Case Study 5
An 11-year-old boy was brought to a hospital in California after falling; he had extensive bruising on his left side and lacerations on his elbow and knee. His mother said that he loves the outdoors and they live adjacent to a wooded area. He spent much of his free time exploring the woods and climbing tress. His injury resulted from one of these tree-climbing episodes. The boy has no broken bones. His injuries were treated, he was given a tetanus booster, and he was released with some antibiotics for the lacerations. The following day he refused to drink water with his medicine, and he became more anxious. That night he began to act up and hallucinate. He was rushed to the hospital because he was having difficulty breathing. Two days later, he had a fever of 40.8oC and experienced two episodes of cardiac arrest. The patient died 11 days later.
1. What infectious disease did this boy probably have?
2. What additional questions should the doctors ask the parents to help identify the source of the infectious agent?
3. How did the boy likely contract the disease?
4. How would this disease be diagnosed?
5. What treatment might have saved this boy’s life?
Ans-1-
Tatnus
Ans-2
Muscle rigidity occur aur not
Any iron source is present aur not that lead to injury
Any water and iron material combination present after aur at the time of injury
Ans-3 By contact with the organism either at the time of injury aur later
Ans-4 when eithee organism is isolated by culture
Whem symptoms are corelated
When antibiotics against that organism is detected
Ans-5 anti tatnus serum is injected
If respiratory difficulty occur then ventilator is given
immunoglobulin are given against toxin
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