All illness due to specific agent or toxic products capable of begin directly or indirectly transmitted from man to man, animal to animal, or from environmental to man or animal is known as communicable disease .
Top ten communicable disease in Bangladesh:
1. Diarrhoeal disease.
2. Tuberculosis.
3. Malaria.
4. Measles.
5. Tetanus.
6. Diphtheria.
7. Pertussis.
8. Polio.
9. Intestinal worm infection.
10. Scabies.
Route of transmission of communicable:
1. Feco-oral rout: transmission of faces.
a. Cholera.
b. Typhoid.
c. Hepatitis A, E, etc.
2. Vertical route: transmission through mother to foetus through placenta.
a. Hepatitis B.
b. AIDS etc
3. Parenteral rout: Transmission through blood.
a. Hepatitis B&C.
b. HIV.
c. Malaria.
d. Syphilis.
4. Horizontal route: transmission through fomites .
a. Scabis.
b. Chickenpox.
5. Sexual route: transmission due to sexual contract.
a. AIDS.
b. Syphilis.
c. Hepatitis B.
d. Gonorrhea.
6. Transmission through victor:
a. Malaria.
b. Filarial.
c. Dengue.
Communicable disease with there causative agents:
Disease
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Causative agents
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A. Bacterial disease
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1. Diphtheria.
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corynebacterium diphtheria.
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2. tuberculosis
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Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
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3. typhoid & paratyphoid fever
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Salmonella typhi & Salmonella paratyphi.
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4. Whooping cough
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Bordetella pertussis .
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5. Plague.
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Yersinia pestis.
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6. Anthrax
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Bacillus anthracic.
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7. Tetanus
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Clostridium tetani.
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8. Leprosy.
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Mycobacterium leprae
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B. Viral disease:
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1. Poliomyelitis
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Polio virus
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2. Influenza
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Influenza virus types A, B and C
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3. measles
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paramyxovirus
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4. chicken pox
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Vercelli zoster
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5. rabbis
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Rabbis virus
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6. Mumps
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Mumps virus
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7. Dengue
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Flavivirus
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C. Protozoal disease
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1. Amoebiasis
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Entamoeba histolica
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2. Giardiasis
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Giardia lamblia
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3. Malaria
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plasmodium
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4. Kala-azar
|
Leismania Donovani
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D. Helminthes
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1. Ascariasis
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Ascariasis lumbricoides
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2. Ancylostomiasis
|
Ancylostoma
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3. Taeniasis
|
Taenia saginata
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E. Sexual transmitted disease
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1. Syphilis
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Treponema pallidum
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2. Gonorrhea.
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Neisseria gonorrhoea
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3. AIDS
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HIV
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