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15 - Food & Water borne bacterial diseases Flashcards

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Gastroenteritis

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inflammation of stomach and intestinal lining. Called food poisoning when food is source of pathogen

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Colonisation of the host

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Infection may be non invasive (bacteria remain on epithelial surface) or invasive (bacteria cross the epithelium)

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Food intoxication

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  • Bacteria secrete an enterotoxin that disrupts the intestinal mucosa
  • Presence of the living bacterium not required for symptoms
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Stomach and small intestine

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  • Acidic pH
  • Low microbial load, few pathogens (e.g. Helicobacter pylori)
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Large intestine

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  • Mainly anaerobes and facultative anaerobes
  • ~2000 uncultured species essential for health and aid in digestion of food
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Physical defences of the GIT

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  • Tight junctions between epithelial cells
  • Mucins secreted from goblet cells
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Chemical defences of the GIT

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Low pH (<3) in stomach

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Immunological defences of the GIT

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  • GALT (gut associated lymphoid tissue)
  • Paneth cells secrete antimicrobial defensins
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Mechanical defences of the GIT

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Constant shedding of epithelial cells and replacement by differentiation of stem
cells into enterocytes

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How do bacterial pathogens cause disease in the GIT?

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  • Intoxication
  • Adherence and secretion of toxins
  • Injection of effectors by type III and type IV secretory systems
  • Invasion
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Intoxication

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preformed toxin ingested and presence of living microbes in food not required

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Diseases that arise through intoxication

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  • Staphylococcal food poisoning
  • Bacillus cereus food poisoning
  • Botulism: Clostridium botulinum
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Staphylococcus aureus

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Gram positive cocci in clusters

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Clinical symptoms of Staphylococcal food poisoning

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  • Pain, cramps, diarrhoea, vomiting, nausea
  • Intoxication in short period (1 to 8 hr, duration <24hrs)
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Epidemiology of Staphylococcal food poisoning

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  • Contaminates foods
    (custard, ham, ice cream, meats)
  • Bacteria present in nose, skin lesions, thus food may
    be contaminated by food handlers
    ̶- S. aureus cells are resistant to heat, drying and high osmotic pressure
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Main virulence factors of Staphylococcal food poisoning

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  • Numerous enterotoxins (24)
  • Heat stable (survive boiling 30mins)
  • Superantigens
  • Act on gut receptors and trigger vomiting
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Superantigens

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cause non-specific stimulation of T cells resulting in massive release of cytokines and inflammation

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Bacillus cereus

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  • Gram positive endospore-forming bacillus
  • Endospores are heat resistant (survive boiling)
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Clinical symptoms of Bacillus cereus food poisoning

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vomiting and diarrhoea

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Epidemiology of Bacillus cereus food poisoning

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  • Found in soil, vegetation
  • Heating food may not kill spores
  • Rice especially susceptible e.g. re-heated fried rice
  • Spores germinate as food cools
  • Vegetative cells release enterotoxins
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Main virulence factors of Bacillus cereus food poisoning

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  • 2 types of enterotoxins
  • Emetic toxin
  • Diarrhoeal toxin
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Emetic toxin

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Triggers vomiting. 2 to 5 hrs incubation period (an intoxication)

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Diarrhoeal toxin

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Diarrhoea. 8 to 16 hrs incubation period (an infection where bacteria colonise)

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Clostridium botulinum

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Gram positive endospore-forming anaerobic bacillus

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Clinical symptoms of Botulism

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  • Symptoms within 12-72 hrs of toxin ingestion
  • Blurred vision, difficulty swallowing, muscle weakness, flaccid paralysis
  • Death in 1/3 untreated patients from respiratory or cardiac failure
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Epidemiology of Botulism

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  • Main source home-canned food that contains spores
  • Infant botulism is most common form of botulism but is not an intoxication; spores ingested from honey germinate in intestine, bacteria colonise immature gut
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Main virulence factor of botulism

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  • Botulinum toxin
  • neurotoxin binds to motor neurons, prevents release of
    neurotransmitter acetylcholine, muscles unable to contract, hence paralysis
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Diseases that arise through adherence and secretion of toxins

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  • Cholera (Vibrio cholerae)
  • Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli
  • Clostridium perfringens
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Clinical symptoms of Cholera

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  • Acute diarrhoeal disease
  • “rice water stools” containing mucous and epithelial cells
  • Loss of 12-20 litres fluids/day
  • Death due to shock, organ failure
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Treatment of Cholera

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Rehydration (fluids and electrolytes), antibiotics

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Virulence factors of Cholera

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  • Tcp pilus adhesins allow colonisation of intestinal
    epithelium
  • Cholera toxin (Ctx)
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What encodes for Tcp pilus adhesions

