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C) The vaccine is similar to an an-
tibiotic that is used to treat an in-
fection.
D) The vaccine actively attacks the
microorganism.
28. A 2-year-old is brought to the clin-
ic by her mother who tells the
nurse her daughter has diarrhea
and the child is complaining of
pain in her stomach. The mother
says that the little girl had not eat-
en anything unusual, consuming
homemade chicken strips and car-
rot sticks the evening prior. Which
bacterial infection would the nurse
suspect this little girl of contract-
ing?
B) Salmonella
Annually in the United States, Sal-
monella species contaminate approx-
imately 2.2 million eggs (1 in 20,000
eggs) and one in eight chickens raised
as meat. Diarrhea with gastroenteritis
is a common manifestation associated
with Salmonella. Recent outbreaks of
E. coli have been associated with in-
gestion of undercooked beef. Shigella
spreads through the fecal-oral route,
with easy transmission from one per-
son to another. People infected with
Giardia lambliacontract the disease by
drinking contaminated water.
29. A public health nurse is teaching
a mother about vaccinations pri-
or to obtaining informed consent
for her child's vaccination. What
should the nurse cite as the most
common adverse effect of vaccina-
tions?
The most common adverse effects are
an allergic reaction to the antigen or
carrier solution and the occurrence of
the actual disease (often in modified
form) when live vaccine is used. Re-
actions to vaccines do not typically in-
clude sensitivity to the sun, nausea and
vomiting, or joint pain.