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7.2 HOST-MICROORGANISM INTERACTIONS - HOST RESISTANCE Flashcards

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HOST RESISTANCE

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Physical Barriers
Macrophages

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Physical Barriers

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a. Healthy, Intact Skin
b. Cleansing Mechanisms
c. Antimicrobial Substances
d. Indigenous Microbial Flora
e. Phagocytosis

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→ primary mechanical barrier to infection

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Healthy, Intact Skin

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→has substantial numbers of microbial flora that contribute to a low pH, compete for nutrients, and produce bactericidal substances addition

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Healthy, Intact Skin

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→ ensures that relatively few organisms can survive and prosper in the acid environment

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low pH resulting from long-chain fatty acids secreted by sebaceous glands

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Spp capable of penetrating normal, healthy skin

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Leptospira spp., Francisella tularensis, Treponema spp

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Mechanism of urethral opening as a barrier

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Stricture

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This action allows the urethra to be less susceptible to microorganism growth

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urination

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Found in the cervical opening that acts as a barrier for microorganism

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thick mucus plug

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What natural process involves the shedding of the skin surface to remove potential pathogens?

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Desquamation

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What two antimicrobial components are found in tears?

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IgA and lysozyme

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How does the respiratory tract help remove trapped microbes?

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Mucus traps particles and sweeps them to the oropharynx.

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What type of epithelium lines the trachea and aids in clearing particles upward?

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Ciliated epithelium

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Which reflex helps expel potentially infected agents from the respiratory system?

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Cough-sneeze reflex

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What two mechanisms in the gastrointestinal tract prevent organisms from attaching to the intestinal epithelium?

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Mucous secretions and peristalsis

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What cleansing action in the genitourinary tract helps prevent infection?

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Voiding urine

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What characteristic of the vagina inhibits colonization by transient organisms?

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Acidity

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Cleansing Mechanisms of the body

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Desquamation
IgA and lysozyme in tears
Mucus in RT
Ciliated epithelium in trachea
Cough-sneeze reflex
Mucous secretions and peristalsis of the GI tract

Voiding urine
Acidity of vagina

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Antimicrobial Substances

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Lysozyme
Secretory IgA
β-lysins
Interferon

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→low-molecular-weight (approximately 20,000 D) enzyme that hydrolyzes the peptidoglycan layer of bacterial cell walls

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Lysozyme

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Lysozyme found in

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serum,
tissue fluids,
tears,
breast milk,
saliva, and
sweat

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→serve as opsonins, fix complement and neutralize the infecting
organism

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Secretory IgA

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Secretory IgA →found in

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mucous secretions of the

respiratory,
genital, and
digestive tracts

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Secretory IgA serve as

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opsonins

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→low-molecular-weight cationic proteins in serum
→lethal against gram-positive bacteria and are released from platelets during coagulation

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β-lysins

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→inhibits proliferation of viruses

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Interferon

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→compete with pathogens for nutrients and space

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Indigenous Microbial Flora

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→substances that inhibit the growth of closely related bacteria

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Bacteriocins

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→process by which phagocytes engulf and dispose of microorganisms and cell debris

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Phagocytosis

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necessary for the killing and digestion of the engulfed particles

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Lysosomes

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Lysosomes [enumerate]

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myeloperoxidase,
proteases,
cathepsin,
lactoferrin,
lysozyme, and
elastase

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→has receptors on the cell membrane for some complement components that stimulate cell motion, the metabolic burst, and secretion of the lysosome contents into a phagosome

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PMN - polymorphonuclear leukocyte

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PMN circulating half life hours

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2-7

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PMN may migrate to the tissues where their half life is

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less than a week

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→circulate as monocytes for 1 to 2 days and then migrate through the blood vessel walls into the tissues and reside in specific tissues as part of the MONONUCLEAR PHAGOCYTE SYSTEM

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Macrophages

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Macrophages are part of the [system]

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MONONUCLEAR PHAGOCYTE SYSTEM

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→widely distributed in the body and play a central role in specific immunity and nonspecific phagocytosis

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Macrophages

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Chemotaxis two types

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Diapedesis
Chemotaxis

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→ movement of the neutrophils between the endothelial cells of the blood vessels into the tissues

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DIAPEDESIS

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→directed migration of PMNs into the area of infection

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CHEMOTAXIS

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→facilitated by the binding of specific antibodies to the microorganism

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Attachment

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→coating of the bacterium with antibody or complement components results in enhanced phagocytosis by the PMN

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OPSONIZATION

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Neutrophils have membrane receptors for?

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Fc region of
IgG1
IgG3
C3b component of complement

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Which antibody classes can bind to organisms to initiate opsonization?

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IgG1 or IgG3

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What happens when the antibody response is insufficient for opsonization?

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Complement is fixed on the surface of the organism

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Which pathway can be activated by endotoxins or polysaccharides for opsonization?

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Alternative complement pathway

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✓Cell membrane of the phagocytic cell invaginates and surrounds the attached particle

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Ingestion

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In Ingestion ✓Particle is taken into the cytoplasm and enclosed within a
vacuole called a

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PHAGOSOME

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✓Phagosome fuses with lysosomes

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PHAGOLYSOSOME

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Lysosomes release their contents into the phagosome

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DEGRANULATION

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Ingestion included enzymes

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proteases,
lipases,
RNase,
DNase,
peroxidase, and
acid phosphatase

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→phagocytosis of a particle triggers a significant increase in the metabolic activity of the neutrophil or macrophage

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Metabolic or Respiratory Burst

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Killing / Metabolic or Respiratory Burst increases in

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glycolysis

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→body’s response to injury or foreign
body

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Inflammation

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→hallmark of inflammation:

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accumulation of large numbers of
phagocytic cells

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→leukocytes release mediators or
cause other cell types to release which cause ______________ as a result of greater blood flow, edema from an increase in vascular permeability, and
continued phagocyte accumulation,
resulting in ____________

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erythema
pus

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CARDINAL SIGNS OF INFLAMMATION

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SWELLING,
REDNESS,
HEAT,
PAIN,
LOS OF FUNCTION

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Chemical Mediatiors of Inflammation:

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✓Histamine
✓Kinins
✓Leukotrienes
✓Prostaglandins
✓Acute phase reactants
✓Cytokines

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✓Acute phase reactants examples

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CRP,
Serum amyloid A,
antitrypsin,
fibrinogen

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✓Cytokines that mediate inflammation

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IL-1,
IL-6,
TNF-α,
IFN-γ,
IL-2

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