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Mobile DNA element Vibrio Pathogenicity Island (VPI) in chromosome

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What encodes for Cholera toxin (Ctx)

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Encoded by bacteriophage (Ctx phage) which infects the
V. cholerae cells

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Epidemiology of Cholera

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  • Found in fresh and salty water
  • Form biofilms on crustaceans, algae, aquatic plants
  • Transmitted by food or water contaminated with faeces of infected people
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Clinical symptoms of Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC)

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  • watery diarrhoea, traveler’s diarrhoea
  • Serious in infants, traveler’s diarrhoea self-limited 1-3 days
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Virulence factors of ETEC

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  • Heat labile LT and heat stable ST enterotoxins
  • LT is highly similar to cholera toxin (but infection much less serious than cholera)
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Clostridium perfringens

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Gram positive endospore-forming anaerobic bacillus

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Clinical symptoms of Clostridium perfringens

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  • Diarrhoea and abdominal cramps
  • Usually no fever or vomiting
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Epidemiology of Clostridium perfringens

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  • Found in soil and GI tract of vertebrates
  • Infection from germinating spores in cooked meat/poultry/gravy dishes which have been slowly cooled at room temp.
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Main virulence factor of Clostridium perfringens

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  • Enterotoxin CPE
  • forms pores in mammalian cell membranes
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Different types of protein secretion systems

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  • Type 2 secretion (T2SS)
  • Type 3 and 4 secretion (T3SS and T4SS)
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Type II secretion T2SS

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exports proteins into medium (e.g. Cholera toxin)

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Type 3 and 4 secretion (T3SS, T4SS)

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Export proteins (effectors) into host cell

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Effect of T3SS and T4SS proteins on host cell

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  • Interact with host cell proteins to change activity of eukaryotic cell
  • May force host cell to take up bacteria by controlling the host actin cytoskeleton
  • May result in loss of absorptive capacity of host cell leading to diarrhoea
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Diseases that arise through injection of effectors

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Escherichia coli (EPEC and EHEC pathways)

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Enteropathogenic E. coli (EPEC)

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  • Watery diarrhoea following vomiting
  • Problem in infants of developing countries
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Enterohaemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC)

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  • Haemorrhagic colitis (bloody mucoid diarrhoea)
  • Haemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS)
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Haemolytic uremic syndrome

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Shiga toxin diffuses into blood stream and damages kidney function: stops protein synthesis in kidney cells: may be fatal

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Common reservoir of EPEC and EHEC

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  • cattle/cattle products (meat, salami)
  • Raw alfalfa sprouts and tomatoes also source of infections
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Treatment of EPEC and EHEC

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antibiotics, but increasing multi-drug resistance

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Diseases arising from invasion

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  • Salmonellosis
  • Typhoid
  • Shigellosis (bacterial dysentery)
  • Campylobacter jejuni
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Clinical symptoms of Salmonellosis

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gastroenteritis, nausea, diarrhoea, low grade fever

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Epidemiology of Salmonellosis

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  • Salmonella enterica (gram negative rod)
  • Intestinal tracts of birds and animals, water and food become contaminated e.g. eggs, chicken
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Typhoid clinical symptoms

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diarrhoea, high fever 40ºC, severe cases are fatal

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Virulence of Salmonellosis

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  • Salmonellae infect cells of the small intestine using a
    T3SS
  • Cross the epithelial cell membrane and enter the
    bloodstream and lymphatic system
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Epidemiology of Thypoid

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  • Caused by Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi
  • Spread by oral-faecal route i.e. ingestion of food or water
    contaminated by faeces of infected humans, or person-to person contact
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Shigellosis epidemiology

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  • S. dysenteriae, Gram negative rod
  • Transmitted by faecal-oral route
  • Infectious dose only 10-100 cells
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Virulence of Typhoid

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  • S. Typhi multiplies in phagocytic cells, spreads into spleen, liver, bloodstream
  • 1-3% recovered patients become carriers (harbour bacteria in gallbladder and shed it for months)
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Shigellosis clinical symptoms

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bloody diarrhoea, cramps

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Shigellosis virulence

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  • Shigella invades cells of the large intestine using a T3SS
  • They spread to neighbouring epithelial cells but do not reach deeper tissue (unlike Salmonella)
  • Some strains produce Shiga toxin (like EHEC)
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Campylobacter jejuni clinical symptoms

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Fever, diarrhoea, blood in stool. Usually self-limiting

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Epidemiology Campylobacter jejuni

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  • The most common bacterial cause of human gastroenteritis
  • Gram negative curved or spiral rod
  • Intestinal tracts of most animals; disease from undercooked chicken, meats, seafood, eggs, raw milk
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Virulence Campylobacter jejuni

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  • Invade cells of the lower intestinal tract/colon
  • Cytolethal distending toxin is produced

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