POINT TO REMEMBER
DISEASE AND CAUSATIVE ORGANISM
MENINGITIS – _Neisseria meningitidis_
SCARLET FEVER – _Staphylococcus Scarlatinae_
FOOD POISONING – _Clostridium botulinum_
TETANUS – _Clostridium tetani_
DIPHTHERIA – _Corynebacterium diphtheria_
TUBERCULOSIS – _Mycobacterium tuberculosis_
PLAGUE – _Pasturella pestis_
TYPHOID – _Salmonella typhi_
CHOLERA – _Vibrio Cholera_
SYPHILIS – _Treponema Palladium_
GONORRHEA – _Neisseria gonorrhea_
LEPROSY – _Mycobacterium laprae_
PNEUMONIA – _Streptococcus pneumoniae_
TETANUS – _Clostridium tetani_
WHOOPING COUGH – _Bordetella pertussis_
WOUND INFECTION – _Pseudomonas aeruginosa_
POINT TO REMEMBER
TERATOGENIC DRUGS
ALCOHOLÂ – Low IQ baby, Growth retardation, foetal alcohol syndrome
 ACE INHIBITORS – Hypoplasia of organs, Growth retardation, foetal loss
 CARBAMAZEPINE – Neural tube defects, assorted abnormalities
INDOMETHACIN – Premature closure of ductus arteriosus
LITHIUM – Foetal goiter , cardiac and other abnormalities
METHOTREXATE – Cleft palate, Hydrocephalus, Foetal death
PHENYTOIN – Hypoplastic phalanges, Microcephaly, Cleft lip/ palate
PHENOBARBITAL – Various malformation
 PROGESTINS – Virilization of female foetus
 STILBOESTROL – Vaginal carcinoma in teenage female offspring
TETRACYCLINE – Discoloration / Deformed teeth and Retardation of Bone growth
THALIDOMIDE – Phocomelia, multiple defects of internal organs
VALPROATE SODIUM – Spina Bifida and other Neural tube defect
WARFARIN – Depressed Nose, Eye, hand defects/ Growth Retardation
ISOTRETINOIN – Craniofacial, heart and CNS defects, Hydrocephalus
