Disease Causative Agents

Warts are small usually painless growths on the skin caused by a virus called human papillomavirus (HPV). A wart is generally a small rough growth typically on a human's hands or feet but often other locations that can resemble a cauliflower or a solid blister.

Scarlet fever is a disease caused by infection with the group A Streptococcus bacteria. This bacterium will produce a toxin that leads to the hallmark red rash of the illness.

Leprosy is also known as Hansen's disease (HD). It is a chronic disease caused by the bacteria Mycobacterium leprae and Mycobacterium lepromatosis.

Convalescent carrier is a person who has recovered from the symptoms of an infectious disease but is still capable of transmitting pathogens to others. Persons in this category are the most frequent source of infection for others.

Erysipelas is a bacterial skin infection involving the upper dermis that characteristically extends into the superficial cutaneous lymphatics. It is usually caused by group A Streptococcus bacteria.

Chicken pox is a highly contagious disease caused by primary infection with varicella zoster virus (VZV). It usually starts with vesicular skin rash mainly on the body and head rather than at the periphery, and becomes itchy, raw pockmark which mostly heal without scarring.

Mite is a term commonly used to refer a group of insect like organisms, some of which bite or cause irritation to humans. Scabies is an easily spread skin disease caused by a very small species of mite. Symptoms of this disease are itching (especially at night), rashes (especially between the fingers) and sores (abrasions) on the skin from scratching and digging.

Coccidioidomycosis or valley fever is an infection that occurs when the spores of the fungus Coccidioides immitis enter your body through the lungs.

Q fever is a disease caused by infection of Coxiella burnetii, which is a bacterium that affects humans and other animals. The infection results from inhalation of a spore like small cell variant and from contact with the milk, urine, feces, vaginal mucus or semen of infected animals.

Polio is caused by the poliovirus which attacks the nervous system, specifically motor neurons in the spinal cord, causing paralysis. It does not affect the lungs. Pneumonia, bronchitis, and asthma are all respiratory conditions that directly affect lung tissue - pneumonia involves lung inflammation, bronchitis affects bronchial tubes, and asthma causes airway constriction.

Contaminated water and food is the mode of infection of cholera.

There is no evidence that this leads to excess Candida infections or to poor nutrition.

Pneumonia is a viral disease. The causative agent of pneumonia is Streptococcus pneumonia.

Whooping cough (pertussis) is an airborne bacterial disease spread through respiratory droplets. Malaria is mosquito-borne, plague can be spread by fleas, and cholera is water-borne. The question specifically asks for airborne transmission.

Tuberculosis is an air borne disease. The causative pathogen of tuberculosis is Mycobacterium tuberculosis.