(1) Arthropod Virus Flashcards
Arboviruses are also called what?
Arthropod-Borne Virus
Carried by infected vector
maintained in nature through biological transmission between susceptible vertebrate hosts by BLOODFEEDING ARTHROPODS
Arboviruses
how is the vertebrate infection occurs?
infected arthropod take a BLOOD MEAL - host is bitten passing the virus from the arthropod
What are the three famillies under the Arboviruses?
- Togaviridae
- Bunyaviridae
- Flaviviridae
Disease Mechanism of Toga Viruses and
Flavivirus
Viruses are Cytolytic, except
Rubella
Cytolytic = cell lysis
Disease Mechanism of Toga Viruses and
Flavivirus
what does the virus establish?
systemic infection and viremia
Disease Mechanism of Toga Viruses and
Flavivirus
Viruses are good inducers of?
interferon
(accounts for the flu-like symptoms)
Disease Mechanism of Toga Viruses and Flavivirus
Flavivirus
what are the exception form the families that arent arboviruses
RUBELLA AND HEPATITIS C
Disease Mechanism of Toga Viruses and Flavivirus
infect cells of the MONOCYTEMACROPHAGE LINEAGE.
Flaviviruses
Escape phagocytic process of the lineage
Disease Mechanism of Toga Viruses and Flavivirus
enhance flavivirus
infection via Fc receptors on the macrophage
Nonneutralizing antibody
if u see this card
study the table for symptoms
In the Man-Arthropod-Man cycle
what is the cycle
- Arthropod (may or may not be infected)
- Arthropod had a blood meal on the human (may or may not be infected)
- The human that may or may not be infected can pass it to the arthropod - vice versa (one of them is infected as the principle)
- Arthropod can now transmit it to other susceptible human
In the Animal-Arthropod-Man cycle
what is the cycle
- Infected animal gets bitten by the arthropod
- Arthropod can infect other animal
- Infected arthropod can infect the human after a blood meal
same w/ Man-Arthropod-Man cycle excpt infected animal as main source
Enumerate the arhtropod vectors
- Mosquitoes
- Ticks
- Sandflies
under the mosquitoes for arhtropod vectors, what infection can be acquired?
● Japanese encephalitis
● dengue
● yellow fever
● St. Louis encephalitis
● EEE, WEE, VEE etc.
under the Ticks for arhtropod vectors, what infection can be acquired?
● Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever
● Various tickborne encephalitis’s etc.
under the Sandflies for arhtropod vectors, what infection can be acquired?
● Sicilian Sandfly Fever
● Rift Valley fever
TOF
In many cases, the actual reservoir is not known
True
What are the animal reservoirs
- Birds
- Pigs
- Monkeys
- Rodents
Birds are animal reservoir for what infections
- Japanese encephalitis
- St Louisencephalitis
- Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE)
- Western Equine Encephalitis
(WEE)
Pigs are animal reservoir for what infections
Japanese encephalitis
Monkeys are animal reservoir for what infections
Yellow Fever
Rodents are animal reservoir for what infections
- Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis (VEE)
- Russian Spring-Summer encephalitis
Major Arboviral Diseases
- YELLOW FEVER
- DENGUE
- JAPANESE B ENCEPHALITIS
- St Louis Encephalitis
- Russian spring summer encephalitis.
- Eastren Equine Encephalitis
- West Nile Fever
- Sand fly Fever
Major Arboviurses that cause ENCEPHALITIS
- Flaviviridae
- Togaviridae
- Bunyaviridae
Major Arboviurses that cause ENCEPHALITIS
Flaviviridae, enumerate the encephalitis
● Japanese Encephalitis
● St. Louis Encephalitis
● West Nile
Major Arboviurses that cause ENCEPHALITIS
Togaviridae, enumerate the encephalitis
● Eastern Equine Encephalitis
● Western Equine Encephalitis
Major Arboviurses that cause ENCEPHALITIS
Bunyaviridae, enumerate the encephalitis
● La Crosse Encephalitis
what host can be the carrier, reservoir or source of virus?
Verterbrate Hosts
It will pass through a vector, then it can
transmit it to other animals or to Human
The name Togaviridae derived from?
“Toga”
meaning roman mantle or cloak referring to the viral
surface
enumerate the structural characterisitc of togaviridae
→ Spherical 50 — 70 nm
→ Bears the Nucleocapsid, 42 capsomeres
→ Positive sense single stranded RNA
Enumerate the infections under togaviridae
- Chikigunya Virus Infection
- Eastern Equine Encephalitis
- Western Equine Encephalitis
Togaviridae: Identify what infection
→ 1952 Epidemic in Tanzania
→ Manifest as Bend Up with Severe Joint pains.
Chikigunya Virus Infection
Chikigunya Virus Infection
transmission
wild primates → Mosquito → Man
→ Carrier: MOSQUITO (accding to maam)
Chikigunya Virus Infection:
Clinical Manifestation
- Crippling Joint Pains
- Conjunctiivitis
- Lymphadenopathy
- Hemorrhagic Tendecies
Chikigunya Virus Infection:
DIagnosis
- Isolation of Viruses
- Serology → IgM
○ Preferred Method - Neutralization and Hemagglutination inhibition tests
Chikigunya Virus Infection:
Control and Prevention
- Mosquito Control
○ Since mosquito is the main vector - No vaccines
Chikigunya Virus Infection:
Othjer Diseases like Chikugunya
- Onyonng Nyong Viruses
- Simlike Forest Viruses
Togaviridae: Identify what infection
Caused by a virus transmitted to humans and horses by the bite of an infected mosquito.
Eastern Equine Encephalitis
Eastern Equine Encephalitis
TOF
Average of 4m cases per year States with largest number of cases: Florida, Georgia, Massachusetts,
and New Jersey
F
4 lang, does not affect human persistently
Eastern Equine Encephalitis
Human cases occur relatively infrequently, largely because the primary transmission cycle
takes place in?
swamp areas
populations ntend to be limited
Because the main infected population here is the horses
Togaviridae: Identify what infection
→ Carrier: Mosquito-borne
→ Important cause of encephalitis in horses and humans in North America, mainly in the Western parts of the US and Canada
Western Equine Encephalitis
Flavivirus
The name is derived from ‘flavus’ the Latin word meaning?
“yellow”
Refers to YELLOW FEVER VIRUS (first
infection associated with flaviviridae)
Enumerate the structure characterisitc of the FLAVIVIRIDAE
- Enveloped
- Single stranded RNA virus
- Morphology is not well defined
Enumerate the infection acquired under flaviviridea
- Japanese Encephalitis
- Yellow Fever
- Dengue Fever
- St. Louis Encephalitis
- West Nile Virus
Flaviviridae: Identify what infection
First discovered and originally restricted to Japan. Now large scale epidemics occur in China, India and Other parts of Asia
Japanese Encephalitis
what is the arhtropod concerned with Japanese Encephalitis
Flavivirus, Transmitted by CULEX MOSQUITOES (Culex tritaeniorchynchus)
TOF
Japanese encphalitis are maintained in nature in a transmission cycle involving mosquitoes, birds and
horse
F
Mosquitoes, birds and PIG
human infection under japanesse encephalitis are?
SUBCLINICAL
No obvious signs and symptoms are
observe
in clinical cases for japanese encephalitis what are observed?
LIFE THREATENING
ENCEPHALITIS