to take their medications in health centers.
DOTS/Directly Observed Treatment Short-course
Weil's syndrome is characterized by:
bleeding diathesis, renal failure, and hepatic failure.
The most common type of extra-pulmonary TB.
Scrofula/TB lymphadenopathy
Part of the bacterial cell which is targeted by Pyrazinamide
Cell membrane
The Filipino President succumbed to Tuberculosis.
Manuel Quezon
This infectious disease caused the resurgence of TB in the Philippines.
HIV/AIDS
This ancillary test is considered to be the gold standard for diagnosing leptospirosis.
Microscopic Agglutination Test
This bacterial component prevents the formation of phagolysosomes thereby preventing the killing of bacilli.
Sulfatide/Lipoarabinomannan
This vaccine is given after birth to prevent severe Tuberculosis among newborns.
Bacille-Calmette Guerin Vaccine
In the Spanish Era, this group of Spaniards born in the Philippines was also known as:
Insulares/Creoles
This month is National Tuberculosis Awareness Month.
August
This transient clinical phenomenon characterized by skin rashes, headache, and vomiting happen after the initial treatment of spirochetes with penicillin.
Jarisch-Herxheimer Reaction
This gene is responsible for the activation of Isoniazid inside the TB bacilli.
katG
This phenomenon occurs with the concurrent use of anti-retroviral and anti-mycobacterial drugs.
immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome/IRIS
This well-known Thomasian hero and author of La Solidaridad developed Tuberculosis in 1895
Marcelo H. Del Pilar/ Plaridel