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COMMUNICABLE DISEASES

Disease / iLLness Pathognomonic Sign


Chicken pox Maculo-papular rash
(Varicella)
Cholera (El tor) Rice watery stools
Diptheria Pseudomembrane
Gonorrhea Dysuria, Genital
(Drips) discharge
Meningitis Kernig’s &
Brudzinki’s sign
Measles Koplick’s Spot’s
(small whitish macules on soft palate)
(RubeoLa)
German Measles Forscheimer’s spots
(small red macules on soft palate)
(RubeLLa)
Pertussis Paroxysmal cough
(Whooping cough) ending with a whoop
Tetanus Risus sardonicus
(lock jaw / trismus)
Filariasis Elephantiasis
PTB Hemoptysis
(Koch’s disease)
Typhoid fever Rose spot’s
(Enteric fever)
Syphilis Painless Chancre on
mouth, genital or anus
Leprosy Early sign: ulcers don’t heal
(Hansen’s d’se) Late sign: Madarosis/
Lagopthalmos
Dengue Fever Herman’s sign:
Petechial spots
Gonorrhea thick purulent discharge
Leptospirosis Orange eyes
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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