Disease |
Agent |
Description |
Symptom/Organ affected |
Vector |
cure |
Bubonic Plague |
Yersinia pestis |
Gram - ve, rod |
- Lymph node, blood, lungs
- Buboes,Pneumonia, septicemia
|
Rat, Flea |
- Tetracycline
- vaccine of dead bacteria
|
Lyme disease |
Borrelia burgdorferi |
Spirochete |
- Skin, Joints, Heart.
- Large round skin lesions.
|
Tick
|
- Tetracycline, Penicillin
- No vaccine.
|
Rocky Mountain spotted fever |
Rickettsia prowazekii |
Rickettsia |
- Blood, Skin
- diarrhea, and extreme dehydration
|
Tick |
- Tetracycline
- vaccine of killed Bacteria
|