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Appendix B: Table of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases
| Microbial Agent | Disease | |
|---|---|---|
| Medical term | Common Term | |
| Bacteria | ||
| Bordetella pertussis | pertussis | whooping cough |
| Corynebacterium diphtheriae | diphtheria | |
| Clostridium tetani | tetanus | lockjaw |
| Streptococcus pneumoniae (multiple capsular serotypes) | invasive pneumococcal disease pneumococcal meningitis | pneumonia meningitis sepsis blood poisoning epiglottitis |
| Neisseria meningitidis (serotypes A, B, C, Y, W-135) | invasive meningococcal disease, meningococcal meningitis, meningococcemia | |
| Haemophilus influenzae (serotype B) | hemophilus meningitis | |
| Mycobacterium tuberculosis (disease agent) Bacillus Calmette Guérin (vaccine agent) |
tuberculosis | TB |
| Salmonella typhi-murium | typhoid fever | |
| Vibrio cholerae | cholera | |
| Viruses | ||
| poliovirus (types 1,2,3) | poliomyelitis | polio |
| Measles virus | measles | red measles |
| Mumps virus | mumps | |
| Rubella virus | rubella, congenital rubella syndrome | German measles |
| Influenza virus (groups A, B) | influenza | flu |
| Rotavirus | gastroenteritis | |
| Human papillomavirus | cancer (cervical, vaginal or vulval), genital warts, condyloma, recurrent respiratory papillomatosis | |
| Hepatitis A virus | hepatitis A | infectious hepatitis |
| Hepatitis B virus | hepatitis B | serum hepatitis |
| Varicella Zoster Virus | varicella | chickenpox |
| herpes zoster | shingles, postherpetic neuralgia | |
| Rabies virus | rabies | |
| Yellowfever virus | yellow fever | |
| Japanese encephalitis virus | encephalitis | |
| Variola virus (disease agent) Vaccinia virus (vaccine agent) | smallpox | |
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