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24 - Respiratory diseases Flashcards

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1
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What is the common cause of strep throat?

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Streptococcus pyogenes (bacteria)

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Strep throat transmission

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transmitted through air, respiratory, mucus

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Strep throat symptoms

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  • local inflammation, fever, tonsilitis
  • enlarged lymph nodes in neck
  • red throat often with white spots
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4
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Strep throat treatment

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pencillin

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Diphtheria organism

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Cornyebacterium diphtheriae

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Diphtheria symptoms

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  • sore throat and fever; malaise swelling of neck
  • gray membrane in throat
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How is diphtheria transmitted?

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droplet transmission through respiratory and contact transmission for cutaneous

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Treatment for diphtheria

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vaccine or antibiotic with antitoxin

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What is otitis media and what is its treatment?

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middle ear infection caused by pus pushing pressure on eardrum (antibiotics)

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What are the different pathogens that cause otitis media?

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  1. Streptococcus pneumoniae
  2. Haemophilus influenzae
  3. Streptococcus pyogenes
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What are the most common two causes of the common cold?

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  1. rhinoviruses (30-50%)
  2. coronaviruses (10-15%)
  3. 200+ other viruses
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What are the symptoms of the common cold?

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  • sneezing
  • nasal secretion
  • congestion
  • usually no fever
  • UR, ear, sinuses, lungs
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How is the common cold transmitted?

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respiratory route

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Treatment of the common cold

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symptom relief such as cough drops or antihistamines - just let it run itscourse

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What causes whooping cough?

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Bordatella pertussis (bacteria)

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What are the 3 stages of whooping cough?

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  1. catarrhal stage (initial like common cold)
  2. paroxysmal stage (mucus accumulates damaging cilia, violent coughing with whoop sound)
  3. convalescence stage (recovery, can take months)
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17
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Treatment of whooping cough

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  • antibiotics if caught early but they are not as effective after coughing stage
  • vaccine
18
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RSV

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respiratory syncytial virus

19
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Histoplasmosis

A

Histoplasma capsulatum (dimorphic fungus) - yeast like in tissue - filamentous in soil

20
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Histoplasmosis symptoms

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  • resembles TB
  • lungs primary but can spread in blood through entire body
  • minor respiratory infection
21
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Treatment for histoplasmosis

A

anitfungals

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Tuberculosis

A

Mycobacterium tuberculosis (bacteria)

23
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What stimulates inflammatory response in TB?

A

mycolic acid

24
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How is TB spread?

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coughing (tissues are damaged causing sputum to be bloody)

25
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Tuberculosis treatment

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antibiotics for >6 months and may need multi-drug therapy due to resistance

26
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Pneumonia organisms (4)

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  1. Streptococcus pneumoniae
  2. Haemophilus influenzae
  3. Mycoplasma pneumoniae
  4. Legionella pneumophila
27
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What is the most common cause of pneumonia?

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Streptococcus pneumoniae

28
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What pneumonia has no cell wall and doesn’t grow in cultures and what pneumonia does it cause?

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Mycoplasmal pneumoniae - “walking pneumonia”

29
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Which pneumonia is found in water and produces a high fever?

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Legionella pneumophila

30
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What are the symptoms of pneumococcal pneumonia

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infected alveoli of lung fill with fluids; interferes with oxygen uptake

31
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Pneumocystis pneumonia organism

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Pneumocystis jirovecii (fungus or protozoan)

32
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Pneumocystis pneumonia symptoms and treatment

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  • forms cysts in lungs
  • treated by antibiotics
33
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What are the symptoms of the flu?

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chills, fever, headache, aches

34
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What causes the flu and what family is it from?

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influenzavirus - orthomyxoviridae

35
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What aids the virus in separating from host upon release in the flu?

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neuraminidase (100/virus)

36
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What attaches to host with RBC; antibodies form against it in the flue?

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hemagglutinin (500/virus)

37
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How are strains of the flu identified?

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NA (neuraminidase) and HA (hemagglutinin) antigens i.e. H1N1

38
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Antigenic drift:

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accumulations of mutation (no proofreading)

39
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Antigenic shift

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great changes, evade immunity developed in population (recombo or reassortment)

40
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What are pigs?

A

“mixing vessels”

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